The 70s were like the wild west. Worked on the waterfront both at Whitestone and next door at Cresthaven for several summers with really tremendous kids from all the Catholic high schools in Queens. How many residential units does this building have? Across the street from Samos Lane, a fire hydrant is tastefully wrapped by paving stones. Went down into the barges at the yacht club. So safe back then. Forgotten NY correspondent. /bartender. Thanks for the memories! At this location (by some accounts) East River becomes known as Long Island Sound. Im trying to find out the name of the rowboat rental at the foot of Clintonville Street across from the Whitestone armory. As Whitestone has a large Greek population, it is possible that the streets name comes from the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea. She had 2 older brothers Eddie and Gene and one younger brother Bobby. $1,157,500. Liived in LeHarve and Cryders before that. As a child I recall the remains of a ferry boat partially buried in the shore line of an old run down marina called Captain Bills. The last 6 acres of the former Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone are back on the selling block. It was exciting! Aww, the memories. Sneaking into Whitestone Pool, diving from the high dive and doing multiple flips Hey Zoso! The dirt road on 12 ave and 154 The Beechhurst food market DiMaggios pizza stuies candy store 193 park beechhurst Beach hanging out . Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Whitestone, NY 11357. I remember there sign saying 100, 000 served, then finally a Million. The master bedroom and living room had wall-to-wall windows on the exterior wall. ), Mr. Campbell was an old kind of nasty man. Ft. Share Location Property Info Property History Public Records Schools Similar Homes Sold 3/26/21 View All Map Street View Oh well. Im still here! One thing was that if you brought your lunch you had to eat in the auditorium due to lack of space in the cafeteria. I remember at age 12 that I had to deliver those papers every day rain, snow, or shine and sickness or health! I did , however, find this amazing YouTube video of Whitestone pool 1963/1964 which I feel you could more closely identify with than I can. Today, a simple skeleton tower with a beacon performs the duty. Whitestone officials are eyeing the six-1/2-acre former Cresthaven Country Club, now overgrown and boarded up, for use as a city park. I work in Cambridge and have been similarly reminiscing with him about my old Whitestone days (b 1962, attended PS 79 and Bleeker JHS, and also was a proud LI Press delivery boy..etc etc. Near the eponymous bridge, Francis LewisParkoccupies aportionof the former estate of AmericanrevolutionaryFrancis Lewis. Fleming and introduced him to Cresthaven, where he ended up running the CYO camp. Properties; Search by address to access the property report or search by location to build lists of properties. Id take my bike down the hill toward the water and sometimes fish under the bridge with my grandfather (Poppy). Still remember the sign posted at the counter Thou shall not steal or thou shall get thy ass kicked. Beechurst had a beach i went to as a child next to tropicana etc. 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. 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. 323 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357. Yes 60s/70s Beechurst was a boys paradise. that letter in box of childhood memories. My summers I lived at Beechhurst beach. Replying to Howard Mellon: Thanks for the info. I think it was right under the Utopia Parkway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. I finished 6th grade there in 1963, JHS 185 in 1966 and Flushing High School in 1969. No excuses! Here is a link to some photos of P.S. It can get confusing. I delivered the Long Island Star Journal, which yielded to the Long Island Press in 1968. Hello Jerry Friedman ! You remembered it correctly. The northernmost avenue in Queens is Second Avenue, which is the first number in a grid sequence that extends to 165th Avenue in Howard Beach. simplicity misses dresses; cathedral in the desert canyoneering; Select Page They primarily conducted testing on Uranium and Thorium. Draw your own conclusions. That was in the sixtiesthe water got better since then thankfully.They were such good times. But this mystery teacher was into Japanese culture, and I have a memory of her walking down the hall carrying a samurai sword. I also went to PS 79 and then St Lukes through 4th grade, but then off to Holy Trinity & St. Agnes for the rest! CRESTHAVEN-WHITESTONE CLUB, INC. (DOS ID: 441706), AMERICAN LEGION ELMER E. BENNETT JR. POST NO. My mother and father still live on 12 ave I am still in the neighborhood. In aneighborhoodfilled with