The cresthaven country club pool was only for the CYO kids and for the country club people after the camp. Call today for an appointment 718-631-8900. 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 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! Frank was my Grampa! Donny, a family member of Father Flemmings, pretty much ran the pool and lived in the house behind it. Cresthaven Country Club, operated by Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, was located there for 39 years until it closed in 1989. NY-Crystal River Yacht Club. I remember the Kent Trucks coming in every afternoon along 20th avenue with cleaning items from their entire network of dry cleaning shops. The well-maintained buildings and grounds are 97% shareholder owned and feature a total of 217 units ranging from studios and one bedroom with one bath to two-bedrooms with one and one-half baths. Then first grade at PS 192. Thanks, Worked my youth from 1963-1967 An important ferry landing prior to the construction of Whitestone Bridge, the community was served by the Long Island Railroad until 1932. As young teenagers we would get someone to buy us a bottle in Whitestone village and then go to the park, or hang out outside the Bowling Alley. Im pretty sure the Fran you are speaking of is my grandmother (unless there were two Frans who owned candy stores in Whitestone.) 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). I often check real estate values for Beechhurst and I am amazed what houses are selling 40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A Little Neck, NY 11363. Do you remember the place? 3 generations of my family, the Currys, lived in Beechhurst. Booths and counter, still remember it clear as a bell after all this time. Many more memories to share but another time. I grew up in the corner house diagonally across from Gleasons Funeral home on 150th St. I have some memories of my parents taking us when we were quite young to a park under the Whitestone Bridge for a picnic! Here are some of mine: cresthaven country club whitestone ny. We too lived on 12th road between 154th and 157th. Their apartment had a great sweeping view of Long Island Sound and the Whitestone Bridge. I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember the CYO summer day camp at Cresthaven Country Club in northern Whitestone. 12 year olds dont have much fear. I just discovered this blog and it brought back so many memories. originally stretched all the way down to the The Frank was probably Frank Tokar who ran everything on the CYO property. I lived on 24rd ave. I too attended the PS 184 Day Camp (Summertime only for two summers). My family was one of the original members of Boosters Beach and my father a founding member of the Whitestone Ambulance Corps the precursors of EMTs. PS 79 for kindergarten, and St Lukes for 1-8 grade. Across the East River, Ferry Point Park also has a curved shoreline that was designedfora beach. It was chlorinated pretty well so no one every got sick. Today, a simple skeleton tower with a beacon performs the duty. They sell for upwards of 300,000. New York is becoming too gentrified. 315 Cresthaven Lane, Whitestone, NY 11357 was last sold in 07/06/2016 for $1,400,000. If that bothers you in any way, you don't belong here.. or anywhere. Ficks market was the butcher shop across the street from my house on 17th Ave and 150th St. 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. Im now 72 but I still have many vivid memories of growing up at CYO way back then. It was a German themed deli then, I worked there a number of years while attending college. Father Flemings family, Rita Hass her If I remember correctly your family lived on Powells Cove Blvd. Sure enough the pool was still there and he shot photos through the fence. We used to enjoy the Sunday afternoon dances at Cresthaven Country Club. She remembered taking goods to market from her family farm in Whitestone to the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx via the old Ferry from Whitestone to Ferry Point in the Bronx. Before it was middle class. Coming in from the entrance there was a building with a few offices and then girls lockers went to the left and boys to the right. They primarily conducted testing on Uranium and Thorium. 14th Avenue between 149th and 150th. I think the pizza man was Sal or Vito. At 11:15 p.m. exactly, John saw me across the room, walked quickly over and asked me to dance. Its sad what whitestone has become. Cresthaven A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. Real terra incognita as they say. A fourth generation visits their grandfather, Ed, still living there. 