After World War II these became permanent year-round residences due to a housing shortage, eventually sheltering over 250 families. My family moved to Hempstead L. I. I also have a sister Loretta who you may remember. The branch opened in 1963 and moved to its current location in 1981. Yesterday I decided to pass by my old neighborhood. [50][51] NYC Ferry's Soundview route started serving Clason Point on August 15, 2018.[52][53]. Harding Park. In 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that in 2018, ferry service would begin operating in the neighborhood. [3] The 43rd Precinct ranked 36th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. [18]:7. The area is one of the citys hidden gems, situated along the East River with idyllic views of Manhattan, LaGuardia airport, and the Whitestone and Throgs Neck bridges. 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. The Castle Hill branch is located at 947 Castle Hill Avenue. In 1949, Mal Deitch and Joseph Goodstein transformed the defunct Clason Point Bathing and Amusement Park, into a private resort with a swimming pool, cabanas, playground, and a stage. The development I live in here in AZ is like a year round Shore Haven minus the waterfront & the ethnic overtones. The area north of Bruckner Expressway/Interstate 278 is in 10472, while the area south of Bruckner Expressway/I-278 is in 10473. Hope all is well with you and your family. This museum tells the story of maritime history in Michigan and pays homage to the tragedies that happened to many ships in the Great Lakes. Wow Thank you so much for all your research. Your Dad and Mom were always good to me. Along with rising liability costs, Shorehavens expenses forced it to close. I was born and raised 338 Underhill Ave> We moved inthe mid 70s . Shorehaven beach club was a parking lot away. My X-wife lived at 535 Beach Ave and I lived at 534 St. Lawrence Ave around the corner. This disagreement was rendered moot in 1664 when the British fleet appeared in the harbor and the Dutch capitulated. Do you know the age of the parish? My mom lived there with her folks and swam in the east river (and caught polio back in the day of the Sister Kenney treatments). On 25 July 1646 he received a grant in New Amsterdam which became known as Cornells Neck. On 15 April 1667 this land was confirmed by patent of Colonel Nicholls to his grandson, William Willett. Soundview, Castle Hill, Clason Point, Harding Park, Pugsley's Creek, Unionport. 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. Debbie has my details too. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: Lafayette Avenue to the north, White Plains Road/Pugsley Creek Park to the east, the East River to the south, and the Bronx River to the west. [33], Clason Point and Parkchester are patrolled by the 43rd Precinct of the NYPD, located at 900 Fteley Avenue. Destination signs along the southbound parkway show Soundview Park as its terminus. Hi Bill, The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Clason Point:[49], Nonprofit group Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance had been bolstering support to expand ferry service into the Bronx. My Mom sadly passed. remember, I was probably about 6 yo when I moved out. The domed structure to the right is a salt storage dome. Great read! After World War II, urban planner Robert Moses targeted the community for slum clearance, including the construction of public housing. Thank you for posting this site. I remember the scarey crazy lady that lived next door to me. 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. Like Silver Beach and Edgewater Park, it seems independent from the rest of the Bronx, since its street pattern is different and its cut off by water from the rest of the borough. My name is Debbie. Alan. As a young child in the early 60s, I remember seeing some members having a tense encounter with the Shorehaven Beach Club management at the entrance for trying to bring in some Black friends as guests. When I dream, I am usually at 336 Theriot Ave. they say you always dream about the place you felt the safest. Loretta is luving nearby me in north carolina. I also lived in the Academy Gardens from around 1942 to around 1960 and went to P.S. brought my children from 1963 to 1970.Such fabulous memories for all of us.Shorehaven was paradice. There were numerous ferries, and during Prohibition, gangsters unloaded bootlegged hooch. Best Wishes to Harding Park and all. The good times swimming in the River at the end of Soundview. Weve havent yet had a floating ForgottenTour. 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. 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.. By 1900 the Higgs family maintained a beach and amusement area on the western end of Clason Point, and in the early 1920s Thomas Higgs, who owned about 100 acres of beachfront property, began leasing tents to visitors and the area formalized its own street layout and summer bungalow colony. The U.S. military setting up summer camps near the Black Rock. If you are going to troll, at least learn how to spell correctly. Wow, I remember how that carried into the 70s. The Clason's Point branch in the Soundview area, is located at 1215 Morrison Avenue. Raquel , I hope you see my message some day soon. clowning around off the high boards in the center of the pool.If any one is old enough to remember the ferry towers at the end of Soundview I used to climb the inside up to the top What such awesome memories. Its said very interesting! All the great games at baseball field, parties at firehouse. Turning right from Soundview Avenue, one enters Harding Park, a cluster of bungalows built organically in the 1920s by Thomas Higgs and named after then-President Warren G. Harding. It had many different nationalities Irish Jewish. The rest of the year