Howard Beach, Queens "Howard Beach"
Howard Beach Howard Beach is an upper middle class neighborhood in the southwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
The neighborhood is part of Queens Community District 10, served by Queens Community Board 10. It is home to a large Italian-American population. The ZIP code of Howard Beach is 11414.
3.3 Old Howard Beach Howard Beach was established in 1897 by William J.
A casino, beach, and fishing pier were added in 1915 and the name of the neighborhood was changed to Howard Beach on April 6, 1916.
The rest of Howard Beach consisted of empty marsh territory except for the region to the south of Coleman Square, centered around Russell St.
This region of Howard Beach would retain the name "Ramblersville." Even with its close adjacency to the Howard Beach station at Coleman Square, the LIRR would establish a station a quarter of a mile south down the line at Hamilton Beach in 1919.
This region was advanced as "Rockwood Park" to the north and "Spring Park" to the south, together comprising what would be known as "New Howard Beach", while the region east of the boulevard became known as "Old Howard Beach." In 1986 and 2005, Howard Beach experienced two well-publicized hate crime incidents.
On December 20, 1986, one black man was killed and another was beaten in Howard Beach, in a racially charged incident that heightened ethnic tensions in New York City.
As Hurricane Sandy approached on October 28, 2012, town/city officials ordered the evacuation of inhabitants of Zone A (low-lying, susceptible to storm surge) neighborhoods, which encompassed Howard Beach's Hamilton Beach area.
Most of the rest of Howard Beach lay in Zone B, whose inhabitants were only urged to evacuate.
Sandy made landfall on October 29, dragging a ten-foot-high storm surge from Jamaica Bay that flooded all of Old and New Howard Beach plus the neighborhoods of Broad Channel and the Rockaways, along with some sections of Lindenwood and neighboring Ozone Park.
The flooding damaged most, if not all, homes in the neighborhood, all of the stores along Cross Bay Boulevard, the Howard Beach JFK Airport station, and the IND Rockaway Line trestle that carries trains over Jamaica Bay into Broad Channel and the Rockaways.
After Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York City Office of Emergency Management provisionally re-classified Howard Beach along with the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Gerritsen Beach and Red Hook as Zone A neighborhoods.
On April 5, 2013, the Howard Beach postal service reopened after extensive repairs. As of the 2000 census, there were 28,121 citizens residing in Howard Beach.
Like many New York City neighborhoods, Howard Beach is composed of a several smaller neighborhoods Howard Beach, Old Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, Ramblersville, Spring Park, Rockwood Park, Lindenwood, and Howard Park (Old Howard Beach, Ramblersville, Howard Park, and Hamilton Beach are sometimes all grouped together as "Old Howard Beach", freshwater being referred to by their proper names).
Howard Beach proper is a small peninsula bordered by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue on the north, Jamaica Bay on the south, Hawtree Creek on the east separating it from Hamilton Beach and Shellbank Basin on the west that separates it from Cross Bay Boulevard.
Cross Bay Boulevard is the chief commercial strip of Howard Beach and going northward it eventually turns into Woodhaven Boulevard after Ozone Park.
Addabbo Memorial Bridge (named for a deceased member of the United States House of Representatives who once represented the precinct that includes Howard Beach) carries the boulevard over Jamaica Bay, connecting mainland Queens to Broad Channel.
Bernard Coleman Memorial Square (colloquially known as Coleman Square) is a small plaza near the Howard Beach JFK Airport station. There is a memorial to servicemen from Howard Beach who died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Hamilton Beach is a middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
Hamilton Beach is one of the several communities in New York City that has its own volunteer fire department.
Hamilton Beach is incessantly referred to as West Hamilton Beach. East Hamilton Beach was on the east side of the then Long Island Rail Road tracks, but was taken by the City for expansion of Idlewild Airport (now JFK Airport) in the 1940s.
Hamilton Beach bears no relation to the Hamilton Beach Company other than the name.
There was a Hamilton Beach station on the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch.
This bridge joins Hamilton and Old Howard Beach.
Hamilton Beach was once an region with dirt roads, old shack-type homes (bungalows), and no sewage system, as the region was unincorporated, but recently Hamilton Beach has been "building up." Lindenwood is a section of Howard Beach, advanced in the 1950s and 1960s, and sits on landfilled land.
