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Table of Contents Publisher’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The History of Lindenwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A look into Howard Beach’s History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Houses of Worship in Howard Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The West Hamilton Beach Fire Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Cross Bay Businesses Past and Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Famous People from Howard Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Ozone Howard Little League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Meet These Lifelong Friends from Our Lady of Grace . . . . . . . . 34 JFK, the AirTrain and Howard Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Reflections of Queens Chronicle Editor Anthony O’Reilly . . . 38 Reflections of State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Reflections of City Councilman Eric Ulrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Reflections of State Assemblywoman Stacy Pfeffer Amato . . 44 Reflections of CB 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Reflections of Hamilton Beach’s Roger Gendron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I Have Often Walked Columns on Howard Beach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Howard Beach Home Sales Over the Last Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A Guide to Your Elected Officials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Demographics of Howard Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Library, Parks, Schools and Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Howard Beach Associations and Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Useful Telephone Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Index of Advertisers Agrest Aluminum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 AHOLD USA/Stop N Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Animal Pantry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 J&B Home Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bougie’s Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Bowl 360 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Capri Jet Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Century 21 Amiable Realty Group II . . . . . . 19 Connexion I Real Estate Services . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Crossbay Diner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Crossbay Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Danny’s Szechuan Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 DeNiro Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Dr. Anthony Chionis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dr. Joseph Musso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Councilman Eric A. Ulrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Exit Realty Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Fazio Dance Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Girlfriends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Harmony Hearing Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Health Bay Natural Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Howard Beach Assembly of God . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Howard Beach Judea Center/Chabad . . . . . 59 Howard Beach Kiwanis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Howard Beach Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Howard Beach Vision Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 James Romanelli- Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jamie Rose Eyeware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Jerry Fink Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 John & Cecelia Calcagnile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Just Delight-Full . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Just Pawfections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 K&E Auto Body & Collision Center . . . . . . . . 41 Kalish Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Lenny’s Clam Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Limitless Fitness NYC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Linden Park Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Lisena Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Matteo’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mia Bella Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Michael N. Smith CPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Micky’s Laundromat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Molly’s Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 New York Community Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

New York Families For Autistic Children . . . 54 New York Spine & Pain Management . . . . . 27 Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy . . . . . 44 Patrick Finnegan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Paul Bernieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 QPTV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Ragtime Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Roma View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Russo’s On The Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Sapienza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sonny’s Collision Specialists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 South Queens Democratic Club . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 St. Helen Catholic Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Steps Ahead Dance Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Dr. Joseph Tarantino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 TKO Dance Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Today’s Home Decor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Vetro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Weber Carpentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Wines & Spirits of Howard Beach . . . . . . . . . 34

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A message from the publisher by Mark Weidler I am proud to present the Queens Chronicle’s A Guide to Howard Beach — celebrating the 120th anniversary of the founding of Howard Beach by Charles Howard.

For the past 39 years, since the newspaper was founded by my mother, Susan Merzon, the Queens Chronicle has been your community newspaper. When you want to find out what is happening and find things to do in your community, the Chronicle has been

Joining my mother in protest of the SST at the White House in 1978.

there every week as a reliable source for neighborhood news, community events and great shopping. The purpose of this Guide is to give you a comprehensive look at your neighborhood and its history. In these pages we are profiling some of the individuals and groups in Howard Beach that make our neighborhood a better place to live. We have a story about all the religious institutions that play a strong role in most of our lives. We take a look at the history of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Ozone Howard Little League as well as longtime current and former businesses on Cross Bay Boulevard. Other stories include the histories of Lindenwood and JFK International Airport, including the AirTrain. In the second part of the Guide, we provide useful information including demographics, libraries, schools, elected officials, clubs and much more. Our neighborhoods have changed in many ways but one thing has remained constant. Howard Beach is still a relatively affordable and safe neighborhood with highquality schools in which to raise a family. I hope that you will patronize the advertis-

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A great place to live, even without the pools by Anthony O’Reilly A discussion of Lindenwood’s early years would not be complete without one of the biggest draws to the neighborhood: the pools. “We were all young at the time and we had a lot of good parties there that took us over to the winter months, and we were always at one of the pools,” said Bette Engel, a 53-year resident of Lindenwood. “Now, of course the pools aren’t here anymore because they built on them. A nd I thin k it changed the atmosphere.” The pools were used in advertisements for some of the early buildings in Lindenwood. That was even a calling card for those who lived nearby, but not within Lindenwood’s borders. “I was just in awe of the fact that it had a pool,” said Joann Ariola, a 10-year Lindenwood resident and a denizen of Howard Beach for many years before. “I just wished that we lived in Lindenwood so that we could go to the pool.” But Ariola never got the chance. The pools were built over in the 1970s, being turned into houses and apartment buildings. “It wasn’t a welcome change at all,” Engel said. “It took away the recreation. It was a wonder f ul th i ng to walk out your back door and into a pool. Sometimes my family were the only ones in the evening swimming. It was a wonderf ul thing.” Lindenwood was the last addition to the communities encompassing Howard Beach. The co-ops and homes were built on

Longtime Lindenwood residents recall the Lindenwood Village Swim Club, which was one of the, if not the, biggest attractions to the neighborhood PHOTO COURTESY SHORPY.COM in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. reclaimed land in the 1950s and 1960s, and townhouses near the Brooklyn border were added as recently as the 1990s. When Engel moved t o t he c om mu n it y, much of it had not yet been developed. “None of the condos were here so t here were woods,” she said. “ T he b oys , not s o much the girls, they h a d s w i ngs i n t he woods, and they’d go in there and they just had a grand old time. And it just got built up.” Lindenwood is also home to two of the first condominium apartments built in the state —

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Heritage House East and West, at 84-39 and 84-29 153 Ave. And while there is no shortage of co-ops or condos for potential residents to choose from, the Eastwood apartments have been the only ones Engel’s known since moving to Queens. In her 53 years in the community, she’s occupied three units in Eastwood’s two buildings. “It offers me everything I particularly need,” she said. Engel bought the unit she’s in now when she offered to switch places with another occupant while the two were doing laundry. “He said ‘Let me ask my wife,’” she recalled. “And soon enough, we had the one we wanted.” Ariola, another Eastwood resident, said for her, “it was a matter of downsizing.” But ultimately, it was the charm of Lindenwood, even – without the pool, that brought her there. “I thought of Lindenwood because it was still such a nice community,” she said. “I didn’t want to be a homeowner anymore but I wanted to remain in the community that I loved, that I grew up in. And I was able to downsize and remain in the area that I had become so committed to.” When it comes to the Lindenwood of yesteryear, there were many more children around than there are today. “At one point, there were so many third-

graders at PS 232 that the Board of Education had to rent out space in the Rockwood Park Jewish Center,” Engel said. Now, “the community has definitely aged,” she said. “People sell their houses in Ozone Park and move here,” she added. “That’s always been a natural move, people moving from Ozone Park to here.” But when the average age was younger, the youth from all around Howard Beach would often find a way to convene at a central point. This happened even though, unlike in other communities, there was no center for the children. “This neighborhood never supplied a youth center,” Engel said. “But the kids always seemed to find themselves. They would just come from all over Howard Beach and t hey wou ld ju st hang out. No trouJOANN ARIOL A ble, they would just be there. T hey might roam around or stay in the playground.” The longtime Lindenwood resident also remembers the community’s ability to stick together during difficult times. During a months-long teachers strike, many of the co-ops offered their community rooms as classrooms so children could be taught. “It was sometimes difficult collecting homework and all that but we managed to do it,” Engel said. continued on page 8

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The history of Lindenwood continued from page 6 was just ugly.” Although Lindenwood’s people have stuck And the community joined the rest of Howard Beach in protesting the use of super- together, they never had a group providing a sonic transport, or the Concorde, at John F. united front the way other parts of Howard Beach had. Ariola said she decided that had Kennedy International Airport. to be changed when Many of the co-ops she attended a meeting also lent their facilities of the 106th Precinct to Howard Beach resiCommunity Council dent s i mpacted by in 2010. Super stor m Sa ndy, “There were some allowing displaced resresidents from Lindenidents without power to wood complaining that use showers and launkids on bikes were dry rooms. going around and vanIt also came together dalizing their homes,” to support Phil Vetrano he said. “I’m sitting when his daughter, there and I’m thinking Karina, was brutally to myself, ‘There are murdered in Spring so many civic associaCreek Park last August. tions’ ... but Linden“Phil is just a community guy,” Engel – BETTE ENGEL wood did not have a civic of its own.” said of the victim’s The activist made father. c a l l s o n h e r w ay Speaking on another unfortunate event, the Lindenwood resi- home that night, and “within weeks’ time dent said the 1986 “Howard Beach incident” the Lindenwood Alliance had its f irst — in which a group of young white men meeting.” Ariola was its president and beat two black men and chased another, who remained in that position when the group was hit and killed by a moving car on the merged with the Howard Beach Civic Belt Parkway — brought out “the worst in Association. It was renamed the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association in people” at the time. “Nobody here is racist,” Engel said. “I can January 2014. For Engel, the community will always say that confidently because it’s the truth. It

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A look into Howard Beach’s past by Nicole Turso With a commercial strip stocked with restaurants, shops, supermarkets and plenty of opportunities for socializing, it is easy to forget that at one time, Howard Beach was no more than tidal marshes and sand—that is, until the Howards came along. Richard Howard may not have developed the land himself, but he did own the 37 acres that eventually became the neighborhood that almost 30,000 people call home today. Howard hailed from a family that migrated to Long Island in 1620 and was among the first settlers of the town of New Lots in Brooklyn. Howard, his brother and three sisters were all born on the site of what is now Aqueduct Race Track. Two more children were born at the Howard home near present-day Cross Bay Boulevard and yet another child was born at Howard’s Landing, a parcel of land that jutted out into Jamaica Bay that the family owned for more than two centuries. Howard eventually sold 37 acres of property in the Howard Beach area to a William Howard — no relation — in 1897. Howard was in the leather-manufacturing business in Brooklyn, and it was his plan to raise goats on his new property as a source for glove material. He later began a large dredging project that would deepen Hawtree Creek and eventually fill in the bay’s marshes to create new housing developments. Hotel Howard, one of William Howard’s first projects, was built in 1904 along with a boardwalk that connected it with the small village of Ramblersville. A ferry also transported guests to the three-story wooden hotel. The beach that Hotel Howard was built on had many names but wealthy travelers and residents alike knew it as Sand Beach or Casino Beach. But the seaside getaway’s grandeur would not last very long. A windy night’s fire in October 1907 destroyed the hotel; the fire was so intense that burning embers traveled as far away as Broad Channel. William Howard started the Howard Development Company after the fire, deciding to develop an area of land that he named Howard Estates. By 1908, much of the marshland was filled in and construction began. The Howard Development Company originally owned the property that would become known as Shellbank Basin and Cross Bay Boulevard, but he deeded the land to the city of New York to build Woodhaven Avenue. That road was eventually renamed Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, and continues as Woodhaven Boulevard north of Liberty Avenue in Ozone