they lived up on Webb Ave. I lived in clason point over 40 years and may i say i love where i from. Europeans began settling the region in the early 1600s, and the Cornell family built the first permanent European settlement in the spit of land first known as Snakipins by the Indians, then Cornells Neck and later Clason Point. Please help contribute to anew Forgotten NY website, Check out theForgottenBook,take a look at thegift shop, and as always, commentas you see fit., Copyright 2015 The Voux, All rights Reserved. She enjoyed seeing her old stomping grounds (she lived on 1411 Harding Park in Clason Point in the 30s-40s). Yes i remember peter and paul. [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. Directions to Clason Point (Bronx) with public transportation The following transit lines have routes that pass near Clason Point Bus : BX27 BX39 Subway : 6 How to get to Clason Point by Bus? Miss those days. Its very, very odd. More information on apartments and condos for sale in Clason Point, Bronx, NY Point2 gives you far more than a simple list of condos available on the market. I have great memories and still have life long friends in the area. The Somerset is also protected under international law, and is the sovereign property of the United Kingdom. I lived at 209 near the water. The amusement park closed in 1935. Clason Point was a mixture of mansions, farmland and undeveloped fields and swampland. 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. Bronx River Avenue curves around the bungalows, but despite its name, does so here along the East River. Situated on the rocky shores of the wild Lake Superior, Whitefish Point has long been considered the Graveyard of the Great Lakes. who lived across the street, the Kokindos The Nelsons and Hoffmans Eddie and Joey. West and Siurh of Bruckner Blvd was like another country ! I lived on Pugsley Ave. from 1957 to 1970, and my mother was born there. It was a good area to grow up in . First house on the right. before Shorehaven was built, Harding Park, the Momument, Higgs Lumber, the candy Store across from the Along the way, the triangular intersections are designated as Greenstreets parks, with more than a dozen on the route. Governor Kieft described it as running from the Kill of Broncks land, east southeast along the River. The property ran from the mouth of Westchester Creek for two miles along Long Island Sound to the Bronx River, and two miles deep to what in 1902 was the village of Westchester. Gildersleeve Ave, a stones throw from the family. The location was 23rd avenue roughly 84th to 86th street (estimated). According to the EDC, the route was expected to carry 410,000 riders during the first . Thanks for sharing Betty. Other primary thoroughfares contain limited but necessary amenities like supermarkets, pharmacies, barbershops, hair salons, fast food, bodegas, and cheap shops. i did not know the name harding park although ive bicycled through this area countless times en route to city island and/or orchard from midtown east. [40] The United States Postal Service operates three post offices nearby: Clason Point and Parkchester generally have a similar rate of college-educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. It was a great place to grow up! Clason Point Gardens; forty-five buildings, all 2 stories tall. A hypothetical resident of the planet Pluto, observing the bright dot in what must be a perpetually pitch black Plutonian sky, would have no idea, unless his race had mastered astronomy, that the especially bright dot was in fact the sun around which his planet orbited; similarly, if you were kidnapped, blindfolded and stuffed in a car trunk and dumped in Harding Park, would you have any idea that these distant towers were in the same town as the one where you stand? I lived on Bolton until 1971. Wish I had photos from that era. We took a group photo on the Big Rock in the Back. Im not sure if/ where Peter Griffin Cornell fits in. Some streets here are interrupted midblock by properties, and others do not appear on any official maps. While most people were technically poor , almost everyone was employed, most working for the citys uniformed services ; cops, fireman , sanitation and Transit ! On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Osceola - Courtesy Maritime History of the Great Lakes. My family had memberships, 1962-66. Following the demise of the ferry, the tip of Clason Point reverted to . Friends were the Verheyens, Regarded as the Coney Island of the Bronx, Clason Point was always buzzing with working and middle-class New Yorkers who would flock there during warm weather. I hope to be here to see what it will look like in 20 years. Serine and peaceful times jumping between the rocks and looking over the water. Iwould 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. Following the demise of the ferry, the tip of Clason Point reverted to parkland and was given its present landscape in the early 1990s. Great memories growing up in the Point. Britisher Thomas Pell arrived at a treaty in 1654 with several Siwanoy sachems, including Wampage, that the Dutch authorities didnt recognize. This is where the Bronx River widens into the East River. I have fond memories of Harding Park as I hung out there with my friend Helena Kanski, we use to play ball at the old firehouse. I remember her teaching us to swim at the beach down the road from our house. 107. Looks left was the Long Island Sound. