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A Mexican bakery and coffee counter at the top of Port Richmond Avenue, in the storefront that was Oven Baked Bakery for over a century before this family took it over in 2009. Pan dulce and conchas come off trays you work through with tongs, and there is a kitchen behind doing tortas, tacos and antojitos. It opens at eight and runs to half ten at night, which is the longest day of anything on the avenue.

Mon to Fri, 8am to 10:30pm. Weekend hours are posted shorter by some listings and are flagged as unverified

A tavern that opened on Port Richmond Avenue in 1937 and started putting pizza out of the oven in 1951. It is a 150-seat place with a bar down one side, families at the tables and thin sixteen-inch pies coming out fast. There is no table booking and there never has been.

Daily, 11am to 11pm

Four and a half acres on the Kill Van Kull at the foot of Faber Street, with a skate park, basketball courts, a playground and shaded grass, and tankers and tugs going past a few hundred feet away. The pool at the center of it opened in July 1932 so that children would stop swimming in the channel, and at 140 by 75 feet it was the largest on Staten Island when it was built. The Bayonne Bridge is the thing you look at.

Park open daily, 6am to dusk. The outdoor pool is summer only, Tue to Fri 10am to 6pm and Sat noon to 8pm, closed Sunday and Monday

A bright taqueria directly across Forest Avenue from Mother Pugs, doing tacos, tortas, cemitas and birria from eleven in the morning. It is a counter-and-tables operation rather than a bar with food, so you eat and go. Portions are large and the birria is what the block orders.

Mon to Thu, 11am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to 10pm. Sun, 11am to 8pm

A small tavern on Innis Street in the shadow of the Bayonne Bridge, with a bar at the front and family-style Italian-American food behind it. Platters come out for the table rather than plated per person, and it does a Sunday brunch. It has been the sit-down on this side of Port Richmond for years and the crowd is local.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 11pm

A Pueblan bakery and kitchen on Port Richmond Avenue, open from eight in the morning until ten at night. The front is trays of conchas and sweet bread that you take with tongs, and behind it is a kitchen cooking the food of Puebla rather than a generic menu. Port Richmond Avenue is the center of Staten Island's Mexican community and this is one of the places it eats.

Daily, 8am to 10pm

Eight acres in Barrett Park in West Brighton, opened in 1936 and best known for a rattlesnake collection that was considered the most complete in the country when it was assembled. It is small enough to do properly in ninety minutes, with an aquarium, a reptile wing and a children's farm. Adults are ten dollars and children six, and nothing about it requires booking.

Mon to Sat, 10am to 4:45pm. Adults ten dollars, children six

A charcoal-chicken and steam-table place at the Forest Avenue end of Port Richmond, four doors from Mother Pugs. You order half or whole chicken with rice and beans. Tortillas come with it, or point at the trays and have a plate built. It opens at nine in the morning and runs to eleven at night, every day, which on this stretch of Forest Avenue is the widest window there is.

Daily, 9am to 11pm

A sit-down ice cream parlor on Forest Avenue with a counter, booths and egg creams, still making its own ice cream and its own Igloo cakes. It runs to nine most nights, half nine on weekends, which is later than any other dessert on this stretch. The Clarke Avenue branch has shut but this one is the original and it is busy.

Sun to Thu, 11am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to 9:30pm

The original Ralph's, a walk-up window two doors from Denino's, where Ralph Silvestro opened his first shop in 1949 after twenty years of selling ice he made by hand in his garage and sold off a truck. You order at the window and stand on the sidewalk to eat it. The flavor board is long and it changes.

Daily, 11:30am to 10pm in season. This is a seasonal shop and the winter months are not covered, so check before a cold-weather trip