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Date Time Place Event Description Contact & Fee  Info

Fri, Nov. 15-17, 2013

 

 

 Jimmy Max, 280 Watchogue Road

 South Shore Artist Group Exhibit 

 Acrylic paintings by Gian Pagello and Dominick Denaro.

 Barbara

718.984.6548.

 

Fri, Nov. 15-17, 2013

  

  

 College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Ave.  8th Annual Holiday Gift Drive  The Women's Center is asking for donations for Safe Horizon of Staten Island.

Please donate new toys for children    (1-6 years old). and gifts for mothers 

718.982.2553.

 

 Fri, Nov. 15, 2013     

  6:30 p.m. -

10:00 p.m.

 Noble Maritime Collection, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D

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Built in 1696, the Voorlezer's House is the oldest schoolhouse in America. The clapboard house is also the oldest relic from the Dutch settlement on the Island from the 17th century. The word "voorlezer" comes from the Dutch which means "one who reads to other."

History

The house had three purposes: serve as a church, a school from boys and girls, and a residency. The house had numerous homeowners but the longest family lived in the Voorlezer's House for 150 years.

The school's population were children between the ages of 7 and 12. The parents paid for their children to learn reading, writing, arthimetic, religion and Dutch history. Arthimetic was taught to both boys and girls so they would learn how to maintain a home and business when they…

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White Playground in Short Acres was named honoring Staten Island WWI vet John Edward White.

Born in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, White served as a trainman for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in St. George, Staten Island. Never marrying, White enlisted in the United States Army to fight in WWI, and became a member of the Allied Expeditionary Force. He gave his life assisting in the defeat of Germany.

White Playground is located in the Staten Island neighborhood of Fort Wadsworth, which takes its name from the nearby military installation overlooking the Narrows. At 300 years of age, Fort Wadsworth is the oldest continually manned United States military reservation, and, along with Fort Hamilton on the opposite side, monitors movement in the New…

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Date Time Place Event Description Contact & Fee  Info

Fri, November 1-2, 2013

                                          7:00 p.m. -

11:00 p.m.

 

                              NYC Arts Cypher Building, 12 Broad Street. 2nd FL

 

The Return of the Haunted House Experience

  $10 - kids under  

$12 with school ID                   $15 - general admissions.

917.295.0017

 

 

 Fri, November 1, 2013

 

             

   

   9:00 p.m. -

2:00 a.m.

 

 The Phunky Elephant, 1271 Bay Street

 

 Halloween Bash and 1 Year Anniversary Party

The John Neilson Trio will be going on at 9 p.m. Followed by a DJ to carry on the fun from midnight…

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