My mom was born in 1926 she just turn 91 and she also lives in Florida now. I also went to PS 79 and then St Lukes through 4th grade, but then off to Holy Trinity & St. Agnes for the rest! Instead, money polluted/corrupted the business men there. Yes It was on the shore in Queens, not far west of the Throgs Neck Bridge, on which construction was just being finished my first year there. The last 6 acres of the former Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone are back on the selling block. Ive fond memories of Freddies Pizzeria in the Village, with its hitching post and a slice that, at one time,cost the same as a subway ride, 20 cents. Refi. I remember the Kent Trucks coming in every afternoon along 20th avenue with cleaning items from their entire network of dry cleaning shops. In our continuing series on the boroughs northern coast, we now visit Whitestone, Beechhurst and Fort Totten. I did not know the name of that ice cream parlor, as I did not go there often. I live not far from Tampa Florida now but have gone back a few years ago. Their business is recorded as DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION. Many memories to bore you with but enjoyed reading these comments. Hope to hear from you my old childhood friend. Many went to Long Island, including me lol. Before Bay Bridge Condominiums were built on the property in 1980, the DEP did testing on the property and determined there was no contamination. Great memories! $389,000. What a loss. The two unique, red-tile roof buildings besides the entrance? Here, residential developers hold sway and instead of parks, gated communities separate the public from the water. GT&Es Administration Building. I share all of your memories! The site was part of the former Cresthaven Country Club and then was owned by real estate firm Whitestone Jewels LLC, but has been in foreclosure since 2007 after the firm defaulted on its. $1,157,500. Cresthaven also had on their grounds both the Whitestone Boat Club and Cresthaven Yacht Club which remnants may still be seen possibly today. 79 in the 40s and 50s, and Mr. Campbell was there then, too. How they managed to open that ill never know. We lived in a house on 12 th rd/ Life was good. I have talked about and have wondered what happened to the cute little dark haired boy from so long ago. A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. Re Le Havre- It was built by Levitt ( of the several Levittowns in the US) . When the dance ended, I. Wow! The Oleskiew families lived a few houses north on 154 st and on 14th Ave across from me. Many summer days at CYO (bug juice) @ Cresthaven Pool, where, during its country club time, Bernie taught me the crawl. I do not remember the name of my 3rd grade teacher but remember a boy named Gerald Friedman who was in that class with me. All Right Reserved. WOW. Just saw Pat Gabriels postyes the penny candy store..forgot all about that one..thank youand your street was the best for sleigh ridingmine was the bus route and got plowed! Sneaking into Whitestone Pool, diving from the high dive and doing multiple flips I also went to St. Lukes School and was a Booster Beach member. On the very day JFK was assassinated, my brother and I walked home and stopped by Chriss Card Shop to see if we placed in the recent window painting contest (we painted a picture on one of the windows at Bohacks Market on 14th avenue). Great mechanic organizer I worked on the African Queen and the African King at Whitestone and also on the ,Manhattan which ran out of Cresthaven those were great days counselors bug juice lunches and hundreds of life jackets. After I completed my route and before I went home each day, I stopped at Carpenters market on Clintonville Street and bought potato chips and a soda. ), which if I remember correctly may have been a salt water pool. It was a wonderful time. I was active at Immanuel Lutheran church and my cousin Richeys wife taught at their school. Although Wildflower has a beach, it is not usedforswimming. Acrossthe bay from Utopia Parkway is Fort Totten and behind it is Great Neck. Insane! If this apartment ever went co-op or condo, itd be worth a mint! The site was part of the former Cresthaven Country Club and then was owned by real estate firm Whitestone Jewels LLC, but has been in foreclosure since 2007. and exactly where it was located? Anyone have any further info? 5 beds, 4 baths, 3180 sq. If you crossed the street not at her corner, she would make you cross back and forth 10 