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Crocheron Park
Crocheron Park is a public park situated at 214th Street and 35th Avenue in Bayside, Queens, New York City.〔Cruise, Philip J. "Know Your Parks In Queens: New Article in Series by Park Department Director Treats of Many Attractions of Crocheron Park". Long Island Star. 4 MAY. 1936〕
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==Hotel usage==
Before becoming a park, the area facing Little Neck Bay, one of the prettiest harbors on Long Island, was the summer hotel called the Crocheron House which stood for nearly half a century.〔Gayle, Margot. "New York's Changing Scene". Sunday Times. 7 JUN. 1976〕 The building resembled an Italian villa and included a square tower at one corner, large windows, and a broad piazza facing the water.〔 This hotel, prior to its destruction, drew attention around 1868: this was when Joseph Crocheron purchased Brown's Bayside House, enlarged it and turned it into a watering hole for politicians, theatrical people, and financiers.〔Anonymous. "Crocheron Park Encampment Was Once a Plush Hotel". Bayside Times. 17 MAY 1979〕 Furthermore, this hotel included festivals and seafood dinners.〔 This place also became a magnate for a criminal named William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, the notorious Tammany Hall leader, who hid there following his escape in 1875.〔 Boss Tweed had escaped to this place from the Ludlow St. debtor's jail in December 1875 and it was said that Tweed, while heading for Spain, embarked to Cuba aboard a schooner brought to anchor in the bay by his friends〔
The Hotel's owner, Joseph Crocheron, was a well-known and experienced racer of horses along with Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and more.〔 There is also a distinct number of Crocheron family members such as John Crocheron, who was a planter, whose will was dated December 13, 1695 and died a year after that date; another was Henry Crocheron (1829-1931), a member of Congress.〔 However, around 1907–08, the hotel was leveled in a fire and was since never rebuilt.〔 After it was burned down in 1908, the community took it upon themselves and raised funds to purchase 42 acres and gave them to the city to become Crocheron Park.〔
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