Albie Otivich 1990s
Albie Otivich recalls an episode at John’s Bar & Grill (now closed) on Halloween of 1996.
Names mentioned Sophie Konkiewicz
Subjects Shops and Businesses
Keywords Halloween John's Bar & Grill
Nicholas U. (Nick) Cook 1880s, 1890s
Bob Russell provides information about his grandfather’s life.
Names mentioned Mary Fox; Mr. Guggenberger "Gugy"; Dr. Brandt; Dick Neeley; Mother Cabrini; Richard McCartin; Margaret McCartin; Dorothy Cook; William Russell
Subjects Industries and Factories
Keywords Anaconda Morse Property
2 reminiscences recorded here
Donna-Jean Taylor (née Caldara) 1950s
Donna-Jean Taylor recalls a time when Sugar Pond would freeze enough that people could ice skate on it.
Names mentioned Dominguez Fernandez
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds Recreation
Keywords Division Street Fire Department Hillside Woods Ice Skating Sugar Pond Winter
Jody Heyward 1950s
Jody Heyward shares her memories of a “quintessentially 1950s childhood” in Hastings.
Subjects Commuting Parks and Playgrounds Recreation Trains and Railroad System
Keywords Childhood Circle Drive Sugar Pond
Jan Clough 1990s, 2000s
Jan Clough recalls walking to Marinello Cove (now Kinally Cove) with her son in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Subjects Hudson River Waterfront Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Childhood Kinnally Cove MacEachron Park Marinello Cove River Street
2 reminiscences recorded here
Myrtle M. Freeman (née Capron) 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s
Postcard from Mrs. Freeman responding to an invitation to join the Historical Society, where she also writes about her background and family. The card it attached to a letter from the Historical Society addressed to Mrs. Freeman in response to her contribution to a building survey conducted by the organization through which she provided details about her home at 36 Main Street, which was built around 1895.
Names mentioned Isaac Bues Capinn [?]; Betsy Miller; Charles William Miller [grocer]; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Laffay; Mildred Lasce; Grace Young; Peter Young; Julia Dyckman Andrus; Jean McNiece; Vira Curry McNiece
Subjects Buildings and Architecture Churches of Hastings Shops and Businesses
Keywords Dutch Reformed Church Dyckman Farm
Myrtle M. Freeman (née Capron) 1890s, 1900s, 1910s
Handwritten letter and transcribed copy from Mrs. Freeman addressed to Phyllis Harnack, Archives Chairman of the Hastings Historical Society. The letter was written in response to the Summer 1981 newsletter. It includes notes by Vira Curry McNiece, an old friend of Mrs. Freeman. In her letter, Mrs. Freeman talks about her childhood home on 36 Main Street and the other three Queen Anne Cottages next to it.
Names mentioned Charles W. Miller; Bess Miller; Mary Celia [Cecelia?] Breese Bevers, Grace Laffay;
Subjects Buildings and Architecture Immigrants Shops and Businesses Streets of Hastings
Keywords Main Street The Langmuir Exhibit [Hastings Historical Society]
2 reminiscences recorded here
John Kennedy 1950s
John Kennedy writes about a 5th grade memory, when he was attending St. Matthews Catholic School.
Names mentioned Joseph Kennedy; Sister Leonardine [school teacher]
Subjects Schooling
Keywords Childhood St. Matthew Catholic School
John Kennedy 1950s
John Kennedy writes about his experience in St. Matthew Catholic School.
Names mentioned Joseph Kennedy; Sister Leonardine [teacher]; Sister Regina Claire [teacher]; Al Wells
Subjects Schooling
Keywords Childhood St. Matthew Catholic School
Claudia Gisolfi 1970s, 1980s
Claudia Gisolfi shares her memories about winter in the village as a child.
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds Recreation
Keywords Hillside Woods Winter
Judy Chamberlain (née Wemer) 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Judy Chamberlain writes about ice cream parlors and soda fountains in Hastings during her summers as a child in the 1950s. She also makes mention to shops from previous decades.
Names mentioned Good Humor Truck; J. Bruning; Cup and Saucer; Doc Todd's; Joe Algeo's Pharmacy; Jacobson's Drug Store; Charles Liede; The Sugar Bowl; Adam's Ice Cream Parlor; Billie Burke; Pantelemon's [Pantalemon's?; Pantoleomins?]; Lambert's; Whitey's Market
Subjects Shops and Businesses
Keywords Childhood Ice Cream Parlors Soda Fountains
2 reminiscences recorded here
Josephine Dos Santos (née Selvaggio) 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Mrs. Dos Santos speaks about her life in Hastings during the first half of the 20th century. She also mentions her pamphlet “Reminiscing Hastings,” which was also published in the Hastings Independent and Hastings Press, two local newspapers.