times saying thats a corner. We covered all of Queens, and went a little into Brooklyn by the Queens border, and into the Bronx just over the Throgs Neck Bridge. Spent a lot of time of my time in Francis Lewis Park. I remember Frans husband wearing a baggy cardigan and bedroom slippers in the store, cigarette hanging out of his mouth. We hung out in front of Dirty Bobs candy store. The staff kept us safe by assigning colored swim caps according to our proficiency in the pool. I would park my bike outside of section A, go up stairs, across the roof, to section B, down to my bike, get more papers and then up section C, across the roof again and down section D. Of course I had to go up and down the three floors of Section E because there was no section F! That camp closed when the property was sold and the owner reopened closer to the Whitestone Bridge calling the camp Wings. Daniel J. Gilligan was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 17th, 1942. After she died it was sold for a great deal of money. 3rd Avenue & 150th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. The fridge in the kitchen was mounted on the ceiling over the counter like an overhead kitchen cabinet! So named because of the spectacular water-views encompassing Whitestone's two landmark bridges, the property is the largest high-end single-family development currently under construction in Queens. Sometimes I bought Hostess Snowballs. I too played alot of paddleball undr Whitestone Bridge. I grew up in Whitestone (10-06 148th St.) and spent almost every non-school day in Francis Lewis Park. All the places everyone spoke about sparks a memory. If I remember correctly, you were a cute dark haired boy and a cub scout. Swam at the CYO. One of them collapsed as I recall and Campbell got hurt as he was on the stairs when they broke. I attended Immanuel Lutheran School from 1959-1968. I have a photo of my brother wearing a Wide Wings tee shirt. 3 23 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357 is a Single Family, Residential property listed for $1,480,000 The property is 3600 sq. Were you there? Hope you are happy and healthy! I was a paper boy from 1966 to 1968. Waldbaums Shopping Center was built, giving us a supermarket and some small shops like Stage Variety Store and a pizza place, a bank, etc. There were so many different types of pools for people of all ages and sizes. I remember walking to Sams Penny Store on 14th Avenue with its glass cases of loose candy. The city acquired this park in 1937. Tropicana had property at the foot of 154th street in Beechhurst. Her mansion became There were the wafer flying saucers, dot strips, penny Bazookas, wax teeth, the Revell plastic model kits and the cap gun ammo wed scratch until our nails were scorched with gunpowder. Played in the woods between the Renaissance and Wide Wings with my brothers. The dances at the club in Cresthaven were quite the events. Live in Babylon now. Real terra incognita as they say. And his property became Arlington Cemetery. When we got a little older and had phony proof in hand, we went to the Mona Kai (near Bohacks & Tropacana) for a Flaming Volcano or to Rum Bottoms for some music. I enjoyed walking down memory lane and am so thankful for my time on 11th and 13th Avenues. She didnt even know she had been shot. Have been for 45 years. Went to PS 193, 79 and 30. It was exciting! accident. From the bead-end at Cresthaven, one can see Whitestone Point Rock. At the eastern end of Whitestone / Beechhurst, the shoreline curves south into Little Bay. Ive parallel experiences to yours. NYCs Christmas Streets [SpliceToday] Was Bertlesons the little ice cream parlor near Storks? Remember spending how much time trying to figure how to best spend my 10 cent allowance. It has since been automated like all other lighthouses in the city. I remember taking a note into his office when I was a little girl. Weddings My friends and I would cross our legs Indian style and shimmy up the V shaped grooves in the concrete to the top. T TOKAR, FRANK A, 94 of Dunedin, FL passed away on December 23, 2012 at home surrounded by family. I remember it had an old mansion house and a large, for a little kid, wooded area. Park used to offer one of my favorite quintessential NY experiences, which is hanging out in the cool space beneath a major bridge. Across the street from Samos Lane, a fire hydrant is tastefully wrapped by paving stones. As a formerresidentialcommunity, Fort Totten had its own post office, zip