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Comment by Marcos Sueiro Bal on September 16, 2011 at 10:52am

Here is something new from the WNYC Archives:

http://twitter.com/#!/mayorlaguardia

 

BTW, in the 1940s everyone seems to refer to him as LaGARdia, not LaGWARdia.

Check out our audio transfer project at http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/

Cheers,

Marcos

Comment by Marcos Sueiro Bal on August 9, 2011 at 6:28pm

Oops sorry, I see now that this has been asked before.

Comment by Marcos Sueiro Bal on August 9, 2011 at 6:26pm

I recently learned that legendary opera diva Maria Callas lived in an apartment in Astoria in the 1920s, when she was a small child. Does anyone have any idea of where this apartment may be? It seems to me that it should be marked with a plaque...

Comment by Mike Lattanzio on February 6, 2011 at 12:49pm

Their are rumors floating around that a Spanish ship went down at Hell's Gate with gold and silver 200 years ago. I want to clear up the Myth, a ship did in fact go down after hitting a reef at Hell's Gate but it was a British manowar named the "Hassir" the year was 1774 and the British troops were in NYC causing all kinds of havic on the people of Astoria and the entire city of NY.The Hassir was filled with the pay load for the British troops and on it's voyage to NY she came across a French ship captured it and removed all of it's gold and booty.The Hassir now wieghed down slowly made it way to NY and to save time the captain choose to take the quickest but dangerous route to NYC "Hels Gat".In those days catains would hire certain slaves that lived in Astoria (back then known as Sunswick) to manuver their ships thru the dangerous rocks and reef.But the British captain of the Hassir took his chances and rammed the ship onto Pots rock and down she went with the payload of gold worth at over 1 million dollars.

Tomas Jefferson spent 2 weeks with 3 ships tring to locate the sunken Hassir with no luck,but I do remember about 4 years ago a film maker from Astoria finding what appeared to be the houl of a large ship at Hells Gate and I beleive he was able to bring up to the serfice plates and silverware. If any one has any info on that I would love to hear about it,

Mike

Comment by Mike Lattanzio on January 27, 2011 at 10:59am

Eric not sure about Maria Callas sorry ,I can get more info on her. Tony Bennett grew up in Astoria and still hangs out here ,he loves this place too.

Comment by Mike Lattanzio on January 27, 2011 at 10:56am

Eric not sure if anyone burried in the cemetry is famous to todays standards some great folks are their ,I have always had an interest in Astoria's history .If you want to know about one of the oldest homes in Astoria that has it's own grave yard from the 1600's let me know ,their are some great people buried their from the revolution.Mike

Comment by Maggie on January 24, 2011 at 3:11pm

Eric -

There are a few interesting middle-of-nowhere cemetaries in Astoria but I haven't seen that one yet!  I started working on a project a year and a half ago in which I intended to visit all the designated landmarks in Queens but I didn't make it too far... Two of the first places I visited though were little cemetaries, take a look if you're interested: http://maggieinqueens.blogspot.com/ (there are some outside links within my blog post that might give you some more info)

Comment by Brian Taylor on January 17, 2011 at 7:19pm

I understand that Maria Callas grew up in Astoria.  I was wondering if anyone knew specifically where?

Comment by Eric Gordon on January 17, 2011 at 4:07pm

Wow, how did you find that out Mike? Very interesting, I guess they wouldn't uproot the dead and move them as well. Anyone (locally) famous buried in there? Any street names we would recognize?

Comment by Mike Lattanzio on January 17, 2011 at 2:47pm

Hey Eric Great question yes that is the site of were the original Mt Carmel chuch once stood back in the mid 1800's corner cemetries were all around in those days .The church moved to cresent street and newtown ave in the 1900's.the dates on the tome stones are worn away but most are of the Irish that came over in the 1840's who were sevents to the wealthy that lived in the area and the rest of the tomes are of the clergy of the church ,

Thanks,

Mike

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