A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from April 09, 2013
Whitestoner (inhabitant of Whitestone, Queens)

“Whitestoner” is the name of an inhabitant of Whitestone, in the borough of Queens. The name “Whitestoner” has been cited in print since at least 1902.
 
“Whitestoner” should not be confused with “white stoner.”
   
 
Wikipedia: Whitestone, Queens
Whitestone is a residential upper middle class neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens. Located between the East River to the north and 25th Avenue to the south. Whitestone is surrounded by College Point, Flushing, Bayside, Auburndale, Linden Hill, and Murray Hill.
 
Old Fulton Post Cards
2 June 1902, Daily Star (Greater New York), pg. 1, col. 6:
WHITESTONE PUBLIC
SCHOOL OPENED.
In One of the Most Handsome Buildings in Queens Borough, and Whitestoners Are Glad of It.
 
9 July 1988, Newsday, ““Living in Whitestone: Traditions Bridge the Years” by Keith Elliot Greenberg, Real Estate, pg. 38:
But she does admit that Whitestoners can falsify the facts, when questioned about which section of the community they live in.
 
Times Ledger (Queens. NY)
February 14, 2008
The Reel Queens:
Blackout made filming a horror for Whitestoner

By Nathan Duke
Shot during a period of three weeks amid the 10-day blackout of July 2006 in a sweltering warehouse at the corner of 38th Street and 23rd Avenue in Astoria, “The Sickness” is a horror film that tells the story of five lab technicians, all played by borough natives, who suffer dire consequences when the dangerous chemical they are studying is accidentally spilled. Paolino, a Whitestone resident who has worked on special effects and prosthetics for feature films since the late 1970s and teaches makeup and visual effects at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, said he has put the finishing touches on the editing of his feature debut and is now in the process of screening it for distributors.
   
Times Ledger (Queens, NY)
May 12, 2011
Whitestoner goes from Wall St. to coaching
By Connor Adams Sheets
Helen Anagnostos calls herself a “reformed Wall Streeter.”

The Whitestone MBA spent 20 years in finance before the economy tanked and she lost her job two years ago — six days before her last radiation treatment for breast cancer, which she has successfully beaten.
   
Queens Crap
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
Hotel plan for College Point
(...)
COMMENTS
WTF said…
a hotel? . . . wtf?
look at it this way College Pointers / Whitestoners - you now have yet another reason to leave NY.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
   
Times Ledger (Queens, NY)
January 7, 2012
Whitestoners honor Brennan at funeral
By Joe Anuta
Whitestone’s Gene Brennan received befitting honors at his funeral last month.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityWorkers/People • Tuesday, April 09, 2013 • Permalink


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