Great memories growing up in the Point. The area includes a collection of neighborhoods including Harding Park, and Soundview. The beach club operated until 1986 before closing its doors due to dwindling membership, competition, and increasing operational costs. Your old Hagstrom map wont help you here as many of the streets on the grid were never completed, end midblock, and others appear partially completed. 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. Love this! On the plaque are quotations from Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Wilson. The houses were different now . What such awesome memories. Like Silver Beach and Edgewater Park, it seems independent from the rest of the Bronx, since its street pattern is different and it's cut off by water from the rest of the . Would you be related to a Peter Griffin Cornell? Rocky shore of the East River; Harding Park bungalows along an inlet. Anyone who is enjoying this should look at I Miss Clason Point on Facebook! On Tuesday, August 3rd, and Thursday, August 5th, 2021, NYCHA was joined by 65 residents of Sack Wern / Clason Point Gardens to have a conversation about the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) and how NYCHA selects partners to make comprehensive improvements and manage your buildings. Its namesake city is 10 miles north of the city line. See Clason Point photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Clason . My name is Alan and my comments are below on April 1st. Mapping and Location: Central Alaska 66 30 N 152 53 W. Source: Shipwrecks of the Alaskan Shelf and Shore (1992) CITY OF SEATTLE (1979) The 84 foot crab fishing vessel City of Seattle split a seam and foundered April 7, 1979 in the Gulf of Alaska 80 miles south of Yakutat. The park is adjacent to the Clason Point, Hunts Point, and Soundview neighborhoods, situated where the Bronx River flows into the East River, roughly opposite Rikers Island and LaGuardia Airport. Clason Point is a peninsula in the East Bronx, New York City. He owned 2000 acres. child why I could go to Shorehaven pool. Holy Cross, PS 69, Harrys, Rays, larrys Toy Store, Tonys & Jerrys, Marguerites, the Beach movie, Sullivans, the Wall, Ozzie, I can go on and on! Take care all! Get instant access to loads of relevant information about Clason Point, Bronx, NY apartments for sale, including property descriptions, virtual tours, maps and photos. We more than likely knew each other, [] onto the adjoining Pugsley Creek Park, with its vast swampland. The rest of the year they lived up on Webb Ave. The FILL as we use to call it faced toward NYC and a sanitation site. Over the years, the amusement parks attractions shuttered, leaving behind only a few arcade games, the pool, and a pier by the end of the decade. Clason Point was named after Isaac Clason, a Scottish merchant and a major land owner. Today, the site is home to a 57-acre gated condominium community known as Shorehaven, that maintains a resort-style feel and offers residents an outdoor swimming pool and several amenity spaces. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 10% and 12% respectively. I loved the area as well growing up there. At some point, we should do a Forgotten-NY cheapskates cruise aboard this ferry. contact me at aaron3@netvigator.com. "I think it was just the heavens telling her what to do. In 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that in 2018, ferry service would begin operating in the neighborhood. from Westchester Village to Whitestone and from Clason Point to College Point. [18]:13 For every supermarket in Clason Point and Parkchester, there are 13 bodegas. Soundview Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Clason Point. I think you may be thinking of me as living near the water. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The residents of Clason Point chipped in for that monument.My Grandparents owned 338 Underhill over 50 years. Funland on Buckner Blvd. I recall the square dancing on Wednesday nights and social dancing on Saturday nights. There was a rock there that the Siwanoy Indians would chip away at and make arrow heads. The amusement park closed in 1935. To make a donation, please use the button below. It surrounds a historic creek that was previously a tributary of Westchester Creek. Welcome to the Clason Point google satellite map! On the above 1940 photo from the Municipal Archives, the ferry gantries stood unused in place for a few more years. You probably remember my brothers Peter and Paul since I was a little younger. 3 years later, though, in 1982, Harding Park Homeowners Association, the first cooperatively owned low and moderate-income community in the city was formed. It looks smaller than what I Italian and Germans. Not true. My brother Alex also has that teacher too about 8 years prior. But those commuter headaches seemed like a distant memory as the new ferry pulled away from Clason Point Park in Soundview. Bartow-Pell Mansion / Image Courtesy of Bartow-Pell []. Britisher Thomas Pell arrived at a treaty in 1654 with several Siwanoy sachems, including Wampage, that the Dutch authorities didn't recognize. Click on the Bus route to see step by step directions with maps, line arrival times and updated time schedules. GOOD TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU WHO ENJOYED Oh those sunburns. Kevin Walsh was here in 2006, telling the story of Harding Park in detail. Kevin Walsh was here in 2006, telling the story of Harding Park in detail, acquired by the city for parkland but kept in a natural state, the above 1940 photo from the Municipal Archives, The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano. I used to supervise flyer distributers in the area and noticed there were no street name signs on some of the intersections of that area. The branch opened at this location in 1973. Between 1949 and 1986, this property was the Shore Haven Beach Club, a member-only resort for working-class Bronxites. Great story! 