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent. [4] The infrastructure of the area has not been updated in many years. Beyond the bushes there is a lagoon in Harding Park separated from the East River by a rocky breakwater. Having previously chronicled other prominent points of land in the city, I followed Soundview Avenue to its tip. across the short road was an empty lot that my mother and father converted to a small garden. Joe, Greetings, I grew up in the Academy Gardens between Randall Avenue and Lacombe Avenue. The Bronx Bloggers | Lets Go Hiking (and Biking)! [18]:2, As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 9 was $40,005. Its a tiny place, but still standing. The resort area started to decline during the 1930s, with the onset of the Great Depression and the construction of the IRT Pelham Line. From 1883-1927, it was the site of the Clason Point Military Academy. [] 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? So it want so wonderful for those of us looking in from the outside. Gonzalez,Luis and Robert Baez, Hello to all of you who at one time lived in Clauson Pt. 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 . Do remember that when we were kids, there was still a small farm with I got to speak to a couple who live there now, so nice and speaking to a very nice lady that lives there now next door. 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. I was accompanied by my daughter and bestie, it was great sharing some special memories with them from decades ago. [18]:13 For every supermarket in Clason Point and Parkchester, there are 13 bodegas. The amusement park closed in 1935. My friend Susan still lives there as well as my brother Jimmy. United States Hi Sandy, my mom, Anne Nestler was baptized at Kanes almost 97 years ago. Again a great read! Across the East River you canexplore the northern shoreline of Queensand see thepalatial homes of Malba. At some point, we should do a Forgotten-NY cheapskates cruise aboard this ferry. I was about to send a link to Elizabeth, George, then saw your name. I didnt see the old school. Clason Point once boasted an amusement pier said to rival Coney Island, according to an area historian, Arthur Seifert, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 70 years. There were summer homes built on docks which people in Rocky shore of the East River; Harding Park bungalows along an inlet. Getting laid at Black Rock! 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. It was like a world unto itself ! 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. Clason Point was named after Isaac Clason, a Scottish merchant and a major land owner. *Nothing to do with the heir to the Addams Family fortune played by Ken Weatherwax; this was a Talman Pugsley, who owned land here in the late 1700s. The latter, alluding to the Wilson administration's role in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles peace agreement, reads, "That the world may be made . I now own a home there in one of the developments and to think this area is still making history. She never gave me to many details. Not far from your family. Did any settlers lived in Soundview park? It surrounds a historic creek that was previously a tributary of Westchester Creek. 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 Welcome2TheBronx | 13 Facts & Tidbits About The Bronx That Makes Us Awesome, Lets Go Hiking (and Biking)! I had a friend around 20 years ago, Arthur Seifert who grew up in Clason Point and was an historian. My brother Alex also has that teacher too about 8 years prior. [4] In the 1640s a series of skirmishes between the Cornells and the Siwanoy, known as the Pig Wars, were led by Chief Wampage, the Siwanoy sachem believed to be the Indigenous leader who killed Anne Hutchinson and her children in 1643 at Split Rock, now in the northern Bronx. He also showed me a photo of a big shark he and he friends caught from a boat off of Clason Point in the Sound!! from your article, I know much more information about the HARDING PARK and I am fairly willing to visit it one day! Having previously chronicled other prominent points of land in the city, I followed Soundview Avenue to its tip. He owned 2000 acres. Undeveloped waterfront parcels wereacquired by the city for parkland but kept in a natural state. You'll also find details of Clason Point parking vendors listed. The amusement park rides and novelties was then known as "The Coney Island of the Bronx. This is the 57-acre Shorehaven community, set apart from the rest of southern Bronx by its wall and security guards. New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] Weve havent yet had a floating ForgottenTour. we would try to swim over to Ferry Point Park but never made it 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. Leland Avenue along Soundview Park leads into the heart of Harding Park. In September1638 Thomas Cornhill was licensed upon tryal to keepe an Inn. The following is syndicated with permission from Forgotten NY. Clason Point in the early-20th century was an era of trolley . The 1927 G. W. Bromley map of Clason Point shows the bungalow colony, amusement park, and the tip labeled as Public Place. It was a crowded district in contrast to todays gated community. This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 15:14. I remember you Henry, and your brother Richard and sister Loretta. He had a collection of arrowheads he found near Pugsley Creek. [18]:10, The nearest hospital campuses are Montefiore Medical Center's Westchester Square and West Farms campuses, as well as Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center's Longwood campus. 107 and then JHS 123. Loved the stories and photos of living on a houseboat in the Bronx. The Clason Point War Memorial includes inspirational quotations by presidents George Washington (1732-1799), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), William McKinley (1843-1901), and Wilson. Church we went to. 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. His diesel engines were being installed.My husband still has some teak wood, that was discarded after the fire. 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