STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Police are investigating after a building that is more than 250 years old was burglarized at Historic Richmond Town.
Security has been enhanced since Voorlezer’s House on Arthur Kill Road was targeted two nights in a row, according to Jessica Phillips, executive director and CEO of the living-history village.
Predating the Declaration of Independence that founded our nation, the farmhouse was built around 1769 and replaced an earlier structure dated circa 1695 that served as a religious center for a Dutch Reformed congregation, a school and a home for the Voorlezer family…