William T. Davis, the founder of the Staten Island Museum and the author of Days Afield on Staten Island, a catalog of Staten Island's vast array of plant and animal species, wrote in 1890 "Houses appear where it used to be uninhabited--I see clothes drying on the line where once I saw wild ducks, so I have to abandon a little of my rambling ground every year." (Preface). Changes to the landscape on Staten Island came with the onset of transportation made available by the ferry, railroad and the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in 1964.
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