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. A variety of sunken, abandoned or damaged boats can be found along. The house he made was huge, no more backyard. The 2018 addition of the NYC Soundview ferry and the recent service expansion to Throgs Neck is ushering in new residents, drawn by the neighborhoods tranquility, affordability, and accessibility to Manhattan. Do remember that when we were kids, there was still a small farm with The quality of the fixtures reflected on the residents. On 15 April 1667 this land was confirmed by patent of Colonel Nicholls to his grandson, William Willett. Thanks. Following the demise of the ferry, the tip of Clason Point reverted to parkland and was given its present landscape in the early 1990s. My aunt and uncle lived in Harding Park from the early thirty until he died Around 1960. Monroe Houses; twelve buildings, either 8, 14, or 15 stories tall. To make a donation, please use the button below. My brother went to PS 69. Weve havent yet had a floating ForgottenTour. the people hated the giant bull frogs that inhabited the marsh they were so loud people could not sleep. So we dug some holes in the empty field there as part of my university research program and found some old oyster shells. lived on Randall ave from 1957 to 1970 as well. I worked summers at Castle Hill Beach Club for 5 years ( 61 thru 66) . wanted us in better schools with trees and grass lawns. I remember fishing right by my Grandfather bungolaw in Harding Park right by water . The wheel destroyed the boathouse Terry Durante's mother . I also lived in the Academy Gardens and went ever summer to Shorehaven. Getting late and this is making me want to enjoy and remember a great childhood in THE BRONX. what a great trip down memory lane, I lived on Newman ave in Clason point from 1955 until 1970 and remember the great summer days at Shorehaven, The bungalow bar ice cream truck that passed down my street in the summer evenings and all the great fishing at the point. Durante says her grandmother picked her mother up from her crib and stepped out moments before the Ferris wheel crashed on their boathouse. According to the EDC, the route was expected to carry 410,000 riders during the first . Re Shorehaven Country Club, a similar case existed in Jackson Heights/East Elmhurst where the Jackson Heights Country Club existed until roughly the late 1970s (????). By the middle 19th century Clason Point had many farmhouses, despite its poor drainage. Even today the main shopping area is fairly distant, along Story Avenue, the Bruckner Expressway and White Plains Road. There a sunken ship off the Bronx on the East River I always wanted to visit. And there was Judge Greer Europeans began settling the region in the early 17th century, and the Cornell family built the first permanent European settlement in the spit of land first known as Snakipins by the Indians. That was the only time I had a doggy TORO. I am researchering my Cornell family and enjoyed the site. 123 Hide US histogram Bronx, New York Neighborhood Map Area: 0.203 square miles Population: 222 I remember going swimming almost every day in the summer. Im not sure if/ where Peter Griffin Cornell fits in. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. Are you speaking of Aubrey and Mary Nichols, they had a son, John and a daughter, cant remember her name. I an my friends had a wonderful visit there 5 years ago and we toured the old neighborhood. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. Junior High 123 and graduated from James Monroe High in 1959. Scout Troop would march to the Harding Park Memorial to WWI and then we would go to the VFW club on Lacomb Avenue for lunch. You have 4 brothers: George,Buddy,Walter and Robert. Clason Point is part of Bronx Community Board 9, and its ZIP Code include 10473. The incarceration rate of 603 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole. It's one reason why the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum was established there. Reading the comments of old Point residents and seeing photos of Shorehaven brings tears to my eyes.I Anne cinquegrana.. i just this morning saw your reply . From the postcard, Shorehaven looks more country than Jackson Heights did. This is where the Bronx River widens into the East River. Saturday night Square Dancing on Wednesday nights. I use to love going to Harding Park man to see my family, my cousin DJ Mikey and Jomar n Alex crazy ass. I was probably four years old and remember taking the bus to Shorehaven with my mother from Parkchester. I would of enjoyed to have my mom go but its not wheelchair accessible boooo. This includes a scenic traffic circle as a terminus for Soundview Avenue with vistas of the East River andWhitestone Bridge. 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