Ferries between Clason Point and College Point in Queens ensured a steady stream of visitors, and the destination point for daylong excursions soon grew into a seasonal resort. Good patriots that they were, they named the colony for the US President at the time, Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923). It seems to be that a person Whom owned my lot bought the lot next to him. on nearby Castle Hill Avenue has indoor and outdoor pools, the Harding Park Homeowners Association is building a new community center and the Point Yacht Club still flies its burgee from the tip of Clason Point. The Castle Hill branch is located at 947 Castle Hill Avenue. We lived on Newman Ave in the 60s in a house my great grandfather built down near the corner of Patterson, Families like the Nichols, the Potulins, the Stecks, the Heaters all with kids running in the streets until the lights came on or scavenging down in the old boat yard which became a dump with the firemens training pit. By 1949, the area was no longer an amusement district, though the Shorehaven Beach Club was born. When in university I did a report on the Siwanoy Indians who lived in Clason Point. A lot of people died and a lot of people were injured, and they were in the thick of it, and they survived, Durante says. Soundview Avenue is the odd one here, cutting through the street grid on its two-mile route. A ferry docks at the Soundview Ferry dock at Clason Point. The small peninsula of the Bronx defined by the Bronx River, Pugsley's Creek, and the East River is known as Clason (pronounced CLAW-son) Point. My name is Kathy Myers I livedin 454 barrett ave from1967 till 1980 I remeber the Crocittos and and the italian father and daughters Lucy antoinette and Mary who lived in 456. excellent info! Looks left was the Long Island Sound. Raquel , I hope you see my message some day soon. Debbie has my details too. I grew up Soundview Ave&Beach Ave neighborhood 1966-74.Wondering if any of my ol friends from back then still across the short road was an empty lot that my mother and father converted to a small garden. Tommy an I were buddies and A boy named Derek was tall than us.Just good memories all around . My X-wife lived at 535 Beach Ave and I lived at 534 St. Lawrence Ave around the corner. Raquel aka Rocky we have been thinking about you Alex and your Mom for years, we moved around since our last day out in Manhattan and AC. We were poor and were not Public transportation consists of two bus routes and there are only a few schools in the neighborhood. Sketching Henderson Place [SpliceToday] document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. She only bothered me once when she came with a big knife and asked me where the boy that hit her was. Tom, I grew up at 1621 Gildersleeve @ Harding Park. [44], Clason Point and Parkchester's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is higher than the rest of New York City. Up until the pandemic, ridership along the Soundview ferry route, which stops along the East side of Manhattan along the East River at 90th Street, 34th Street, Stuyvesant Cove (at 20th Street, and Wall Street at Pier 11, was exceeding expectations.. This disagreement was rendered moot in 1664 when the British fleet appeared in the harbor and the Dutch capitulated. So it want so wonderful for those of us looking in from the outside. Went to school there most Sisters were great a couple no so. All the great games at baseball field, parties at firehouse. contact me at aaron3@netvigator.com. Monument, Dr. Granito, so much more.I worked in Shorehaven from 1954 to 1958 to pay my school tuition, then The residents did not want to see them vandalized. The New York Times profiled the area in November 2004. Crime has also seen a significant decline as a result of a number of factors including enhanced policing techniques and changing economic demographics. Today, Clason Point is a quiet residential neighborhood in the southeastern Bronx that is home to about 25,000 residents. Returning to Soundview Avenue, there is a gated community with its own set of nautical theme streets: Admiral Court, Beacon Lane, Surf Drive, etc. I would like to see every major street have a monument and plaza at its terminus, but the southern tip of White Plains Road is marked by a fence that keeps it a few yards short of the East River. 70s where 2 children passed away in a house Great going down memory lane . The name sounds familiar. The wheel destroyed the boathouse Terry Durante's mother and family lived in then. At least two operators, the Twin City Ferry Company and the City of New York, administered ferries along the . NYCs Christmas Streets [SpliceToday] In the background are theHunts Point Marketand the skyline of Manhattan. Hope all is well with you and yours. 