Anyone from Elmont?

[Playful]

Places have closed up, reopened as something else, closed again....you would never recognize any of the shops on Meacham Avenue. But Barney's hardware is still standing right across from Stop 20 Diner. Amazing. The mother is 1000 years old and still works every day.

Alva T. Stanforth is now the new Elmont Public Library/Theatre. Towards the racetrack they opened a Pizza Hut/KFC. Genovese drugs is now Duane Reade and Sapienza Bakery is still on the turnpike and Sapienza on Meacham where they make the bread is still there. Tiso's deli is closed. Stanley's Deli is closed. Most everything is owned by Indians.

Oh well, enough for now.

Take care.

[jnanner]

Originally Posted by stlsteved

Hey:

I was born in Elmont in 1976 and lived there during my early childhood...until my parents moved me to St. louis. I remember walking to path-mark and going to the McDonalds on Dutch Broadway...

I lived on L street. We rented the upstairs of a house, though I don't remember the house number. If anyone happens to read this and knows L street well ...if you know the damaged fence on the left...I think as you are coming FROM Meacham ave on L street right before you hit Arcadian Ave... I am the one who put my parent's car into neutral on the hill and rammed that fence at about 5 years old!...The last time I visited that house it was still damaged.

Hmm, what elementary school did you go to? my brother was also born in '76 and went to Carlson

[jnanner]

Originally Posted by Playful

Alva T. Stanforth is now the new Elmont Public Library/Theatre.

wow, i was in the last class that graduated from Alva T. I didn't know they FINALLY did something with the building. Had a ton of fun there for junior high

[Walter Greenspan]

For those who may not be familiar with Elmont:

Once called Foster's Meadow, and home to the Belmont Race Track, Elmont is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the northwest part of the Town of Hempstead, in the west part of Nassau County, along the Nassau County/NYC (Queens County) line.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Elmont in the Town of Hempstead is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Bellerose Terrace, the Village of Floral Park, the Village of South Floral Park and the Village of Stewart Manor; on the east by the Hamlet of Franklin Square; on the south by the Hamlet of North Valley Stream; and, on the west by New York City (the Nassau/Queens county line).

The Hamlet of Elmont has a different border than does the "Elmont, NY 11003" postal zone (i.e., a place can have an "Elmont, NY 11003" mailing address and not be in the Hamlet of Elmont and a place can be in the Hamlet of Elmont and have other than an "Elmont, NY 11003" mailing address): places with an "Elmont, NY 11003" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Elmont are in the Hamlet of Franklin Square; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Elmont with a "Valley Stream, NY 11580" mailing address.





For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County):

Excellent Long Island Geographic Resource

[lilibrarian]

The new library is supposed to be beautiful, state of the art. I worked in the former one across from Home Depot. It was like the borderline, the area back behind the library and to too bad, but on the other side of the Turnpike and behind Home Depot...oh what was that road, Arcade Pl., Hendrickson Ave.? Shootings, robberies, assaults. Plus, Hemp. Tpke. was deadly over there. Folks always getting hit by cars. It was weird.

I used to live right on the FS/Elmont border, and I rarely am in that area these days. But it feels so different to me now. I live in Levittown now, hardly the country, but everything is so cramped.

[behindbars92]

i lived in elmont from 1992-1999, as it is my hometown. we moved because the taxes were getting higher. (wonder what there like now?) but i loved it and miss it