From the bead-end at Cresthaven, one can see Whitestone Point Rock. Mr. Softee. This property in the 11357 zip code was built in 2001 and the lot size is 0.18 acres. Monsignor Gordon, Father Hannon, Sisters Virginia Ann, Margaret Mary, Mrs. Delavalle, Mrs. Lavin, and the crossing guard, Mrs. Yannity. We enjoyed Freddies pizza too and the Clintonville Bar Restaurant for fried shrimp and spaghetti. As a private road, it has its own custom-made sign. Just saw Pat Gabriels postyes the penny candy store..forgot all about that one..thank youand your street was the best for sleigh ridingmine was the bus route and got plowed! Anyone remember Carosons Hardware store on Francis Lewis off 26th ave? Went to Wide Wings and a nursery school near there that has become nameless in my memory. Behind the building was a small open area and then a large tent where kids got lunch or played when it rained. 120 Dehaven Drive 100 Dehaven Drive C resthaven Owners, Inc., is a three building cooperative apartment complex located in Northwest Yonkers. Candy Stores on every corner. The front window had a changing display for the season or holiday, and would feature boxes of candy you could buy. Whitestone then was a classic old town. Staff Shaune Randles. New York is becoming too gentrified. The terrace was accessible from both the living room and master bedroom. My Dad sold our house many years ago, I have been told that they built 4 houses on his property. Do you know when it closed, what happened to it Then later, through my research I found a postcard from the Astoria Historical Society the showed the pool and dock/marina next door. I went to St Lukes for 1st and 2nd grade and PS 79 for 3rd through 6th. I played countless games of softball in the PS 193 hardtop school yard and lost lots of money playing Whte Lighnng at the checkerboard tables in the school yard. Behind the dead-end are the Wildflower townhouses. If I missed a day, Mr. Weber the route director would have fired me! Loved it! On summer days they had bands playing at the pool. My mom was born in 1926 she just turn 91 and she also lives in Florida now. Whitestone-based developer Fulcrum Real Estate Advisors closed on the purchase of a six-acre Queens development site for $14 million. Its beach is useful for walking, launching canoes and fishing but signs inform visitors that swimming is prohibited. Riding our bikes in old Kent Cleaners off Clintonville and other lots before they were all gone. 3-35 Cresthaven Lane: Real Estate, school zoning and more information about 3-35 Cresthaven Lane in Whitestone That camp closed when the property was sold and the owner reopened closer to the Whitestone Bridge calling the camp Wings. I did not have her, but Did she have reddish hair? A Mr Zappavigna a contractor lived on 154th St right at the end of 14th Ave. Once, when our sixth-grade class was having some kind of special event, Fran let us use her burners to heat up the food. I attended PS 184. I had relatives who lived in Whitestone. So few secret places to hang out at anymore. Also a similar sunken sand box. Storks bakery had the BEST ever hard rolls, could not wait till after mass on Sunday morning to pick them up! My good friend Obi worked at Whitestone Deli when we were teens. Hope to hear from you my old childhood friend. Its original name was Levitt House and the initials LH were imbedded in the tile floor of each of the 32 lobbies. Has been gone a while. There were a set of whistles every day telling workers it was time to be at work. I went to it between 55 and 62 but I see you were still going there in 1973. I so miss the crumb cake and pecan ring we would get every Sunday at Storks. water before the Cross Island Pkwy was Hot Rod Magazine there taking pictures. I went to St Lukes had a paper route route 13 Freddys pizza $.25 a slice in 1969 storks bakery Karl Stork was in my class in the first and second grade I remember mrsStork bringing cookies every Christmas to school for the kids Hope to hear back from somebody this is the first time Ive ever done this kind of thing. Silver Star and other local Bands would build a stage and run a power line from the lamp posts. Wish we can all make it what it was. My best paddleball partner was Micheal, Cant remember his last name but he was a tiny kid who played shirtless and he was awesome. Great memories! If this apartment ever went co-op or condo, itd be worth a mint! I played stick ball lots of times in Bohacks parking lot with Billy Collela. We moved there in 1958. Karl Bertleson (who used to work in that ice cream store) was one of the partners of the Whitestone Delicatessen (Across the street from Storks Bakery and Cherry valley) The other two were Richard Jensen and Ludwig Richardson. That description sounds exactly like my grandfather, Bill, and