The wing and gym and auditorium were not built yet. I am not old enough to remember that Milk Maid but went to McDonalds at that spot often and when i had kids to play in ball pit jungle gym. Sign In Join (844) 430-0869. 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. I remember Cherry valley dairy, Storks, Freddies pizza, Chriss card shop. Were you there? I too was born in 1962, lived in Whitestone, and also attended PS 79. Asthe April 10 auction date was approaching, Avella and residents began to warn potential buyers about overdevelopment, and the new civic group We Love Whitestone was hoping to convince the city to purchase the propertyand transform it into parkland. From the early 1980s until 1999, the landmarked mansion fell into decay, overshadowed by Throgs Neck Bridge. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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. Im trying to find out the name of the rowboat rental at the foot of Clintonville Street across from the Whitestone armory. Does not look like it did in 1950s, especially the windows facing the 21st Road. Silver Star and other local Bands would build a stage and run a power line from the lamp posts. Thanks, Worked my youth from 1963-1967 b) There is no tunnel between Fort Totten and Schuyler, BUT there is a well-hidden tunnel that goes under the hill that protects the back fort from the front where the cannons were. 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. Bug juice and cookies before the ride home. We used the yellow NYC public school buses to pick up campers at their parish church and transport them to one of the main 4 properties Whitestone, Cresthaven, (one block apart) Alley Pond Park or Kissena Park. 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. Whitestone Jewels LLC purchased the site in 2006 for $23.3 million from the Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn, according to city records. 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. Same with the whitestone pool and cresthaven gone. Frances Lewis Park was neverland to me. 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. 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View sales history, tax history, home value estimates, and overhead views. Whitestone Homes for Sale; Whitestone Open Houses; Whitestone Recent Price Reductions; Archie would run into the basement and find anything you needed. Assessed at $86,700, the tax amount paid for 315 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357 is $13,408. 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. That camp closed when the property was sold and the owner reopened closer to the Whitestone Bridge calling the camp Wings. I would bet the wiring, etc. I loved staying with my parents and brother going up the hill by the benches where the cooking grills were. To anyone that knew him..sorry to say he passed on many years ago..more than 20. The country club, operated by Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, was located there for 39 years Thanks for thes insightfull kodak moments, it makes me proud my dad chose this area to live. I think the pizza man was Sal or Vito. Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. Teddy Pendergrass Band on Tour: 20th Anniversary Reunion! If this apartment ever went co-op or condo, itd be worth a mint! I remember the Kent Trucks coming in every afternoon along 20th avenue with cleaning items from their entire network of dry cleaning shops. I really loveWhitestone and PS 79 and have many wonderful memories of my childhood. 3 generations of my family, the Currys, lived in Beechhurst. Later she would pick me up. I was allegedly the barefoot handball champion of Whitestone Park (1964) I walked from my apartment by the golf course, with my mother. Refi. The northeast extreme of Queens is an ear-shaped peninsula that was used as an army base between 1857 and 1995. We are looking forward to working with the community, state Sen. Tony Avella and our architect, Frank Petruso, to produce a development befitting this beautiful Whitestone neighborhood, OSullivan said. The dances at the club in Cresthaven were quite the events. WebThe house at 3-12 Cresthaven Ln Whitestone, NY 11357 was built in 2000. Web3180 sq. The tunnel someone mentioned was a distinct memory. Hi margret I knew your father well I remember your two Brothers too.Brenda I built a stoop for your uncle on 13 ave . I was a quiet kid so i won best camper award about a dozen times. Me too! I am not sure I want to go back to see them. This site brings back a lot of fond memories., storks is gone I wish I could still live there. Hey Zoso! Hands On History: Happy St. Patricks Day! 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 $1,410,000 Last Sold Price. Now I am rambling. Entered window painting contests. I remember Carvell and their raspberry sorbet and Storks with their jelly donuts. If I missed a day, Mr. Weber the route director would have fired me! Ahhhh, Frans Candy Store spent many days there trying to decide how best to spend my 10 cent allowance whether it be on the loads of penny candy to Revell plastic model kits or the paper cap gun ammo which we scratched with our fingernails till they were stained with gunpowder. Sneaking into Whitestone Pool, diving from the high dive and doing multiple flips He was quite intimidating. Then I had three private houses on Powels Cove Blvd. Our lunches were provided by the NYC Board of Ed. Whitestone officials are eyeing the six-1/2-acre former Cresthaven Country Club, now overgrown and boarded up, for use as a city park. Waldbaums Shopping Center was built, giving us a supermarket and some small shops like Stage Variety Store and a pizza place, a bank, etc. Payment $9,529 /mo * Refinance Your Home Homes for Sale Near 315 Cresthaven Ln $1,899,000 4bd 3ba 3,180 sqft 150-64 Powells Cove Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11357 Listing by: Keller Williams Realty Greater $1,650,000 Liived in LeHarve and Cryders before that. Many days were spent riding my bike to Utopia Lane to watch the bridge construction. 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! This is me: PS193 (class of 61), St.Lukes (63) Bishop Reilly (67) If you crossed the street not at her corner, she would make you cross back and forth 10 times saying thats a corner. Today, a simple skeleton tower with a beacon performs the duty. 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? I did not know the name of that ice cream parlor, as I did not go there often. I went to it between 55 and 62 but I see you were still going there in 1973. I remember when Beechhurst was Beechhurst. Frans candy store! My friends and I would cross our legs Indian style and shimmy up the V shaped grooves in the concrete to the top. originally stretched all the way down to the Had to have been around 1967. I used the pool for one summer (1954 or 1955). As a private road, it has its own custom-made sign. I think she said he was the assistant principal. That was in the sixtiesthe water got better since then thankfully.They were such good times. Block Parties. But I remember it well nonetheless. 