private gated communities, cameras and security guards, the best day for me to check out these beaches is when there is a heavy downpourandno ones watching. The CYO camp in the 1970s would love to see pics, as I attended at a young age maybe 5-7yrs old and have memories of taking the bus there from Rego Park. 3-35 Cresthaven Lane: Real Estate, school zoning and more information about 3-35 Cresthaven Lane in Whitestone This is not the official website of this company. I used the pool for one summer (1954 or 1955). He played the saw and did ventriloquism with a dummy he would take out a suitcase. There were long walks with the neighborhood kid to the glen near the Trogs Neck Bridge for live music during the summer. wonderful Sunday afternoons we spent there in the early 60s. Does anyone know the name or have any info on it.? Also, nearby under the Throgs Neck Bridge was a horseshoe ring (still there) and Bands would play in the summertime. Milt, the Good Humor truck driver My name is Paul and my family lived on 6th Ave, four doors west of 149th My next door neighbor, Rosalee Reilly, in Whitestone was the VP for Personnel at Kents Cleaners her husband Charlie worked in the Post Office. 2nd year = Again met and played at PS 184, then boarded buses to Francis Lewis Park (Whitestone Bridge), went wading under the sprinkler sprays in their concrete basins. On December 3 I, 1958, thirty-eight skiers at Stowe, Vermont raised their glasses to welcome the New Year and toast the beginnings of the Cresthaven Ski Club. There were wooden booths to sit in. I still see tropicana trucks there and a new cvs taking over the waldbaums,plus waterfront restaurant ponte something. There was NO ROOM FOR ERROR! Find your perfect home in Brighton Condominiums, Boca Raton, FL. The old Beechurst Building had interesting tiles on the floor. The Whitestone pool was opened to the public. Address, neighborhood, city, or ZIP code. The Mona Kai and the Shore Tavern were tough drinking Bars. He had a big first-floor office that faced the front yard. Cresthaven had two private pools, one for adults with a diving board and one kiddie pool, separate but both did host the CYO day camp programs. Very decadent but it was MY MONEY! Plenty of places to ride. My mother went there as a child. It belonged to Dolores del Rio, a film celebrity back in the day. I went to kindergarten in that school early 1958. I lived there, across from Clearview Golf Course. Was looking up the old neighborhood. Monsignor Gordon, Father Hannon, Sisters Virginia Ann, Margaret Mary, Mrs. Delavalle, Mrs. Lavin, and the crossing guard, Mrs. Yannity. Mr Harmon was a super nice gentleman, My favorite was Mrs. Frankel (my 3rd grade teacher). I went to St Lukes had a paper route route 13 Freddys pizza $.25 a slice in 1969 storks bakery Karl Stork was in my class in the first and second grade I remember mrsStork bringing cookies every Christmas to school for the kids Hope to hear back from somebody this is the first time Ive ever done this kind of thing. 145-40 5 ave Whitestone, NY 11357: Presented by. Following its closing in 1989, the property wassubdividedfor tract mansions accessed by private streets. Hi Paul I went to st Lukes school my dad worked in the bank of manhattan on150th st larrycarroll my mom worked for dr glass I had a sister Joan Carroll @ a brother Larry nickname bubby. I went to the day camp at 184 for one summer in the early 70s. Countryside Montessori 8 Week Camp is the answer. Thanks for thes insightfull kodak moments, it makes me proud my dad chose this area to live. Does anyone remember an old wooden school house on 12th Road between Clintonville St and 152nd St? One was Wide Wings and was closer to the Throgs Neck bridge. Playing DAC Baseball in Fort Totten then sneaking into the Fort and hiding when the MPs in the Green Jeep would come through the tunnel. We hung out in front of Dirty Bobs candy store. ), you should see it I had a vivid picture of the couple who ran the store but the name was not there. Theparkhas a small cove that has a beach, but swimming is prohibited. Then, at 8 a.m. My good friend Obi worked at Whitestone Deli when we were teens. This is no accident as in the early postwar years,ParksCommissioner Robert Moses intended to construct Clearview Beach on this site. Although Wildflower has a beach, it is not usedforswimming. I walked from my apartment by the golf course, with my mother. Some of them had the image of swasticas! Many summer days at CYO (bug juice) @ Cresthaven Pool, where, during its country club time, Bernie taught me the crawl. She spoke very fondly of the store and would run into former customers from time to time. On the negative side, I remember a mother being shot in the stomach and killed by two boys playing with a .22 rifle. Find properties