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. She had a vivid memory of the Blizzard of 88 (thats 1888) that buried NYC in its greatest snowfall of all times! To anyone that knew him..sorry to say he passed on many years ago..more than 20. My brother still lives there. The property has a long and mixed history. One was Wide Wings and was closer to the Throgs Neck bridge. They sold (or maybe just closed) the candy store and moved out to Long Island sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, around the time Bertha passed away. Here is a link to some photos of P.S. If my memory serves me correct (and there is no guarantee these days!!!) Im still here! Crime did not even exist. water before the Cross Island Pkwy was 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. Elephas, Avanti and Camouflage (Mondays) Night Clubs rocked Bayside. We moved there in 1958. After she died it was sold for a great deal of money. FNY will soon have a more comprehensive look at Fort Totten. I used to think it meant LeFrak House until now. Hence, Le Havre , the name of a very large French port city. I lived there, across from Clearview Golf Course. I didnt have her, wither. 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. Remember spending how much time trying to figure how to best spend my 10 cent allowance. That was the go to bakery for our entire family. 79 in the 30s. It was exciting! 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. dances, rolling the tennis courts or painting at Whitestone pool I remember there sign saying 100, 000 served, then finally a Million. A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. I remember swimming in Whitestone Pool. 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. And the old mother of the husband or Fran lived with them in that small space in the back of the store. 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. So off to Virginia he went. From the bead-end at Cresthaven, one can see Whitestone Point Rock. down towards the yacht club. This promontory is known on maps as Cryders Point. The 2 pools were for Cresthaven and the CYO. Does anyone remember Principal John Campbell? My friends and I would cross our legs Indian style and shimmy up the V shaped grooves in the concrete to the top. Lots of woods now all houses. work for students, off duty cops and fireman. You remembered it correctly. Still remember the sign posted at the counter Thou shall not steal or thou shall get thy ass kicked. When the dance ended, I. The pool you are thinking of was the Whitestone Pool, open to the public. It was. 2-40 150 Street . In our continuing series on the boroughs northern coast, we now visit Whitestone, Beechhurst and Fort Totten. 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! So much around to keep us kids occupied growing up in the 70s. The building, as I recall was originally fronting 149 St with a large yard space behind it. I too grew up in all theplaces mentionedBoosters Beach member#96.season pass to Whitestone pool..went to PS 79.Im 73 now and closing my eyes Im there againCarvel On 149st..BertelsonsStorks before First mass at St. Lukes..hard roll, best jelly donut Daily News funnies ..Dick Tracy on front and Dondi on the backcould go on and on as Im sure you know what Im talking aboutvery early 50s and 60sjoined Navy in 63 from Holy Cross HSSt Lukes was my grammar schoolgraduated in 59thats it for now but there a bunch more in memoriesLenny. Some of them had the image of swasticas! Since then, thepropertywas developed with upscale townhouses and the 15-room mansion was divided into six condo units. Does not look like it did in 1950s, especially the windows facing the 21st Road. that letter in box of childhood memories. The Bank of North America bought the property and the testing was surface only. Was there also to see the first stones being laid and then went home (that later became Arlington Cemetery). 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. Replying to Howard Mellon: Thanks for the info. Leifs That Are Green [SpliceToday] The regulars called me Red. Once, when our sixth-grade class was having some kind of special event, Fran let us use her burners to heat up the food. As Whitestone has a large Greek population, it is possible that the streets name comes from the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea. Known as Boosters Beach, itoccurringa narrow sliver of sand behind a tall fence. Jones Beach field 6 then Nathans in Oceanside. 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? I delivered the LI Star Journal in Malba, not that it has any relevance to your post. ), you should see it I enjoyed walking down memory lane and am so thankful for my time on 11th and 13th Avenues. It was a wonderful time. there was a very large cement dug out area dug with lots of sprinklers! I think it was right under the Utopia Parkway near the Throgs Neck Bridge. Overhead was the Goodyear Blimp with animation lighting up the sky. 3-28 Cresthaven Lane was built in 2000 and has 2 stories and 2 units. Many and exactly where it was located? They are co-ops and have been since the mid 80s . Find properties near 307 Cresthaven Ln. All are gone. 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! 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. Please excuse the last post, that was Edward Cleary on 14th Street in Whitestone queens. My cousin was Richey Jensen ..one of the owners of Whitestone deli. Find your perfect home in Venetian Isle, Boynton Beach, FL. View photos, public assessor data, maps and county tax information. 