Park. By the 1970s, Cross Bay Boulevard was a bustling thoroughfare, lined with locally owned shops and restaurants like Pizza City, Big Bow Wow, Lenny’s Pizza, the Waterview Diner, the Cross Bay Bowling Lanes and Danny’s Szechuan. By 1912, 500 homes had been built at Howard Estates, and by 1916 a railroad station at present-day Coleman Square was named Howard Beach. Although the new name was not immediately embraced by the residents of Ramblersville, it would eventually stick. Among the first recreational attractions of early Howard Beach was The Mettco Club, which frequently hosted Mardi Gras celebrations. In 1920, the club was sold to Yokohama Bank and became the Japanese-American Club The train station in Ramblersville at the corner of 160th Avenue in Howard Beach from until it was demolished during the early 1922. Now the JFK AirTrain terminal rules the block. PHOTOS COURTESY HOWARDBEACH.COM years of World War II. In the 1960s, the site of the former club became housing. Charles Park and Sand Beach were also areas where Howard Beach’s early residents gathered to celebrate holidays or just enjoy the sea breezes. Howard Beach is made up of many smaller communities, each with its own unique history. West Hamilton Beach, Ramblersville, Lindenwood and Rockwood Park all border Jamaica Bay, and are bisected by Cross Bay Boulevard. But it wasn’t always this way. Before Cross Bay Boulevard became the shopping hub it is today, Howard Beach was a farming, fishing and crabbing community. On the western side of Cross Bay Boulevard were wooded marshes called Cherry Park and Horstmann’s Woods. It wasn’t until after World War II that the demand for more homes was great enough for Rockwood Park and Spring Park to be built to accommodate the rapidly growing number of families. Today, homes in Rockwood Park have lots as big as 60 feet by 100 feet, featuring many different home styles including Cape Cod, colonials, ranches and mini-mansions. The east side of Howard Beach, nicknamed Old Howard Beach in contrast to its younger counterpart on the west side of Cross Bay Boulevard, includes two separate communities. Ramblersville, centered on Russell and 102nd streets, is the oldest community that still exists in Howard Beach today. Hamilton Beach is bordered by Hawtree Creek and Kennedy Airport, and is isolated from the rest of its neighbors, with only one small bridge for residents to travel in and out. There are still areas of Hamilton Beach that have no sidewalks or streets, only boardwalks. There is no individual garbage collection in the neighborhood because of its layout of dead-end streets and one small connecting avenue. Lindenwood is Howard Beach’s newest neighborhood, with its roots dating only to the late 1950s and early ’60s. Lindenwood begins at Shore Parkway, ends at South Conduit Avenue, and includes six-story buildings, The Howard Hotel, center, was the centerpiece of Howard Landattached two- and three-family houses, and garden apart- ing in 1899, the self-titled “Coolest Place in Greater New York,” Q ment units. and the namesake of the community that would spring up on This article originally appeared in the 2007-08 Jamaica Bay. It boasted all modern improvements including Howard Beach/Ozone Park Almanac. electric lights. Above, early houses on Hamilton Beach.

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A community of faith in Southern Queens by Michael Gannon It can easily be said that Howard Beach and its faith community grew up with and nurtured each other. Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic parish’s roots go back almost as far as the neighborhood, being founded with its first Masses in a summer bungalow donated by Frank Von Der Linn in 1906. As Howard Beach and the congregation grew, Von Der Linn would donate property that in 1909 would house a new, larger chapel dedicated to St. Louis Marie de Montfort on the edge of Shellbank Basin, a few blocks’ walk from OLG’s current site on 159th Avenue. That church would open in 1921, with its first Mass celebrated on Christmas Eve. It would be 1924 before Our Lady of Grace was established as a diocesan parish, with the Rev. Fr. Gerald Goulette as pastor. The par ish’s youth spor ts prog ram became the stuff of local legend. What one day would evolve into the modern, threestory Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy would have its humble beginnings as the wood-framed Grace Annex in 1925. By that time, St. Barnabas, an Evangelical Lutheran congregation founded in 1922, had established itself in the community, with its existing building on 98th Street being completed in 1929. “Following groundbreaking, it’s amazing how fast they put up the building back in those days,” the Rev. William Eric Baum, pastor at St. Barnabas since 1992, said in an email to the Chronicle. During the Great Depression, the Rev. Monsignor Thomas Nummey converted the Grace Annex into a site for children to receive food and clothing, and families to receive food tickets. B e t t y Br at on , a lo ng- t i m e Howa rd Beach leader, said that same spirit and d e d i c a t io n t o t h e neighborhood always has been present at St. Barnabas. “It always has been part of the community,” Braton said in an inter view with the Ch ron icle. “It was always a place where people could come together. It has always served as a location where people and groups could come for civic meetings and meetings on any topic. “They have an active senior program. They always have had an active outreach program.” All, she added, given in the spirit of community without regard for a beneficia-

A new Model T Ford rolls down the streets of Howard Beach past the nearly-completed St. BarnPHOTO COURTESY ST. BARNABAS abas Church in 1928.

The original edifice of Our Lady of Grace Church as it appeared in 1921, once the congregation outgrew private homes and a small PHOTO COURTESY OLG CHURCH chapel. ry’s religious beliefs. “They’ve been a very good neighbor,” Braton said. Howard Beach’s Jewish community began to come to prominence in the dark years leading up to World War II. The first meetings aimed at setting up a congregation in Howard Beach took place in 1934, according to a history of the Howard Beach Judea Center provided by the congregation. Formal plans were drafted and a service held in 1935 in a city-owned casino in what is now Frank M. Charles Park. A growing Jewish population soon outgrew the ability to hold meet i ngs a nd teach classes in people’s homes. And so it was on Feb. 25, 1936 t h at t he Howa rd Beach Jewish Center was incorporated. Still in need of a s y n a gog u e a s t h e Un it ed St at es wa s d r aw n i nt o Wo rld War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the center acquired a clubhouse that once had been owned by the Japanese government and operated by the Yokohama Bank as a club for Japanese businessmen living in New York City. The building and grounds had been seized as enemy property by the U.S. government.

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Eventually the center would merge with Temple Judea, a reform congregation, and call itself the Howard Beach Judea Center. But there would be another partnership in the congregation’s future. World War II would have a great influence in the formation of the Howard Beach Assembly of God. The Rev. Stephen Roser, who has been pastor since 2008, said Werner Kordon was a U.S. paratrooper with more than 100 jumps when he and others found themselves trapped behind German lines in what would become known as the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. In what then had been the coldest winter ever recorded in Belgium, Roser said, Kordon prayed that if he only would not lose his feet to frostbite, he would heed God’s call, eventually erecting the church where it stands today on 99th Street with his wife, Mabel. “He was from Ramblersville,” Roser said. “He was a man with a heart for people

and a man of prayer ... and in 1956 he single-handedly built this church.” Roser said the church’s role of tending to Howa rd B e a ch’s s pi r it u a l ne e d s i s multifaceted. There are, he said, seven-day prayer vigils for the needs of the community, where he said members of the public — members of the congregation or not — are invited to attend or contact the church to request prayers for any need or intention. A current program that Roser said will be helpful and inf luential both now and into the future is one he said is aimed at promoting safe and wholesome activities for children, such as culinary and cooking lessons, sports such as basketball and kickball, and videos that relate stories from the Bible. The official history of Our Lady of Grace states that by the late 1950s, the size of the congregation and the demands that came with it necessitated a new parish. continued on page 14

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A history of congregation and community in Howard Beach Chabad Lubavitch, with its world headcontinued from page 12 St. Helen Roman Catholic Church, now quarters across the border in Brooklyn, located on 83rd Street, was established on established itself in Howard Beach 2004 according to Rabbi Avrohom Richter. June 24, 1960. Different congregation, similar stories. “The Diocese of Brooklyn had recog“We started out meeting in my home,” nized the need to serve the needs of the Catholic community that had settled west Richter told the Chronicle. He also said Chabad had the same chalof Cross Bay Boulevard,” according to the lenge of congregation and community. official history on the church’s website. “Our role is to reach out to all Jewish Like many houses of worship before, St. Helen’s began in modest surroundings. people, especially those who are unaffiliated, and encourage T he Rev. Joh n them to embrace Dooley, St. Helen’s their Jewish roots,” f irst pastor, conhe said. ducted the parish’s And Richter said first services in a the community has house at the corner embraced them. of 157t h Ave nue “Howard Beach and 82nd Street, a is a beautiful neighbuilding that also borhood,” he said. ser ved as the “It is a wonderful rectory. atmosphere where Ser vices and neig hb or s of a l l meetings then ba ck g r ou nd s a r e moved to the baseable to live in harment in the home of mony together the Vigliarolo famirespectfully.” ly, and less than two He said all electmont h s lat er t he ed and civic offiparish secured use cials always have of a recreation room made his congregain the Lindenwood tion feel welcome section. while they in turn Following a sucbeen welcome cessful fundraising – RABBI AVROHOM RICHTER have at Chabad events. campaign, land for The Chicagoa new church was born Richter pu rchased at t he required no reflection when asked about corner of 157th Avenue and 84th Street. Construction was completed in April his biggest surprise in the community. “Hurricane Sandy,” he said, referring 1962, with the new church formally consecrated by Bishop Bryan McEntegart to the October 2012 storm that caused so much damage and heartache in South that September. The next major construction project Queens, much of which remains. It was only last year that Chabad begun in August 1965, was St. Helen’s formed a partnership with the Howard School, which cost a total of $700,000. Beach Judea Center, officially becoming It opened in September 1967.

