wonderful film, wonderful site and wonderful team. Congratulations!!!! See you next August at the 2016 Pomonok Electchester Old-Timers Reunion at JIB Lanes!
I am an original Pomonokie, born 11-20-1951 my family moved into the NOK on Oct. 3rd 1951 lived in either Pomonok or Electchester till 1994 Played Hardball with Al Stark in KGH League, and we went to PS 201 together. I can’t wait to see this video, that’s guys for making this happen. I drove by my apt this past may, been 21 years since I have been in NY. It bothered me a bit, but I remember listening to my mom when we drove through Brooklyn where she grew up, she couldn’t believe what had happened to her old neighborhood, but that’s the way things are…it changes, but at least we have memories that are priceless…
Thanks again guys
Roy Schwartz
Bldg 22 near the Housing police station
I lived in pomonok from 1951 to1978 my mom was a crossing guard some of my best friends some of my best memories sorry I didnt go for the interviews with my brother im down in florida would love to hook up with old friends
I watch the movie for the second time with my sisters and my parents were seeing it for the first time. We all loved the movie again and my parents who are in the movie loved it too!
This is fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing the film. I wish you could find a way to connect those of us who are commenting. My long time next door neighbor from building 22 is one of the commenters who I would like to reach out to somehow.
We grew up in Pomonok and I loved the people I grew up with and experiencing the multi-cultural mix who were my friends and played ball with etc. We all went to school, studied hard to make better lives for ourselves, which is what our parents instilled in us.
156-17 71st Avenue as I recall was the address, Apartment 3A
I grew up in Pomonok from 1961 until I got married in 1982.
My Mom just moved from Pomonok to NJ two years ago. I have been in NJ since 1994.
Wonderful memories!!!
My husband Paul & I both grew up in Pomonok & after we were married we moved back to raise our own family there. We had wonderful childhoods there & I still have wonderful friends in my life that I grew up with. Many of these friends are like family to me.
Thank you Alan & Terry for making this wonderful movie.
MY FAMILY MOVED IN TO POMONOK BACK IN 1952 AT 65-46 PARSONS BLVD. I WAS 2 YEARS OLD. MY PARENTS COULD HAVE BEEN MILLIONAIRES, BUT I WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD A BETTER OR MORE FULFILLING CHILDHOOD. POMONOK WAS MORE THAN JUST A HOUSING PROJECT. IT WAS A SPIRIT THAT ITS RESIDENTS CREATED AND NURTURED THAT MONEY COULD NEVER BUY. NOBODY THAT DIDN’T LIVE THERE CAN EVER UNDERSTAND THE FEELINGS WE PAST RESIDENTS HAVE FOR OUR POMONOK. . IF THERE WILL EVER IS ANOTHER POMONOK, THEN THIS WAS THE PROTOYPE. SIXTY FOUR YEARS LATER I STILL HAVE MY BEST FRIEND, JOE CARROL.
my family moved into pomonok in 1965-66. we first lived at 67-17 kissena blvd and then to 67-25.
i just recently went back, my friend whose family still lives there, with said friend and my family and had my boy play on the same playground equipment that i had.
though, it has changed, fencing along the roofs, we used to go along the roofs to the other apt buildings,, and more security on the doors.
we often would play in the grass areas and just walk along the paths.
cool to see that this area brings a lot of joy to people
Hoping to see the film. Linda and I knew each other since we were 8 and 7 years old, but started dating when we went to Forest Hills together. We’ve been married for 44 years and still look back to our childhood at Pomonok as wonderful.
I can’t believe I found this site! We moved to Pomonok when it was new. in 1951. I was 3. 69-21 Kissina Blvd., Apt. 1B. I found the projects on Google Earth. I remember my best friend JoAnn. She was black, but I didn’t know it. We were all members of the same race, The Human Race. A cameraman used to come to the projects in the summer and take a group pic of us kids playing. I have one from 1953 and one from 1954 taken at the Big Barrel. I remember the laundrymat was in the basement of one of the buildings. We used to roller skate down the ramp and through the tunnel system. I went to PS 200 1st grade teacher, Ms. Fishberg, 2nd grade teacher Ms Rubin, 3rd grade Mrs. Shephard and PS 201 4th grade Miss Rigot, and 5th grade Mr. Berman. . I see one of my class pictures in your video!!!!! Then Dad got promoted and we had to leave the projects and we moved to Cambria Heights. I wish I knew about your project 4 years ago. I have pictures I could have sent you! I will follow this site. I live in Florida now, and am a grandmother! We came from all ethnic backgrounds. We shared our traditions with everyone. Jack the Icecream man always had charms in his front passenger seat for us to pick from.! The ride man! Playing marbles with shoe boxes. The monkey bars. Wow, such great memories….
