tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post1099876926129254530..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Kingsbridge in ChainsJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-39752890655749464932015-01-18T20:20:36.155-05:002015-01-18T20:20:36.155-05:00Both the Riverdale Ice Skating Rink and Kelton'...Both the Riverdale Ice Skating Rink and Kelton's aka The Fieldston BAth and Tennis Club (summers) were owned by the Kelton family through the early 80s....and the site was replaced by a beer distributor. It was repoened as LOEHMANN's which closed it's original Fordham Road location in the early 90s...including some of their flagship store's staff. Now it's going to be a storage facility for lazy Manhattanite's who can't get it together to throw out or donate away their old crap. It used to be such a kid-friendly neighborhood and the site just below the Stella D'Oro property was an amusement park called JOYLAND through the mid-60s. The developers of both of the new shopping malls LIED or otherwise gave BAD information about their construction plans, including their REAL need for parking space and street congestion....and our elected Riverdalian representatives didn't really pursue corrections...it's on the WRONG side of Broadway...not their people! Visitation Church, off the Van Cortlandt Park South entrance/exit is closing this year....and developers, (in MY opinion) in cohoots with the NYC Archdiocese are planning to sell off the entire block to the highest bidder, even as the school continues with good attendance and high academic standards. Sad...and criminal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-40268613822894036052015-01-14T20:24:18.583-05:002015-01-14T20:24:18.583-05:00The family that owned stella doro sold the company...The family that owned stella doro sold the company in 1992 while business was booming. It was subsequently eroded by corporate management. <br />http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/02/06/out-of-the-bronxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-50784718690929257182015-01-14T20:06:42.620-05:002015-01-14T20:06:42.620-05:00that was kelton's ice skating rink before it w...that was kelton's ice skating rink before it was bought out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-32564550286910683592015-01-14T11:45:47.221-05:002015-01-14T11:45:47.221-05:00Very sad! This is my old neighborhood! I remember ...Very sad! This is my old neighborhood! I remember all the bars. From up on riverdale Avenue down W231st St. W238th St to W242nd St. everything from Leo's Luncheonette on W235th St to Pat Mitchell's. The Dale movie theater to Riverdale Lowes. Leiberman's Deli and the Bagle Corner to Riviera Pizza on W231st St and Broadway. Erings. Doc Fidlers. The Riverdale Tavern. When the parks had water fountains. The milf store by the projects. Hell even when Kentuky Fried Chicken used to be on W225th St and Broadway. How about when the Bowling Alley had a miniature golf course? Wow! I remember when Ewen Park was packed with people 7 nights a week from top to bottom! People used to hang out on the street corner. The ladies at Mother bakery had concentration camp tattoos on them from the Holocust and were so sweet! There were a good number of cobblestone street left. Bill's Friendly Spot. Riviera Pizza used to have hotdogs at the walk up window. The nieghborhood had mom and pop stores! The candy store, the deli's, the butcher, the bakeries, the shoeshine store. How about Chinese restaurants like Bo Sun and Golden Gate? <br />St Gabrial's, St John's, St Margret's and Visitation! I have very fond memories of a time lost in history! I know my friends know exactly what Im talkin about! Billy Mahernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-83146509405047879312015-01-14T02:05:51.997-05:002015-01-14T02:05:51.997-05:00Ah, this is my son and daughter-in-law's neigh...Ah, this is my son and daughter-in-law's neighborhood. We shopped for Christmas dinner at the two markets mentioned here. Even though my mother grew up in the Bronx (1920's and 1930's, on Harrison Ave.) and her father's extended family had started moving there in the 1890's (to places like Morrisania -- piano makers and railroad workers, mostly; also, a couple of mining and electrical engineers across the river in Inwood), only in the last few years have I come to spend any time there (besides around Yankee Stadium; let me note that my Cooper Union-educated electrical engineer grandfather was a Dodgers fan, god knows why --well, he was actually born in Brooklyn). <br /><br />The Bronx. Rocks (bedrock rocks, assertively rising up) and hills. And a weird mixture of huge box buildings (endless storage -- is this Manhattan's attic?), side streets with small clapboard houses (what Manhattan once looked like, eons ago), and looming, mammoth apartment buildings. And we're not even talking the projects. Just these massive