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the Howard Beach Judea Chabad on Sept. 1, 2016. Michael Smith, vice president of the new congregation, said they have changed their affiliation from Conservative to Orthodox. “There has been a change in the demographics of the neighborhood,” Smith said. “Chabad brings its programs to the community at large. The partnership brings people into the building.” As for the congregation’s current and future role in the community, Smith needed only point to a celebration two weeks ago, when they added a new handinscribed Torah to their community. Smith said about 100 people wrote in words and lines to complete the sacred scroll, before a festive procession through the neighborhood. Howard Beach also is served by the Rockwood Park Jewish Center, an Orthodox shul on 84th Street. Officials from Rockwood Park could not be reached for comment, but the congregation’s website and Facebook page proclaim its service to the communities of Lindenwood, Rock-

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When disaster struck, so did the WHBVFD by Ryan Brady After a multiple-death fire hit West Hamilton Beach in 1928, some in the area decided something should be done to better protect the community. The closest municipal firehouses were in Ozone Park and Rockaway. With the support of others in the South Queens community, Bernie Eck, Al Lewis and Joe Heck founded what would become the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps. For the first few decades, the group was solely a fire department. “The ambulance service in West Hamilton Beach began in the early ’60s,” Archie Koenemund, a former deputy chief who joined the vollies as a firefighter in 1968, told the Chronicle. Although he now lives in New Mexico, he served the department for decades. Before he was a firefighter for the WHBVFD, he served as a chief’s aide and even was involved as a boy. And in the early years, the headquarters were very modest, the first one being just a two-car garage. “It started with a hose cart pulled by the men and then, they bought an engine,” said the former officer, whose father and uncle also served in the WHBVFD. In the 1950s, Koenemund added, the department got two fire trucks. In the decades si nce, t he de pa r tment’s volunteers have responded to emergencies not just in their neig hborhood , but across South Queens. In 1960, Hurricane Donna would prove to be a serious storm. In West Hamilton Beach, Koenemu nd said, “The water was 4 and 5 feet deep. My father was 6-2 and I remember him walking in the water. It was up to his chest.” Their community besieged by flooding, the fearless volunteers acted. “They commandeered rowboats and stuff and went around rescuing people and bringing them to high ground,” Koenemund said. When the nor’easter of February 1969

The department drives a 1939 Mack fire engine in front of some other vehicles in June PHOTOS COURTESY ARCHIE KOENEMUND 1962. struck, the department’s trucks ended up getting trapped for three days. The timing could not have been worse, given another problem that the snow had created: Subway service to the Rockaways had been shut down, stranding people underground in the system. And the department was getting calls for medical and fire emergencies. But, Koenemund said, the vollies made it out there. They carried a stretcher with medical supplies, a fire hose and emergency medical equipment through 4-foot-high snow, he said, to respond to emergencies. The volunteers also relocated people from the subway system to Our Lady of Grace Church, which was providing shelter. In the face of calamity, the volunteer firefighters were also relief workers. The West Hamilton firefighters brought one of the trucks to dairies in Jamaica. “We loaded the fire truck up with containers of milk and came back to the neighborhood and gave it to the families that had children.” Another horrific event where the vollies served was the crash of American Airlines Flight 1, a Los Angeles-bound plane that tragically plummeted into Jamaica Bay in 1962. Ninety-five people — every passenger and crew member — perished. The brave West Hamilton volunteers responded. “They rolled in on it,” former Capt. Mitchell Udowitch said, adding that the volunteer firefighters from Broad Channel were also there. The disaster predated the West Hamilton department’s addition of ambulances. Udowitch added that the department also had vollies at the horrific 1975 Eastern

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A shot taken in the 1990s of a truck that the department had then. PHOTO COURTESY ANDY ZYCH

West Hamilton vollies in the 1940s on a Mack fire engine pump out the basement of a candy store at 102nd Street and 160th Avenue. Airlines Flight 66 crash, which killed 116 people. The West Hamilton squad was also at the World Trade Center after the 1993 attack and 9/11 with an ambulance at both, helping people in dire need. “As I drove up to one of the staging areas that they told us to respond to, as soon as we got all the equipment that we took out of our own quarters, they immediately took all that equipment out and rushed it out to the site,” former Chief of Department Jonah Cohen said of 9/11. “As soon as we opened up the doors, we had four patients.” The vollies transported both doctors and patients. Two months after Sept. 11, 2001, Queens was faced with another mass-casualty tragedy. At the home he then lived in near the West Hamilton firefighters’ headquarters, Koenemund heard an urgent message on his fire radio. A plane had crashed in Belle Harbor. He bolted over to the station, seeing a Rockaway-bound West Hamilton volunteer ambulance that just hit the street. Koenemund told the vehicle’s driver not to go. “I told him we can’t go to Rockaway because every city firehouse is heading to Rockaway,” he recalled. The driver relented. And when they both got to the station, the FDNY Queens dispatcher asked them not to respond to the crash. But still, they were needed: The plane going down had heavily concentrated the FDNY’s presence on the peninsula. So, the vollies stood guard. “We were on standby covering South Queens,” Koenemund said. “All of the apparatus in South Queens went to the Rockaways and there was no apparatus to cover in

the event of an emergency, both EMS- and fire-wise.” A decade after 9/11 and the horrific Rockaway plane crash, the vollies would face Hurricane Irene. Hamilton Beach would receive bad flooding and the firefighters helped people out in the neighborhood. A year later, the department would deal with what Deputy Chief Andy Zych remembers as its finest hour during his time as a volly: Hurricane Sandy. Throughout the neighborhood, the department would be a great help as the storm pulverized Hamilton Beach with petrifying winds and flooding. One dangerous rescue feat sticks out in Zych’s memory. “We got a phone call that two people were trapped in the building,” Zych said in an interview. Maria Fabbraro, a senior citizen who has since passed away, her daughter Faye and their two dogs could not leave their apartment because of flooding. Lacking a rescue boat, the vollies made do with what they had and headed into the storm’s tropical hell. “We put them on the fishing boat and the rest of us, we were walking next to the boat,” Zych. The mission was a success. The trapped women and the dogs, he added, “were okay.” As with much of Hamilton Beach, the storm did lasting damage to the vollies’ station. The destruction of the equipment and vehicles was serious. But on the night of the crippling storm, the volunteers had other things on their mind. “That day, we didn’t really think of anything else beside keeping everybody safe and we were hoping that nothing bad is really continued on page 20

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A brief history of West Hamilton Beach’s volunteer firefighters continued from page 16 going to happen,” Zych said. Plenty of bad happened, though, to Hamilton Beach generally and the station specifically, where equipment destruction was absolute. “We were totally wiped out,” Udowitch said. But their plight was not ignored. Firefighters from across the country would come forward to help out the Sandy-tested

department. A for mer W HBV FD member who moved to Pennsylvania and volunteered at a fire department there decided to do something about the South Queens’ responders’ plight. He reached out to all fire departments in his area. A volunteer fire squad in Hooversville, Pa. gave them a truck, Udowitch said. Departments in Mississippi, Louisiana and Connecticut would help, too. The damage to

In this photo from 1972 former West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps Chief Leonard Como stands in front of a truck deployed in response to a wooden PHOTOS COURTESY ARCHIE KOENEMUND bridge fire at 165th Avenue and 95th Street.

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Looking back at ‘the spine’ of Howard Beach by Domenick Rafter Unless you know the area well, or have a really good GPS, it is nearly impossible to get into and out of Howard Beach in a vehicle without driving on Cross Bay Boulevard. It is, truly, Howard Beach’s “Main Street.” Although the neighborhood features small centers of commerce in and around Coleman Square in Old Howard Beach, referred to as “town,” and in Lindenwood, the vast majority of Howard Beach’s businesses are on Cross Bay. In fact, for many people, their visit to Howard Beach, the neighborhood that began as a destination, means never leaving “the boulevard.” ‘Flynn’s Folly’ and Cross Bay’s beginnings Howard Beach may be celebrating it’s 120th birthday this year, but its “Main Street” is far younger. The current Cross Bay Boulevard was constructed decades after the bayfront community was founded. The “boulevard,” as it’s locally referred to, began as a failed trolley line constructed shortly after the neighborhood’s founding. Developer Patrick Flynn sought to construct a causeway over Jamaica Bay connecting Brooklyn to Broad Channel and the Rockaway Peninsula. Flynn invested more than $1 million, $27.2 million in today’s money, to construct the roadway that would carry trolleys and have space for bicycles. His plan was to fill in swampland beginning at Crescent Street in Brooklyn all the way to Long Point — the mouth of Shellbank Basin where the Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge is located. Not wanting the competition, and this being the golden age of the railroad, the Long Island Rail Road, which had run a

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Pizza City no longer sits on Cross Bay Boulevard, but Howard Beach residents still recall their many trips to the pizzeria, one of the most beloved PHOTO BY WILLIAM AIELLO establishments that ever opened its doors in the community. route over the bay since 1880, fought the development of Flynn’s new roadway. Flynn was eventually forced to give up his attempt, leaving behind miles of cleared land and sand embankments. But the LIRR’s victory was short-lived. Out in the Midwest, automobiles were coming off the assembly lines, and easy access to these vehicles made them a popular alternative to the train. In the 1920s, New York City picked up where Flynn left off, constructing roads over the embankment he had built. The section from Crescent Street in Brooklyn to Howard Beach is now Conduit Boulevard — south of there, the city constructed “Jamaica Bay Boulevard,” which opened in 1923. It transformed the neighborhood. Howard Beach’s ‘spine’ From almost the day it opened, the “bouleva rd” b e ca me t he neig hb orho o d’s lifeblood. As residential areas were under construction to the east and the west, Cross Bay Boulevard became the home of commerce. For nearly a century, it has been where Howard Beach residents, and denizens from surrounding communities, go when they want breakfast, lunch or dinner; when they need to shop for food, new clothes, or even a jet ski; or when they sprain an ankle and need medical care. Justine Conigliaro, 44, moved away from Howard Beach in 2007. When she tells neighbors and friends in the Florida community where she lives now of her old neighborhood, they know about the major thoroughfare that runs through it. “I was surprised when I mentioned Howard Beach and people knew Cross Bay Bou-

levard,” Conigliaro said of her neighbors in Collier County, Fla. “Anyone I meet who is from Queens or Brooklyn or Long Island knows a place to eat, to shop, to have a party in Howard Beach, and they know it’s on Cross Bay Boulevard.” “It’s the spine of Howard Beach,” Conigliaro said. “Almost literally, it runs down the

Taking care of business “I was surprised when I mentioned Howard Beach and people knew Cross Bay Boulevard.” – JUSTINE CONIGLIARO

center of the neighborhood like a spine, but also in that Howard Beach would fold up without it.”

Food If there’s one thing you can definitely do on Cross Bay Boulevard, it’s eat. Going back to its opening in the 1920s, the boulevard has paid host to a menu of eclectic eateries. Over the years, iconic restaurants and fast-food joints have come and gone throughout the generations. Perhaps one of the best-known places to grab a bite was the Big Bow Wow. The famous fast-food spot, which was known for its hot dogs and roast beef sandwiches, sat on the banks of Shellbank Basin for more than 30 years before closing in 1983. It became a popular place to stop and eat for those traveling through Howard Beach on their way home from Rockaway Beach. Then for a few years in the 1990s, Howard Beach actually had a “beach.” Tugs, marketing itself as a shore-themed seafood restaurant, also played host to beach volleyball tournaments in a specially made court of sand alongside Shellbank Basin. The site became Starbucks in 1999, the iconic coffeehouse chain’s first foray into southern Queens. Today, Cross Bay Boulevard is home to popular catering halls — the enormous Russo’s On The Bay, Roma View and Matteo’s — and sit-down restaurants like Lenny’s Clam Bar, Prima Pasta, Vetro and longtime staple Danny’s Szechuan, which has offered the neighborhood authentic Chinese cuisine since 1978. Danny Chan, founder and owner of Danny’s Szechuan, said he opened the eatery “by chance.” “I knew somebody who had a vacant Chinese restaurant,” he said. “So I took it over continued on page 26

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The history of Howard Beach’s ‘spine’ — Cross Bay Boulevard continued from page 22 and opened my own.” The original Danny’s Szechuan was located at 164-14 Cross Bay Blvd., just a block from the Addabbo Bridge. Chan bought the building in 1984 and renovated it in 1986. “The 1980s were a great time on the boulevard,” he said. Chan closed the old location in 2011 and sold the building — it now houses the headquarters of New York Families For Autistic Children — but he didn’t want to shutter the restaurant forever. “I have loyal employees who have worked for me for over 20 years,” he said. “And I have loyal customers who keep coming back. I owe it to them.” In March 2012, he reopened the restaurant at 156-40 Cross Bay Blvd., where it still serves both locals and patrons who come from afar. “About 50 to 60 percent of our customers are local,” Chan explained. “But we have a lot of customers who come from outside How a r d B e a ch , e s p e c i a l ly fo r m e r residents.” Cross Bay also once played host to a pair of popular diners. The Cross Bay Diner, known by many older folks as “On The Bay” or “Tom’s On The Bay,” is still ongoing, while the Wateriew closed in the late 1990s and was replaced by a Duane Reade. It is now a Key Food.