his mother, Bertha, who I never met but I know lived with them from family stories. The pool you are thinking of was the Whitestone Pool, open to the public. Lots of woods now all houses. that letter in box of childhood memories. There was Adventurers Inn, the Aero Slife, Golf City, a watching the planes at Flushing (Speeds) Aiport At low tide, Id go to the Cement Pier in Malba and enter what I called the tunnel and what I now believe was a storm discharge outlet! The average person cannot live there anymore because it is too expensive, Where does the middle class live now anyway.? I only remember going there that one summer and have memories of playing dodge ball in the gym,and going on a day trip to either rye Playland or rockaway beach (whichever had a swimming pool there ). This is no accident as in the early postwar years,ParksCommissioner Robert Moses intended to construct Clearview Beach on this site. Became Toms deli for many years I dont know the exact date it closed but I know CYO Day Camp closed around 1986 or 87 which was located on 3 Ave & 150 St. Whitestone pool was adjacent to the camp ground. How they managed to open that ill never know. PS 193, Stage, Waldbaums, Adventures Inn, Tropicana, LeHarve, CYO, Cresthaven.., seemed like you could bike for a thousand miles and discover something wildly adventurous every single day. Good Humor Trucks. To the left of the beach entrance is a private segment of Riverside Drive, where one can find eight oversize tract mansions with their own docks and waterfront pools. 145-40 5 ave Whitestone, NY 11357: Presented by. Also, nearby under the Throgs Neck Bridge was a horseshoe ring (still there) and Bands would play in the summertime. Still have the watch Fr Flemings brother Willie Now Billions.should have bought stock when I first saw the sign!! Near the eponymous bridge, Francis LewisParkoccupies aportionof the former estate of AmericanrevolutionaryFrancis Lewis. It was a scene man! Ps 184 was my public school. My italian immigrant grandfather and I would pick dandelion leaves for salad at the Whitestone Park. I also adored Storks and hung out at Bertlesons..loved the Italian ices or sherbet they had in the little white paper cups. I too also lived in Cambridge, Ma as a college student at Lesley College and Nanny. Telephone Directory of Alpharetta, GA. 30005 Whitestone Among Long Island's top catering halls, Crest Hollow is perfect for virtually any social or corporate event for 100 or more guests. Elephas, Avanti and Camouflage (Mondays) Night Clubs rocked Bayside. I grew up in Whitestone (10-06 148th St.) and spent almost every non-school day in Francis Lewis Park. Was Bertlesons the little ice cream parlor near Storks? The large property, which comprises six acres of vacant land near the intersection of 150th Street and Fifth Avenue, will be up for sale on April 10 in an auction. Many memories to bore you with but enjoyed reading these comments. Jerry, Started by serving snacks at They put the new one in the back. Cresthaven Country Club, operated by Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, was located there for 39 years until it closed in 1989. Refi. This is all from memory, but it had acreage and was fenced. I remember the Kent Trucks coming in every afternoon along 20th avenue with cleaning items from their entire network of dry cleaning shops. Had to have been around 1967. Fort Monroe was completed and then the Civil War broke out. It has since been automated like all other lighthouses in the city. Real terra incognita as they say. Some of my friends around 17th Ave were the Skaats, Weiss, Rice, LaPlace, Hertz, Thorgensen. God Bless him. There were two camps. I was wondering if you are the same Gerald Friedman who I was in 3rd grade with at PS 79 in 1971. I miss the old Whitestone. Nice to read your comment. This promontory is known on maps as Cryders Point. In 2000, about 16 acres of the 22-acre site were sold to a developer that built 110 luxury homes on the site. 14th Avenue between 149th and 150th. Following its closing in 1989, the property wassubdividedfor tract mansions accessed by private streets. Oh well. It was a wonderful place to grow up, I often wonder what it is like now. I recognize Philmoony and Bill Tekverk I called a Billy to identify some of the people in the photos how can I get it on this blog the photos I think you guys may find it interesting, Hi joanie you lived on my block Howie your sister Alita I hope I spelled it right how are you Brenda you lived across the street too how is your brother Jerry How are you frank? Maureen Kopelman In 1969:I keep my boat in Mayers Marina. There were 50 paper routes in Whitestone and I had Route #42 which delivered to Beechurst. Most of Fort Tottens coastline is rocky, unsuitable for a beach. Id