Was your mother Kay Curci? Tropicana had property at the foot of 154th street in Beechhurst. There were two camps. 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. I loved those days! Parades up 150th St from Memorial Field into Whitestone by Gleasons Funeral Home. i grew up in whitestone on 12 th road off of 150th street. My mother always spoke of Mrs. Day. 315 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357 was last sold in 07/06/2016 for $1,400,000. How about the Topless Bar off the Cross Island Service road in Beechurst. Search by owner name and find all properties currently or previously owned. We have become a small city with many diversified cultures. Some of them had the image of swasticas! It predates the fort and is a linktoa period when the peninsula carried the name Willets Point. Before Bay Bridge Condominiums were built on the property in 1980, the DEP did testing on the property and determined there was no contamination. So off to Virginia he went. I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember the CYO summer day camp at Cresthaven Country Club in northern Whitestone. I grew up in Beechhurst, and lived on Riverside Drive. I did not know the name of that ice cream parlor, as I did not go there often. It was officially named The Sylvania-Corning Nuclear Corporation Metallurgical Laboratory. It cost $1.25 in those days. /bartender. I finished 6th grade there in 1963, JHS 185 in 1966 and Flushing High School in 1969. where I could practice my skills at actually throwing the papers to the stoops of the homes. This is not the official website of this company. I hope you will see my message. FNY will soon have a more comprehensive look at Fort Totten. That description sounds exactly like my grandfather, Bill, and his mother, Bertha, who I never met but I know lived with them from family stories. This property in the 11357 zip code was built in 2001 and the lot size is 0.18 acres. So as the war progressed, to spite him, the US Army (the North) confiscated his plantation (wife was still home) and immediately began burying bodies on his front lawn. The Whitestone pool was opened to the public. Actually used to climb up the concrete anchorage for the Whitestone Bridge. I grew up on 14th ave next to Grace Church. I still see tropicana trucks there and a new cvs taking over the waldbaums,plus waterfront restaurant ponte something. Re Le Havre- It was built by Levitt ( of the several Levittowns in the US) . ), which if I remember correctly may have been a salt water pool. It is one of the two last private beaches remaining on the Queens shoreline of the East River. Instead, money polluted/corrupted the business men there. Fort Monroe was completed and then the Civil War broke out. This home is located at 315 Cresthaven Ln, Whitestone, NY 11357 and has been listed on Homes.com and is currently estimated at $1,645,000, approximately $612 per square foot. Yesterday I came across a pamphlet from back in the day about joining the beach house beach. NY-Crystal River Yacht Club. Yes the CYO property started small the Brooklyn Diocese just took over the Cresthaven Country Club and its 2 pools, expanded by taking over the Whitestone Pool as the small day camp grew and grew and grew. Have been for 45 years. And once I got an ice cream cone there and they charged me 15 cents (probably in the late 60s or early 70s), which was a mind-blowingly low price. Its shoreline is largely comprised of upper income tract mansions and high rise apartments. The master bedroom and living room had wall-to-wall windows on the exterior wall. On the negative side, I remember a mother being shot in the stomach and killed by two boys playing with a .22 rifle. I used to think it meant LeFrak House until now. All Right Reserved. ft with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms As of 10/26/2022 the estimated market value is $1,752,000. It was across the street from the old Naval reserve building by the CYO camp. Maybe she was wearing a kimono! I grew up in the 70s so remember some of the stuff you are mentioning. Thanks for the memories! The green knife sharpening truck used to come down our block everyday(138 street between 11ave-14ave. CRESTHAVEN-WHITESTONE CLUB, INC. (DOS ID: 441706) was incorporated on 07/15/1977 in New York. Alas, post 9/11 I believe there is a full time police presence and/or other means to prevent that. I see PS 184 has been remodeled. Hope you are happy and healthy! Frances Lewis Park was neverland to me. Its original name was Levitt House and the initials LH were imbedded in the tile floor of each of the 32 lobbies. An aunt and uncle of mine used to live in the Le Havre apartments. To the left of the beach entrance is a private segment of Riverside Drive, where one can find eight oversize tract mansions with their own docks and waterfront pools. This site brings back a lot of fond memories., storks is gone I wish I could still live there. I also went to PS 79 and then St Lukes through 4th grade, but then off to Holy Trinity & St. Agnes for the rest! Waldbaums Shopping Center was built, giving us a supermarket and some small shops like Stage Variety Store and a pizza place, a bank, etc. Frans candy store! Since then, thepropertywas developed with upscale townhouses and the 15-room mansion was divided into six condo units. Properties; Search by address to access the property report or search by location to build lists of properties. The Mattone Group of College Point and the Associated Development Corporation of Bayside are developing the $52 million project, called Waterside Estates at Cresthaven, with up to 117 houses,. I remember when Beechhurst was Beechhurst. T TOKAR, FRANK A, 94 of Dunedin, FL passed away on December 23, 2012 at home surrounded by family. for, and I live in CaliforniaThey say you can never go home again,I guess that is the truth. He had a big first-floor office that faced the front yard. That was the go to bakery for our entire family. I had to get my papers, hop the Q-15 at 15th and 150th Street and deliver my papers! Plus in days before easy access to aerial photos, it was even harder to imagine what went on at the waters edge. Frank was my Grampa! He knew the Sanitation Dept would eventually get around to in probably in May lol. Tropicana was located on 154th street, off the water for deliveries by boat. NYCs Christmas Streets [SpliceToday] Many He smoked a pipe in there, and there was a carpet on the floor. Great memories of my years in Cambridge. 