Those were the days. I went to junior high with Marsha Mandelbaum. I only knew her through school — and have not heard that name in many years. I lived on th and Linden Blvd and traveled by bus to Elizabeth Blackwell. I just moved out of Ozone Park after being born on centerville Ave 80 years ago. Got married in NBVM church and sent my 8 children to school there. It was a great neighborhood to raise a family.
There were always a bunch of kittens being born there and we used to go there and inevitably bring one home. I lived on 89th Street between 97th and 95th Avenue. Ozone Park was great to me. Oh and Yoss Bros. Bread factory. Great place to grow up. Great family values. Hi Kimberlee, I lived on the corner of 89th and 95th.
Lol Yoss bakery was the best! We used to sneak in the yard when the bred was cooling and grab a few. Bob I had a purple Challenger and everyone knew that car.
I just left the neighborhood 8 years ago. Grew up on 95th and Liberty. Everything changed there now no more family values or civility at all. Also my great aunt Joni worked in the milk farm many many moons ago. No longer is Ozone park a USA patriotic town as it once was.
Christianity no longer prospers in this town as does the civility you mention. Over crowdedness has destroyed it as well as patriots escaping crime, lack of family values and high taxes. But I knew that a racist reply would eventually emerge. So this message is ONLY to the patriot who longs for the civility of the past. Cannot stop laughing at that. So, switching gears, to the patriot, I ask: Imagine a Native American reading yourr well-thought out writing.
Marais Morris, the native Americans had their memories of the time in the area, as well as the guy named Jerry when he was living there, the people that are living in the area now will have theirs to share as well when change happens to them. Racist is a word used for just about every situation today, what is better for one person is not for another! I think we were in the same class in P.
If so, who were your teachers? I know that you were in one of my grades in P. I would have to look through my class photos taken in the gym, there to find out. S Howard, you used to show everyone the scar that you had in your scalp!
Your best friend there was Jeffrey Diamond. Anthony, did you go to P. Think we were in the same class for a couple of grades. Mid sixties. So interesting and fun to read the memories of people who grew up in Ozone Park.
I, too, was born in Ozone Park in Thank you all for sharing your memories! A neighbor and I were discussing our old milk cans which led me to research more about them. I have had mine for 25yrs and never realized how much information was on the can.
Thanks again! Please feel free to contact me if you are selling milk bottles from either location. I would love to add them to my collection! I lived in Ozone Park from to I thought I was living in the country. I lived at st right around the corner. Went to the same schools as you and moved out to LI. Was back there last month. Neighborhood has definitely changed from what it was back then when you knew your neighbors and parking was plentiful.
A member of our synagogue. In later years, the companion of Doris Goodman. When did you go to PS 62? I lived on st Ave. Behind Perrazzos real estate office. That was in Prior to that, PS 62 was on th st. I was wondering if anyone remembers a farm along st and the Conduit which is now part of Aquduct racetrack My grandfather and family farmed 77acres there from when the racetrack took over the property.
It was the last remaing farm in the area. We would love to see and hear of any information anyone might have we only have very little paperwork and a few photos. I lived on St. I remember a farm on the other side of Rockaway that probably ran from about St. In winter we used to sled on some hills behind the farm towards Conduit. Watched Aqueduct races from covered roof top of PS when we had recesses. My grandfather stayed there until his death in My father born in would go out to the farm with his brothers all the time.
He used to tell us wonderful stories, one of which was how his mother would give him a glass of lemonade to bring out to the man who was plowing the field.
I recall my father calling him Forty or Ferdi- I think he thought his name was Ferdinand. When my father would bring him the lemonade, he would pick up my dad and put him on top of the horse and let him sit there while he drank the lemonade. Another story my father told us was that during World War II, the military set up a staging area there.
Perhaps it was a place for the soldiers to gather before they were shipped out. He told us how at night he and his brothers would go up to their bedroom window and use a flashlight to send Morse code messages to the soldiers. The soldiers would send messages back to them. It was such fun for the kids. Hello Frank- My great grandfather had an 8-acre farm in the early s on 89th near PS I have a map that one of his daughters created that shows a Cuomo farm.
Hello Joseph- My great grandfather had an 8-acre farm in the early s on 89th near PS I lived on st between 95th and 97ave from to Then moved to Long Island. Used to pass the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club on the way to on st ave. There used to be a big Italian Feast on st off st ave every year. Food and rides and a real good time. All gone now. I really miss the Italian Bread from Petrantonio Bakery on st ave off st.
Still nice to reminisce. I lived on 95th Ave, between th St. Went to all the same schools and SMGH church. All good memories of growing up there. I remember the grease pole from the Feast on ave. My friend and myself would serve drinks to the men playing cards in the Bergen Hunt and fish club, and with the tips we would go to Rockaway Playland on Sunday morning on the A train.
Pay one price and ride all day. Great times. It was a great neighborhood. Great bread and pizza, nice family. I loved going to those feasts!
Sausage sandwiches and zeppoli. Used to watch the older men play bocce ball on Sundays down on th street. She told me of buying produce from the farms near the Idlewild Golf course, when she was a child.
I think I went to school with one of your relatives Connie Panico? I was in contact with her on email when I was working for Leno. She told me she had a house in Tuscany Italy. What happened to her? She stopped answering my emails. Loved reading all the comments. What a great place. I grew up at 95th ave.
What great memories! My dad Larry coached sports, taught catechism, and was involved in the Catholic War Veterans post on st.