take my bike down the hill toward the water and sometimes fish under the bridge with my grandfather (Poppy). The Mattone Group of College Point and the Associated Development Corporation of Bayside are developing the $52 million project, called Waterside Estates at Cresthaven, with up to 117 houses,. Great mechanic organizer I worked on the African Queen and the African King at Whitestone and also on the ,Manhattan which ran out of Cresthaven those were great days counselors bug juice lunches and hundreds of life jackets. House I grew up in is still there; Zillows in the millions now seems absurd I thought we were poor . Wildflower and Le Havre are both located at Powells Cove Boulevard and Totten Street. I remember missing you and I still have. I grew up with owners kids. Now I am rambling. Dear Rich, a few years ago I stumbled into a Facebook page being posted by a fellow named Ritchie Ferraro. St Lukes Bazaar every summer with the huge gambling tents for the over 18 crowd Today, a simple skeleton tower with a beacon performs the duty. Same with the whitestone pool and cresthaven gone. My next door neighbor, Rosalee Reilly, in Whitestone was the VP for Personnel at Kents Cleaners her husband Charlie worked in the Post Office. Because Beechhurst shares the 11357 zip code with the more populated neighborhood of Whitestone, it is regarded by outsiders as part of Whitestone to the dismay of some residents. I remember Wide Wings camp. It was a wonderful time. The Oleskiew families lived a few houses north on 154 st and on 14th Ave across from me. At 11:15 p.m. exactly, John saw me across the room, walked quickly over and asked me to dance. We were middle class. Replying to Howard Mellon: Thanks for the info. The northernmost avenue in Queens is Second Avenue, which is the first number in a grid sequence that extends to 165th Avenue in Howard Beach. It was chlorinated pretty well so no one every got sick. The site was part of the former Cresthaven Country Club and then was owned by real estate firm Whitestone Jewels LLC, but has been in foreclosure since 2007. I think the pizza man was Sal or Vito. Investment property in WHITESTONE, NY located at 318 CRESTHAVEN LN. Joe Dragan. The green knife sharpening truck ringing its bell. Would love to hear from you and share stories and memories. I used to walk to Whitestone pool & Ft Totten as a kid. Was your mother Kay Curci? I grew up on 14th ave next to Grace Church. The city acquired this park in 1937. Thanks for the memories! dances, rolling the tennis courts or painting at Whitestone pool I didnt have her, wither. But still..??? This home is located at 315 Cresthaven Ln, Whitestone, NY 11357 and has been listed on Homes.com and is currently estimated at $1,645,000, approximately $612 per square foot. If only we could travel back in time. Ring-A-Lario until midnight. I remember when Beechhurst was Beechhurst. @2019 - Forgotten New York. Their business is recorded as DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION. Maybe we had one or 2 beers once in a while. If that bothers you in any way, you don't belong here.. or anywhere. Before Bay Bridge Condominiums were built on the property in 1980, the DEP did testing on the property and determined there was no contamination. My cousin was Richey Jensen ..one of the owners of Whitestone deli. A lifetime ago!!! After I completed my route and before I went home each day, I stopped at Carpenters market on Clintonville Street and bought potato chips and a soda. We loved going to Beechhurst Beach, swimming out to the big wooden raft, or from the wooden steps at the end, getting burgers and fries from the concession, dressing up for the Saturday night dance. And once I got an ice cream cone there and they charged me 15 cents (probably in the late 60s or early 70s), which was a mind-blowingly low price. So much around to keep us kids occupied growing up in the 70s. Location: 150 Street & 6 Avenue, Whitestone (former location of Cresthaven Country Club) Number of Homes: 44 single family homes Site Acreage: 6 acres Construction: 4 bedroom, all brick and precast stone Colonials with attached garage, 2,000-3,760 square feet, depending on the model. I loved those days! Whitestone, NY 11357. Ed Winters, are you related to Robert, now in Cambridge? Search by owner name and find all properties currently or previously owned. Frans candy store! Its shoreline is largely comprised of upper income tract mansions and high rise apartments. Great deli!