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.. Pat (Haughey) MacInnes. Today it runs in five segments that are kept separate by Soundview Park, Harding Park properties, and the Shorehaven development. Also..pheasants flying there part of the year. My Czeck ancestors lived at 725 Commonwealth Avenue in Clason Point. I remember you Raquel and your brother Alex was my brother Henrys friend. A ferry docks at the Soundview Ferry dock at Clason Point. After World War II, urban planner Robert Moses targeted the community for slum clearance, including the construction of public housing. Thanks for the memories. I also lived in the Academy Gardens and went ever summer to Shorehaven. [18]:16 In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%. 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. family. My sister lived on Rudd place till they moved to upstate. Tommy an I were buddies and A boy named Derek was tall than us.Just good memories all around . At Clason Point, I broke out of that cycle by saying, with my fixtures, that the residents were special. I grew up on Beach Ave., and at that time, Shorehaven was NOT open to everyone, no Hispanics and no African Americans. United States [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]. Based on this calculation, as of 2018[update], Clason Point and Parkchester are considered low-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying. 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. We went to Dr Granito. of Transportation to have those sign erected there in the late 80s for proper references. Went to Holy Cross School. The accident happened in Clason Point, where an amusement park used to stand with a 100-foot Ferris wheel as one of the main attractions. My Mom would love to know we may have finally found you again. Ive wondered how old Holy Cross Parish is. Ahhhh very scarey. It was the third grant recorded in Westchester County, NY. Lived in Harding Park from 1945 till 60s. 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. There are large, residential housing complexes of various types. Future plans in accordance with PlaNYC initiatives will create an urban oasis in this dense community; complete with recreation nodes, Greenway connections, bike/hike trails, designated fishing areas, a boat launch, and esplanades with skyline views. My mom bought the house on Pugsley Ave from Mr. Nelson who built it (1946-470 and lived next door. Eventually Higgs's Beach and the adjoining Killian's . I also recall the parents of my friend playing bocci and horsehoes in the fields near the Academy Gardens. The domed structure to the right is a salt storage dome. on nearby Castle Hill Avenue has indoor and outdoor pools, the Harding Park Homeowners Association is building a new community center and the Point Yacht Club still flies its burgee from the tip of Clason Point. 70s where 2 children passed away in a house [18]:13 In Clason Point and Parkchester, 32% of residents are obese, 16% are diabetic, and 34% have high blood pressurecompared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. The small peninsula of the Bronx defined by the Bronx River, Pugsley's Creek, and the East River is known as Clason (pronounced CLAW-son) Point. one house was named Journeys End which later became my email address.Swimming in the Pugsley Creek, By 1949, the area was no longer an amusement district, though the Shorehaven Beach Club was born. Dead-end streets disappear into the tangle of vegetation at Harding Park. 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. Other primary thoroughfares contain limited but necessary amenities like supermarkets, pharmacies, barbershops, hair salons, fast food, bodegas, and cheap shops. 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 am researchering my Cornell family and enjoyed the site. New Yorks Theme Streets [SpliceToday] Again a great read! I knew the Davis brothers who lived in a houseboat at the end of the point also the Ferry Inn at the end, My name is George Harkinson and the Davis brothers, Tommy and Paul and their sister Pat are my cousins. 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. 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[18]:6, The following public schools are located in Clason Point that are not also located in Soundview:[45]. our address at the time was 423. the beach was a joy and fairly close to the house. I remember Louie Garza. His will, dated 5 December 1651, left all his real estate to his wife Rebecca. child why I could go to Shorehaven pool. A trolley line runs down Soundview Avenue, but Bronx River Parkway has not yet been extended to this corner of the Bronx. room. [44], Clason Point and Parkchester's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is higher than the rest of New York City. Harding Park holds such great childood memories for me. She only bothered me once when she came with a big knife and asked me where the boy that hit her was. 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.. This disagreement was rendered moot in 1664 when the British fleet appeared in the harbor and the Dutch capitulated. [28], Pugsley Creek Park is located along the eastern shoreline of Clason Point. [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%. Clason Point Gardens; forty-five buildings, all 2 stories tall. Thanks! All my friends went to Shorehaven for many wonderful summers there enjoying life in the great neighborhood. The FILL as we use to call it faced toward NYC and a sanitation site. We were poor and were not Rusty old Clason Point shipwreck at the mouth of the Westchester Creek across from Ferry Point by the Whitestone Bridge. I enjoyed reading about Clason Point. Looks left was the Long Island Sound. Thanks. Between 1949 and 1986, this property was the Shore Haven Beach Club, a member-only resort for working-class Bronxites. An English settler, Thomas Cornell, began farming here from 1643, for which the area became known as Cornell's Neck. Walking to school through the dumps. I also lived in the Academy Gardens from around 1942 to around 1960 and went to P.S. 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. [13] The neighborhood has become increasingly more diverse with a rise in varied Latin American immigration in the 21st century. sign is that it was never there during the 70s and 80s until I notified NYC Dept. [18]:14, The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Clason Point and Parkchester is 0.0076 milligrams per cubic metre (7.6109oz/cuft), more than the city average. Beyond the bushes there is a lagoon in Harding Park separated from the East River by a rocky breakwater. The Bronx Bloggers | Lets Go Hiking (and Biking)! 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. @2019 - Forgotten New York. 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. Raquel. Wish I had photos from that era. Finally, the new church opened at the end of the 60s or early 70s. It might now seem like it on a surface level, but the Clason Point of today is in many ways inspired by its past, while shaping its future. [8]:113 The club was purchased by Soundview Associates, an investment group including Sylvester Stallone, in 1986. went to Holy Cross School. my aunt by marriage divorced my uncle and married the youngest riordan brother. There a sunken ship off the Bronx on the East River I always wanted to visit. My mom made a beautiful garden on Lacombe and Barrett, everyone came to take their easter pictures there is wast huge and very colorful. Great Memories Here. My family moved out in the 1970s I was probably four years old and remember taking the bus to Shorehaven with my mother from Parkchester. My sister and I grew up in Soundview/Clason Point, in the Soundview Projects from 1954-1967. Soundview Park, one of the largest in the South Bronx, was renovated to include pedestrian access and redesigned recreational areas. Destination signs along the southbound parkway show Soundview Park as its terminus. So we moved to Plainedge Long Island. Here you can also take the NYCFerry at the cost of a subway ride down to the Upper East Side, 34th Street, and Wall Street. I and a friend had some wonderful teenage years in the 50s being members of Shorehaven Beach Club. In 2018, 72% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," lower than the city's average of 78%. From Jackson Heights, NY, Queens 94 min When did they get rid of Reardons bar on Soundview and Gildersleeve, Grampas hang out I think his address was 507 Harding Park their names were Ella and Thomas Tierney ,he had a vegetable garden in the lot across the from his house,great memories . "I think it was just the heavens telling her what to do. Whats ironic about the Bronx River Ave. White Plains Rd. West and Siurh of Bruckner Blvd was like another country ! I left in 1968 to raise a family of my own but went back on a regular basis until my parents sold the apartment house only one there, all the others were private homes. 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