near 307 Cresthaven Ln. Actually used to climb up the concrete anchorage for the Whitestone Bridge. Were you there? QUEENS VILLAGE COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HEALTH FOR JAMAICA COMMUNITY ADOLESCENT PROGRAM, INC. WHITESTONE VILLAGE BUSINESSMEN'S ASSOCIATION, INC. Remembering Jackie Robinson [SpliceToday] During heavy snowstorms your Dad would plow our street (15th Drive between 149th and 150th). constructed. It has since been automated like all other lighthouses in the city. The Oleskiew families lived a few houses north on 154 st and on 14th Ave across from me. As was the end of Murray St past 16th Rd. Also took a photo of the street. I recall a while on black sign in the the lobby of their apartment house with the initials LH on it. 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. Rent a row boat andante buy sand worms for a day of fishing. I remember missing you and I still have. Born April 1, 1918 in New York City, he came to Dunedin 33 years ago from Whitestone, NY where he was an engineer/superintendent for the Catholic Youth Organization, Diocese of Brooklyn, responsible for Cresthaven Country Club, Whitestone Country Club, Cresthaven Yacht Club and CYO Day Camps for . Amazing the names changes = a) I remember the pool called CYO Pool but now know it as Cresthaven, and b) I remember the park/spray heads called Whitestone Park but now known as Francis Lewis Park. there was a very large cement dug out area dug with lots of sprinklers! Hence, Le Havre , the name of a very large French port city. Maybe we had one or 2 beers once in a while. I share all of your memories! An aunt and uncle of mine used to live in the Le Havre apartments. Behind the dead-end are the Wildflower townhouses. Graduated from St. Lukes in 1976. The Company's current operating status is Active. It predates the fort and is a linktoa period when the peninsula carried the name Willets Point. . There were so many different types of pools for people of all ages and sizes. 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. Crime did not even exist. Lucille A Mackenzie Your Dad was referred to as Uncle Frank in our household. In 1969:I keep my boat in Mayers Marina. We put life jackets on all the campers and sailed under both the Whitestone and Throggs Neck Bridge. All are gone. MLS# 3327572. Went to Boosters beach and sold my share/spot, what an idiot I am!!!! 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 ). We often talk if the best bakery ever: Storks, and their crumb cake, kruellers, cookies. I remember Carvell and their raspberry sorbet and Storks with their jelly donuts. 120 Dehaven Drive 100 Dehaven Drive C resthaven Owners, Inc., is a three building cooperative apartment complex located in Northwest Yonkers. Wow! Jones Beach field 6 then Nathans in Oceanside. Accordingtothe historian Strabo, its name is Phoenician for rise by the shore.. Many days were spent riding my bike to Utopia Lane to watch the bridge construction. GT&Es Administration Building. Anyone have any further info? Most of the homes on the six-acre site will have approximately 2,500 square feet of living space with four bedrooms and four full bathrooms, according to Tim O'Sullivan of Fulcrum Real Estate. Behind the building was a small open area and then a large tent where kids got lunch or played when it rained. I played stick ball lots of times in Bohacks parking lot with Billy Collela. Don't seek support service here please. Most memorable day was seeing Mrs. Collins crying and later being dismissed early finding out President Kennedy died! I played countless games of softball in the PS 193 hardtop school yard and lost lots of money playing Whte Lighnng at the checkerboard tables in the school yard. It is one of the two last private beaches remaining on the Queens shoreline of the East River. No crime sex violence. Locals said it was once one of the ferries that ran between Whitestone and the Bronx. Cherry Valley, Cedar Lane, Freddys Pizza, Carvel, Genovese Drug store, Bohacks, Stationery on 150th St and 14th Ave where you could get candy and comic books The 10th Ave crowd was the Sinobrias, Siracusas, and Larsens Oh well. This building has 2 residential unit (s). Does anyone remember a day camp on the water in Whitestone called Wide Wings? I do remember the public pool at Cresthaven CYO (Which may have also been known as Whitestone Pool? My Mom and Grandmother were very close friends with Msgr. Some wonderful memories reading this! How they managed to open that ill never know. George J Murray III. My house on 12th ave bet 154 and 157th st is all redone . I do remember the stairwells. All good memories! The green knife sharpening truck ringing its bell. I like this post but to call a signal light a lighthouse is a stretch ,and I believe the only lighthouse in Whitestone ,the one with the bell was by where the original white stone was by the wildflower estate or hammerstein .ansion aka ripples on the water, 157-34 10th Ave. We used to go right down on the rocks under the south anchorage and fish, smoke, hang-out, whatever. 