Anyone From Rosedale, Queens? (Nassau, Maryland: price, to eat, post office)

[149th Ave]

I'll always remember my years growing up in Rosedale (68-71) . All we did was play ball day and night,a ton of baseball/stickball , basketballl and football with the Rosedale Jets which earned me a scholarship to college. I can still remmember playing stickball till my mother called us in for dinner, ignoring her till my father made us come in ,gulping down dinner then going out to play again till dark. But that all seems so long ago. Don't remember a lot of girls around but that's probably because we were too busy playing ball. I lived on 149th Ave & Brookfield Boulevard by the swamps overloking JFK. Planes were brutally loud . Matty, I too was on the receiving end of many Sister Agness Roberta's Friday afternoon padddle spankings on the posterior. I do want to go back just for an afternoon just to drive around and relive some of the memories. I still stay in touch now and then with childhood best friend Joe Kinneary


Dave Visaggio

[kemcastle]

Well, I am a Rosedale kid as well....I was born and raised in Rosedale. I remember how the planes would fly so low, sometimes you couldn't hear the other person on the phone. I went St. Pius x and graduated in the late 80's. My husband is also from Rosedale and he played baseball and attended P.S. 138 and then 231. We moved to Baldwin, LI soon after we got married, and then to another small town in Florida. A great place to raise our three boys. It is nice to have such great memories of our hometown- Rosedale.

[AliKaplan48]

At one time, St Albans was the richest Black neighborhood in America. Many made more than White people in Queens and probably in a lot of the bouroughs. I remember a friend's house I had visited while back in high school, they had a housekeeper and a gardener. We had only seen that in the movies..LOL We used to pass James Brown's on the way to school every day with the big wrought iron gates and the dark green Cadilac in the driveway.

[Frank Log]

Does anyone remember the restaurant in the old green acres which had an electric model train bring out your order on the counter. It was so cool. I think it was next to Louies Barber Shop. Rosedale was great. I was born there (Jamaica Hospital) in 1963 and lived there until around 1975-6 when my family moved out to the island. Went to St. Pius the X. Did anyone else have to go to detention on the roof or was that reserved for the real troublemakers? Let me know. Thanks.

[Re_Run]

Hi I am Tom F and I lived in Rosedale all my life, I lived originally on 223rd st and 147th Ave, I could see the old do drop in from my corner. How about the old TSS on Rockaway Blvd. I sure do remember the vietname memorial it is a focal point fr anyone who lived in Rosedale. I also lived on 257 and 147th road. I sure do miss Rosedale growing up there was great. How about Rudy's old Pizza King on 147th and Brookville. Falcaro's was down in the back of Lawrence cannot remember the old address. Hey people come and visit a site I created many many years ago for Rosedale

Rosedale Queens & the 60's & 70s

Come and remember the old town. I attnded the old wooden school located on 144th st between 223rd and 224th st PS 137 and of course JHS 231 and Springfield HS. Me and my late brother also used to go to Farmers Blvd and used to have egg creams at Petes Candy Store and PS 52 was right accross the road from Petes. How about Pierres Tavern on Sunrise Hwy next to the Mobil station. Brookville Park and of course Springfield Park.

[Re_Run]

Hey remember the planes coming so low you could see the people thru the windows and even the tire tread ha ha ha

[AliKaplan48]

Originally Posted by Re_Run

I attnded the old wooden school located on 144th st between 223rd and 224th st PS 137 and of course JHS 231 and Springfield HS. Me and my late brother also used to go to Farmers Blvd and used to have egg creams at Petes Candy Store and PS 52 was right accross the road from Petes. How about Pierres Tavern on Sunrise Hwy next to the Mobil station. Brookville Park and of course Springfield Park.

Not sure when you went to PS 52, but the candy store right across the street on New York Blvd was Walters.... There was a candy store on so many corners in Springfield, there was another one further up the street from the school on 146th Dr and 181st st, a bit away from the school. I went to PS 52 from kindergarten through 8th grade. The kids fom the COOP came over at the start of 7th and graduated with us before going on to high school. Farmers Blvd wasn't near PS 52, and the only candy store on Farmers was at the crossroad with New York Blvd and was next to the dentist (great place for a dentist...next to the candy store..LOL) where we waiting for the bus that took us to Andrew Jackson.

[MatthewM147thRd]

Hello! Just heard about all you old "Rosedale-ers" lurking in cyberspace and had to join in, It was Burger-N-Shake. My parents used to take us there every Friday night. What great memories!

[last of the redmen]

Does anyone know of the PBS special that was aired by Bill Moyers in 1976 about the racial tensions in Rosedale? I am a teacher on Long Island and use it in my sociology class and would like more info about the Spencer Family/ ROAR/ or anything relevant to the march by Rosedale citizens. I was very young and my parents don't really remember the facts. I don't need names- just reasons and did this cause many problems afterwards?
Thanks.

[Nap231]

I read your post and remember all of that! I grew up in Rosedale from 1970-94. Miss the good old days. Baseball in Brookville park. Hanging out at the schoolyard 138. Walking to school, St. Clare's and Columbia Corner Pizza. Or all the quarters I spent in Midnight Express playing Asteriods and Defender. How about Green Acres Bowl. Good times...