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 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. Maybe we had one or 2 beers once in a while. My brother knew one of her sons, I think his name was Paul. That the old Sylvania or GE property had some type of radioactive incident around 1960? Ed do you have a brother Robert in Cambridge, MA? We hung out in front of Dirty Bobs candy store. Why were people thinking? Here is a link to some photos of P.S. I miss the old Whitestone so much! The green knife sharpening truck used to come down our block everyday(138 street between 11ave-14ave. Ft. $403 per Sq. Theparkhas a small cove that has a beach, but swimming is prohibited. 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. I would love to find some old pictures of the place. The School Construction Authority said a high school will not be built at Its clearly gone now from the google earth view, but it had a huge pool in a T shape. I had to light the candles at Immanuel Lutheran Church as an acolyte. I was a paper boy from 1966 to 1968. Once, when our sixth-grade class was having some kind of special event, Fran let us use her burners to heat up the food. 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. What a loss. A formercountry club, Cresthaven, Powells Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. So safe back then. 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. It has since been automated like all other lighthouses in the city. I dont know the exact date it closed but I know CYO Day Camp closed around 1986 or 87 which was located on 3 Ave & 150 St. Whitestone pool was adjacent to the camp ground. There was an old abandoned Divco type truck (think old milk truck) way out back used for storage and a few small kids buildings to play in. My house on 12th ave bet 154 and 157th st is all redone . I attended school from from 1962- 1966. I delivered the Long Island Star Journal to Building 16 at LeHarve from 1966-1968, perhaps you were one of my customers? A couple of these streets reach the waters edge, but it does not appear that there is a beach in use at Cresthaven. Maureen Kopelman Played in the construction site for Cryder House. 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. The next summer, we (CYO Day Camp) took the bus from PS 184 to Francis Lewis Park and used the wading pools (spray heads) there. I remember Wide Wings camp. The remains of its pier was still there a few years ago when I visited. I just enjoyed reading everyones posts so much. Only 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place got trophies. Admission at that time was $1.50 . I remember it had an old mansion house and a large, for a little kid, wooded area. I would love to get some information on him. A third can be found in Little Neck Bay. We enjoyed Freddies pizza too and the Clintonville Bar Restaurant for fried shrimp and spaghetti. Plus in days before easy access to aerial photos, it was even harder to imagine what went on at the waters edge. I remember having to wait on line each day for my papers and fighting through a Lord of the Flies type of environment to get my papers! The master bedroom and living room had wall-to-wall windows on the exterior wall. Did you have questions about the camp? Closer to the water, the pool had a pool house that overlooked the water and we used to take rowboats out into the river. In French, its name translates as The Harbor. Completed in 1958, Le Havrecomprisesof 32 towers on 32 acres of waterfront land. Some of them had the image of swasticas! I am interested in information about P.S. Between 1889 and 1908, WhitestonePointhad a romantic-looking lighthouse tower with a bell. 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). So one sunny day he went to reminisce and walked along the Powells Cove Blvd and took photos of the pool and abandon mansions (becoming Cresthaven CYO Camp) across the street. He had a big first-floor office that faced the front yard. My best friend and I met our wives there. What else do you know about Sylvania besides the rumor? It had five sections A, B, C, D, and E. and I had about 30 customers there. The property was previously known as the Cresthaven Country Club and was used for years by the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) as a summer day camp. Weddings It did get noisy mid 70s since most of us had dirt bikes. Rent a row boat andante buy sand worms for a day of fishing. The pool is a fond memory. Sometimes I bought Hostess Snowballs. Web315 Cresthaven Ln is a 2,686 square foot multi-family home on a 5,388 square foot lot. I attended the CYO Day Camp from 1952 1960 when I became a Counselor. We would make a laynard for a key holder and a plaster cast of some religous figure. I still see tropicana trucks there and a new cvs taking over the waldbaums,plus waterfront restaurant ponte something. last mansion left of those that had property that I was a counselor there during the summers of 1960 and 1961. Riding bikes all over Beechhurst, Whitestone, malba. Monsignor Gordon, Father Hannon, Sisters Virginia Ann, Margaret Mary, Mrs. Delavalle, Mrs. Lavin, and the crossing guard, Mrs. Yannity. 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. Went to Boosters beach and sold my share/spot, what an idiot I am!!!! Web315 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357 was built in 2001 and has a total of 2,686 square feet. Ft. Share Location Property Info Property History Public Records Schools Similar Homes Sold 3/26/21 View All Map Street View Thats right. My twins were christened and had a luncheon upstairs at Mayers Marina where my husband at the time worked. Speaking of the Bronx, once every 2 weeks we went to the very famous Bronx Zoo folr half a day. There were wooden booths to sit in. I still have several entrance tickets for Whitestone Pool from 1973 . We were famiy I remember there sign saying 100, 000 served, then finally a Million. If I remember correctly, you were a cute dark haired boy and a cub scout. All are gone. I remember walking to Sams Penny Store on 14th Avenue with its glass cases of loose candy. People outside Carvel watching the races on lounge chairs. [106] He stepped down aga Its sad what whitestone has become. Otherwise, Id cycle through Malba, College Point, Flushing and Fort Totten. 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. It had a great Playground with Monkey Bars and the Long Swing sets which are banned today. There was a kitchen between the pool and the building, which was attached to the main building. Menu. 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