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Find your perfect home in Brighton Condominiums, Boca Raton, FL. The Whitestone pool was opened to the public. At this location (by some accounts) East River becomes known as Long Island Sound. When the war ended, he came home, packed up his family, and moved south to become Washington College President. I still have several entrance tickets for Whitestone Pool from 1973 . On the negative side, I remember a mother being shot in the stomach and killed by two boys playing with a .22 rifle. In 1924, Queens Gold Coast was enhanced by the construction of Wildflower, briefly the home of Broadway impresario Oscar Hammerstein II, who named the mansion after one of his plays. The drinking age was 18 ?!?!? Clintonville During heavy snowstorms your Dad would plow our street (15th Drive between 149th and 150th). for, and I live in CaliforniaThey say you can never go home again,I guess that is the truth. A couple of these streets reach the waters edge, but it does not appear that there is a beach in use at Cresthaven. Also big wooden seesaws, metal swings, metal kiddie swings, high metal slides, and high, dangerous metal monkey bars. I often check real estate values for Beechhurst and I am amazed what houses are selling Have been for 45 years. They sell for upwards of 300,000. Insane! Booths and counter, still remember it clear as a bell after all this time. WE USE TO GO TO THE CYO SWIMMING , DOES ANYONE KNOW THE STREET IT WAS ON . Bet we crossed paths in the past. Penny candylicorice, Bazookas, sugar dots on a paper stripin a little brown bag. This outcropping usedtohave a lighthouse that was operated by a keeper until around 1990. My sister had her wedding at Cresthaven CC. originally stretched all the way down to the My brother in law is Karl Stork- He moved out to Montauk & was the head baker for Gurney`s Inn before retiring! We were famiy Anyone have any further info? I cant remember the Asian Restaurant in the whitestone shopping center other than it had some reputation. ), Mr. Campbell was an old kind of nasty man. simplicity misses dresses; cathedral in the desert canyoneering; Select Page When one visits Little Bay Park, the curved coastline is reminiscent of Orchard Beach. I had Mrs. Bennett for 1st and 2nd grade. We had Freddies Pizza, Bertlesons and a really great life We went to Whitestone park and watched the river go by under the bridge.We watched the Throgs Nweck bridge go up and Bayside explode, Now whitestone is an elite community. PS 79 for kindergarten, and St Lukes for 1-8 grade. At the landing of 158th Street near Riverside Drive, a waterfront parcel as wide as the street belongs to Beechhurst Property Owners Association (BPOA) whose logo resembles a DOT-issue bridgedirectionalsign. The 2 pools were for Cresthaven and the CYO. Many days were spent riding my bike to Utopia Lane to watch the bridge construction. The green knife sharpening truck used to come down our block everyday(138 street between 11ave-14ave. Beechurst one for the second grade and so on. Between 1889 and 1908, WhitestonePointhad a romantic-looking lighthouse tower with a bell. I would love to get some information on him. I also went to St. Lukes School and was a Booster Beach member. Plenty of places to ride. I delivered the LI Star Journal in Malba, not that it has any relevance to your post. Then it was on to four buildings in LeHarve, where I took the elevators up nine floors and slid the papers along the floor to the subscribers on each floor easy peasy! Wonderful place to grow up in the 50s & 60s. She spoke very fondly of the store and would run into former customers from time to time. Smooth work commute, popular bars and nightlife, nearby restaurants and grocery stores, and safety. Known as Boosters Beach, itoccurringa narrow sliver of sand behind a tall fence. My summers I lived at Beechhurst beach. What a great priest. Amazing the names changes = a) I remember the pool called CYO Pool but now know it as Cresthaven, and b) I remember the park/spray heads called Whitestone Park but now known as Francis Lewis Park. I remember taking a note into his office when I was a little girl. The Clearview Golf course was our hang out. I remember that as well. While some of the buildings on the former base are actively used as offices andtrainingfacilities,others are in a dilapidated state, ravaged by themoistureandwinds of the bay. Weddings After graduating West Point, now an Engineering Officer, participating in the Mexican War, was his assignment but he was not the only one, just part of a group of Army engineers. Mr. Harmon would perform in the auditorium occasionally. A third can be found in Little Neck Bay. I am not sure I want to go back to see them. Or maybe that was Miss/Mrs Scarpetta, a name that just popped into my head. It was the best bakery around. I have to believe the building could have been renovated instead of destroyed. The fridge in the kitchen was mounted on the ceiling over the counter like an overhead kitchen cabinet! Yesterday I came across a pamphlet from back in the day about