code, swimming pool, little league and street signs. I only remember going there that one summer and have memories of playing dodge ball in the gym,and going on a day trip to either rye Playland or rockaway beach (whichever had a swimming pool there ). Ft. Share Location Property Info Property History Public Records Schools Similar Homes Sold 3/26/21 View All Map Street View Also, nearby under the Throgs Neck Bridge was a horseshoe ring (still there) and Bands would play in the summertime. There were a set of whistles every day telling workers it was time to be at work. Many Smooth work commute, popular bars and nightlife, nearby restaurants and grocery stores, and safety. At that time, there was a sunken school yard that was later filled in with an addition to the building. The mansions are overcrowding what used to beautiful old farm houses and Tudors. My twins were christened and had a luncheon upstairs at Mayers Marina where my husband at the time worked. Still have the watch Fr Flemings brother Willie He officiated the marriage ceremony of my wife and I. Accordingtothe historian Strabo, its name is Phoenician for rise by the shore.. New York is becoming too gentrified. Admission at that time was $1.50 . ), you should see it Before it was middle class. This property in the 11357 zip code was built in 2001 and the lot size is 0.18 acres. I just discovered this blog and it brought back so many memories. I wonder where he lived and where he studied. The terrace was accessible from both the living room and master bedroom. Penny candylicorice, Bazookas, sugar dots on a paper stripin a little brown bag. Rent a row boat andante buy sand worms for a day of fishing. There was a gate and the Tropicana trucks came and went from the lot. Some of the former army residences appear as if transported from a small town. Whitestone in the 1960s was heaven. Then it was on to four buildings in LeHarve, where I took the elevators up nine floors and slid the papers along the floor to the subscribers on each floor easy peasy! Later she would pick me up. Thats right. I remember always seeing that gray colored Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy ship docked on the other side of the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Little Neck Bay. There was Adventurers Inn, the Aero Slife, Golf City, a watching the planes at Flushing (Speeds) Aiport At low tide, Id go to the Cement Pier in Malba and enter what I called the tunnel and what I now believe was a storm discharge outlet! I became the Whitestone Boating Director as the CYO Day Camp reached a capacity of 5,000 campers a day spread out between 6 properties Whitestone, Alley Pond Park, Cresthaven, Kisena Park, Astoria Pool and Cunningham Park. THE WATER I worked at both Cresthaven Country Club and the Whitestone Pool so I know the salt water came right from the East River next door. Whitestone contains Queens' lowest numbered present-day avenue: 2nd, which exists as a dead-end at the north end of 148th Street and 149th Place. As close to small town America as you could get. But still..??? I went to it between 55 and 62 but I see you were still going there in 1973. Whitestone, like many Queens communities, is refreshingly patriotic. It was run by Father Flemming. 14th Avenue between 149th and 150th. I would love to get some information on him. He dedicated his life to the CYO and children wherever he was! Father Flemings family, Rita Hass her everyone Loved Storks. Good times! Alas, post 9/11 I believe there is a full time police presence and/or other means to prevent that. Then went under the locust trees to dry off and eat lunch. 79primarily about how and why that magnificent building was torn down. Puerto Madero N9710, Oficina 22, Pudahuel - Santiago | saudi arabian airlines flight 763 cvr transcript Whitestone officials are eyeing the six-1/2-acre former Cresthaven Country Club, now overgrown and boarded up, for use as a city park. university of bristol computer science. I do remember the stairwells. (Ugh.where did that water come from then?). They put the new one in the back. Lunchroom smelled so bad I was so thankful we ate in the auditorium. I recall a while on black sign in the the lobby of their apartment house with the initials LH on it. Find your perfect home in Brighton Condominiums, Boca Raton, FL. WE USE TO GO TO THE CYO SWIMMING , DOES ANYONE KNOW THE STREET IT WAS ON . I remember going on a school trip there in elementary school. Was Ritchie Ferraro the younger