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. This property was built in 2002. That there is a tunnel (which has caved in) under the bay connecting Fort Totten to Fort Schyler? I lived there, across from Clearview Golf Course. There was a Bayside Bell Rod & Gun Club (c.1962-66+/-) that was able to use the Fort Totten indoor rifle & pistol range and where was the range? I walked from my apartment by the golf course, with my mother. Fleming and introduced him to Cresthaven, where he ended up running the CYO camp. As Whitestone has a large Greek population, it is possible that the streets name comes from the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea. They primarily conducted testing on Uranium and Thorium. I remember missing you and I still have. The northeast extreme of Queens is an ear-shaped peninsula that was used as an army base between 1857 and 1995. He played the saw and did ventriloquism with a dummy he would take out a suitcase. All are gone. We moved there in 1958. Yes 60s/70s Beechurst was a boys paradise. Donny, a family member of Father Flemmings, pretty much ran the pool and lived in the house behind it. Our lunches were provided by the NYC Board of Ed. If I remember correctly, you were a cute dark haired boy and a cub scout. They put the new one in the back. Whitestone, NY 11357. My mother went there as a child. c) Sylvania Research Laboratory very possible had an incident c.1960. Does anyone remember a day camp on the water in Whitestone called Wide Wings? I spent the summers at the Beechhurst Beach,as well as my parents before me. When the war ended, he came home, packed up his family, and moved south to become Washington College President. Their business is recorded as DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION. Part of the daily routine walking home from school was to either get an Italian Ice at Bertlesons (5 or 10 cent sizes) or a slice of Pizza at Freddies (15 cents per slice, 20 cents for a Sicilian slice). Was there also to see the first stones being laid and then went home (that later became Arlington Cemetery). Those were truly wonderful summers and gave us all life-long memories of happy, safe and exciting times. Joe Dragan. Became Toms deli for many years (We went to Carvel all the time.) 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. This is no accident as in the early postwar years,ParksCommissioner Robert Moses intended to construct Clearview Beach on this site. Some of the former army residences appear as if transported from a small town. They had driven from New York with baggy ski pants, lace boots, wooden skis and five dollars a day for tow tickets to participate in the first trip of the newly organized ski club. Geez old old memories. Now, Eastern Consolidated, a New York real-estate investment firm, has been retained by Whitestone Jewels as the agent in the sale of the site between Powells Cove Blvd., 150th St. and Sixth Ave. Time and the cost involved with installing sewers for the development were the prime reasons for putting it back on the market, said Azita Aghravi, a senior director with Eastern Consolidated. The wing and gym and auditorium were not built yet. Our love story began on Nov. 10, 1961, at a dance at Cresthaven Country Club in Whitestone, Queens. That the old Sylvania or GE property had some type of radioactive incident around 1960? It was run by Father Flemming. It can get confusing. water before the Cross Island Pkwy was Theparkhas a small cove that has a beach, but swimming is prohibited. Cresthaven, Powells Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate, was operated by a keeper until around 1990, WhitestonePointhad a romantic-looking lighthouse tower with a bell, was used as an army base between 1857 and 1995, others are in a dilapidated state, ravaged by themoistureandwinds of the bay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhRMoU-KDZU, The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano. CRESTHAVEN-WHITESTONE CLUB, INC. (DOS ID: 441706)was incorporated on 07/15/1977in New York. The 10th Ave crowd was the Sinobrias, Siracusas, and Larsens 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. Mr Harmon was a super nice gentleman, My favorite was Mrs. Frankel (my 3rd grade teacher). 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! Riding bikes all over Beechhurst, Whitestone, malba. Best Sicilian and white pizza was Freddies. I remember taking a note into his office when I was a little girl. Mostly good times, I have been trying to find information about the Whitestone ferry for many years. Closer to the water, the pool had a pool house that overlooked the water and we used to take rowboats out into the river. Although Wildflower has a beach, it is not usedforswimming. They are co-ops and have been since the mid 80s . Ps 184 was my public school. On weekends and evenings it was open as a swim club. So beautiful there and such wonderful times the best 12 summers of my life. I remember her mom chasing me out of the store on day because she thought I had not paid for a pack of baseball cards! ? We lived in a house on 12 th rd/ Life was good. 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 ). 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. It belonged to Dolores del Rio, a film celebrity back in the day. Only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place got trophies. Had a black iron fence surrounding it. Cresthaven also had on their grounds both the Whitestone Boat Club and Cresthaven Yacht Club which remnants may still be seen possibly today. Now gone for more than 25 years, the club's large outdoor swimming pool provided welcome relief from summer's heat. Following its closing in 1989, the property was subdivided for tract mansions accessed by private streets. No excuses! The chapel is leased to a Korean congregationwhilethe Officers Club is used by Bayside Historical Society. Bridge Gulls [SpliceToday] There was a sunken concrete sprinkler area in the park. I used to walk to Whitestone pool & Ft Totten as a kid. Refi. Good times! They went on to raise 2 daughters on E. Tremont Avenue. I have a neighbor who attended P.S. 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 . The kids would spend half a day swimming and the other half in the park with bug juice before the bus ride home. It was. are any of my old friends out there?? Admission at that time was $1.50 . 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. I think it had an iron fence around it. Most of Fort Tottens coastline is rocky, unsuitable for a beach. To anyone that knew him..sorry to say he passed on many years ago..more than 20. There were a set of whistles every day telling workers it was time to be at work. I didnt have her, wither. Rosalees mother, Myra OBrien (maiden name Myra Surgeon) lived to be 101 and died in 1971. I too went to CYO day camp. Im a Zappavigna, my mother Madeline, Dad is Louie, who was a general contractor. Was Bertlesons the little ice cream parlor near Storks? 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