joining the beach house beach. $25 a day made me feel wealthy. My grandfather died from cancer in 1986 and Fran passed away in 2012 at age 90, still as feisty as ever until the very end. The regulars called me Red. We used to go right down on the rocks under the south anchorage and fish, smoke, hang-out, whatever. The CYO camp in the 1970s would love to see pics, as I attended at a young age maybe 5-7yrs old and have memories of taking the bus there from Rego Park. I became the Whitestone Boating Director as the CYO Day Camp reached a capacity of 5,000 campers a day spread out between 6 properties Whitestone, Alley Pond Park, Cresthaven, Kisena Park, Astoria Pool and Cunningham Park. Does anyone remember Principal John Campbell? Milt, the Good Humor truck driver Re Le Havre- It was built by Levitt ( of the several Levittowns in the US) . Location: 150 Street & 6 Avenue, Whitestone (former location of Cresthaven Country Club) Number of Homes: 44 single family homes Site Acreage: 6 acres Construction: 4 bedroom, all brick and precast stone Colonials with attached garage, 2,000-3,760 square feet, depending on the model. and exactly where it was located? Boosters beach is disgusting with all those overgrown mansions there. Played in the construction site for Cryder House. Thanks for thes insightfull kodak moments, it makes me proud my dad chose this area to live. Ice skating in Bowne Park. We lived in a house on 12 th rd/ Life was good. Locals said it was once one of the ferries that ran between Whitestone and the Bronx. Hi Joanie and Brenda you lived on my Block 12 ave.my mother and father still live on 12 ave.I live on 12 road now never left .Joanie how is your sister Alita I hope I spelled it right .Brenda how is your brother Jerry? I delivered the Long Island Star Journal to Building 16 at LeHarve from 1966-1968, perhaps you were one of my customers? I went to PS 79 for Kindergarten, graduated from St. Lukes in 1976, went to St. Francis Prep and graduated from St. Johns in 1984. Hi Anne Marie Im thinking your family must know my moms family Eddie and Loretta Day were my grandparents, he was the mail man out of the Post Office on a 150th street and delivered to all of Beachurst. I grew up in the corner house diagonally across from Gleasons Funeral home on 150th St. Bug juice and cookies before the ride home. The paper posted on Chriss window said we came in 7th place (out of eight top spots) for our age category. The well-maintained buildings and grounds are 97% shareholder owned and feature a total of 217 units ranging from studios and one bedroom with one bath to two-bedrooms with one and one-half baths. The dances at the club in Cresthaven were quite the events. Went to 193, Mazels, Posner, Endress, England, Dodge, Bower. He had a huge English Mastiff dog which used to patrol at night. He had a big first-floor office that faced the front yard. From the early 1980s until 1999, the landmarked mansion fell into decay, overshadowed by Throgs Neck Bridge. Hi Paul I went to st Lukes school my dad worked in the bank of manhattan on150th st larrycarroll my mom worked for dr glass I had a sister Joan Carroll @ a brother Larry nickname bubby. It predates the fort and is a linktoa period when the peninsula carried the name Willets Point. Hi Jerry! In French, its name translates as The Harbor. Completed in 1958, Le Havrecomprisesof 32 towers on 32 acres of waterfront land. As Whitestone has a large Greek population, it is possible that the streets name comes from the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea. You had to keep winning to hold the court, very competetive. (We went to Carvel all the time.) Had a black iron fence surrounding it. He officiated the marriage ceremony of my wife and I. Estupendo condo de venta en Walnut, CA. So beautiful there and such wonderful times the best 12 summers of my life. At that time, there was a sunken school yard that was later filled in with an addition to the building. The staff kept us safe by assigning colored swim caps according to our proficiency in the pool. I remember going there in the 1970s. The kids would spend half a day swimming and the other half in the park with bug juice before the bus ride home. from 66-68, but never heard anything about an I remember having to wait on line each day for my papers and fighting through a Lord of the Flies type of environment to get my papers! Funny, I found this site when I got curious about the fate of Cresthaven & Whitestone Pools ( I left the east coast for the west in early in the early 1980s). Many summer days at CYO (bug juice) @ Cresthaven Pool, where, during its country club time, Bernie taught me the crawl. For 39 years, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Brooklyn operated the Cresthaven Country Club on 19.5 acres, including some on the river, providing thousands of city youngsters the chance. Sleigh Riding down suicide hill and skitching down Utopia Pkwy. Am I just imagining this or did it really exist?!? 