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Shopping Cross Bay Boulevard has never been devoid of places to shop. Though two supermarkets sit on the strip, most residents will recognize Ragtime as the neighborhood’s market of note. The store also became well-known for offering many Howard Beach teenagers their first job, whether it was stocking shelves or serving Italian ices in the deli/ice cream kiosk outside.

Cross Bay Lanes sat across from New Park Pizza for years. Sadly, like so many other bowling alleys across the country, it’s no longer around — PHOTO BY WILLIAM AIELLO it shut down in the early 1990s. Two blocks up, Brother’s Italian Food World has been offering quality meats and deli products since 1982. Scattered along the commercial strip were other shopping destinations that served local interest — 99-cent stores; fish markets, popular with the neighborhood’s Italian-American population, especially at Christmas; bagel stores and delis. Nationally recognized chain stores found Cross Bay Boulevard an excellent place to do business. The Gap opened its first South Queens store on the boulevard, and Cross Bay played host to one of the last Blockbuster Video stores in the country — outside of Alaska. If you grew up in Howard Beach in the 1990s and 2000s, chances are you bought a Halloween costume at Cedarhurst Paper. The popular party supply store at 160-42 Cross Bay Blvd. closed just this year.

once. Kiddie Park, a small amusement park at the corner of 164th Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard, entertained local children for decades.

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Famed for its rides — including a TiltA-Whirl — and games, the park became a destination for many children on birthdays Entertainment Yes, it’s true children, there was an and last days of school. “I remember going up to that amuseamusement park on Cross Bay Boulevard ment park as a kid with my dad,” said longtime Howard B e a ch r e sid e nt Andrew Falzon, 35. “I remember being afraid to go to the helicopter ride by myself at first, but eventually I did.” K iddie Park closed in the m id -19 9 0 s a n d was replaced by a Q -Z a r, o n e of th ree national la se r t ag f r a nchise locations in t h e N e w Yo r k area. Fo r s eve r a l years, Q-Zar brought in playThe Big Bow Wow on Cross Bay Boulevard, near the Shellbank Basin, served roast beef sandwiches and hot dogs for ers from across PHOTO VIA HOWARDBEACH.COM the region, from decades before closing in 1983.

as far away as Westchester County and Staten Island. “For my generation and perhaps the younger one, [Q-Zar] put Howard Beach on the map,” former resident Conigliaro said. “I was meeting people coming from upstate just to play laser tag. They couldn’t believe they were in New York City.” Q-Zar closed in the early 2000s and was replaced by Staples, which closed itself in 2014. Bowling alleys have become an endangered species everywhere, and yes, Howard Beach once had one. Cross Bay Lanes on the corner of 157th Avenue and the boulevard — across from New Park Pizza — was one of southern Queens’ most popular bowling alleys. It closed in the early 1990s and became Gold’s Gym, now Limitless Fitness, which it remains today with a CVS Pharmacy in the basement. Hurricane Sandy For business owners on Cross Bay Boulevard, no time in history was more trying than the weeks and months after Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. The storm surge from the hurricane inundated Cross Bay Boulevard in 5 to 10 feet of water. For two weeks, the neighborhood had no power, and nearly every business on t he bou leva rd su f fered deva st at i ng flooding. Though most businesses were up and running within a month — Chan had Danny’s Szechuan open 17 days after the storm — others took months, and it was more than a year before the boulevard retur ned to “nor mal.” Today, nor mal means a low vacancy rate. Besides the former Staples site, there isn’t much vacancy to be found along Cross Bay Boulevard. Though high rent has scared some potential business owners away, and forced others to close, most have made it work, and the steady f low of dedicated neighborhood patrons, and those making Howard Beach their destination, have kept the gears of commerce turning. “This is a great neighborhood and a great place to do business,” Chan said. Q “I’m proud to be here.”

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They once called Howard Beach home by Anthony O’Reilly In its 120 years of existence, Howard Beach has seen many people come in and out of its borders. Some of them are well-known, including some big names you may not know who spent time in the neighborhood. For example, did you know what folk music legend Woody Guthrie was once a resident of South Queens? It’s true, this land was his land too. According to The New York Times, the Guthrie family called 85th Street home from 1952 to 1967. But Woody didn’t spend much time in the house — he was mostly in hospitals being treated for Huntington’s disease, the ailment that ultimately killed him. He did come back home on weekends, the Gray Lady reported in 2014. The paper also reported Guthrie’s son Arlo frequently copyrighted his music to “Howard Beach Music, Inc.” Howard Beach has had its fair share of athletes. Just one of them is George Martin, who spent his entire football career with the New York Giants and won Super Bowl XXI with the team. Professional tennis player Vyutas “The Lithuanian Lion” Gerulaitis grew up there — at one time, he was ranked the No. 3 tennis player in the world. He accumulated 26 career titles in singles and double play. Going back to football, Marco Battaglia was raised in Howard Beach and went on to become one of Rutgers University’s most accomplished gridiron athletes. The school named its practice field after the South Queens native in August. Now we all know the Ramones loved singing a b out “ Ro ck r o ck , Rockaway Beach.” But did you know for a while, they also l i ve d clo s e t o t h e shores? Joey Ramone and his brother, Mitch Hyman, better known as Mickey Leigh, spent two years in Howard Beach after their mother remar ried before moving back to Forest Hills, where they grew up. Apparently, the experience wasn’t a good one and the two felt a little sedated. “It was confusing, it was unsettling for us, but we got over it,” Leigh told DNAInfo in 2016. Then there’s current Howard Beach resident Scott “DJ Skribble” Ialacci, who has worked with singers Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and more. He’s also appeared on MTV, Hot 97 and WKTU, and was a resident DJ

Woody Guthrie’s family lived in Howard Beach as the folk music legend spent most of his time receiving treatment for Huntington’s disease, the ailment that killed him. at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Perhaps one day DJ Skribble could team up with Howard Beach native Pia Toscano, who in 2011 made it to the Top 10 of “American Idol.” Toscano was a fan favorite and was admired by the judges, but only came in ninth place during the 2011 season of the show. Actor Tom Hanks and singer Jennifer Hudson both said on social media they thought she would place higher. Also to appear on the silver screen are two actors: Gia Allemand, a model who appeared on “The Bachelor,” and Rick Hearst, who has acted in several soap operas. We all k now ou r community officials, but did you know at lea st one Howa rd Beach native made it all the way to a top post in Washington, DC? Keith Gottfried, the former general counsel for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in George W. Bush’s administration, spent much of his childhood in the area. Before assist i ng Dubya in many housing matters, he worked for several high-prof ile companies as an attorney. Although he didn’t work in Washington, Howard Beach resident Frank Lombardi served as the chief engineer for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey from 1995 to 2010. He was at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and because of renovations he had overseen, in a different position, to the Marriott hotel following the 1993 attacks, he and 13 other people survived. Although they weren’t there at the same

Notable names from Woody Guthrie to a former senior member of the White House once called Howard Beach home.

Howard Beach native Pia Toscano made it to the Top 10 of “American Idol” in 2011. The commuFILE PHOTOS nity, and some celebrities, were rooting for her success. time, it just so happens that Woody Guthrie’s home was on the same street as one of the community’s best-known, and perhaps most notorious, residents: John Gotti. The Teflon Don requires no introduction to Howard Beach residents — to this day, many wonder what the community would be like if the late Gambino crime family boss were still around. Gotti, who died in 2002, was born in the Bronx and moved to Howard Beach later in life. But despite Gotti’s many run-ins with the law, his 85th Street home never saw federal agents walk through the door — that is, until last year. Gotti’s grandson, who has the same name, was arrested inside the house regarding a drug distribution ring he later pleaded guilty to operating. Retired FBI supervisor Phil Scala told the New York Daily News the operation violated a sacred rule of The Dapper Don, who never conducted Mafia business in his home. “If John was still alive he would be spewing every pejorative he could, knowing that somebody did something so stupid to besmirch his home and his family,” Scala told the paper. Of course, the elder Gotti’s daughter, Victoria, star of the reality TV show “Growing Up Gotti,” also lived in Howard Beach for some time. Another well-known Howard Beach mafioso is former Bonanno crime family captain Vincent Asaro, whose claim to fame is being the only person tried in court over the infamous 1978 Lufthanasa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport — the planning, carrying out and aftermath of which was the part of the plotline to Martin Scorsese’s

“Goodfellas.” Asaro was acquitted of the charge in late 2015, but was back in handcuffs in March of this year for ordering Gotti to set fire to the car of someone who had cut him off in traffic. He and the Gambino scion pleaded guilty to those crimes in June. Someone who only pretended to be a Mafia member is Vito Antuofermo, who still calls Howard Beach home. Before appearing on the silver screen, Antuofermo was in the squared circle as a boxer, winning the 1970 New York Golden Gloves Championship in the 147-pound division. The Italy native was well known for bleeding easily, especially around the eyebrows. He became World Middleweight Champion in 1979 but lost the title to Alan Minter. Antuofermo retired from boxing in 1985 and pursued an acting career. He had a small role in “The Godfather Part III” as the chief bodyguard for Joey Zasa and played a mobster on “The Sopranos.” Yet another competitor once hailed from Howard Beach. James Maritato spent his early years in Queens and is best known for playing Little Guido, or Nunzio, in the WWE and other wrestling companies. He got his first big break as part of a group called the Full Blooded Italians, or FBI, in Extreme Championship Wrestling — a no-holds barred company. He spent some years in the WWE and now tours the independent circuits. These are just some of the famous people who once, or still do, call Howard Beach home. Do you think we missed anyone? One person who never lived there, as far as we know, is the somewhat well-known BritQ ish harpsichordist Howard Beach.