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? Great times! I have talked about and have wondered what happened to the cute little dark haired boy from so long ago. As of 10/26/2022 the estimated market value is $1,752,000. But I remember it well nonetheless. If memory serves, Cresthaven CC had a pool that was open to the public (25 cents) during the day except when being used by the CYO Catholic Youth Org. This 9-acre park covers aremnantof the property that belonged to Francis Lewis. Became Toms deli for many years I also worked on the 2 boats that the CYO used to give kids rides in the sound, They were housed at the boat club. Whitestone, NY 11357. 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. I really loveWhitestone and PS 79 and have many wonderful memories of my childhood. Was Ritchie Ferraro the younger brother of Dino Ferraro? Location: 150 Street & 6 Avenue, Whitestone (former location of Cresthaven Country Club) Number of Homes: 44 single family homes Site Acreage: 6 acres Construction: 4 bedroom, all brick and precast stone Colonials with attached garage, 2,000-3,760 square feet, depending on the model. He had a huge English Mastiff dog which used to patrol at night. There were 50 paper routes in Whitestone and I had Route #42 which delivered to Beechurst. There were two camps. Ps 184 was my public school. Learn how your comment data is processed. Speaking of the Bronx, once every 2 weeks we went to the very famous Bronx Zoo folr half a day. Bug juice and cookies before the ride home. 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. The rest is a private park-like terrain. 79 in the 30s. View photos, public assessor data, maps and county tax information. Frank was my Grampa! Thats we went to meet girls, mostly unsuccessfully though! Hope you are happy and healthy! Why were people thinking? Good Humor Trucks. Whitestone, Queens, NY 11357. Her mansion became Wildflower and Le Havre are both located at Powells Cove Boulevard and Totten Street. I too played alot of paddleball undr Whitestone Bridge. 4 bed 2.5 bath 4,792 sqft lot 312 Cresthaven Ln, Whitestone, NY 11357 Property Type Single Family Year Built 2000 Last Sold $1M in 2009 Share this home Edit Facts Get your home value updates. I lived in bldg 16 apartment 2D. When it went Condo, my mother bought it. There were two pools in Whitestone Cresthaven and the Whitestone pool and Haylocks Day Camp across from Whitestone pool. Silver Star and other local Bands would build a stage and run a power line from the lamp posts. Oh, and Artie Quicks candy store next to and later taken over by Storks Bakery. I remember walking to Sams Penny Store on 14th Avenue with its glass cases of loose candy. Hi Margaret Deciccio.I my name is Linda. Cresthaven A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. Here, residential developers hold sway and instead of parks, gated communities separate the public from the water. There was a sunken concrete sprinkler area in the park. Our lunches were provided by the NYC Board of Ed. Hope to hear from you my old childhood friend. boosters beach was my childhood.on 4 of july we greased a watermelon and had to capture it in water.then we had local bands for us teens,all played sunshine of your love,summer was quick/whitestone pool was great,they had a slide down from locker rooms/and yes CYO did take over beecghurst country club alsowhitestone/freddys pizza and carvel/is storks bakery still there? Best Sicilian and white pizza was Freddies. I remember going on a school trip there in elementary school. When I was drafted. Clintonville "My real estate mentor always said, 'Never fall . As you know, 1861, he sided with Virginia and the South and quickly went to the Confederate Richmond, leaving Washington behind. It was chlorinated pretty well so no one every got sick. Went to Wide Wings and a nursery school near there that has become nameless in my memory. Funny, I found this site when I got curious about the fate of Cresthaven & Whitestone Pools ( I left the east coast for the west in early in the early 1980s). As we reported previously in College Point and North Astoria, Queens East River Shoreline is not as accessible. Dear Rich, a few years ago I stumbled into a Facebook page being posted by a fellow named Ritchie Ferraro. But still..??? Campbell was the prinicipal when I was there as well. How did it change so much ugh. Beers Avenue and Walter Reed Road. @2019 - Forgotten New York. Im pretty sure the Fran you are speaking of is my