69, then jhs123, then james monroe h. S. However never completed school at James Monroe. The amusement park closed in 1935. The one thing I never understood when I was a If you are going to troll, at least learn how to spell correctly. The first time I saw the magnificent clover shaped pool I jumped right in. We lived at 506 Harding Park. Hotels. I myself lived on Colgate Ave. by Bronx River Ave. and later to Colgate Ave. and Lafayette Ave. R.i.p. Westchester Avenue evolved into a mixed use, primarily commercial, district serving the greater area after the completion of the elevated IRT Pelham Line. 1927 -1930. By the middle 19th century Clason Point had many farmhouses, despite its poor drainage. My grandmother, uncles and aunt owned houses in Rudd Place, on Obrien Ave, off Soundview. wanted us in better schools with trees and grass lawns. Most of it would end up developed. Hello Rocky and Debbie, What a lovely little article to find and see your comments. Like a Catskills resort or a Miami Beach hotel, Shore Haven had a unique cultural feel of secular Jewish life that included stand-up comedians, singers, mah-jongg, and cocktails. Comment. The amusement park closed in 1935. , we were only 9,10, or 11. They had square dancing on Wednesday nights and Social dancing on Saturday nights. At the southern tip of Soundview Avenue in the Bronx isthe newest NYCFerry dock, providing a one-seat ride from this corner of the borough to Wall Street. Shipwreck From Historic Shackleton Expedition Found After 107 Years Lying 9,800 feet beneath Antarctic waters, Endurance is standing upright and in a "a brilliant state of preservation." By By the mid-1800s, as weve seen, the area was called Clason Point. Ill pass by again sometime and bring pictures of what the house I lived in looked like to the beautiful people I met yesterday. My Dad did the lawn @ Shore Haven before I was born mid 50s . Serine and peaceful times jumping between the rocks and looking over the water. Britisher Thomas Pell arrived at a treaty in 1654 with several Siwanoy sachems, including Wampage, that the Dutch authorities didn't recognize. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi pushed back at suggestions that the rescue was delayed or affected by government policy discouraging aid groups from staying at sea to rescue migrants. The branch opened in 1952 and moved to its current location in 1971. I remember the creek going to Lacombe Ave. went to Holy Cross School. At some point, we should do a Forgotten-NY cheapskates cruise aboard this ferry. The last boat to College Point terminated during World War II. New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] July fourth barbecues and watching the fireworks. [19]:53 (PDF p. 84)[20] Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 25% are between the ages of between 017, 29% between 2544, and 24% between 4564. Learn how your comment data is processed. Summer was the best we went swimming in the Sound you could see your feet it was very clean. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. [18]:7. "[8]:108[9] There was a volunteer fire department, a small airport, docks for sailboats and motorboats, saloons, and novelty shops. [33], Clason Point and Parkchester are patrolled by the 43rd Precinct of the NYPD, located at 900 Fteley Avenue. [18]:14, The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Clason Point and Parkchester is 0.0076 milligrams per cubic metre (7.6109oz/cuft), more than the city average. Between 1906 and 1939, a ferry operated between Clason Point and College Point. Some streets here are interrupted midblock by properties, and others do not appear on any official maps. [13] The neighborhood has become increasingly more diverse with a rise in varied Latin American immigration in the 21st century. GROWING UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Whenever I see them I call them Louie Garza flowers. Thanks! In the 1920s Thomas Higgs, who owned of about 100 acres of beachfront property, began leasing tents to visitors. Hi Muriel, The U.S. military setting up summer camps near the Black Rock. At Clason Point, I broke out of that cycle by saying, with my fixtures, that the residents were special. Friends were the Verheyens, He probably died in 1655. What such awesome memories. Resembling Silver Beach along the southern edge of Throgs Neck, the Bronx community of Harding Park features inlets, reeds, and small houses and bungalows clustered along the confluence of the East and Bronx Rivers, and its topography is also shaped by Pugsleys and Westchester Creeks. My moms grandma (named Carmody) lived in 309 Underhill. [28], Pugsley Creek Park is located along the eastern shoreline of Clason Point. We did not have cell phones to txt we use to shout out at each other from the street. Walking to school through the dumps. Turning right from Soundview Avenue,one enters Harding Park, a cluster of bungalows built organically in the 1920s by Thomas Higgs and named afterthen-President Warren G. Harding. The ship struck on a reef after encountering heavy fog at 2 am on November 7, 1887. There are also 5 and 6 story, pre-war, apartment buildings primarily concentrated along the IRT Pelham Line El on Westchester Avenue and multi-unit row-houses located throughout the neighborhood. APA Format. NIGHT BINGO.And taking them down all for 50 cents a week big $ then..me and Eugene Mc Carthy, His dad was in Charge of Bingo set up. Diana used to be Klein or Barca. The best! Durante says her grandmother picked her mother up from her crib and stepped out moments before the Ferris wheel crashed on their boathouse. Jedediah Cornell Sr. 1825-1905 married Annastasia S. Griffin 1836-1913 I remember your Mom She worked as a Para Professional in the schools. 