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Memories abound about the Ozone-Howard LL by Christopher Barca

“But believe it or not, we’re one of the few leagues around that still has a great number Few things describe fatherhood better of kids coming back to play every year.” At its height a handful of years ago, the than teaching your child how to play baseOzone Howard league had approximately ball or softball. The conversations, laughs and lessons 1,000 kids between the ages of 3 and 13 had during those f leeting moments — playing either baseball or softball. These days, about 800 kids spend their along with the sound of a perfect pop of the glove — are afternoons both parents and summers swinging the bat at the Ozone Park complex, Bode said. children cherish forever. And while that total is down slightly And according to Joe Bode, those memories are made daily at the Ozone Howard from a few years ago, the league is still incredibly healthy, he added, noting that Little League complex. “I started there as a coach,” said Bode, other little leagues across the city aren’t the president of the athletic association, in doing too well in terms of enrollment in an interview. “My son is 27. And about 21 their programs. “A lot of people are still into baseball years ago, I was coaching him in tee ball.” a r ou nd h e r e. A nd D e c a d e s b e fo r e we’ve built a great Bode first yelled to t r a d it ion over t he his son which base to years,” he said. “We run to, the beloved lithaven’t seen anything t l e l e a g u e’s f i r s t major in terms of a games took place in decline.” t h e m id -195 0 s — When asked what around the time the about the league final farm plots in keeps it competitive Howard Beach and w it h a r e a yout h Ozone Park became aga i nst g rowi ng homes or apartment sports like soccer and buildings. By the 1980s, when vice president Ralph lacrosse, both Bode and Wallace pointed to Wallace first started coaching, the four- three things: its campus, its winning tradifield complex at 97-14 135 St. in Ozone tion and the bonds it helps build between Park had become a community within a friends and family. “There are so many things for kids to do community — a place where everyone is today. But we’ve got an amazing complex family. “When you walk through the gates of that’s very safe, convenient and accessible Ozone Howard, you don’t have to worry for many of our families,” the former said. about your child,” Wallace said. “There’s “It makes it a lot easier to sell the league to parents.” 500 eyes on them at all times. “You’ll see kids who played at 9 a.m. “The only difference between then and now is that the faces change,” he added. still hanging around watching a game at 2 p.m a nd t hey’re just running around, checking out the afternoon games and talking trash to each other” the latter a d d e d . “ It ’s a n ext r emely close knit community.” Ozone Howard is still waiting for its first alumnus to play in the major leagues, but that doesn’t mea n it ha sn’t produce d quality teams over the years. Just last month, the group’s softSome of this year’s baseball trophy winners from the Ozone-Howard Little ball team of 8- to League. They are the latest in a long line of champions the youth organi- 10-year-old girls took home the bigzation has produced over the years.

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These Ozone Howard Little League youth softball players dominated the competition this sumFILE PHOTOS mer en route to a handful of prestigious championships. gest prize in its history when they won the Eastern Regional Championship in Pennsylvania, knocking off one of New Jersey’s best youth ballclubs. That feat is on top of the numerous district and city championships both boys and girls teams have won over the years. “We’re proud to say we’re probably the only little league in the area that has a strong girls program,” Bode said. “And I take personal pride in that, c o n sid e r i ng my d aughter plays softball. “One of my main goals is keeping our girls division strong,” he added. “Top ping this season off with a title was the cherry on top for us.” The manager of that championship team is Lou Piazza, whose daughter is also on the squad. The proud father told the Chronicle that being able to coach his child and her teammates to a title is a memory he will carry with him for life. “The times spent on the field with my

family and friends are all priceless memories we will cherish forever,” Piazza said. “It was a great year for our league and our girls. It’s something we certainly will never forget.” “The league is a great place to play. I played ball there when I was a kid 30 years ago,” he added. “The little league is something that’s just so special.” The unbreakable bonds fa m il ies forge t h rough a ba l lga me at t he Ozone Howa rd c o m p l e x a r e n’t unique to just Piazza and Bode. Spending summer Saturdays at the field became a tradition a long time ago in the Wallace – LOU PIAZZ A household. “My wife asks me when I’ll give up working there, but I don’t know the answer,” Wallace said. “Just recently, we took a picture of myself, my two sons who played in the league and my grandson, who’s playing there now. I just said to myself, ‘Wow, this is three generations of Ozone Howard baseball right Q here.’ It was a beautiful thing.”

“The times spent on the field with my family and friends are all priceless memories we will cherish forever.”

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A lifelong bond began in Howard Beach by Anthony O’Reily Many f r iendships have been made throughout the years at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy. But the one that’s lasted for more than 80 years between Breeda Connolly and Peggy McKinnon, both of whom still live in Howard Beach, is undeniably among the most special. T h e t wo s t a ye d friends after graduating elementary school and th roughout the ye a r s h ave s h a r e d m a ny ex p e r ie nc e s , and more. They shared wedding decorations, and were mar ried a day apart. Their children also attended OLG, even starting on the same day. “I think I was smarter than you,” Sue Murray, McKinnon’s daughter, joked to

Pat Connolly Jr. at a recent Mass at OLG Chu rch, which celebrated the school being renamed from Ave Maria Catholic Academy back to its old name. Breeda Connolly and McKinnon are the two oldest known living alumni who still live in Howard Beach. Some years later, the two watched their grandchildren walk through the doors of OLG — and some yea rs af ter t hat, watched two of them walk down the aisle. Breeda’s grandson Brendan and Peggy’s granddaughter Suzanne got married 15 years ago – the two now have three children. All of this would not have happened, were it not for the Howard Beach school where Connolly and McKinnon first met. “They are definitely ladies of grace,” Q Murray said.

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The world is a short train trip away at JFK by Michael Gannon Wilbur and Orville Wright still were making bicycles when Howard Beach was founded in 1897. But six years later they would inexorably alter the neighborhood’s future — and today any resident has access to anywhere in the world in the time it takes for a brief train trip. John F. Kennedy Airport, according to figures provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, covers 4,930 acres. Its four runways stretched end to end total nearly nine miles. It directly employs 37,000 people and in 2016 moved 55,786,392 passengers, both international and domestic. But Kennedy Air port wasn’t always named Kennedy; and, unlike LaGuardia to the north, which hosted planes under two names back as early as 1929, it lacked a prior history in aviation. The airfield was known as Idlewild in the vernacular of city residents and the traveling public when it opened in 1948. But Mariam Touba, a reference librarian with the NewYork Historical Society, says in a video available on the g roup’s website (ny history.org/community/idlewild-airport) that even Idlewild was a bit of a misnomer. Touba says Idlewild was a name given by a developer to a resort and golf club located on Jamaica Bay. “And it provided the unofficial name for the airport that was being planned there in the 1940s while M ayo r L a G u a r d i a and the City Council argued about what to call it and who had the right to name it,” Touba said. The PA, according to the Historical Society, eventually settled on “New York International Airport,” as New York Airport would sound too much like “Newark Airport” over the radio. A December 2015 article on “PANYNJ Blog Portfolio,” an online publication of the Port Authority, said the opening day dedication featured a handshake between President Har ry S. Tr uman and New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, his Republican challenger in the following November’s election. Even the opening theme song to the 1961 television NYPD comedy “Car 54, Where Are You?” referenced a 1960 flight carrying then-Soviet Union leader Nikita Krushchev being “due at Idlewild.” The PA blog says anyone saying that in front of Austin Tobin, executive director of the PA from 1942 to 1972, would be

The Howard Beach station of the AirTrain ties Kennedy Airport to the A train. With 31 miles of track over three boroughs, the rail line is FILE PHOTO the longest in New York City. corrected. “It’s neither idle, nor wild,” he would say. The name just seemed to stick. “But there was no debate when it was rededicated in honor of our slain president, John F. Kennedy, in December 1963,” Touba said. Howard Beach is situated just off the western end of JFK’s Runway 13R-31L, by far the longest at the airport at 14,511 feet, Residents at civic association and community board meetings can talk volumes about the noise from Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s that are overhead seemingly around the clock when the wind and weather require the runway’s use. But it is far from a new fight. Back in the mid1970s residents grumbled about noise from 747s and the McDonnell Douglas DC 10s. Then came the SST. Howard Beach residents were among the most vocal in the fight as British Airways and Air France prepared to f ly to and from JFK with the SST — short for supersonic transport — a plane more commonly known now as the old Concorde. Retired Queens Supreme Court Justice Augustus Agate was a young lawyer who readily joined the fight in the years before the first landing at JFK on Oct. 19, 1977. “We were told it would crack our ceilings and cause other damage to houses, which I don’t think happened,” Agate recalled. “But it was noisy. On takeoff or landing, it had a distinct steady roar — you knew it was an SST. It was twice as loud as regular planes.” Agate at the time was allied with Councilman Walter Ward. He said the fight was led by attorney Bryan Levinson, and that he remembers attending protests, including one that went straight into the airport. “It was a very hot topic,” he said.

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The first international flight, a DC-4 originating from Peru, lands at then-New York International PHOTO COURTESY PANYNJ BLOG PORTFOLIO Airport on July 9, 1948. The Concorde could fly at 1,354 miles in half the time,” he said. The airport’s opening ceremony in 1948 per hour — just over Mach 2 — at a cruising altitude of 56,000 feet, both far in excess featured a flyover with 900 planes, according to the PA, which called it the greatest concenof even modern jetliners. A Daily News article on the first landing, tration of aircraft in the country’s history up reprinted in 2015, reported that the plane to that time. A Peruvian International Airways DC-4 was not as loud as some feared, though the true test would come the next day when the was the first aircraft to put the “international” in New York International Airport, bird took off for its return flight to England. But the News at the time also said that arriving in New York City on July 9. Decades later, on Feb. 7, 1964, music’s “protests did not materialize, and there were British Invasion launched its first major relatively few noise complaints.” landing operation at It repor ted that the newly renamed Howard Beach resiJFK as the Beatles dent Lawrence hopped a Pan Am Genovese filed a $2 f l ig ht ac ross t he billion class action pond in preparation suit against British for taking the counA i r ways a nd A i r try’s entertainment France. and social scene by The last Concorde storm. took off from JFK The air port and on Oct. 23, 2003, the Howard Beach did ai rcr af t t h at wa s have a reconciliation onc e t he cut t i ng i n 2003 with the edge of technology – JUSTICE AUGUSTUS AGATE opening of the JFK and engineering AirTrain. now outdated and The city and PA t oo exp e n sive t o h a d fo r d e c a d e s maintain and repair. Bookings also were down since 9/11 and a wanted more and better ways to connect July 2000 tragedy in which an Air France JFK and Manhattan. The AirTrain station in Concorde caught f ire on takeoff and Howard Beach would connect the airport crashed, killing all 109 on board and four on with the A train subway line, the longest in the New York City subway system. the ground. The Howard Beach station would allow Those nostalgic for a Concorde can see and sometimes board one at the deck of the people in three boroughs along the A line’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum 31 miles to follow the advice of a television moored at Pier 86 off of West 46th Street in ad jingle and “take the train to the plane.” The PA’s Blog Portfolio states that the Manhattan. AirTrain opened on Dec. 17, 2003 — 100 Don’t count Agate among them. “I always thought it was just for a bunch years to the day after the Wright Brothers Q of rich people who wanted to get to Europe taught man how to take flight.