Lindenwood is considered to be New Howard Beach - the newer side, as compared to Old Howard Beach.
It was positioned on 153rd Ave and 80th Street, was converted into apartements when the temple consolidated with the then Howard Beach Jewish Center in Rockwood Park.
Old Howard Beach is a section of Howard Beach that lies between Shellbank Basin and Hawtree Creek to the east of Cross Bay Boulevard.
Charles Park are positioned in Old Howard Beach.
The region is locally referred to as "Old Howard Beach} since it was the initial place in which founder William Howard assembled his famous hotel, and later the area's first homes in the 1920s.
The current housing in Old Howard Beach consists of a several different types of homes.
Ramblersville is a section of greater Howard Beach, being a small neighborhood of about a dozen blocks between Hawtree Creek and JFK Airport. It is nearly surrounded by waterways dominant into close-by Jamaica Bay.
It is bordered by on the north by 160th Avenue, on the west by Hawtree Creek, athwart which is Old Howard Beach; on the east by the New York City Subway's Rockaway Line (A train, beyond which is Bergen Basin and the airport; and on the south by the 102nd Street Creek.
Crossing the creek, 102nd Street reaches Hamilton Beach at Russell Street.
Ramblersville, which once considered itself autonomous of New York City when the town/city was first unified, is purportedly the earliest neighborhood in what later became known as Howard Beach. Before the Howard Beach evolution was titled in 1916, the entire region was generally known as "Ramblersville", including Hamilton Beach to the south on Jamaica Bay, and Old Howard Beach to the west.
The Howard Beach JFK Airport subway stop was originally the "Ramblersville Station" on the Long Island Rail Road.
Rockwood Park is a section of Howard Beach that mainly consists of single family homes and is considered to be a more upper class section of Howard Beach.
Becoming known as a more upscale section of Howard Beach led the region to turn into the home of many known mob figures, most prominently Gambino crime family stature John Gotti who lived on 85th Street.
Meeks (D-NY) represents that part of Howard Beach east of 104th Street and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) represents the part west of 104th Street.
Eric Ulrich (R-NY) is the New York City Councilman for Howard Beach.
Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-NY) represents Howard Beach in the New York State Assembly.
The structure of the Howard Beach JFK Airport station Howard Beach JFK Airport on the IND Rockaway Line was formerly a Long Island Rail Road station on the Rockaway Beach Branch.
Frequent fires on the trestle to Broad Channel forced the LIRR to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the 1950s, which allowed New York City Transit to purchase the line in 1956. The station provides a connection between the A train and Howard Beach JFK Air - Train route (and was, until 1990, the end of the former JFK Express, known colloquially as the "Train to the Plane").
PS 146 The Howard Beach School Goddard High School in close-by Ozone Park, specialty high schools such as Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park, or Catholic high schools such as Christ the King, St.
Notable current and former inhabitants of Howard Beach include: Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), folk music legend (son Arlo Guthrie's music is incessantly copyrighted to "Howard Beach Music, Inc.") Joey Ramone (1951-2001) and his brother Mickey Leigh (born 1954) lived in Howard Beach as children. A 1989 TV movie was made based on the 1986 ethnic incident entitled Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder.
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"To be specific, he is an Italian-born fighter, who now lives in Howard Beach, Queens." It was the finals of the United States Open, and it was Gerulaitis, out of Howard Beach, Queens, against Mc - Enroe, out of Douglaston, Queens.
"Victoria, who married Agnello in 1984, was raised in Howard Beach, Queens, where her 'Dapper Don' father ran the Gambino crime family." "Clockwise from top left, Will Geer's Fifth Avenue apartment, a 1940 Guthrie stop; his home in Howard Beach, Queens, in 1955; a Coney Island sign; and the Guthrie home in Queens today." "Howard Beach goes ga-ga for Pia", Queens Chronicle, March 10, 2011.
"Toscano, a Howard Beach native who has been singing for nearly as long as she has been alive, was titled one of the top 13 contestants on the show last Thursday." It is Mookie who hurls the garbage can through Sal's window, inciting the crowd to shout, 'Howard Beach!'"
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