725 . Sneaking into Whitestone Pool, diving from the high dive and doing multiple flips Tropicana had property at the foot of 154th street in Beechhurst. Whitestone is the northernmost neighborhood in Queens, situated between Whitestone Bridge and Throgs Neck Bridge. Some of the former army residences appear as if transported from a small town. Whitestone contains Queens' lowest numbered present-day avenue: 2nd, which exists as a dead-end at the north end of 148th Street and 149th Place. The 10th Ave crowd was the Sinobrias, Siracusas, and Larsens I wouldnt call it an elite neighborhood, but I do call it home. there was a very large cement dug out area dug with lots of sprinklers! Cresthaven Site Is Eyed For Public Parkland In. A formercountry club, Cresthaven, Powells Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. work for students, off duty cops and fireman. Then, at 8 a.m. I grew up in Beechhurst, and lived on Riverside Drive. Im trying to find out the name of the rowboat rental at the foot of Clintonville Street across from the Whitestone armory. $389,000. Then went under the locust trees to dry off and eat lunch. Its sad what whitestone has become. All of those playground items are now probably considered too dangerous but somehow you and I an tens of thousands of other kids survived it! So as the war progressed, to spite him, the US Army (the North) confiscated his plantation (wife was still home) and immediately began burying bodies on his front lawn. My grandparents took care of the Whitestone Point Lighthouse and after they passed away my parents took it over until 1952 when the switch was put on land. Excellent single house with 5 beds and 3 baths come with t. Hope you are happy and doing well. university of bristol computer science. As young teenagers we would get someone to buy us a bottle in Whitestone village and then go to the park, or hang out outside the Bowling Alley. But if you would like to friend request or message me, you will be able to find me on facebook as Monica Mosquera-Cannon. One was Wide Wings and was closer to the Throgs Neck bridge. My best friend and I met our wives there. They went on to raise 2 daughters on E. Tremont Avenue. A former country club, Cresthaven, Powell's Cove Boulevard between 3rd and 6th Avenues, once occupied 22 acres of waterfront real estate. Buried in the Old Fort on the ground floor by the tunnel and the entrance road from the pier. Worked on the waterfront both at Whitestone and next door at Cresthaven for several summers with really tremendous kids from all the Catholic high schools in Queens. NY-Crystal River Yacht Club. As a teenager I worked there 2 summers for $100 a summer. I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember the CYO summer day camp at Cresthaven Country Club in northern Whitestone. (505) 431 - 5992; man jumps off cruise ship after fight with wife The northeast extreme of Queens is an ear-shaped peninsula that was used as an army base between 1857 and 1995. When it went Condo, my mother bought it. The old Beechurst Building had interesting tiles on the floor. THE WATER I worked at both Cresthaven Country Club and the Whitestone Pool so I know the salt water came right from the East River next door. The modernist apartment complexs name seems like a nod to architect Le Corbusier,whopromoted the Tower-In-The-Park concept in the postwar period. I grew up in the 70s so remember some of the stuff you are mentioning. That the old Sylvania or GE property had some type of radioactive incident around 1960? There was a kitchen between the pool and the building, which was attached to the main building. On December 3 I, 1958, thirty-eight skiers at Stowe, Vermont raised their glasses to welcome the New Year and toast the beginnings of the Cresthaven Ski Club. That there is a tunnel (which has caved in) under the bay connecting Fort Totten to Fort Schyler? It is not the small town I grew up in anymore, but to me, its still a great place to raise my family. Frank was my Grampa! There were 2 pools: the whitestone pool was the public pool at the end of the street. He was right across the river from it for 35 years and had never seen the campus. The rest is a private park-like terrain. Second Avenue does not have sidewalks. Hope you are happy and healthy! At St Lukes, Mrs. somebody, I dont remember her name, would call the buses over the PA at the end of the day Malba and colony for the second grade; Malba and colony for the third; Malba and colony for the 4th, 5th, and 6th; Malba and colony for the first. 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