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My early memories of Howard Beach by Anthony O’Reily One of my earliest memories is sitting in a barber shop chair, being quite fussy and uncooperative with the woman trying to cut my hair. My mother told me if I behaved, she’d buy me Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch — I cooperated and soon after was provided the fried chicken I was promised. That barbershop was Magic Scissors on Cross Bay Boulevard, owned by the late Sandi Rizzo. My mother brought my brothers and me to Magic Scissors often to get our haircuts, or sometimes just so that she could get her hair done. Often, the visits were followed by a walk down the block to Pasticceria La Torre, where my mom would get her coffee and my brothers and I would get to pick out our favorite cookies. My earliest recollection of Magic Scissors came just about 20 years

before a much taller ve r sion of mysel f walked into the Queens Chronicle’s old office on Woodhaven Boulevard for a job interview, where I was told, if I got the position, I’d be taking over the paper’s flagship edition: South Queens. It didn’t hit me until sometime into my tenure here, but I could not have been given a more appropriate beat because so many of my childhood events took place in Howard Beach and the surrounding areas, even though I lived in Bayside. One of my favorite memories took place at Q-Zar Laser Tag. If you wanted to be one of the “cool kids,” you had your birthday party there. But there were not so good memories in Howard Beach, too.

The ones that stick out the most are waiting at Queens Pediatrics on 84th Street, waiting for one or more vaccinations. At least we always came out with a lollipop. And it was after one of those visits that my mom turned on the ca r rad io, she always had it set to 1010 WINS, and we heard the broadcaster say the words “This just in: Sadam Hussein has been caught.” My mother gasped and stood still for a few minutes as she listened to the newscast. It was on another visit, about a year and a half before Hussein’s capture, that I saw a little bit of Howard Beach history. As my mom was driving through the community, I saw more news trucks parked on the streets than I had ever seen at one time.

When I asked what was happening, my mom simply told me, “John Gotti just died.” Of course, I can’t forget the many times I’ve visited my family members who lived in Howard Beach, some of whom are still there today, and the celebrations we had at Prima Pasta and Lenny’s Clam Bar. These are just some of the memories I have of Howard Beach from long before I knew I wanted to become a journalist. And I’ve had the honor of making many more during my three years at this paper. One of the highlights of my still very-young career was following 2016 presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, as he answered questions at a town hall at St. Helen and chowed down on a slice of pizza at Gino’s on Cross Bay. Earlier that year, I broke the news that the Pan-Bay Center on

Cross Bay had been sold in a record transaction. As a journalist, I take pride in being the first to report stories that have such a big impact on the community. And I’ll never forget the many stories I’ve written on Karina Vetrano. This is still one of the, if not the, biggest stories I’ve followed in my time here. Besides providing me with horrible but invaluable experience as a journalist, it also showed me how a community can come together in what seems to be the darkest of times. Howard Beach residents mourned the loss of Vetrano, but they also rallied around her, and they’re still doing that. I’m sure Karina will be remembered for a long time to come. I thank Howard Beach and its people for the many memories it created for me both as a child and reporter, and I thank all of you for Q reading.

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When William J. Howard purchased 37 acres of marshland west of Hawtree Creek at the turn of the last century, a unique neighborhood that we a l l now k now a s Howa rd Beach began as a community to make family memories. In the 120 years since its founding, Howard Beach has g row n i nto a closek n it community. We have quiet homes on tree-lined streets, a vibrant bu si n e s s s e c t o r, exc el le nt schools for our children and all of the positive attributes of a community that anyone would want to call home. I have a great time talking to my constituents about the memorable days of the Big Bow Wow and Pizza City. I also have great childhood memories of the amusement pa rk along t he bou leva rd , bowling at Cross Bay Lanes

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A place to get away from the busy city by Eric Ulrich Howard Beach is the quintessential small town in a big city. Tree-lined streets, small mom-and-pop shops and a strong sense of community are just a few of the reasons I am so proud to represent the community at City Hall. Since 2009, I have had the privilege of representing the homeowners and residents who call Howard Beach home. For more than a c e n t u r y, H o w a r d Beach has offered a unique suburban feel — a haven if you will — from the concrete jungle and the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. Perhaps this is why the neighborhood continues to attract new residents and visitors. Whether you are looking to celebrate a special occasion at the perfect restaurant on Cross Bay Boulevard, or simply looking to unwind at Charles Park, Howard Beach has

something for everyone. My constituents in Rockwood Park, Lindenwood, Hamilton Beach and the “Old” side are committed to preserving the rich history and heritage that neighborhood is best known for. Living in Howard Beach requires a certain appreciation for the great outdoors. Its close proximity to Jamaica Bay also makes it a destination for bird watchers, fishermen, cyclists a nd nature lovers. Only a h a n d f u l of o t h e r communities in New York City can boast of such a close relationship to the wonder of God’s creation. W h ile there are many places and things that make Howard Beach such a great place to live, work and raise a family, it is the people who make up the hear t of this com mu nit y. The genuine concern for one another in good times and in bad is what truly makes this a

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great community. In 2012, Superstorm Sandy devastated nearly every inch of Howard Beach. Homes were f looded, businesses were devastated and decades of hard work and progress seemed all but lost. Yet, despite all the odds, Howard Beach bounced back and made a remarkable recovery — a true testament to the indomitable spirit of local residents who simply refuse to give up or move out. People choose to stay here because they know that better opportunities for their children are fostered by the local churches, schools and community groups. They also know that Howard Beach is a safe community with excellent schools and quality of life. It’s no surprise that many of our city’s workforce — teachers, sanitation workers, police officers, etc. — are also proud residents of Howard Beach. They contribute enormously to the betterment of the neighborhood. As Howard Beach celebrates its 120th anniversary, I join the Queens Chronicle in

recognizing the neighborhood’s past, but more importantly, to look towards its future. I truly believe that the best days for Howard Beach are yet to come. I consider it an honor to represent such a fine constituency and will work tirelessly to make this community even greater than it Q already is.

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The American Dream is alive here by Stacey Pheffer Amato Howard Beach is our grand old com munit y in South Queens. Originally a large farm, over the years it became a bustling suburb with a very particular vibe, at once very New York City and very set apart. And whether we live there or not, we all, in our area, feel like the hometown of Howard Beach is ours to share. My two children went to PS 232. That was my introduction to the community from a parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where you really see what makes this place special. Cross Bay Boulevard has every kind of shop you can imagine. Every block offers a sense of community, with children playing and com munity organizations always rolling out fun things to do for everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; children, adults and seniors.

This is the permanent vibe of Howard Beach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the small, proud neighborhood inside the big city. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder so many hard working men and women choose to make their homes here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; safe, welcoming and family-oriented, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wonderful refuge to come home to from wherever they work. And the faces of Howard Beach are rapidly diversifying, with n e ig h b o r s of e v e r y b a c kground and belief moving in side by side. T h e t ow n i s close to the heart of the American Dream; people from all across the world want that life for their family. A nd the people of Howard Beach are incredible neighbors,

taking everyone in from all over and becoming ever richer for it. Kids grow up with friends from all corners of the United States, plus every continent; new arrivals are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh. In a place of such community centeredness and pastoral beauty, these kids, the future of New York City and of the world, get all the benefits of a city and a suburb in just a few square miles. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never a far walk to the water. Inescapably, when we think of Howard Beach, we come back to family. With its many excellent schools, its natural beauty and its ethos of looking out for one anoth-

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er, the neighborhood operates with families in mind from top to bottom. And, as a member of the New York State Assembly, that gives Howard Beach a special place of prominence for me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a family woman. My constituents rejoice and plan around their families first and foremost. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honor for me to represent a place that values families so highly. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to our South Queens home town, Howard Beach, on its 120th birthday. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been our own little corner of New York City, and you always will be. Whether weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for an awesome restaurant for a romantic night out, a great community group to join, time with our families or a really solid tan, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always be first in our minds and our hearts. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to many more great Q years ahead.

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The many changes in Howard Beach by Betty Braton Howard Beach is the section of Community District 10 that I call home. It is the neighborhood I’ve lived in all my life. Although the community is different in many ways today than it was during the days of my childhood it is still also very similar. When I was a child there were very few homes west of Cross Bay Boulevard. There were few retail stores on Crossbay, which during the 1950s had an assortment of recreational uses. For me — and other people who grew up in the community then — Cross Bay Boulevard was a child’s dream location, with a batting range, go-carts, miniature golf, trampolines, bowling and even archery all in the area. Residential growth began in earnest following the arrival of the subway to Howard Beach in the mid-1950s. The small retail area that existed in Coleman Square by the station — it was an

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LIRR station until 1956 or so — was supplemented by the growth of retail on “the Boulevard.” Today, no one has to venture too far to d o s o m e s e r io u s shopping. That wasn’t the ca se when I wa s growing up. In those days Ger tz wasn’t just a name on a parking lot wall in Jamaica and we all knew the Green Bus route on “Jerome Avenue,” now 101st Avenue, would take us there. All of the Howard Beach communities that exist today in ZIP code 11414 have their own unique characteristics, but they are also very similar, especially through the strong sense of community that exists in each of them.

Overall, there are far more people today than there were when I was a child in this community and that strong sense of community that I knew then still exists. All of us who live in and call Howard Beach home saw and felt that sense of community and pride of place as we all — in whatever section of the community — dealt with and still deal with, the impacts of Sandy in our town. Sandy paid us a visit, but we’re here to stay and will move into the future and whatever it brings with that same sense of pride in our place, our town in this, the borough of families, where our neighborhoods each have their unique features but Q each is the place we call home.