apartment buildings. And the el. And that lovely Kingsbridge station. (Sort of like a Swiss cuckoo clock -- too cute to be attractive, yet, well, it is!) <br /><br />Columbia University has extended its reach into lower Riverdale, both formally (subsidized housing) and informally (poor grad students figure it out, as do others like my son and his partner, who can't afford Manhattan). Soon they'll edge out the varied working class and poor people in the neighborhood. The not-very-good-at-all Chinese and Mexican restaurants will be replaced by -- well, who knows what? Such a weird mix of huge boxes and mom-and-pops at the moment. One thing better not go, the wonderful diner just a couple of blocks from my son's apartment. <br /><br />I'll end by noting: my Iranian-born daughter-in-law never took to Boston, where they had a much nicer apartment with all kinds of amenities. She now spends more than two hours of each day commuting to Manhattan on unreliable trains. But she LOVES New York. <br />mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-35063352367582273022015-01-13T22:50:12.109-05:002015-01-13T22:50:12.109-05:00Loehmann's was previously the Riverdale Rink. ...Loehmann's was previously the Riverdale Rink. It closed in the 70s as I recall.Peter Lappinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109154527996679077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-84356225524547045582015-01-13T19:33:42.299-05:002015-01-13T19:33:42.299-05:00Stella Dora's closing had to do with the origi...Stella Dora's closing had to do with the original owner's children taking over, and bad business decisions, like building a restaurant that opened and closed many years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-68390624262556297422015-01-13T18:14:54.737-05:002015-01-13T18:14:54.737-05:00Stella D'oro wanted to pay it's production...Stella D'oro wanted to pay it's production employees $8 an hour with no benefits. Not much the EDC can do to help that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-59967855202273896222015-01-13T17:43:10.991-05:002015-01-13T17:43:10.991-05:00It's a shame that this disgusting gray box was...It's a shame that this disgusting gray box was allowed to open -it is only operating at 50 percent capacity and i see the current occupant stores leaving in a few years. What should have been done was remodel the mom and pop shops on Broadway from 230the to 238ths street and give it a Classic American Main Street flavor. Then monitor what stores get rented-for example do you really need so many 99 cent stores, Eye-glass places, and bodega type candy stores?? What will happen when the mall becomes empty in less than a decade and it becomes vacant? Will they tear it down and bring in the stores and services as well as the parkign needed or will it become a vacant ,vandalized reminder of crooked political deals??<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-59044708843962477572015-01-13T11:28:09.370-05:002015-01-13T11:28:09.370-05:00Having resided about a mile south in Inwood since ...Having resided about a mile south in Inwood since the early seventies (I could go on about all the closed local hardware stores, bakeries, movie houses, ethnic gift shops, etc. and the coming of McD's, Star#ucks, Dominos, fro-yo places, but not here and now), I used to skate at the rink a few decades back and later accompany my girlfriend(s) on bargain hunting trips to Loehmann's there and also over on Fordham Rd. (of course, now closed). <br /><br />The slightly sickly-sweet smell of Stella d'Oro's baking could be smelled as you drove down the Deegan and all over the area, a Proustian memory trigger, now replaced by chain store odorless uniformity/sterility. <br /><br />Garden Gourmet has pretty good prices and huge variety of selection and seems to have Fairway sized ambitions but so far still has some feel of place, though less so since expanding to mega-size.Puntohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227650321064812083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-40021928790173328432015-01-13T09:39:23.710-05:002015-01-13T09:39:23.710-05:00It used to be an ice rink that then became a Loehm...It used to be an ice rink that then became a Loehmans. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-9915545300436839092015-01-13T08:59:51.216-05:002015-01-13T08:59:51.216-05:00Thats not a Loheamans! Its an ice rink!Thats not a Loheamans! Its an ice rink!Mike!https://www.blogger.com/profile/09741238916402670644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-48363929432334451242015-01-13T08:18:44.284-05:002015-01-13T08:18:44.284-05:00Can we thank the Bronx Economic Development Corpor...Can we thank the Bronx Economic Development Corporation for doing nothing and not assisting in helping the Stella Dora factory stay in the Bronx? What exactly does this organization do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com