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magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 271
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:41 am: |     |
Follwing my "Anyone here from Stuyvesant" thread, I would like to know if anyone here is from the Briarwood section of Queens. It seems that, on millburnweb, a few of the Stuyvesant and Bronx Science grads actually lived in my town.
Briarwood is a tiny section of central Queens, squashed between the Grand Central Parkway and the Van Wyck Expressway, bordered by Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica, and Kew Garden Hills. It was the transitional section between the tony Forest Hills and the rough South Jamaica.
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Beans
Citizen
Username: Nalini
Post Number: 18
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 12:04 pm: | |
I went to JHS 217 in Briarwood, but lived in Jamaica, then Richmond Hill, then moved to Forest Hills, then to Maplewood. |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 273
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 1:19 pm: | |
Beans,
What year did you graduate 217? I graduated in 1973. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7053
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 2:32 pm: | |
When I met her my wife lived on Pershing Court (or Crescent).  |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 1577
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 3:20 pm: | |
A lot of friends of mine from Jamaica High lived in Briarwood. I graduated Jamaica in 74. |
magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 274
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 3:54 pm: | |
Bobk,
Pershing Crescent was one of the two adjoining crescents in Briarwood. The other was Pershing Crescent. A lot of young college grads lived in Briarwood as an alternative to the more expensive and chicer Kew Gardens and Forest Hills.
Uke,
Jamaica would have been my local high school had they not built Hillcrest. Jamaica High would have been a better choice... a lot of my friends who went to Hillcrest barely graduated.
-- Marc @ MillburnWeb.com
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marinab
Citizen
Username: Marinab
Post Number: 79
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 12:36 pm: | |
I grew up in Parkway Village, just down the road from Briarwood, and went to 117 and 217, and many of my friends were from Briarwood. I went to Hillcrest, which yes, was a joke of a high school. The name Pershing Crescent so familiar ...
Magma, i think my brother graduated the year before you at 217 --
You're so right about the description of Briarwood as this transitional neighborhood--I found a lot of families left once they made more money or when they began to get nervous about bussing and their kids going to South Jamaica schools-
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magmasystems
Citizen
Username: Magmasystems
Post Number: 276
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 2:46 pm: | |
Just reread my previous post... the other crescent in Briarwood was Burden Crescent.
Marinab... if you want to PL me and tell me your brother's name, then I can tell you if I knew him. Perhaps he is my age, but took the 2-year SP program?
Wasn't Parkway Village considered part of Briarwood? Or was it considered to be its own soverign nation, given the fact that it started life as a development for UN employees? |
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