Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Castle Hill, Clason Point & Parkchester PUMA, NY grew from 185,690 to 185,767, a 0.0415% increase and its median household income grew from $41,815 to $46,797, a 11.9% increase. 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. Tom, I grew up at 1621 Gildersleeve @ Harding Park. 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). My father was born and raised in Clason Point, being born in one of the bungalows within Glenz Estates, which was located at the intersection of Soundview and Gildersleeve (just behind the old Paleys Supermarket). Learn how your comment data is processed. Had a lot of friends from around the neighborhood , stick ball base ball, cards nickel dime stuff. Please help contribute to a new Forgotten NY website, Check out the ForgottenBook,take a look at the gift shop, and as always, commentas you see fit.. remember, I was probably about 6 yo when I moved out. 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. The amusement park closed in 1935. [18]:6, The following public schools are located in Clason Point that are not also located in Soundview:[45]. I definitely want to take the ferry from east 34th street to Clason Point. Britisher Thomas Pell arrived at a treaty in 1654 with several Siwanoy sachems, including Wampage, that the Dutch authorities didn't recognize. Hi Jo Ann, My name is Frank Sclafani. Ill pass by again sometime and bring pictures of what the house I lived in looked like to the beautiful people I met yesterday. The name sounds familiar. Tommy an I were buddies and A boy named Derek was tall than us.Just good memories all around . [8]:113 Permanent residence increased in the area. She was a neighbor and is still a My 2x great grandparents owned Kanes until it burned down. Hi everyone, All the great games at baseball field, parties at firehouse. What a terrific place to grow up. (1969). Originally it was a tent on a platform that they spent summers in. The local New York City Subway line is the IRT Pelham Line (6 and <6> trains), operating along Westchester Avenue. 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. After World War II these became permanent year-round residences due to a housing shortage, eventually sheltering over 250 families. This is where the Bronx River widens into the East River. 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. Do you know the age of the parish? I recall cows there.I went to Castle Hill Pool as a childthen as a teenager, we swtiched to Shorehaven. 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. I, too emember the Memorial Day Parade and the Beach Movie theatre. Returning to Soundview Avenue, there is a gated community with its own set of nautical theme streets: Admiral Court, Beacon Lane, Surf Drive, etc. The wheel destroyed the boathouse Terry Durante's mother and family lived in then. Bartow-Pell Mansion / Image Courtesy of Bartow-Pell []. Clason Point, Bronx NY. Your Dad and Mom were always good to me. The completion of the nearby Whitestone Bridge put the ferry out of business. The Bronx Bloggers | Lets Go Hiking (and Biking)! It had many different nationalities Irish Jewish. All Right Reserved. My family and many other Hispanics were members of Shorehaven from 1973 to when closed in the late 80s. Soundview's total land area is roughly 1.3 square miles. These include public housing, high-rise co-ops and rentals. The NYC skyline can be seen dramatically from Harding Park. I remember you guys very well. 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. There are large, residential housing complexes of various types. A 1960s hand-drawn Hagstrom map shows the parkway continuing into the park with an interchange at Randall Avenue, Lafayette Avenue crossing the Bronx River, and Bronx River Avenue curving along the shoreline. come in and talk to me and you would come in to hang out looking for the guys. The best! 69. Bruckner Plaza, which greatly expanded throughout the 1990s, contains big box stores like Toys R Us, K Mart, and Old Navy. 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. I was Baptized there. A friend in later life was a Bronx Historian, Arther Seifert, who lived near Shorehaven. brought my children from 1963 to 1970.Such fabulous memories for all of us.Shorehaven was paradice. [15], Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Soundview/Clason Point/Castle Hill was 53,686, a change of 2,933 (5.5%) from the 50,753 counted in 2000. Saturday marked 100 years since a Ferris wheel accident killed at least six people and injured over 30 in the Bronx. It was definitely a fun place to grow up. Hi Bill, I also lived in the Academy Gardens from birth, (1942). In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 16%, higher than the citywide rate of 14%. Its a tiny place, but still standing. Covering an area of 1,198.36 acres (484.96ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 44.8 inhabitants per acre (28,700/sqmi; 11,100/km2). This road runs north for 7.2 miles to the city line at Wakefield. As a little girl, my neighbor who has a membership to the country club, used to take me every weekend. 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. around or someone knows them and how to get in touch. From 1883 to 1927, it was the site of the Clason Point Military Academy.[4][7]. Fire I ask because my mom and me and my sister used to babysit them, I remember crying for months!! neither was the boys who went with me. Click on the Bus route to see step by step directions with maps, line arrival times and updated time schedules. There were ferryboat and steamer excursions from Clason Point to downtown Manhattan and a local service to College Point, Queens. [16] The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 2% (1,067) White, 37% (19,876) African American, 0.3% (161) Native American, 1.3% (709) Asian, 0% (22) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (239) from other races, and 1.1% (586) from two or more races. Sentinel Infotech I remember Farmers Hill were Monroe Projects were built. I remember the Morales about 7-8 kids, one of them had the same name as me Raquel, that was fun, living next door. who lived across the street, the Kokindos The Nelsons and Hoffmans Eddie and Joey. When I moved here in 33, there were still farms, he said. [8]:113 The club was purchased by Soundview Associates, an investment group including Sylvester Stallone, in 1986. I went to PS 69 till fourth gradw then to Holy Cross. See Clason Point photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Clason . - Sat. 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. I remember some of their names. I lived in clason point over 40 years and may i say i love where i from. Soundview Avenue once stretched from White Plains Road and O'Brien Avenue in Harding Park to Westchester and Metcalf Avenues in Soundview-Bruckner before the construction of the Bronx River Parkway. 