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! I remember Wide Wings camp. Time frame = Summer 1953 & 1954 ~OR~ Summer 1954 & 1955. But this mystery teacher was into Japanese culture, and I have a memory of her walking down the hall carrying a samurai sword. The while at Kents blew at 7:45 a.m., 8:00 a.m. and again at quttin time at 4:00 p.m. Great times! That the old Sylvania or GE property had some type of radioactive incident around 1960? I went to it between 55 and 62 but I see you were still going there in 1973. 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. I attended PS 184. Good ole Frans Candy Stores! Live in Babylon now. This 9-acre park covers aremnantof the property that belonged to Francis Lewis. Wow! simplicity misses dresses; cathedral in the desert canyoneering; Select Page I recall a while on black sign in the the lobby of their apartment house with the initials LH on it. I went to kindergarten in that school early 1958. from 66-68, but never heard anything about an Fleming and introduced him to Cresthaven, where he ended up running the CYO camp. I would love to find some old pictures of the place. Thats we went to meet girls, mostly unsuccessfully though! The largest unused building at Fort Totten is the former hospital, which flanks the Parade Ground. ? Between 1889 and 1908, WhitestonePointhad a romantic-looking lighthouse tower with a bell. My mom was born in 1926 she just turn 91 and she also lives in Florida now. (Ugh.where did that water come from then?). There were a set of whistles every day telling workers it was time to be at work. In Whitestone. My Mom and Grandmother were very close friends with Msgr. I am not sure I want to go back to see them. Finally, F.L. This outcropping usedtohave a lighthouse that was operated by a keeper until around 1990. It was officially named The Sylvania-Corning Nuclear Corporation Metallurgical Laboratory. Silver Star and other local Bands would build a stage and run a power line from the lamp posts. I dont think that type of man even exists any longer. Hi margret I knew your father well I remember your two Brothers too.Brenda I built a stoop for your uncle on 13 ave . 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. My sister had her wedding at Cresthaven CC. Has been gone a while. I had to deliver the Sunday paper at 6 a.m. each week and one day we had a blizzard! I attended the CYO Day Camp from 1952 1960 when I became a Counselor. 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. Closer to the water, the pool had a pool house that overlooked the water and we used to take rowboats out into the river. I miss the old Whitestone so much! 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. There was a sunken concrete sprinkler area in the park. 3rd Avenue & 150th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. 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. Sometimes I bought Hostess Snowballs. Properties; Search by address to access the property report or search by location to build lists of properties. This is me: PS193 (class of 61), St.Lukes (63) Bishop Reilly (67) PS 193, Stage, Waldbaums, Adventures Inn, Tropicana, LeHarve, CYO, Cresthaven.., seemed like you could bike for a thousand miles and discover something wildly adventurous every single day. WOW. Went to 193, Mazels, Posner, Endress, England, Dodge, Bower. He officiated the marriage ceremony of my wife and I. Ft. Share Location Property Info Property History Public Records Schools Similar Homes Sold 3/26/21 View All Map Street View Would love to hear from you and share stories and memories. Does anyone remember a day camp on the water in Whitestone called Wide Wings? $25 a day made me feel wealthy. MLS# 3327572. thanks for the memories,i went to st.lukes school and p.s.79 for kindergarten. The old Beechurst Building had interesting tiles on the floor. 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, NY 11357. In recent years, the coastlines of Manhattan and Brooklyn have been reclaimed by the public as ribbons of waterfront parkland take up shores that previously belonged to industry. I remember walking to Sams Penny Store on 14th Avenue with its glass cases of loose candy. Admission at that time was $1.50 . They assigned you a locker key for the day and it was on an elastic loop that went around your ankle so you would not lose it. End of 154st. I was allegedly the barefoot handball champion of Whitestone Park (1964) Actually used to climb up the concrete anchorage for the Whitestone Bridge. Ps 184 was my public school. Im trying to find out the name of the rowboat rental at the foot of Clintonville Street across from the Whitestone armory. So few secret places to hang out at anymore. Their business is recorded as DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION. He dedicated his life to the CYO and children wherever he was! 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