January 9, 2009
Elmhurst: Boulevard of Life
Talk about the neighborhood
Share your thoughts on Elmhurst and how the neighborhood has changed.
I lived in Elmhurst from 1965 when i was born at ST John's Hospital on Queens BLVD until 1985 when i moved to the Poconos. Living in Elmhurst was great... I miss it...
Submitted by Bill Greene
10:05 PM EDT, Oct 11, 2006
Elmhurst 1940-1964: PS 13 had a Victory Garden in the school yard, the #58 bus was a trolley, Durkee's spice factory off Corona Ave. smelled delicious, in the blizzard of '47 we had to walk to the 7 train , the Newton Movie on Corona Ave. was 25 cents Adults, 11 cents Children.
Submitted by Mary Lou Van Leeuwen
10:11 AM EDT, Sep 26, 2006
Fairyland White Castle GG local, Myrtle Ave. El., Q58, other buses. skated and swam in Flushing Meadows, sunbathed Rockaway/ RockNRoll and Dick Clark Shows, St. Joe's HS Brooklyn. Graduate of St. Adalbert 1957. Glad I grew up in Elmhurst pkd30@hotmail.com
Submitted by Pat
9:36 AM EDT, Sep 25, 2006
Elmhurst: Boulevard of Life
Cream-colored and curved, with more than a dash of Miami Beach, the condominium will, when completed, contain 30 apartments, a rooftop patio and something uncommon for its largely working-class environs -- a doorman.
Life on the Boulevard
Church rolls tell a tale of change
Abraham Lu straddles two generations as senior pastor of the thriving Grace Chinese Lutheran Church and interim pastor of the fading Bethany Lutheran Church, both in Elmhurst.
Life on the Boulevard
Her way of giving something back
Debbie Turner, 40, is in her 14th year as a licensed chiropractor in a Van Loon Street house that was formerly the chiropractic office of a European father-son practice that opened the year the United States entered World War II.
Life on the Boulevard
Searching for a Hollywood ending
From an out-of-the-way newsstand on Queens Boulevard where he toiled as a vendor this summer, Marzban Cooper would ritually make slash marks with his pen on scraps of paper. Each line, he said, represented another day that had passed until his planned date of return to India, after a six-year self-imposed exile.
Life on the Boulevard
Now shes baring only her soul
Goldfingers, a so-called gentlemen's club, is still in business on Queens Boulevard in nearby Rego Park, something of a holdover from a earlier period in the roadway's evolution. Noel Gomez, who used to twirl and strip atop the club's strobe-lit stage, hates it each time she drives past the enterprise, even though so much else on the boulevard is "changing and on the upswing."
Life on the Boulevard
The big cheese of his family
More than four decades after arriving here from Sicily, Gicinto Mancuso, 67, still has some trouble speaking English fluently. Not so his son, Mario. Born in Queens two years after his father opened Gino's Pizza just off Queens Boulevard, the younger Mancuso became a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense. His job: special operations and counterterrorism.
Life on the Boulevard
A changed neighborhood, but still a comfortable one
Marian Castano woke up one morning last summer to find her garage door scrawled with graffiti.
Elmhurst: A long road to prosperity
For Ceil O'Mara, the end of old-time Elmhurst arrived when the elms along Maurice Avenue began to disappear. One by one, the trees were leveled to make room for newer, younger ones, or sometimes none at all. And with that, some longtime neighbors also began to leave, selling their gracious homes with sweeping side lawns to developers, to be replaced by smaller houses or apartments.
City Living: Elmhurst
Walk down any of the main shopping streets in Elmhurst and experience a mix of cultures that is unprecedented even for Queens, a borough known for its multi-ethnicity.
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