Posted on 02/02/2020 3:11:55 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
CITY? Suburb? Seaside? Howard Beach has something of each.
Though it's part of Queens, this neighborhood has a suburban seclusion, hemmed in as it is by the John F. Kennedy International Airport and the marshlands of Jamaica Bay.
Driveways hold motorboats as well as cars, and anchors occasionally turn up as lawn ornaments. In many ways, Howard Beach is a coastal community, with a fair amount of waterfront and waterview property along with some of the most elaborate homes in South Queens.
''Howard Beach is positioned phenomenally within the boroughs,'' said Art Beroff, an investment banker who is a member of Community Board 10. ''It has a lot of the attributes people have reached out to Long Island for. We offer people housing variations depending on their pocketbook and their stage of life.''
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Hello, Catholic Charities? Can I have a boatload of Somalians and Nigerians delivered?
Fine location.
As part of our partnership with the upper crust we will send you some free Pakistanis.
It’s still in Eeeew Yuck City.
It’s a good neighborhood. I lived a few miles west of there.
I knew this had to be an old article just by the prices of houses they quoted.
I grew up on the old side of Howard Beach. We had a great waterfront house with a big dock for our boats. Our lives did revolve around fishing, water skiing, ice skating in the winter.
Noisy as hell but you get used to the sound of the subway and the airplanes.
A somewhat politically conservative haven to escape to. American flags fly all along the narrow streets and avenues.
Very old article. Some family lived in newer section. Some great Italian restaurants.
Yeah, no thanks.
It’s still New York City, with the highest combined state/local income taxes in the country.
Plus. Governor “Fredo’s Brother” said conservatives like me are not welcome.
Oh how I miss all the great Italian food on Crossbay Blvd.
Then the gentrifiers will moan about all the noise and sue somebody and lose. :)
Yep. Went to restaurant on Cross BAy Blvd recently after a funeral. The calamari was to die for.
Actually, if you went a bit farther south of Howard Beach, through Broad Channel towards the ocean, you’d land up at the real Queens coastal/seaside community of Rockaway Beach where a boatload of illegal Chinese once tried to land. They opted for the one unlit section of the peninsula and landed smack-dab in the middle Gateway National Recreation Area where they were immediately picked up by the Coast Guard.
*I was there watching the rescue before the news crews arrived.
Yes, Howard Beach is VERY conservative.
Yes, Howard Beach is VERY conservative.
I belong to a facebook group, all Old Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach residents and prior residents. 99% Trumpers!
Wasn’t Al Sharpton stabbed in Howard Beach?
There was an old elementary school on City Isl that closed around 1960. It was used as the police station on some episodes of Car 54 Where are You
“If You’re Thinking of Living In / Howard Beach, Queens... “
No thanks.
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