brother of Dino Ferraro? Today, a simple skeleton tower with a beacon performs the duty. They went on to raise 2 daughters on E. Tremont Avenue. The pool you are thinking of was the Whitestone Pool, open to the public. Hope you are happy and doing well. I think it was right under the Utopia Parkway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. The Clearview Golf course was our hang out. Then 49 other kids and I had to fold our papers outside of the station office on Cross Island Parkway and 149th Street. /bartender. I too was born in 1962, lived in Whitestone, and also attended PS 79. I grew up with owners kids. This outcropping usedtohave a lighthouse that was operated by a keeper until around 1990. A couple of these streets reach the waters edge, but it does not appear that there is a beach in use at Cresthaven. Otherwise, Id cycle through Malba, College Point, Flushing and Fort Totten. Neither ever went beyond planning stage. What else do you know about Sylvania besides the rumor? That job taught me how to work and how to deliver and be reliable! Randazzo is ringing a bell. If you scroll down or up (? Because Beechhurst shares the 11357 zip code with the more populated neighborhood of Whitestone, it is regarded by outsiders as part of Whitestone to the dismay of some residents. We too lived on 12th road between 154th and 157th. Mr. & Mrs. Stork have long since passed but Karl still has his older brother Nicky- People still rave about one of the best bakeries ever! This is all from memory, but it had acreage and was fenced. We have become a small city with many diversified cultures. I had to get my papers, hop the Q-15 at 15th and 150th Street and deliver my papers! We loved going to Beechhurst Beach, swimming out to the big wooden raft, or from the wooden steps at the end, getting burgers and fries from the concession, dressing up for the Saturday night dance. There were 50 paper routes in Whitestone and I had Route #42 which delivered to Beechurst. Hi Fred: Are you related to College Points infamous Mayers Marina? Wonderful place to grow up in the 50s & 60s. 154th to 162nd CIP to the Water is Beechurst, the area between 162nd utopia and Leharve is known as Robinswood, Yep went ps79 those big front doors slammed really loud and mr Campbell with the smelly pipe,mr Harmon asst principle,those teachers randazzo,rathner,Welch, and best of all varsi s 75 cent heros and dont forget frans candy store a penny a piece 25 cents lasted all day. I remember at age 12 that I had to deliver those papers every day rain, snow, or shine and sickness or health! A Mr Zappavigna a contractor lived on 154th St right at the end of 14th Ave. 12 year olds dont have much fear. I grew up in Whitestone in 1931 and remained there until 2007 and am now in Florida. During heavy snowstorms your Dad would plow our street (15th Drive between 149th and 150th). It did get noisy mid 70s since most of us had dirt bikes. There were 2 pools: the whitestone pool was the public pool at the end of the street. wonderful Sunday afternoons we spent there in the early 60s. Running between Beechhurst and Jamaica Estates, this roadway begins as a one-lane dead-end on the shore of Little Bay. We used to go there in our bathing suits to cool off! It was officially named The Sylvania-Corning Nuclear Corporation Metallurgical Laboratory. Hi Joanie and Brenda you lived on my Block 12 ave.my mother and father still live on 12 ave.I live on 12 road now never left .Joanie how is your sister Alita I hope I spelled it right .Brenda how is your brother Jerry? In the early 20th century, thislocationwas part of Long Islands Gold Coast, a stretch of waterfront mansions covering the northern shores of Queens and Nassau counties. Ft. $403 per Sq. The while at Kents blew at 7:45 a.m., 8:00 a.m. and again at quttin time at 4:00 p.m. Hello Jerry Friedman ! Most memorable day was seeing Mrs. Collins crying and later being dismissed early finding out President Kennedy died! I too went to CYO day camp. This building has 2 residential unit (s). Following its closing in 1989, the property was subdivided for tract mansions accessed by private streets. I worked there On weekends and evenings it was open as a swim club. Learn how your comment data is processed. It had a great Playground with Monkey Bars and the Long Swing sets which are banned today. Time frame = Summer 1953 & 1954 ~OR~ Summer 1954 & 1955. This should have remained a historic town.
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