Looks like another K6, in much better condition than the last one we saw.

Ten minutes after I took the previous photo, I walked into a deli and saw this headline.

From the NY Times:

The stars Mary-Kate Olsen and Lauren Hutton are laughing on a beat-up couch in their Harper’s Bazaar shoot, dressed for a bohemian ball, the plaster walls behind them cracked and humming in the afternoon light. In a Cosmopolitan U.K. spread, the model Megan McNierney totters down the stairs past a fresco of the Italian countryside, a Hitchcockian madman in pursuit. For a Vs. magazine feature, the actress Amber Heard reclines in a claw foot tub, wearing leather, lace, a commandant’s hat and knee-high boots, a riding crop clutched with menace in her hands.

All were shot in the same house, a favorite of photographers, editors and directors around the globe. With its chipped paint, marble fireplaces, rolling grounds and airy cupola, the home seems to be from another time and place. . . .

The 7,700-square-foot Italianate house, a New York City landmark, has been called Staten Island’s Grey Gardens, and not just for its appearance. It was built in 1855[-56] by David Ryers, a commander in the New York militia, and sold in 1889 to Gustav Mayer, a German confectioner whose Stapleton business was among the 114 founding bakeries of Nabisco.

For a century, his daughters Paula and Emilie Mayer, and few others, called 2475 Richmond Road home. The Mayer women never married — no man was ever good enough for their father.

The sisters found great joy in the house instead, with Paula painting frescoes from their travels on the walls, though in later years, they never went out, lowering baskets from the window to collect groceries, mail and laundry. By the time they moved out with their nurse in the 1980s, the sisters, who both lived to be more than 100, had confined themselves to two second-floor bedrooms, this inside a house with more than 20 rooms on four floors, five counting the cupola with views of Raritan Bay.

This 1946 Chevrolet fire truck is dedicated to the 343 members of the FDNY who died on 9/11. It also honors the truck owner's father, John Cavendish, a retired firefighter who spent six months working at ground zero.

According to Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York, this street sign probably dates back to the 1940s, and the only thing preventing the DOT from removing it is its location just inside the sidewalk on private property. Mr. Walsh is aware of only two other pre-1964 street signs left in Staten Island; they mark the intersection of Richmond Road and Court Place in Historic Richmond Town.

The stickers (close-up) commemorate the lives of Carl Bini and the ten other members of FDNY Rescue Company 5 who died on 9/11.

The plaque on this formerly overgrown stone monument reads:

ERECTED IN HONOR
OF
CAPTAIN ROALD AMUNDSEN
---------------
DISCOVERER OF THE NORTHWEST
PASSAGE, JUNE 1903 – AUGUST 26,
1905 AND DISCOVERER OF THE
SOUTH POLE DEC. 14, 1911. HE
CROSSED THE NORTH POLE MAY
12, 1926 IN THE AIRSHIP NORGE.
HE WAS BORN IN NORWAY JULY
16, 1872 AND PERISHED IN THE
ARCTIC SEA JUNE 18, 1928, BOUND
ON A RESCUE MISSION.
---------------
ERECTED 1933 BY
THE NORSEMEN GLEE CLUB OF STATEN ISLAND
AND
THE NORWEGIAN SINGING SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN,
DURING ADMINISTRATION OF
BOROUGH PRESIDENT JOHN A. LYNCH.

Another casualty of the park's radioactive contamination

Now overrun with phragmites, this baseball field is one of five in Great Kills Park that were closed in 2009 due to radioactive contamination.