Received Pomonok Dreams today and thoroughly enjoyed you reviving my childhood memories. Great documentary. Right down to the incinerator! We lived on the first floor, so the heat and flames and sparks showed when the fire was hot. I’ve joined your group on Facebook, and hope everyone follows my album. Will check out more info on your 2016 reunion. Still looking for my best friend, JoAnn Tinsley. She lived at either 69-24 or 69-18 Kissina Blvd. Apt. 2C I believe. Living in Pomonok was truly a unique experience as a kid. Thanks for the memories!
Lived in Pomonok from 1951 to 1960@ 67-12 Parsons, the “office bldg”. Good old days when you could take the bus and bowl at Jamaica Rec (before JIB lanes) all day, red pin strikes. Bicycle all over queens, watch them build the LIE and tear down houses, never understood that? Jack the ice cream man brings back many memories. Stickball, touch football in the Waldbaums parking lot, ps 201, etc, etc. would love to see the movie.
i was born in 1956, soon after pomonok opened .the images from that time bring back memories of both the wonderful and terrible events that shaped my childhood. does anyone out there remember hanging out in the staircase? joining either the little woods or big woods gang?
singing in a group of about twenty on park benches? playing ringolivio? saluji? i remember well the alice crimmins scandal, the pomonok demonstration for a traffic light on parsons blvd and 71st ave, betty brody wheeling her kids to school in a shopping cart, hot dogs w/ great onions from a cart on the way to ps165 elementary. shall i continue? will you add your memories to mine? my email is> joymaury00@gmail.com
21 Comment on “POMONOK DREAMS”
Helene Herman
July 20, 2015 at 4:12 pm
wonderful film, wonderful site and wonderful team. Congratulations!!!! See you next August at the 2016 Pomonok Electchester Old-Timers Reunion at JIB Lanes!
Lisa Schaeffer
July 20, 2015 at 5:41 pm
Can’t wait to see it!!!
Larry Siegel
July 20, 2015 at 6:19 pm
See you guys walking the red carpet.
Lance Aquilino
July 21, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Just ordered the movie..cant wait to see it!!
Roy Schwartz
July 22, 2015 at 9:47 am
I am an original Pomonokie, born 11-20-1951 my family moved into the NOK on Oct. 3rd 1951 lived in either Pomonok or Electchester till 1994 Played Hardball with Al Stark in KGH League, and we went to PS 201 together. I can’t wait to see this video, that’s guys for making this happen. I drove by my apt this past may, been 21 years since I have been in NY. It bothered me a bit, but I remember listening to my mom when we drove through Brooklyn where she grew up, she couldn’t believe what had happened to her old neighborhood, but that’s the way things are…it changes, but at least we have memories that are priceless…
Thanks again guys
Roy Schwartz
Bldg 22 near the Housing police station
susan marion
July 24, 2015 at 11:13 pm
I lived in pomonok from 1951 to1978 my mom was a crossing guard some of my best friends some of my best memories sorry I didnt go for the interviews with my brother im down in florida would love to hook up with old friends
Glenn Seidman
July 26, 2015 at 7:22 pm
I watch the movie for the second time with my sisters and my parents were seeing it for the first time. We all loved the movie again and my parents who are in the movie loved it too!
Artie Goodman
July 27, 2015 at 9:43 am
This is fantastic. I am really looking forward to seeing the film. I wish you could find a way to connect those of us who are commenting. My long time next door neighbor from building 22 is one of the commenters who I would like to reach out to somehow.
David Eiskowitz
July 27, 2015 at 12:02 pm
We grew up in Pomonok and I loved the people I grew up with and experiencing the multi-cultural mix who were my friends and played ball with etc. We all went to school, studied hard to make better lives for ourselves, which is what our parents instilled in us.
156-17 71st Avenue as I recall was the address, Apartment 3A
Michael Evans
July 31, 2015 at 4:48 pm
My Family lived in pomonok From 1952-1965 Please email me with reunion information.I had a great childhood living there as a young black boy.
admin
August 1, 2015 at 8:56 am
There is a reunion in 2016. You can find the details on Facebook site “2016 Pomonok Electchester Old-Timers Reunion.”
Kim Todd
August 5, 2015 at 8:35 pm
I grew up in Pomonok from 1961 until I got married in 1982.
My Mom just moved from Pomonok to NJ two years ago. I have been in NJ since 1994.
Wonderful memories!!!
Sheryl Stern-Titone
August 8, 2015 at 4:57 am
My husband Paul & I both grew up in Pomonok & after we were married we moved back to raise our own family there. We had wonderful childhoods there & I still have wonderful friends in my life that I grew up with. Many of these friends are like family to me.
Thank you Alan & Terry for making this wonderful movie.