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Hamilton Beach: NYC’s small town by Roger Gendron My name is Roger Gendron. I was born, raised and have lived in Hamilton Beach my entire life. Growing up, Hamilton Beach was like a small town you would find in some rural area, not the city of New York. Everyone knew our neighbor and never hesitated to help them whether it was fixing a car, repairing a roof or putting up a fence. Whatever needed to be done, rest assured it became a neighborhood project. As kids, we would leave our homes in the morning knowing we had to be home before the street lights came on. We played in the streets, we swam in the canal and we never worried about anything bad happening to us because wherever we were, someone knew us and our families. If we did anything wrong, not me of course, we would not only get an

earful from a neighbor, but by the time we got home, our parents knew exactly what we did and whom we were with. Our neighborhood celebrated the end of summer by having a Baby

Parade. Folks would build themed floats, put their kids in costumes and we would march from Hamilton Beach Park to the West Hamilton Beach Firehouse, where there would be a carnival going on. The whole neighborhood would come out for the parade. We still carry on this tradition today, only we march from the firehouse to the park and we have a community barbecue, complete with an inflatable slide, bounce house, face painting, cotton candy and more. Hamilton Beach has always been sort of the forgotten part of Howard Beach and for some that was okay but we faced issues, some that we still face today. In the late 1970s, the Concorde was introduced to the skies over our neighborhood. On take-off, windows would vibrate and the dishes in the cabinets would rattle. While the Concorde no longer flies over our homes, the commercial jets, which have gotten bigger

and bigger, do. We’ve always had to worry about tidal flooding whenever a hurricane or nor’easter headed our way, like Hurricane Donna in 1960

“... We went full circle and became that small town again” or the “Storm of the Century” in March of 1993 — but that was never truer than the night of Oct. 29, 2012. Every home in Hamilton Beach was flooded that night. Whether it was with a few inches of water or up to 8 feet, we all felt the effects of Sandy.

I had been elected the president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic in Febr uary 2012 and there were moments in the early days after the storm when I felt very overwhelmed. What I will remember was that while we all faced the damage to our own homes and property, we went full circle and became that small town again where neighbor was helping neighbor whether it was fixing a car, repairing roof or putting up a fence. My wife Holly and I purchased our home in 1991, a block away from where I grew up. My mother, Mary, who grew up in Howard Beach, and my father purchased their home in Hamilton Beach in 1958, and my mother still lives there. Two of my three sisters still live in Hamilton Beach and raised their children here — as did my wife and I with our two boys, Christopher and Matthew. We have no Q plans on leaving.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED by Ron Marzlock

A neighborhood that is no more, a bustling business area and more — take a look back at some historical locations in Howard Beach, both well-known and lesser-known, that have been featured over the years in the Queens Chronicle’s “I Have Often Walked” column.

Old Mill, now part of Spring Creek There’s a patch of land once called Old Mill that had been a part of Brooklyn and is now a piece of Howard Beach — but it hardly matters which borough it’s in. It no longer has any residents; it’s part of Spring Creek Park. Located on the east side of Spring Creek, the area was always marshy meadowlands loaded with mosquitoes. It was also the site of

the Old Mill Yacht club, which can be seen on the far right of this photo. William Powers, a chief executive with Mutual Life Insurance at 32 Nassau St. in Manhattan, was the club commodore. To get from work to the secluded club was a problem for him, so in 1916, he pushed to have Sheridan Avenue opened up as a street. It’s unclear if he succeeded, but the line where Sheridan was

mapped became the new borough border on April 3, 1931. By 1934, Borough President George Harvey had ordered Sanitation Commissioner Ernest Goodrich to deposit refuse at the bottom of Sheridan Avenue near Jamaica Bay to build up the soft marshy ground. Borough engineers got lost in the wilderness and hired Ferdinand Gundermann of Bradford Street,

who owned a lumber mill and a hotel in the area, to be their guide, according to Gundermann’s family. The project was pointless over the long term anyway, as it was announced in 1938 that Old Mill was being condemned for the building of Shore Parkway. Residents were forced out and the sailors now have their headquarters on Cross Q Bay Boulevard.

Although not prominent here, the Old Mill Yacht Club can be seen at the far right in this photo of its former neighborhood.

Flooding is nothing new to this area

Houses are reflected in the water in the street at 158th Avenue and 88th Street, Howard Beach, facing east, December 1953.

The sewer system in Howard Beach was one of the most difficult problems facing successive administrations in Queens Borough Hall. By 1940, Old Howard Beach had been developed with many houses on streets that didn’t even appear on planners’ maps for the area. In most instances they were built only a few feet above the tide. Starting in the early 1950s, Sherman Selly’s Rockwood Homes development was built on the west side of Cross Bay Boulevard, creating what residents called New Howard Beach. There were still no officially approved sanitary or storm sewers in the

new development. Young World War II veterans who bought the homes wrote to the Veterans Administration complaining of the common floods disrupting their lives. They had to hire scavenger services to pump out their overflowing cesspools. Washing machines and other home appliances became taboo for fear of waste matter backing up into sinks. In 1954 a 1,500-unit housing development was planned near Shore Parkway. Developer Efrem Kahn (1904-1996) of Douglaston agreed to install sanitary and storm sewers at a cost to himself for his

new Lindenwood project, solving part of the problem. Finally, in the late ’50s, through the repeated efforts of Ed Orenstein of the Rockwood Park Civic Association and James Braton of the Howard Beach Civic Association, sewers and storm drains began to be installed elsewhere in the area. Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on South Queens, and in 2014 Lindenwood flooded badly again, apparently due to the failure of city equipment in Brooklyn. Newer residents can only imagine how it Q was when there were no sewers at all.

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Benny’s Shoe Store and Coleman Square Coleman Square, the shopping center in Howard Beach that dates back over 100 years, was originally just a nest of stores that served the early settlers of the neighborhood when it was first developed. The tallest building in the square at the time, at three stories, housed Benny’s Shoe Store. The catchphrase, as posted in the window, read, “Local Store to Save you More.” Benny’s Shoe Store, along with a number of stores in the complex — as well as rental bungalows and various commercial properties in Howard Beach — were owned by real estate broker Alexander Goldsand, who lived at 101-20 159 Ave.

Upon his death in 1936, Goldsand’s widow, Bertha, moved to Manhattan, where she lived until her death 30 years later. She would pick up rent money in person in her chauffeurdriven Cadillac. Today, Benny’s old location is The Fuleen Palace Chinese Take Out. Coleman Square is named for Bernard Coleman, a 20-year-old Howard Beach resident who died during World War I while serving on the USS Texas. Because of the square’s proximity to Hawtree Creek, flooding has been a common occurrence during nor’easters, as seen here during the famed Ash Wednesday storm of Q March 8, 1962.

Benny’s Shoe Store and the rest of Howard Beach’s Coleman Square were flooded by a massive nor’easter on March 8, 1962.

A house that became a Jewish center

The house at 96th Street and 165th Avenue, Howard Beach.

Howard Beach, due to its surrounding wetlands, was one of the last sections developed in Queens in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the few structures was a classic house at the corner of 96th Street and 165th Avenue, the latter of which formerly had been known as Vanderveer and Nolins Street. In 1930 John Obanheim lived there with his wife Annie. The ownership of the house was through the White Rose

Corp., and Obanheim was the caretaker. The house appears to have been built as a summer home for the chairman of White Rose, and it had a caretaker the rest of the year. In the 1950s a large number of Jewish families leaving Brooklyn chose Howard Beach as their new home when development and massive building began. The house was acquired in the early 1950s and turned into a Jewish

center, led by Rabbis Leonard Bronstein and Meir Kahane. By the late 1960s a new Jewish center for Howard Beach had been built at 162-05 90 Avenue. By 1970 the old Jewish center was being used as the South Queens Democratic offices and as home to the Howard Beach Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Kahane kept an office there until the early ’70s, when the house was torn Q down.

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Guest’s check may reflect applicable VAT and/or taxes for certain ports or itineraries. Guest is responsible for 18% gratuities on the retail value of the Ultimate Beverage Package ($14.22 USD per person per day) and/or Soda Package ($1.35 USD per person per day) prior to cruise. Retail value of Ultimate Beverage Package is $79.00 USD per person per day. Package price is subject to change. Retail value of the Adult Soda Package is $7.50 USD per person per day. Package price is subject to change. 18% gratuities on the retail value of the Ultimate Beverage Package and/or Soda Package are included when booking through the Australia office. When booking through the Australia office, gratuities related to beverage and soda packages are included. Specialty Dining Packages: Package prices are subject to change. Guest is responsible for 18% gratuities on the retail value of the Specialty Dining Package prior to cruise. 18% gratuities on the retail value of the Specialty Dining Package are included when booking through the Australia office. Packages are based on a per meal basis. Applicable to guests 1-2 on the reservation. Any Harvest Caye bars, restaurants, or venues, Food Republic, The Bake Shop, Ice Cream Bar, Gelato, specialty items in the Asian restaurant, Special Occasion/Holiday menus (New Year’s, Christmas, etc.), Jazz Brunch, Wine Lovers and Murder Mystery lunches, and beverages are not included as part of the Specialty Dining Packages. You may choose to dine in the following venues as part of your Specialty Dining Package for the corresponding upcharges: The Supper Club ($15 USD), For the Record ($15 USD), Ocean Blue ($15 USD), Bayamo ($15 USD), Cirque Dreams and Illusionarium ($10 USD regular seats/$15 USD premium seats/$35 USD VIP seating on Breakaway), Sushi Bar ($7 USD), Pincho Tapas Bar ($7 USD), and Raw Baar ($7 USD). Specialty Dining Packages include one main course per person at Cagney’s and Le Bistro restaurants. Additional main courses will be charged at the a la carte price listed on the menu. There is no minimum or maximum to the number of meals that can be redeemed in a day, however each meal is counted towards the package. Internet Package: 250 minutes per stateroom. Internet package is per stateroom. One login per stateroom. Internet package is not available at Harvest Caye. On Breakaway, stateroom receives an internet package of 250 minutes or 1000 MB of data. Internet package includes activation fee. $50 USD Per Port Shore Excursion Credit: $50 USD per port shore excursion credit is per stateroom. Credit has no monetary value and is nonrefundable. In the event a port of call or excursion is missed, for any reason, no refund or credit will be issued. Shore excursion credit is applicable for each port, including debarkation port, and is not transferable to other ports. Use the credit or lose it. Does not include embarkation ports. Overnight stays count as one port, except Bermuda sailings which can receive up to 3 individual days of shore excursion credit. Shore excursion credit can only be redeemed by calling 1-866-625-1167 or booking onboard. 3rd & 4th Guest Free: See NCLHelp for updated sailings list. Offer valid for guests 3-4 sharing a stateroom with guests 1-2 paying full fare. Offer only valid on select sailings. 3 & 4 Guests Sai Free dates are subject to change at any time without notice. No deposit is required for qualifying 3 & 4 guests. If there are guests 5 - 8 in a reservation, those guests will be required to pay prevailing fares. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Norwegian Cruise Line reserves the right to charge a fuel supplement without prior notice should the closing price of West Texas Intermediate Fuel increase above $65.00 USD per barrel on the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange Index). In the event a fuel supplement is charged, Norwegian Cruise Line will have sole discretion to apply the supplementary charge to both existing and new bookings, regardless of whether such bookings have been paid in full. Such supplementary charges are not included in the cruise fare. The fuel supplement charge will not exceed $10.00 USD per passenger per day Norwegian Cruise Line is not responsible for typographical errors or omissions. Ships’ registry: BAHAMAS and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ©2017 NCL Corporation Ltd

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South Queens Democratic Club joins all of

Howard Beach in celebrating its

120 Anniversary th

JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, JR.

