This residence was originally the Robinson Hose Company 9 firehouse (as indicated by the semicircular window up in the gable). The company, part of the volunteer Edgewater Fire Department, was established in 1880, moved here in either 1889 or 1895, and was disbanded in 1905 when the FDNY took over firefighting duties in the area. As a hose company, it "used a hand-pulled hose wagon and relied on hydrant pressure until an engine company arrived at fires."

We've previously seen the rear of these buildings from a block away on Targee Street.

You can find some info on these old-timers (and other Van Duzer structures as well) here.

These cars, painted a different color, were once a common sight on the streets of New York.

Why have actual food for breakfast when you could be eating more candy? It's refreshing to see a major corporation taking a public stand to address the dire lack of sugar and fat in the American diet.

Here's a look at this treehouse in its glory days a year earlier.

This belongs to the next-door neighbor of the house in the previous photo.

This seemingly vacant house, on the market since at least 2007, stands amid a large congregation of mansions on Grymes Hill. We're looking at it from behind, where a Serpentine Commons trail passes by its backyard on the way out to Howard Avenue.

at the Serpentine Commons nature preserve

The Serpentine Commons nature preserve contains a serpentine barren with a spectacular view out toward the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Mounted at the foot of the Serpentine Commons nature preserve

This hillside nature preserve, established and maintained by a local community group, is named for the type of rock that forms the spine of Staten Island (last paragraph).