Some of the sights havent changed the apartment still has the side parking an old garage in back. Anne cinquegrana.. i just this morning saw your reply . I live on Underhill ave and really loved the Harding Park Clason Point. I lived on Bolton until 1971. I recall cows there.I went to Castle Hill Pool as a childthen as a teenager, we swtiched to Shorehaven. The development I live in here in AZ is like a year round Shore Haven minus the waterfront & the ethnic overtones. Harding Park is the maze of little unnamed streets and bungalows found along Bronx River, Leland, Gildersleeve and Cornell Avenues in the southwest sector of Clason Point. Good patriots that they were, they named the colony for the US President at the time, Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923). The amusement park closed in 1935. The wheel destroyed the boathouse Terry Durante's mother . [18]:8, The 43rd Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 63.1% between 1990 and 2022. I went steady with John from 1971 to 1977 but never married. We did not have cell phones to txt we use to shout out at each other from the street. Best Wishes to Harding Park and all. In the 1640s a series of skirmishes between the Cornells and the Siwanoy, known as the Pig Wars, were led by Wampage, the Siwanoy scahem believed to be the Indian leader who killed Anne Hutchinson and her children in 1643 at Split Rock in the northern Bronx. 3 years later, though, in 1982, Harding Park Homeowners Association, the first cooperatively owned low and moderate-income community in the city was formed. On the other hand, the massive superblock interrupting White Plains Road at the time was the wetland source of Pugsleys Creek. These include public housing, high-rise co-ops and rentals. Thats how I remember it, the best part of summer was Shorehaven working there and friends that lasted for years! His proposal was defeated by local residents. [11] White flight occurred in the area through the mid-20th century. It surrounds a historic creek that was previously a tributary of Westchester Creek. I hope to be here to see what it will look like in 20 years. 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. Clason Point is part of Bronx Community Board 9, and its ZIP Code include 10473. Grocery. The quality of the fixtures reflected on the residents. Friends were the Verheyens, Thanks and let us enjoy our memories. In Clason Point and Parkchester, 28% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, more than the citywide average of 20%. Boynton Avenue Rehab; three rehabilitated tenement buildings, either 3 or 6 stories tall. Oh those sunburns. Had a lot of friends from around the neighborhood , stick ball base ball, cards nickel dime stuff. When I dream, I am usually at 336 Theriot Ave. they say you always dream about the place you felt the safest. Between 1906 and 1939, a ferry operated between Clason Point and College Point. 10:00AM - 8:00PM; Google+ Twitter Facebook Skype. I truly enjoyed the memories. The good times swimming in the River at the end of Soundview. At some point, we should do a Forgotten-NY cheapskates cruise aboard this ferry. 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. [4] Fairyland Park, in the Harding Park area of Clason Point, contained dance halls, roller coasters, picnic groves and baseball games, as well as a 300-by-50-foot (91 by 15m) saltwater outdoor swimming pool known as "The Inkwell. Walking through Harding Park was great and I was in the Boy Scouts and we would march there once a year to the monument and then have lunch at the VFW hall on Lacombe Avenue. There were summer homes built on docks which people in square dance night was i believe on Wednesday, as i could hear the music from our house. By the mid-1800s, as weve seen, the area was called Clason Point. I remember her teaching us to swim at the beach down the road from our house. Of course many wonderful Saturday afternoons were spent in the Beach Theater @2019 - Forgotten New York. City planner Robert Moses attempted to condemn this community in the name of slum clearance but the residents won and in 1982 the Harding Park Homeowners Association succeeded in gaining title to their homes and land. It was a warm late spring day in Clason Point on June 11, 1922, when 75 mile per hour storm winds toppled a 100-foot ferris wheel, ripping the structure from its supports and tossing it onto. