Anyone From Rosedale, Queens? (Stuyvesant, Brookville: college, internship, eat)

[last of the redmen]

If this who I think it is (R.R.)- ask your brother (Q.R.) if he remembers the following:
1. We were best friends early on at St.Pius and walked to school together every day.
2. We would play in your basement and your grandma would cook for us.
3. Your parents brought us to see Superman and to one of my first Met games.
4. Your house had great music especially the Chipmunks Christmas album.
5. We had a fight in the second grade and I ripped your Yankees hat. My mother made me buy you a new one.

We didnt hang out much after I moved to my house on the other side of Rosedale but if any of this rings a bell, ask him to go to my profile and email me.
I would love to hear from you guys and I've had the same idea about documenting Rosedale as well. I have a film from 1976 that you have to see.

If this is QR's little brother, can you get me in touch with him?
Thanks- Bill M.




QUOTE=qsrbeats;5108461]I'm happy to find this forum. I am working on a documentary about rosedale & all the info from before my time is vital to me.

I lived in rosedale from 1978 -1998. I lived on 147 & brookville. (147-23 brookville)
Right across from Avanti which was owned by Sal & his son Johnny. (now Stop1)Those were my good friends. Sal used to call me pencil head because I had a Flat-top style hair cut!
But yes I remember alot that some of you had brought up.

I was one of the few Black families on that side of rosedale & i've seen my share of differences that Sal & Johnnie faced but they held down their own fort. Very good people I must add.

I Played for the Rosedale Jets & Andy Papandrew was my coach. Me & his son Andy were power hitters! I also remeber the Championship I still have my Championship Jersey! I also played on almost every team on the Baseball little league.
Remember the Club House on Francis Lewis? The pizza parties! You had to love the Rosedal Sports association. Rosedale was a great place!

Yep I remember fishing in brookville park catching crab with homemade fishing poles!
I remember Ice skating althouh i never skated myself! I heard there were dead bodies in there & there was quick sand in the lake! Child Rumors! lol

The beams by the gully, Yes! I could walk across them or sit & push across w/ my hands! we used to ride our bikes up the ramp! Or just jump across that stream that had leeches in them! wow the memories!

Oh the hill behind the football field by the tennis court! we used that the slide down in the snow!

Who remembers the Boat house was burned for years!

I use to have to run around the lake for footbal practice!

I went to St. Pius x from k - 6th grade, Ms. Mongelli was my favorite teacher! She used to drench herself in perfume & kiss you with her lipstick staining your cheek!

Then went to Tri Community 231, Then Springfield Gardens H.S

Yes even I can say that the neighborhood has definatly changed since many of you left. There was a time when in town, people would preach in front of the post office with a microphone.
Remember the bakery in town! My dad bought fresh bagels every Saturday!

The only two places that are still in town from back then is the library & key Food.
Remember Ables? I used to fix my flats there for my bike!

Cards & gifts is now a 24hr store. Remember there was Cards & Gifts & then there was bambi's Cards & Gifts!

And if you know Sons Of Italy then you remember the gambling inside during the fair in the parking lot! also the Over & Under Tables! Aw man and the zepole! 6 for a $1
I lived right there in front of Sal's (AvantI) It was Paradise!

I used to walk to the mall all the time! through the whole by hook creek! instead of walbaum's theres a walmart there now.

I used to work at the Red lobster of of Sunrise HWY.
We used to walk to woodmere & sneek in the pool at night!
We used to walk all the way to Laces Roller skating Rink about 10 of us & walk back!

I have memories for days & im hoping I can gather enough info from before my time so I can put this documentary together.

Well times have changed & the majority of the residence are black. No theres no more preaching going on but you will see police walking a beat trying to control the loitering. Some would say the place went down since all the multi family homes have been put up. Some say its beautiful because many homes have been remodeled. I still go there although I now live in Florida. I still have many many friends that still live there so I have current pictures. If you had good memories of this place, then hold on to them.

If you have any memories, Ideas or input, feel free to reach out to me. I would really like to show how the neighborhood was before I moved there, to when I moved there, to when i moved out, to now. My project is an Urban documentary with respect to those who were settled there before my time. basically I'm trying to show how times have changed.[/quote]

[MikeTheEss]

Breaking News: I bought a pie at J&S two nights ago. For the first time in over 40 years, I got a lousy pie from J&S!

Did they change their recipe? The cheese? The sauce?

It tasted like an oversized frozen Elio's pizza. I do hope this was an anomoly and does not become the norm for my beloved J&S.

[jerryshap]

Originally Posted by MikeTheEss

Breaking News: I bought a pie at J&S two nights ago. For the first time in over 40 years, I got a lousy pie from J&S!

Did they change their recipe? The cheese? The sauce?

It tasted like an oversized frozen Elio's pizza. I do hope this was an anomoly and does not become the norm for my beloved J&S.

I was up in NY working on Long Island about 6 or 7 years ago. I had a lot of people coming up to work on the project with me. I gave them all my special NY tour with included driving by my old house and all the hangouts. I always took them for a few slices at J&S Pizza and it was as good as the 70s then. I hope your bad pie was not the norm there now. Its the last food we have to dream about.

