NOBLE MARITIME COLLECTION, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingstone, (718) 44718490.
The New York City Public Library is where I did it -- that was some maritime collection.
And both, said Erin Urban, the executive director of the Noble Maritime Collection, "were incredibly eccentric people".
The complex's other attractions include the Staten Island Botanical Garden, the New York Chinese Scholars Garden, the Staten Island Children's Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection and the Newhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art.
John B. Hightower, president of the Mariners Museumm, said he had been inspired to take a new look at his museum's vast maritime collection after seeing a similar exhibition in Liverpool, England, once a main port serving the slave trade.
That was the question posed Wednesday night by members of the Staten Island Astrologers' Guild to an audience of 30 that had gathered at the Noble Maritime Collection at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
Aptly, the Staten Island knitting circle meets in a handsome Victorian that was once a dorm for retired sailors but is now home to the Noble Maritime Collection at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on the north shore.
Notable buildings in Rauma include the Church of the Holy Cross, which was part of a 15th-century Franciscan monastery, and the old town hall (1776), now a museum displaying Rauma lace, for which the city has been famous since the European Middle Ages, and an impressive maritime collection.
In 2009, Falco compiled a photographic essay for Caddell Dry Dock: 100 Years Harborside, a book published by the Noble Maritime Collection that chronicles of one of the last remaining ship repair yards in New York Harbor.