Names mentioned Home Workshop; Margaret Dos Santos; Jenny Dos Santos; Peter Dos Santos; Louis (Louie) Dos Santos; Alfred DelBello [Westchester County Legislator]; Robinson Oil; Anaconda; A&P Hastings; Food for Thought
Subjects Commuting Great Depression Hudson River Waterfront Immigrants Industries and Factories Shops and Businesses
Keywords Albanian Immigration Italian Immigration The Buccaneer [sunken ship] Women Workers' Strikes
Josephine Dos Santos (née Selvaggio) 1950s, 1970s
Mrs. Dos Santos suggests village activities in a letter to the Editor of the Hastings Independent
Names mentioned Dr. Ahlquist; Dr. Langworthy; Joseph Dos Santos
Subjects Recreation Schooling
Keywords Senior Citizens Summer School
Marie Copp 1930s, 20th century (unspecified)
Letter from a member of HHS addressed to a person named Stewart, where she invites him to contribute to the collection of reminiscences, in particular in relation to La Barranca, Hastings’ first apartment building. The letter mentions some people and places of Hastings, as well as an HHS exhibition titled “Made in Hastings,” which was a project in the making at the time.
Names mentioned Anne Hoskins [writer]; Ruth Winans Weatherley; Milton George; Betty Walker
Subjects Buildings and Architecture
Keywords La Barranca [apartment building]
Kris Fleerackers 1970s
Kris Fleerackers recalls walking through the Burke Estate as an exchange student from Belgium in the late 1970s.
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Burke Estate Burkeley Crest
Barbara Ross (née Mink) 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Barbara Ross provides details about her childhood home in Hastings. She also writes about her dad, who was a painter.
Names mentioned Ralph J. Menconi [painter]; Tom Ross; Alan Ross
Subjects Buildings and Architecture
Joan Illmensee Haubold 1940s
Joan Illmensee Haubold speaks about what she would do for fun as a child in the 1940s.
Names mentioned Papalardo's
Subjects Hudson River Waterfront Parks and Playgrounds Recreation
Keywords Childhood Irish Flats Peter Stuyvesant Steamer Robert Fulton Steamer
2 reminiscences recorded here
Annette Selvaggio Borowitz 1950s
Annette Selvaggio Borowitz shares memories about summers in her neighborhood
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds Recreation
Keywords Childhood Hamilton Avenue Hudson Heights Reynolds Playground Summer
Ann Nehrbauer 1950s
Ann Nehrbauer writes about the the slide at Reynolds Playground in the 1950s.
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Childhood Reynolds Field
Dorothy Bingham 20th century (unspecified)
Several citizens of Hastings reminisce about their life growing up in the village in a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Subjects Hudson River Waterfront
Keywords The Point Yacht Club
Arthur Kling 20th century (unspecified)
Several citizens of Hastings reminisce about their life growing up in the village in a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Names mentioned Gualandi [family]
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Childhood Hillside Hospital Hillside Park Hook and Ladder Station Putnam Railroad Saw Mill River Youth Center
Patty Tiebout 1930s
Patty Tiebout remembers how the Grace Episcopal Church was moved in rollers from Boulanger Plaza. This is part of the a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Subjects Churches of Hastings Shops and Businesses
Keywords Grace Episcopal Church Peanut Vendor
2 reminiscences recorded here
Sam Caruso 20th century (unspecified)
Several citizens of Hastings reminisce about their life growing up in the village in a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds Recreation
Keywords Draper Observatory
Deb Ryan 20th century (unspecified)
Deb Ryan shares memories of Draper Park at different stages of her life.
Names mentioned Andrew Ryan
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Draper Park
Thelma Dannenberg 1930s, 1940s
Several citizens of Hastings reminisce about their life growing up in the village in a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Subjects World War II
Keywords Woman's Club
Martha Page 20th century (unspecified)
Several citizens of Hastings reminisce about their life growing up in the village in a compilation of newspaper clippings.
Names mentioned Jufer's Hardware; The Pot Holder; Fitzgerald [family]
Subjects Development of the Village Streets of Hastings
Keywords Uniontown
2 reminiscences recorded here
Brian Derx 1950s, 1960s
Brian Derx shares memories of his mother doing groceries before refrigerators became popularized.
Names mentioned A&P
Subjects Shops and Businesses Trains and Railroad System
Keywords Grocery Shopping Mount Hope Station Putnam Railroad
Sue Smith 1970s
Sue Smith remembers what kids and families would do when there were heavy snows in the village.
Subjects Parks and Playgrounds
Keywords Childhood Lefurgy Avenue Mount Hope Winter
Judy Chamberlain (née Wemer) 1950s, 1960s
Judy Chamberlain writes about what girls in elementary school would do for fun during recess in the 1950s and 1960s, including playing with trading cards, which she describes as very popular and somewhat unique to girls in Hastings.
Names mentioned Pantoleomins [Pantalemon's? ; Pantelemon's?]; Kallendars; Sugar Bowl
Subjects Recreation Schooling
Rose Bassman (née Battisti) 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Rose Bassman describes her early years in the village and the life of her parents, who immigrated to Hastings from Italy. She also writes about a fire that destroyed their home in 1942, and how the community came together to help them and other families who lost their homes in the fire.
Names mentioned Anthony Battisti; Ada Battisti Mancini; Mrs. Zebrock; Ed Walsh; Mae Walsh [Hastings' Public Health Nurse]
Subjects Immigrants Industries and Factories World War II
Keywords Anaconda Wire & Cable Company Fire Department Italian Immigration
