Love locks, perhaps, on the way to Little Neck Bay
and, way off in the distance, the skyline of New Rochelle
This gazebo stands atop Crocheron Park, the former site of the Crocheron House, a favorite hangout of Boss Tweed and once "one of the most famous hotels on Long Island".
Seamlessly connected to Crocheron Park is John Golden Park. Mr. Golden was a prominent Broadway producer, and, according to the Parks Department:
He and his wife Margaret moved to Bayside in 1920 and subsequently made their estate available to the community. The well-maintained grounds were often used by neighborhood residents, including golf caddies practicing their swings, little leaguers playing baseball, and Sunday picnickers walking among the gardens. Some Bayside residents remember seeing Golden strolling in his white suit, broad-rimmed hat, and spats, carrying a silver-handled cane.
Upon his death on June 17, 1955, Golden’s will bequeathed his Bayside estate to the City of New York as a park "for the use and enjoyment by the young people of the community of all races and creeds in a manner similar to that in which I made this property available for recreation and community acts during my lifetime."
We've already seen the sedan; here's the coupe.
This car was parked along Corbett Road, which takes its name from Gentleman Jim Corbett, a former resident. He wasn't the only famous inhabitant of this street, however. According to Forgotten New York:
In the 1910s Bayside became a film actors’ colony until the nascent industry decamped to Hollywood. The Famous Players-Lasky Corporation built studios in Astoria that still stand today, and Bayside joined South Greenfield, Brooklyn as a filmmaking hotbed, with D.W. Griffith, in particular, filming hundreds of productions. Corbett Road became a favorite spot for stars to make their homes, with W.C. Fields, Norma Talmadge and John Barrymore all living along the scenic way overlooking Crocheron Park. Years after the film industry moved to California, Paul Newman resided on Corbett as well.
Once a family picnic ground known as Pine Grove, this little cemetery hard by the LIRR's Port Washington Branch (the steps in the foreground lead up to a pedestrian bridge over the tracks) is the final resting place of several notable members of the Lawrence clan, including Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, a former mayor of NYC.
(For the record, this is the second Lawrence Cemetery we've visited in Queens; the first was in Astoria.)
...out of a DeLorean?
(Check out the windshield.)
That's a Wiard walking plow. Check out this hilarious old ad from the company.
Running along the eastern edge of Bayside, 223rd Street, formerly home to W.C. Fields, is lined with massive homes overlooking Little Neck Bay.
A Korean church and an Afghan mosque in Flushing, the cradle of religious freedom