[Rockndaddy]

You know what I hate about Florida is that they don't give you Italian bread like they do in Rosedale with every meal. It sucks here for Italian food!!! I think it has to do with the water is crappy down here so they can't make good Italian bread. Did anyone know that the black girl on CSI Miami Khandi Alexander her real name is Hattie Mae Alexander but in H.S. she used the name Candy used to go to Springfield H.S. I was friends with her in H.S. I think she was Miss Black N.Y. at one time. There are several people that made movies or were/are on cable from Rosedale. Kenny Grasano he was a pitcher on Springfield's H.S. baseball team played in the movie "The Natural" with Robert Redford a great baseball movie. Michael "Scuch" Squicciarini he did a few movies and was on the Sopranos. He was in my grade in H.S. I remember him ripping a sink out. I'm sure there is more, can't think right now!!!

[dan1939]

My hero during the early 50s was Herb Score - Cleveland Indian pitcher. He was orginally from Rosedale. I think he still holds the record for most strike outs by a rookie. His career was cut short when he was hit by Gil Mcdougal (If memory serves me). He went on to be an announcer for the Indians.

[Rockndaddy]

Originally Posted by dan1939

My hero during the early 50s was Herb Score - Cleveland Indian pitcher. He was orginally from Rosedale. I think he still holds the record for most strike outs by a rookie. His career was cut short when he was hit by Gil Mcdougal (If memory serves me). He went on to be an announcer for the Indians.

Carole King is another famous person that at one time lived in Rosedale. I heard the movie "Money and Cigarettes was filmed in Rosedale so I rented but it was a musical, didn't really do anything for me. I kept looking for street names but there wasn't one street sign you could see to identify. Alot of good cast members like James Gandolfini and the guy that played his cousin in Sopranos, Mandy Moore, Gandolfini's sister in the Sopranos but a musical, I don't know about that. Wonder if Herb Score started playing his baseball in Brookville Park. LOL

[ProudCapMarine]

Originally Posted by dan1939

My hero during the early 50s was Herb Score - Cleveland Indian pitcher. He was orginally from Rosedale. I think he still holds the record for most strike outs by a rookie. His career was cut short when he was hit by Gil Mcdougal (If memory serves me). He went on to be an announcer for the Indians.

My oldest brother used to play football with Herb Score in Brookville Park.

[Pat L]

MikeTheESS I went to J&S a few months ago and the Pizza was great ! Give it another try ! Arent all the Turtorro brothers (actors) from Rosedale ? One was a regular on NYPD Blue and the other is an actor/director. Even their mother acted in some of John Turtorro's movies.

[AliKaplan48]

Originally Posted by Frank Jannette

Hello. I am Frank Jannette I enjoyed your blog it was so true. I lived at 147-16 230th street just past the old asscoiated food market.. I played ball at springfied park and lived near to brookville. My brother used to shine shoes at the Pizza king. he Passed at 14 from a siesure. I dated a girl name of Sandra santos. she lived near the park. I remember biking past the dew drop many times. Remember the Garden theater and the Bowling ally, falcaros.. I worked there setting pins.. gee it was fun reading this.. I now live in Sarasota florida I left PS 52 in 1959 moved to copiaque long island. served in Vietnam and retired from retail flooring stores I owned. hey thanks again

Not too many on here who went to PS 52, I am guessing you went to the COOP first. I used to live across from Cookie Sears who graduated PS 52 in 1959. I have a grad picture somewhere of your class as we had a great reunion with a lot of our PS 52 friends and neighbors almost 10 years ago. You have to remember Mrs Burr and Mrs Southard, Mr. Welling, Mr Rokito and Mr Kigel, the 8th grad teachers. Mrs Jackson was our principal then.

The Garden theater became a skating rink and then a Times Square Store. Did you work at the Falcaro's on Farmers Boulevard or the one off Rockaway and Penninsula? Do you remember the Castellano family who lived on 147th (their kids were younger than you) ...the DeNotos, the Sethers? I have an older sister who graduated PS 52 in 1958, she went to school with Ferdinand whose father owned the restaurant off the Conduit. Do you remember the big fire at the lumber yard on the corner of 147th and New York Boulevard? My classmate's father was the night bartender at the Dew Drop Inn, they lived on Springfield Blvd across from Springfield Park.

[Rockndaddy]

Originally Posted by AliKaplan48

Nobody mentioned Barbara Goldbach who changed her name to Bach and starred in a 007 movie with Sean Connery, The Spy Who Loved Me and later was in the move Cavemen where she starred with Ringo Star and married him back in 1981. She graduated from St Clare's in 1960, not sure what high school she had gone to but became a model for SEVENTEEN Magazine soon after. She has 4 younger siblings.

She is a good reason to stay in your cave. LOL I was checking out Barbara Bach on the internet and came across an article on Queens, N.Y., Queens N.Y. is the only county in America where Blacks make more money than Whites that is where there are more than 65,000 people.