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. The swampy wet marsh is built on now. By the 1980s the Bronx was more Hispanic than Jewish, and new residents did not join the club in large enough numbers. My mom worked at the Beach Theater where you bought your ticket to get in. I remember as a kid, the hill you called Farmers Hill. mike maher i lived in the academy gardens in the i remember rudys candy store peppermint bar shoe repair beer garden etc beach movie theater VFW for saturday movies in the early1950 my family lived in rudd place my cousin was a life guard at shorehaven pool my aunt had a small deli near the water fond memories we moved to L.I.in 1956 i went to ps 107 ps 69 holy cross church . Across the East River you canexplore the northern shoreline of Queensand see thepalatial homes of Malba. Bob. In the foreground we see the the South Bronx Marine Transfer Station, a facility once used by the Department of Sanitation to offload collection trucks into barges for transfer to Fresh Kills. - Sat. (1969). This road runs north for 7.2 miles to the city line at Wakefield. When I moved here in 33, there were still farms, he said. GOOD TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU WHO ENJOYED I havent been to Soundview since high school, when my classmate Karen hosted friends at her home and there was Dominican music in the background. Today I did. Small adjustment Mike, the candy store was called Rubys and across the street was Worths Grocery Store and they were my neighbors in 521 Commonwealth Avenue. My parents knew the Bronx was changing. Memories of Shorehaven survive online, with former member Marc Miller compiling a collage of old photos for the Shorehaven Beach Club Facebook group. Between 1906 and 1939, a ferry operated between Clason Point and College Point. Weve havent yet had a floating ForgottenTour. Usually when a highway ends, it does so by merging into another highway. welcome in the pool. Along the way, the triangular intersections are designated as Greenstreets parks, with more than a dozen on the route. Their village was supposedly located near the corner of Lacomb and Soundview Avenues. The area includes a collection of neighborhoods including Harding Park, and Soundview. I felt loved unconditionally. Had many meals with you guys. Its namesake city is 10 miles north of the city line. I recall cows there.I went to Castle Hill Pool as a childthen as a teenager, we swtiched to Shorehaven. A 1960s hand-drawn Hagstrom map shows the parkway continuing into the park with an interchange at Randall Avenue, Lafayette Avenue crossing the Bronx River, and Bronx River Avenue curving along the shoreline. A Clason Point renter can reserve one of these spaces for personal use on a long term basis. He was sitting in the back of his unfinished boat, playing the euke. The tragedy began the decline of the amusement park, once buzzing with working- and middle-class city residents. It was like a 10 week long Bronx summit meeting: Parkchester (my contingent) met Soundview, Grand Concourse, Pelham Parkway, & other middle class Bronx neighborhoods. Coffee. A friend in later life was a Bronx Historian, Arther Seifert, who lived near Shorehaven. Shorhaven pool. Thanks! Sentinel Infotech [4][6] Development on most of the remaining vacant parcels in the area continued through the 2000s. "I think it was just the heavens telling her what to do. This includes a scenic traffic circle as a terminus for Soundview Avenue with vistas of the East River andWhitestone Bridge. I went to PS 69 till fourth gradw then to Holy Cross. I lived on Pugsley Ave. from 1957 to 1970, and my mother was born there. Im Alex Hernandez and I lived from 1962 to 1970 at 506 Harding Park. You're probably used to high parking rates for downtown Clason Point or Soundview parking spots but on Spacer you can get a Clason Point parking for a rate as low as $66.39 per week. From the postcard, Shorehaven looks more country than Jackson Heights did. It surrounds a historic creek that was previously a tributary of Westchester Creek. When I dream, I am usually at 336 Theriot Ave. they say you always dream about the place you felt the safest. From the late 1880s to around 1935, the neighborhood was a major tourist attraction and home to a massive amusement district, complete with arcades, dancehalls, waterfront resorts, and a massive outdoor saltwater swimming pool known as The Inkwell due to its dirty, unfiltered water that came straight from the East River. A Bronx historian told News 12 the new Starlight Park at the time took away a lot of the attention from Clason Point with better amenities. The beach club operated until 1986 before closing its doors due to dwindling membership, competition, and increasing operational costs. habited year round. [] Bronx where Co-op City and Bay Plaza now stand but did you know that there were several others like Clason Point and Starlight Park? I never worried about walking home from Scared Heart Church Gym after Basketball practice even when it was 10:00 at night. I loved growing up there, and it is nice to see the green spaces that have been encouraged and purposefully developed, but we do need to recognize that even in our melting pot, life was different for many other working class people. A 1960s hand-drawn Hagstrom map shows the parkway continuing into the park with an interchange at Randall Avenue, Lafayette Avenue crossing the Bronx River, and Bronx River Avenue curving along the shoreline. The branch opened at this location in 1973. Following the demise of the ferry, the tip of Clason Point reverted to parkland and was given its present landscape in the early 1990s. The site of a large Native American settlement, comprising more than seventy dwellings, Clason Point was then known to natives as "Snakapins", or "Land By The Two Waters".[5][6]. To Shorehaven my Dad did the lawn @ Shore Haven before I was a Bronx Historian, Seifert... 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