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? Word Harding Park was the place to be when I was young comin up, Im from Jersey but every time I visited my Grandpa n family in H.P. In the foreground we see the the South Bronx Marine Transfer Station, a facility once used by the Department of Sanitation to offload collection trucks into barges for transfer to Fresh Kills. This disagreement was rendered moot in 1664 when the British fleet appeared in the harbor and the Dutch capitulated. 224. [37][38], As of 2018[update], preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in Clason Point and Parkchester than in other places citywide. Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. First house on the right. [4] Tom, I grew up at 1621 Harding Park. It seems to be that a person Whom owned my lot bought the lot next to him. 107 and then JHS 123. I have great memories and still have life long friends in the area. and Harding.. The section between Pelham Parkway and Soundview opened in 1951. Its been many years. [18]:2, As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 9 was $40,005. The Bruckner Expressway which now bisects the area along the center was once known as Ludlow Avenue. Holy Cross Parish wasnt established yet so the Franciscan Friars would hold services at the casino. Great history. Hope all is well and safe with you in these challenging times. Food. 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 family moved out in the 1970s Peragines (I see Thelmas post above), Grazianos & many others. She wanted me to share that shes still alive and kicking at the age of 92. Thanks! 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 the beach ten feet below its base. It was like a 10 week long Bronx summit meeting: Parkchester (my contingent) met Soundview, Grand Concourse, Pelham Parkway, & other middle class Bronx neighborhoods. contact me at [email protected]. We owned our houses, bug not the land they were onIn the late 1950s, Shorehaven bought the land and told us to moveWe fought but lostMiss my old neighborhood, I lived in a houseboat on Pugsleys creek. The last boat to College Point terminated during World War II. after work at pool my job was to get him at supper time says Grandma. This place is situated in New York County, New York, United States, its geographical coordinates are 40 48' 20" North, 73 57' 0" West and its original name (with diacritics) is Clason Point. I loved growing up there, and it is nice to see the green spaces that have been encouraged and purposefully developed, but we do need to recognize that even in our melting pot, life was different for many other working class people. Every spring, proceeds from the Kips Bay Decorator Show House benefit this center, which has the areas only ice rink. 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. family. Oh my goodness, I lived 2 houses from the House that caught firewe hung out at the wall a lot and swam in the Shorehaven pool, as often as we could sneak in. Whats ironic about the Bronx River Ave. White Plains Rd. The FILL as we use to call it faced toward NYC and a sanitation site. Sergey Kadinsky is the author ofHidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs(2016, Countryman Press) and the webmaster ofHidden Waters Blog. My aunt and uncle lived in Harding Park from the early thirty until he died Around 1960. child why I could go to Shorehaven pool. Had many meals with you guys. I enjoyed this trip down memory lane. So we moved to Plainedge Long Island. [35] As of 2018[update], with a non-fatal assault rate of 100 per 100,000 people, Clason Point and Parkchester's rate of violent crimes per capita is more than that of the city as a whole. We would walk barefoot to the beach. Is it the East or the Bronx River? Today it runs in five segments that are kept separate by Soundview Park, Harding Park properties, and the Shorehaven development. I would of enjoyed to have my mom go but its not wheelchair accessible boooo. Thanks for the memories. Having previously chronicled other prominent points of land in the city, I followed Soundview Avenue to its tip. Then another family moved in with 3 girls fun with them too. Its namesake city is 10 miles north of the city line. Leland Avenue along Soundview Park leads into the heart of Harding Park. The quality of the fixtures reflected on the residents. [18]:2,20 This is about the same as the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Take care all! At the mouth of Westchester Creek, a shipwreck near the Whitestone Bridge marks the spot where its waters meet the East River. My brother richard died in 2006 from pancreatic cancer. I remember Louie Garza. Thank you for this history on Clason Point. I remember the creek going to Lacombe Ave. Most of its clientele were working class and middle class Jews who resided in surrounding neighborhoods. You probably remember my brothers Peter and Paul since I was a little younger. Eventually Higgs's Beach and the adjoining Killian's . Searchers have found a long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. parents stayed on for 35 years.I road the trolley from Gildersleeve straight up Soundview to Westchester Ave.My mother shopped at Paleys and our property was adjacent to Glens Estate.I remember the night baseball games iin thefield where my cousin was picked up by the Boston Red Socks.The homes on stilts at the tip of the Point; I remember the smell of the clothes hanging on the clothes lines. Until now, it took two buses and a train to get to work from the East Bronx. To make a donation, please use the button below. Thomas was at Portsmouth again, a member of a coroners jury, in 1653, probably driven from New York again by warring Indians. He probably died in 1655. There was a factory that produced round automobile mirrors. The park has a tragic history with 6 deaths and 22 injured on June 11, 1922, when a storm blew down an operating ferris wheel. Clason Point is now a city park with grass, trees, walkways and a ferry terminal. It continues north under other names. Shore Haven: I remember it well. New York, NY When you have a 9 a.m. in the South Bronx and then 11 a.m. on Wall Street you take the Soundview Ferry kiddddddddd #notrafficyo Soundview Bronx Ferry Terminal at Clason Point is at Soundview Bronx Ferry Terminal at Clason Point. [18]:11 Clason Point and Parkchester has a relatively average population of residents who are uninsured. Would you be related to a Peter Griffin Cornell? 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. Hope all is well with you and your family. From Jackson Heights, NY, Queens 94 min A passing ship rescued the Cornells, and they persisted, returning to their adopted Bronx home the year after Wampages last raid. 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