grandmother (unless there were two Frans who owned candy stores in Whitestone.) Find investment properties for sale in Queens County Click Here Hot Rods up and down the Boulevard. It did get noisy mid 70s since most of us had dirt bikes. We moved there in 1958. Son Georgie keep the place going.There was always Bridge Gulls [SpliceToday] Sleigh Riding down suicide hill and skitching down Utopia Pkwy. The large property, which comprises six acres of vacant land near the intersection of 150th Street and Fifth Avenue, will be up for sale on April 10 in an auction. Smooth work commute, popular bars and nightlife, nearby restaurants and grocery stores, and safety. Then 49 other kids and I had to fold our papers outside of the station office on Cross Island Parkway and 149th Street. I just enjoyed reading everyones posts so much. down towards the yacht club. dances, rolling the tennis courts or painting at Whitestone pool 1st year = We played there, then boarded buses to the CYO Cresthaven Pool, went swimming and had lunch overlooking the East River and the next door dock and marina. They sell for upwards of 300,000. I did not know the name of that ice cream parlor, as I did not go there often. They put the new one in the back. The drinking age was 18 ?!?!? Considering the citys overcrowded public schools and neighborhood opposition to new schools inresidentialareas, I am surprised that the city hasntreused some of thevacantbuildings as schools. Randazzo is ringing a bell. Played in the construction site for Cryder House. I loved those days! Swam at the CYO. The developer is planning to build 45 homes at the former. Lived near to Boosters in the late 60s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhRMoU-KDZU. Waldbaums Shopping Center was built, giving us a supermarket and some small shops like Stage Variety Store and a pizza place, a bank, etc. In French, its name translates as The Harbor. Completed in 1958, Le Havrecomprisesof 32 towers on 32 acres of waterfront land. The cresthaven country club pool was only for the CYO kids and for the country club people after the camp. Riding our bikes in old Kent Cleaners off Clintonville and other lots before they were all gone. Closer to the water, the pool had a pool house that overlooked the water and we used to take rowboats out into the river. My twins were christened and had a luncheon upstairs at Mayers Marina where my husband at the time worked. I attended Immanuel Lutheran School from 1959-1968. We would go onto the ferry and could see the water through the rotted out deck boards, never thinking we could have fallen into the abyss below. 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. If I missed a day, Mr. Weber the route director would have fired me! From the bead-end at Cresthaven, one can see Whitestone Point Rock. A lifetime ago!!! never regretted leaving. I used to fish off the barges near CYO with my dad many times and most of the inlets from there to College Point. This had to be around 1978. The average person cannot live there anymore because it is too expensive, Where does the middle class live now anyway.? Maybe she was wearing a kimono! A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. The club, known in its heyday as one of Queens' premier sites for weddings, dances and. The building had significant shortcomings. Otherwise, Id cycle through Malba, College Point, Flushing and Fort Totten. The last 6 acres of the former Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone are back on the selling block. Tropicana had property at the foot of 154th street in Beechhurst. Playing Asteroids and eating toasted buttered bagels at Bridge Lanes At that time, there was a sunken school yard that was later filled in with an addition to the building. Saturday, May 16, 2015 Whitestone developer might build 45 homes.or sell the land From the Queens Courier: The new owner of the former Cresthaven Country Club site in Whitestone is hoping to break ground on a massive development project of 45-single family detached residents by the end of the summer. I didnt have her, wither. Our love story began on Nov. 10, 1961, at a dance at Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone, Queens. And then there was the sign at the counter meant to stave off sticky fingers Thou shall not steal or thou shall get thy ass kicked. I first laid eyes on my beautiful wife, Eleanor, in 1958 at a weekly "singles" dance at the Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone, Queens. This property in the 11357 zip code was built in 2001 and the lot size is 0.18 acres. Ice skating in Bowne Park. Live in Babylon now. My friends and I would cross our legs Indian style and shimmy up the V shaped grooves in the concrete to the top. 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