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 16%, higher than the citywide rate of 14%. It continues north under other names. we would try to swim over to Ferry Point Park but never made it [3] The 43rd Precinct ranked 36th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. [18]:2, As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 9 was $40,005. went to Holy Cross School. It was a great place to grow up! One of the great unfinished waterfront roads here is Bronx River Road, which was intended to run continuously from East Tremont Avenue along the east bank of Bronx River down to the tip of Clason Point. I now own a home there in one of the developments and to think this area is still making history. What such awesome memories. Today it runs in five segments that are kept separate by Soundview Park, Harding Park properties, and the Shorehaven development. I think you may be thinking of me as living near the water. The area was then renamed Clason Point after Isaac Clason, a Scottish merchant and a major land owner. [19]:24 (PDF p. 55)[18]:6 Additionally, 69% of high school students in Clason Point and Parkchester graduate on time, lower than the citywide average of 75%. Bayside Hills [SpliceToday] Also there was Henry and his brother, that lived closer to the water. 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. There were ferryboat and steamer excursions from "The Point" to downtown Manhattan as well as local service across the East River to College Point, Queens. Wow, I remember how that carried into the 70s. I remember some of their names. born in 1953 lived at716 Harding Park it was a fascinating place to spend your childhood, Hey Tommy- long time- we went to Holy Cross together.. glad to see you online. This act was done, some historians believe, in retaliation for New Netherland governor Willem Kiefts February massacres of refugee Weekwaeskeek at Corlaers Hook and Pavonia in todays New Jersey. The swampy wet marsh is built on now. I remember the Morales about 7-8 kids, one of them had the same name as me Raquel, that was fun, living next door. I just looked up Soundview Ave. to my surprise the Apartment we lived in is still there. [24] It was built on filled land[25] starting in 1939. I lived in Harding Park as a kid with my family. In Clason Point and Parkchester, there were 106 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 26.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). - Sat. The vessel was burned to the water line. before Shorehaven was built, Harding Park, the Momument, Higgs Lumber, the candy Store across from the I loved living there and when I go to NYC I go over there and just look at the streets where I rode my bike my friends houses, but can anyone Thank you. Bartow-Pell Mansion / Image Courtesy of Bartow-Pell []. Junior High 123 and graduated from James Monroe High in 1959. Usually when a highway ends, it does so by merging into another highway. Westchester Avenue evolved into a mixed use, primarily commercial, district serving the greater area after the completion of the elevated IRT Pelham Line. I loved the area as well growing up there. I couldnt wait to go back the next day. An odd pair as Lincoln emancipated the slaves while Wilson was a staunch segregationist. 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. IT was the best time of my life to live there as a child Harding park was a dream He probably died in 1655. Truly The Old Neighborhood ! our address at the time was 423. the beach was a joy and fairly close to the house. I am on Facebook too. The precinct reported 6 murders, 48 rapes, 747 robberies, 806 felony assaults, 302 burglaries, 1,039 grand larcenies, and 561 grand larcenies auto in 2022. There are large, residential housing complexes of various types. Manhattan appears as a far-off promise to the fishers working the East River. I was Baptized there. Shorehaven beach club was a parking lot away. It continues north under other names. My Mom would love to know we may have finally found you again. The most notable of these triangular parklets isWoodrow Wilson Triangle, bound by Underhill, Patterson, and Soundview Avenues. I remember It was clean because we all pitched in and kept it that way. Many streets flood after periods of heavy rain. Great Memories Here. The place has changed, and not for the better. The amusement park closed in 1935. [8]:110111[10]. The completion of the nearby Whitestone Bridge put the ferry out of business. Clason Point is now a city park with grass, trees, walkways and a ferry terminal. Bayside Hills [SpliceToday] Ahhhh very scarey. Shopping. 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.. The rest of the year they lived up on Webb Ave. It was definitely a fun place to grow up. Though Robert Moses attempted to tear down what he called the Soundview Slums (Moses didnt like anything that wasnt a Corbusian-esque housing project or an expressway; his Utopia would have been a city composed of residential skyscrapers connected by superhighways), Harding Park survived, but became City property in 1979. Clason Point neighborhood in Bronx, New York (NY), 10473 detailed profile Settings X User-defined colors Preset color patterns Most recent value % change since 2k Data: Settings Get link Click to activate map. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. 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