Too bad that life is gone for good. I was born in and lived on Liberty Avenue right under the el train across from the Jewish Cemetery. I am 72 and a half years old and was born in ST Albans not Ozone Park but I love the stories I read here and love Queens my mother was raised in Astoria and I was at my grandparents house quite often too.
Thank you so much and hope I see more of this stuff! I remember the soda shops,luncheonettes,pizza spots,on Jamaica Ave,Forest Park. I loved that area growing up. The mild farm on liberty avenue and 88 st I believe also My mom workers at the library on rockaway Blvd for many years , great place runout was from over , people left woodhaven, Richmond hill, ozone park are selling there homes or just moving it defiantly changed my brother still Lives at our old home miss it great times , wood crest bar, frostees discount store, greasy spoon diner on rockaway and Esquire diner was the best missed.
Hi Ralph, I graduated from Lane too! I got out in I think after that things went downhill fast! When did you graduate? I moved to Ozone Park in Lived there until after which my family moved to South Ozone Park until It has changed much. Whatever suburban appeal it may have had is long gone.
It is now so congested and overpopulated. Sadly the people there are no longer the cream if the crop. Yes, there are many changes to the area but it will always remain a very special place. I used to ride my bike a lot. My ancestors included the Garbes one of which was the first Constable of Woodhaven and the Winants and the Wilsons. My great grandfather had a blacksmith shop at the intersection of Liberty Avenue Rockaway Boulevard and Woodhaven Boulevard.
I was born in Ozone Park, We lived on th Street, between st and rd Avenues. My father grew up in the same house an upstairs walk-up rental during the 20s and 30s. Levy, and his wife went by the name Nonny. My school was just down the block, the original PS 62, a white wood-framed building which I was told had stood there since just after the Civil War. In first grade, I had a tremendous crush on one of my schoolmates, a girl named Sally Biondo.
I would hold her hand under our desks. I remember the old Ace movie theater on Woodhaven Blvd, and the candy store at the corner of st Avenue and th Street. My mom used to send me down to the candy store to buy her cigarettes, Pall-Malls — those were different times, nothing unusual about that then. In the early 50s, we moved to an apartment complex on Woodhaven Blvd. I think there were nine large buildings directly across from Forest Park.
I missed my old neighborhood and used to roller skate back there to visit my old landlord and the neighborhood gang. Thanks to all of you for sharing your memories of a very special time and place. And thanks to the Bowery Boys for providing such a detailed history. AND TH. Hi Spencer, I went to the old PS62 on th st. Walsh was my 1st grade teacher and Mrs.
Sweeney was 2nd grade. Lane and graduated in They claimed the air seemed much fresher from Brooklyn. Nice place to live. Were was this Dealer located? Enjoyed reading the comments. I was living on 83 st. In Tudor Village from to Tudor, Ozone Park and City Line was our center of activity. My husband lived on 84st and after we lived on! Between us we lived on 3 sides of The Jewish cemetery!! Good memories of good neighbors.
Born on Oxford Ave. This was a predominantly Italian neighborhood, where you could get fruit, milk and ice delivered and leave your doors unlocked.
Ahh, those were the days. Wow, so cool reading all these comments! S 63 for 30 years and my grandparents lived in the house before me. My grandfather had a tomato farm right across the street which is now condos I guess.
S 63, P. S and then Adams. Friends and I used to ride our bikes on Saturdays over to Pitkin Ave. Great neighborhood! My mom use to walk to Nativity church every week for bingo and know every one sitting on their stoops waving hello! Living in the dream in Long Beach now.
Z, everyone had fire works! HI I grew up at Woodhaven Blvd. Lived there from with my grandparents, uncle and aunt and their 4 kids, my mom and dad and eight siblings. What a great life then. Used to play sandlot ball in the Democratic club field. Went to Nativity—made pocket money setting up and taking down for bingo. My summer favorite was the scraped lemon ice near the small triangle across from nativity church on Rockaway Blvd. Working in Ozone Park during those years was a wonderful experience, and it felt more like home than my house on Long Island did during that time.
Sadly, much of this went away over the past decade or so, I now live retired in upstate NY, and do not plan to go back to any locations in New York City for various reasons.
Adding my two cents here. I was born in Brooklyn in , and, eventually, in , my family moved from Bushwick to Ozone Park. We lived on the corner of 81st St. Elizabeth, graduating in In , the family moved to Woodhaven. We lived on 88th St. I moved into my own place on the Upper West Side in Manhattan in , but my parents spent their last years back home. Most of my wonderful childhood memories took place in those couple of square miles in working class Queens.
I am forever grateful. I did not live in S. They also had a cat at the bar named Roast Beef. I worked at NU-Ray as a kid from In the early s, South Ozone Park was used to farm everything except potatoes because the soil was too salty. A change was happened as early as the s when the developer of Ozone Park named Benjamin Hitchcock began marketing the area to the south of Ozone Park for its revitalizing and healthful breezes sweeping in from Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
There were also several small homes built in the former farm fields by promising potential home owners. Over the years South Ozone Park has retained its character as a community of single-family or two-family homeowners. Like the borough of Queens itself, South Ozone Park has seen a change in its racial demographics as neighbors from many shores now call this community home.
The neighborhood is home to a more diverse population, with many African Americans, Italian Americans, Indians, Guyanese, and Hispanics living in the area. The neighborhood has several landmarks of distinction including Wilbur E. Aqueduct is known as the largest thoroughbred racing track in the country. There are also several religious institutions can be found in the neighborhood such as the St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church and the St.
Anthony Padua Church. Aqueduct Race Track, known as the largest thoroughbred racing track in the country.
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