Walkable Eastwood » Sunnycrest

Sunnycrest Park Saturdays

Lonnie — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:16:24 +0000

Easter egg hunt at Sunnycrest Park

Lonnie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:34:05 +0000

Celebrate urban birds 2008

Lonnie — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:06:50 +0000

Celebrate Urban Birds – “Pizza & Wings”
Sponsored by Sunnycrest Park Association and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
FREE! JOIN US!
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
at Sunnycrest Park
Robinson Street by Sunnycrest Ice Rink
For information please call or visit:
Baltimore Woods Nature Center at 673-1350
online at www.takeahike.org

Directions

A great Sunnycrest Park workout

Lonnie — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:32:19 +0000

My daughter-in-law and her father have dreamed for many years of hiking down into the Grand Canyon. This year, they’re going to do it! But she’s got to be in shape, so she’s using Sunnycrest Park as part of her training. Take a look at this Gmaps pedometer map she made. You can use it to figure out how many calories you would burn doing this fascinating power walk.

The basic idea is to make use of all those wonderful old stairways throughout the park. You can start anywhere and make it as easy or difficult as you like. If you click repeatedly on the “Undo last point” button, you can see, in reverse, the trip that she takes. Essentially, for a really superior workout, you walk until you get to a staircase, you go up and down it, and then continue on until the next one.

With all these changes in elevation, it’s looking like she definitely will be ready for the Grand Canyon!

You can take something similar to that walk in a virtual way just by looking at this slide show. Don’t be fooled, though! There’s no substitute for the real thing!

Fourth Annual Community Golf Tournament

Lonnie — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:38:12 +0000

EASTWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
presents

4th ANNUAL COMMUNITY GOLF TOURNAMENT

Fun for the whole family!

When: Saturday Sept. 8, 2007
Shotgun start at 10:00 A.M.

Where: Sunnycrest Golf Course
Cost: only $50 per foursome

Reservations needed: sign up a Sunnycrest Club House, Caleb Ave.
or
call Sue @ 437-5087

Awards, food & beverages, prizes immediately following tournament
(lunch $5 for non-golfers)
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for more details visit www.eastwoodneighbor.com

Dancing Under the Stars

Lonnie — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:09:40 +0000

Who? The Stan Colella Orchestra
Where? Sunnycrest Rink (take Teall Ave. to Robinson St. and go to end)
When? Fridays, July 6, 13, and 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Presented by the City of Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation & Youth Programs and Price Chopper.

You haven’t lived in Eastwood if you ….

Lonnie — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:35:05 +0000

What do you remember or know about Eastwood that makes this place unique among all other neighborhoods in the world? Please use the comment function to add your thoughts to those you see here, sent from Karen who moved to Florida and writes to us in the Walkable Eastwood email group.

You haven’t lived in Eastwood if you…

Never got caught with your feet up on a seat in the Palace, and Frances shining her flashlight in your eye. Yelling “Feet down or get out”.

Never tried sneaking in the Palace from the side door emergency exits… Your friends would pay to get in then make a lot of noise in the girls room with flushing and running water. Frances would come in to yell, “That’s enough water! If you want a bath, go home!” While she was in there someone would open the side door and let you in……

Never hid in Cummings field after dark, used your parents camera flash to make street light shut off, then swung on parks swings till midnight…..

Never listened to the great Stan Collela Orchestra while “Dancin’ under the stars”

Never had to close your windows on a damp or humid day when the winds came out of the east……Penicillin and Bristol……

Never had a 10 cent cinnamon Hershey Popsicle at Chase’s cigar store…

Never met great men like the late Tom Shepardson…. A kind friendly comfort in your hour of need…..

Never saw the great parade of little hobgoblins march up Forest Hill Drive every year on Halloween from A.S Huntington School…..

Never knew the phone number of every payphone from Charney’s to Thompson Rd…..or who was calling and probably who they were looking for…

Never went for a walk after dark over Sunnycrest hill/Shotwell park watching all the lights of the cars going by on 690 , while the wind whispering in the trees was making creepy noises and scaring your pants off…..

Never bought “chum gum” for a penny at Mel and Vi Sayers’ market…..

Never ate awesome Fried Haddock at the Fish Cove in Shop City…(No haddock in Florida)…

Never smelled that crazy musty odor in McCrory’s while your Mom made you try on flip flops or bought toilet paper there…..

Never had fries and a burger at Grant’s dept store snack bar in Shop City….

Never spent all summer saving money to go to all the surrounding neighborhoods’ “field days”…..They used to do one in the “First Trust” bank parking lot (Key Bank corner of Collingwood /James)… How about the one in Lyncourt, down in the field where Court Street meets Teall just east of Syracuse China……..

Never had a “Elephant Ear ” or “hot cross bun” at Rasmussen’s bakery on James St.

Never had a headlight at Geddes Bakery…..

Never played pool at Cap’s…..

Never played the greased watermelon race at the pool days, outdoors at the Huntington pool……

Never made boondoggles, lemon ice or spin art with the rec dept at Huntington park….

Never wrote your initials on the wall outside Biasone’s bowling alley and got chased away…..

Never ate McDonald’s late night outside the Fotomat in Shop City…..

Never got to try nail polish on at the make-up counter in Mr. Wager’s pharmacy on James and North Ave….

Never walked down James St on a summer Sunday around 10:30 when the Catholics, Methodists and Baptists were all singing hymns with their doors open…..

Never took a cab ride with “Ace Eastwood Cab Company”… Louie Tenalglia, Louie Recaparo, Vic Bottina, Esther Blevins… To name of few of my cabby friends….

Never got out of BS school for lunch and had a RB on a Kaiser at Sid’s Steak and Sundae…

Never had a note along with 200 other kids for a “Dr appointment” on opening day at the Syracuse Chiefs…..

Never ran into Galloway’s Pharmacy to get out of the rain and grab a coke while doing your paper route on Paul, Peck, James, Teall and Rugby Rd….

Never got a really beautiful Christmas tree at the Evergreen Mart on Thompson Rd. Or beautiful annuals across the street at Barbagallo’s stand….

Never wondered if smelt were fish, why on earth did that factory on Thompson Rd smell like smoke and dirty metal?

Never were green with envy at the size of that awesome front yard at Shotwell and James St and GOBSMACKED how ya never saw any kids playing on it…..

and last but not least…

Never thought it was gonna be missed so very much when you left it behind…….

I left my heart in Eastwood….

To all
Peace
Karen