Anyone From Rosedale, Queens? (Lansing, Nassau: hair salon, squatters, floors)

[up1950s]

Originally Posted by ProudCapMarine

This pass week, two teenagers driving on snake road were killed. A number of other kids in the car were hurt.

It looked like it happened where the old wooden bridge use to be . The road rises there and it's on a curve with blind spots because of swamp brush growth . Betcha there was a impatient driver insufficiently familiar with the road that tried to pass somebody not driving fast enough for their taste . They should have left that road as it originally was , cinder , pot holed , and rarely used . It is now a bus route , and being that Springfield Blvd no longer goes to Rockaway Blvd , Brookville Blvd has become more busy than I like . Nothing like progress to destroy the neighborhood that once was .

[Beach36]

Distinctly remember the Eastern Airlines crash in the swamp and across Rockaway Blvd. just north of snake rd. (Brookville Blvd.). I think it was June 1976 correct me if I am wrong.

[Beach36]

Three Rosedale teenagers were killed two being brothers in an automobile accident on Brancb Blvd. in North Woodmere. August 1967. Remember that like it was yesterday. All were friends of mine.

[PS138Girl]

Originally Posted by Beach36

Distinctly remember the Eastern Airlines crash in the swamp and across Rockaway Blvd. just north of snake rd. (Brookville Blvd.). I think it was June 1976 correct me if I am wrong.

I believe that crash was June of 1975.

[up1950s]

Does anybody remember the date the Mexican DC-8 or 707 that was taking off headed Rosedale way and failed to lift off , went lumpty lump across Rockaway Blvd and wound up in the swamps where the approach lights are to the west of Brookville Blvd ? Had to be in the 60's .

[up1950s]

Originally Posted by up1950s

Does anybody remember the date the Mexican DC-8 or 707 that was taking off headed Rosedale way and failed to lift off , went lumpty lump across Rockaway Blvd and wound up in the swamps where the approach lights are to the west of Brookville Blvd ? Had to be in the 60's .

Ahhh found it but they say in 3 reports that it was Rockaway Beach Blvd . They are wrong , I was there , been here since '53 . Also there is no way a DC-8 with 100+ people could make it across a body of water and crash into a populated place and have so few deaths .

"On January 19, 1961, an Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed on takeoff into Rockaway Beach Boulevard
Rockaway Beach Boulevard

Rockaway Beach Boulevard, opened in 1886, was the first major east-west thoroughfare on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Borough of Queens, New York in New York City....
from Idlewild in a snow storm killing four – although 102 of the 106 passengers and crew escaped."

Now maybe Rockaway Blvd in those days was called Rockaway Beach Blvd , but there is already a Rockaway Beach Blvd in Far Rockaway IIRC

[ProudCapMarine]

Originally Posted by Beach36

Distinctly remember the Eastern Airlines crash in the swamp and across Rockaway Blvd. just north of snake rd. (Brookville Blvd.). I think it was June 1976 correct me if I am wrong.

There were a number of crashes in the swamp since the 50s.

[ProudCapMarine]

I remember one Sunday in the early 60s, they found a couple of dead bodies from mob hits in the swamp at snake road.

[up1950s]

Originally Posted by ProudCapMarine

I remember one Sunday in the early 60s, they found a couple of dead bodies from mob hits in the swamp at snake road.

Over the years others were also found there . If you're connected and a an associate says to you " lets watch some planes land at Kennedy on Rockaway Blvd at the landing lights " You probably have had your last egg sandwich . You couldn't hear a bullet if it went off right behind your head , the planes are so loud there . Some , I guess were carted off to be hidden elsewhere . No sense in ruining a usable " offing " spot I guess . " Hey Frank , you can be more comfortable sitting on the tarp in the trunk leaning back to see the planes "

[johnsavelli]

Does anyone remember when Springfield Blvd snake road was opened? I remember a little 2 or 3 story stucco hotel on the left side going toward rockaway blvd. I had old lace window shades and big flower pots on the entrance steps. Then one day it was torn down. Whenever my parents drove by it they would talk under their breath about it. I am trying to do some research on it but nobody remebers it back in the early 60's. Any one remember it?