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Today’s route — 12.1 miles

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A tied-on wreath

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at St. Mary's Cemetery (and a rooftop solar array in the background)

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Some serious ‘cicles

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17 Vulcan Street

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Looks like Canarsie's log cabin isn't the only one in the city after all!

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Awesome mailbox #96

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at 17 Vulcan Street

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Our Angelic Watchman

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While patrolling the West Brighton Houses on July 26, 1998, Police Officer Gerard Carter and his partner spotted a 17-year-old who was wanted for murder. As the officers approached in their van, the young man pulled out a gun and fatally shot Officer Carter in the head. The memorial above stands on the grounds of the South Beach Houses (a few miles from the site of the shooting), where the NYPD's now-defunct Staten Island Housing Unit was formerly headquartered.

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Lava Street

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If this dead-end street extended 100 feet farther to the west (map), New York City would have another classic intersection to add to its collection: Lava and Vulcan.

Actually, the intersection does exist on paper, if not in reality. Even though the western portion of Lava Street is physically nonexistent, a look at the city's tax map reveals that Lava Street, as a legal entity, does indeed connect through to Vulcan Street.

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Where the boardwalk ends

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The northeastern extremity of Staten Island's FDR Boardwalk

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A look down the beach

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And a look up the beach

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at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, with the longest bridge span in the Americas

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Awesome mailbox #97

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A snazzy doctor’s office

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Built in 1868-69, this house currently serves as the office of an "interventional pain management" specialist. It was originally the home of the famed architect Henry Hobson Richardson and is one of only two remaining buildings in the city that he designed.

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Barberz #107

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Late-day hawthorn

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9/11 memorial #227

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at the Engine 161/Ladder 81 firehouse