SOUTH QUEENS DEMOCRATIC CLUB Honorable

Honorable

Frank P. Gulluscio

Stacey Pheffer Amato

Male District Leader

Female District Leader

District Office: SQDC-072544

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ard Beach & Ozone Park area for ov w o H e h t e v r e s er 35 y to d e t a c i ear ed

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Sam Sartorio Treasurer

Augie Agate Andrew Baumann Saul Belsky Dino Bono Charles Butera Joe DeMarco Danny Golom Gene Greco Bob LoCascio Frank Monteforte Sam Sartorio Tommy Savoca John Spagnuolo

Joe DeMarco Immediate Past President

Parliamentarian

Sal Mossa

NY State Supreme Court Justice (Ret.)

Augie Agate Board of Directors Chairman

www.howardbeachkiwanis.org – hbkiwanisdino@outlook.com Home Club of New York District Governor Stephen A. Sirgiovanni

Charter Members Cosmo Giamundo

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Jody Stahl

Board of Directors

Administration 2016-2017

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YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

Federal Officials President

Vice President

Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C., 20500 (202) 456-14141 Fax: (202) 456-2461 president@whitehouse.gov

Mike Pence

The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C., 20500 (202) 456-14141 Fax: (202) 456-2461 vice_president@whitehouse.gov

U.S. Senator

U.S. Representative

Charles Schumer 780 Third Ave., Suite 2301 New York, NY 10017 (212) 486-4430 Fax: (202) 228-2838 schumer.senate.gov

Kirsten Gillibrand 780 Third Ave., Suite 2301 New York, NY 10017 (212) 688-6262 Fax (866) 824-6340 gillibrand.senate.gov

Hakeem Jeffries 8th Congressional District 55 Hanson Place, Suite 603 Brooklyn, NY 11217 (718) 237 - 2211 Fax (718) 237-2273 jeffries.house.gov

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State Officials Governor

Attorney General

State Senate

Assembly

Andrew Cuomo NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 (518) 474-8390 Fax (518) 474-1513 ny.gov/governor

Eric Schneiderman 120 Broadway New York, NY 10271 (212) 416-8000 Fax (212) 416-6005 ag.ny.gov

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. 15th Senate District 159-53 102 St. Howard Beach, NY 11414 (718) 738-1111 Fax: (718) 322-5760 nysenate.gov

Stacey Pheffer Amato 23rd Assembly District 95-16 Rockaway Beach Blvd. Rockaway Beach, NY 11693 (718) 945-9550 Fax: 718-945-9549 nyassembly.gov

New York City Officials Mayor

Queens Borough President

City Council

District Attorney

Bill de Blasio City Hall New York, NY 10007 (212) 788-3000 Fax: (212) 788-2460 nyc.gov

Melinda Katz 120-55 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, NY 11424 (718) 286-3000 Fax: (718) 286-2876 queensbp.org

Eric Ulrich 32nd Council District 93-06 101 Ave. Ozone Park, NY 11416 (718) 738-1083 Fax: (718) 738-1918 council.nyc.gov/district-32

Richard Brown 125-01 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, NY 11415 (718) 286-6000 Fax: (718) 286-6340 queensda.org

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C E L E B R AT I N G 12 0 Y E A R S

Demographics of Howard Beach Total population of Howard Beach: 28,700 Population by gender: Male: 13,309 Female: 15,391 Population by age group: Under 5 years old: 5.1% 5 to 19 years old: 15.4% 20 to 64 years old: 58.3% 65 years or older: 21.2%

Housing/taxes: Total housing units: 11,622 Renter occupied: 3,072 Land area: 2.3 sq miles Median real estate taxes (2015): $4,842 Estimated median house/condo value in 2015: $503,100 Median gross rent in 2015: $1,514 Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2015: 5.7%

Population by race: White: 82.4% Black or African American: 2.3% Asian: 4.3% Hispanic or Latino: 21.1%* *Hispanics may be of any race

Education (attained for population 25 years and older): High school or higher: 85.2% Bachelor’s degree or higher: 27.3% Graduate or professional degree: 9.2% Unemployed: 8.1% Sources: US Census and City-Data.com

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Library Howard Beach Branch 92-06 156 Ave., Howard Beach, NY 11414 (718) 641-7086

Hours: Monday—12-8 p.m. Tuesday—1-6 p.m. Wednesday—10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Parks Frank M. Charles Memorial Park (Gateway National Recreation Area) Howard Beach, NY 11414

Post Offices Howard Beach Post Office 160-50 Cross Bay Blvd. 1 (800) 275-8777

Thursday—12-8 p.m. Friday—10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday—10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday—closed

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Private and Public Schools Divine Mercy Catholic Academy 101-60 92 St. Ozone Park, NY 11416 (718) 845-3074

St. Helen Catholic Academy 83-09 157 Ave. Howard Beach, NY 11414 (718) 835-4155

MS 137 Laura Mastrogiovanni, principal 109-15 98 St., Ozone Park (718) 659-0471

Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy 158-20 101 St. Howard Beach, NY 11414 (718) 848-7440

St. Mary Gate of Heaven Catholic Academy 104-06 101 Ave. Ozone Park, NY 11416 (718) 846-0689

John Adams High School Daniel Scanlon, principal 101-01 Rockaway Blvd., Ozone Park (718) 322-0500

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy 111-10 115 St. South Ozone Park, NY 11420 (718) 843-4184

PS 108 Jennifer Iovine, principal 108-10 109 Ave., South Ozone Park (718) 558-2700

Robert H Goddard High School Dr. Joseph Birgeles, principal 138-30 Lafayette St., Ozone Park (718) 848-8357

St. Elizabeth Catholic Academy 94-01 85 St. Ozone Park, NY 11416 (718) 641-6990

PS/MS 146 Mary Keegan, principal 98-01 159 Ave., Howard Beach (718) 659-3140

High School-Construction, Trades, Engineering & Architecture Lakeisha Gordon, principal 94-06 104 St., Ozone Park (718) 846-628

PS/MS 207 Eileen Davies, principal 159-15 88 St., Howard Beach (718) 848-2700 PS/MS 232 Lisa Josephson, principal 153-23 83 St., Howard Beach (718) 848-9247 JHS 202 William Fitzgerald, principal 138-30 Lafayette St., Ozone Park (718) 848-0001

St. Helen Catholic Academy

JHS 210 Bonnie Butcher, principal 93-11 101 Ave., Ozone Park (718) 845-5942

PS/MS 146

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Certified Public Accountant

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Michael N. Smith

Proud resident of Howard Beach for over 37 years.

Weekly Religious Services A warm and welcoming environment for all Community Co u ty Holiday o day d dinners, e s, Hebrew eb e school sc oo

Proudly serving the community for close to 100 years! HOWARD BEACH JUDEA CHABAD 162-05 90th Street, Howard Beach, NY • 718-845-9443 Avrohom Richter, Rabbi • Laurence Bernstein, Pres. ©2017 M1P • HOBE-072493

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Friday Night Service at candle lighting time Saturday Morning Service at 9:30am followed by lunch Saturday Evening Service at candle lighting time Sunday Morning Service at 8:30am followed by breakfast

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Association & Clubs 106th Precinct Community Council 103-53 101st St., Ozone Park (718) 845-2228 Frank Dardani, president Meets the second Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m. except for February and August. American Legion Post 632 91-11 101st Ave., Ozone Park (718) 843-8706 American Legion Post 1404 209 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel (718) 474-5029

Civic Associations Howard Beach-Lindenwod Civic Association Joann Ariola, president hblcivic2014@gmail.com Meeting place: St. Helen Catholic Academy, 83-09 157 Ave., Howard Beach. Meets the last Tuesday of the month except July and August. New Hamilton Beach Civic Association Roger Gendron, president Meeting place: 59 Russell St., Hamilton Beach. Meets the second Thursday of the month at 7 p.m.

Friends of Charles Park Committee Dorothy McCloskey, committee head

Youth & Senior Organizations

Howard Beach Kiwanis howardbeachkiwanis.org Howard Beach Motor Boat Club 59 Russell St., Howard Beach (718) 843-4002

Ozone-Howard Little League 97-14 135 Drive, Ozone Park (718) 835-8599 eteamz.com/ozonehoward

Old Mill Yacht Club 163-15 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach (718) 835-0454

Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens 110-04 Atlantic Ave,, Richmond Hill (718) 441-6050

Hands-On Learning

St. Helen Catholic Academy 120 Years

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S.T.A.R.S. Community Center 8 Coleman Square, Howard Beach (718) 845-6956

Rotary Club of Southwest Queens 104-37 Atlantic Ave., Richmond Hill jdbinsurance.com Joe DiBlasi, president

Christ-Centered, Results-Driven & Always Engaging St. Helen Catholic Academy is in partnership with: Fordham University, St. Francis College, St. John’s University and Yale University.

Woodhaven Soccer Club 134-02 Cross Bay Blvd., Ozone Park (718) 738-5134 Catholic Charities Howard Beach Senior Center 155-55 Cross Bay Blvd. Howard Beach (718) 738-8100

Community Board 10 115-01 Lefferts Blvd., South Ozone Park, NY 11420 (718) 843-4488, Fax: (718) 738-1184 cb10qns@nyc.rr.com Karyn Petersen, district manager Betty Braton, chairwoman Meeting place: Knights of Columbus Hall 135-45 Lefferts Blvd., South Ozone Park, NY 11420 Meets the first Thursday of the month, except July and August. Covers Howard Beach, South Ozone Park, Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill. - Compiled by Anthony O’Reilly

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Fire Departments

Police

Food pantries

106th Precinct 103-53 101 St., Ozone Park (718) 845-2211 Community Affairs: (718) 845-2228 Capt. Brian Bonannon

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Pantry 111-50 115 St., South Ozone Park (718) 843-1212 Contact: Helen Leahy Hours: Wednesday and Friday 9:30 a.m.-noon

Sanitation Department of Sanitation Queens East District 10 130-23 150 Ave., South Ozone Park (718) 835-8833

Our Lady of Grace 100-05 159 Ave., Howard Beach (718) 845-6635 Contact: Jeanie Ruvolo Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

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Fire Department of New York Engine 331, Ladder 173 158-57 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach (718) 476-6231

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October SALE!

We offer the Flu, Shingles and Pneumonia Vaccines, which are covered by most insurances!

Shop at Kalish Pharmacy and Enjoy the Savings!

KALISH PHARMACY 93-20 Liberty Ave., Ozone Park Mon-Fri: 9:30am-7:30pm • Sat: 9:30am-5:30pm

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Joe Bruno, R.Ph & Owner and Longtime Resident of the area, has over 43 years of Retail Pharmacy Experience. “At Kalish Pharmacy we offer Great Personal Service, the Best Prices and Free Delivery. Once you shop at Kalish, you’ll always come back!”

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Sales while supplies last. Sale items are excluded from any other discounts. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Not responsible for typographical errors. Sale ends October 31, 2017