RICHARD WAXMAN
August 11, 2015 at 10:21 pm
MY FAMILY MOVED IN TO POMONOK BACK IN 1952 AT 65-46 PARSONS BLVD. I WAS 2 YEARS OLD. MY PARENTS COULD HAVE BEEN MILLIONAIRES, BUT I WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD A BETTER OR MORE FULFILLING CHILDHOOD. POMONOK WAS MORE THAN JUST A HOUSING PROJECT. IT WAS A SPIRIT THAT ITS RESIDENTS CREATED AND NURTURED THAT MONEY COULD NEVER BUY. NOBODY THAT DIDN’T LIVE THERE CAN EVER UNDERSTAND THE FEELINGS WE PAST RESIDENTS HAVE FOR OUR POMONOK. . IF THERE WILL EVER IS ANOTHER POMONOK, THEN THIS WAS THE PROTOYPE. SIXTY FOUR YEARS LATER I STILL HAVE MY BEST FRIEND, JOE CARROL.
kevin cooley
August 16, 2015 at 10:32 am
there was a pic of me from early 60,s
CRAIG LINDBERG
August 19, 2015 at 10:26 am
my family moved into pomonok in 1965-66. we first lived at 67-17 kissena blvd and then to 67-25.
i just recently went back, my friend whose family still lives there, with said friend and my family and had my boy play on the same playground equipment that i had.
though, it has changed, fencing along the roofs, we used to go along the roofs to the other apt buildings,, and more security on the doors.
we often would play in the grass areas and just walk along the paths.
cool to see that this area brings a lot of joy to people
Richard and Linda Goldstein (nee Pollack)
August 30, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Hoping to see the film. Linda and I knew each other since we were 8 and 7 years old, but started dating when we went to Forest Hills together. We’ve been married for 44 years and still look back to our childhood at Pomonok as wonderful.
Linda Geiger
August 31, 2015 at 8:17 pm
I can’t believe I found this site! We moved to Pomonok when it was new. in 1951. I was 3. 69-21 Kissina Blvd., Apt. 1B. I found the projects on Google Earth. I remember my best friend JoAnn. She was black, but I didn’t know it. We were all members of the same race, The Human Race. A cameraman used to come to the projects in the summer and take a group pic of us kids playing. I have one from 1953 and one from 1954 taken at the Big Barrel. I remember the laundrymat was in the basement of one of the buildings. We used to roller skate down the ramp and through the tunnel system. I went to PS 200 1st grade teacher, Ms. Fishberg, 2nd grade teacher Ms Rubin, 3rd grade Mrs. Shephard and PS 201 4th grade Miss Rigot, and 5th grade Mr. Berman. . I see one of my class pictures in your video!!!!! Then Dad got promoted and we had to leave the projects and we moved to Cambria Heights. I wish I knew about your project 4 years ago. I have pictures I could have sent you! I will follow this site. I live in Florida now, and am a grandmother! We came from all ethnic backgrounds. We shared our traditions with everyone. Jack the Icecream man always had charms in his front passenger seat for us to pick from.! The ride man! Playing marbles with shoe boxes. The monkey bars. Wow, such great memories….
Linda Geiger
September 17, 2015 at 12:31 am
Received Pomonok Dreams today and thoroughly enjoyed you reviving my childhood memories. Great documentary. Right down to the incinerator! We lived on the first floor, so the heat and flames and sparks showed when the fire was hot. I’ve joined your group on Facebook, and hope everyone follows my album. Will check out more info on your 2016 reunion. Still looking for my best friend, JoAnn Tinsley. She lived at either 69-24 or 69-18 Kissina Blvd. Apt. 2C I believe. Living in Pomonok was truly a unique experience as a kid. Thanks for the memories!
Stuart Kertzner
November 23, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Lived in Pomonok from 1951 to 1960@ 67-12 Parsons, the “office bldg”. Good old days when you could take the bus and bowl at Jamaica Rec (before JIB lanes) all day, red pin strikes. Bicycle all over queens, watch them build the LIE and tear down houses, never understood that? Jack the ice cream man brings back many memories. Stickball, touch football in the Waldbaums parking lot, ps 201, etc, etc. would love to see the movie.
joy maury n
December 19, 2015 at 4:52 pm
i was born in 1956, soon after pomonok opened .the images from that time bring back memories of both the wonderful and terrible events that shaped my childhood. does anyone out there remember hanging out in the staircase? joining either the little woods or big woods gang?
singing in a group of about twenty on park benches? playing ringolivio? saluji? i remember well the alice crimmins scandal, the pomonok demonstration for a traffic light on parsons blvd and 71st ave, betty brody wheeling her kids to school in a shopping cart, hot dogs w/ great onions from a cart on the way to ps165 elementary. shall i continue? will you add your memories to mine? my email is> joymaury00@gmail.com