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Finally! We Had A Trolley Shuttle To The Shore!

Trains stopped running straight through to Canarsie Shore and were replaced by a trolley shuttle from the Rockaway Parkway station to the shore on the same tracks of the right of way between East 96th and East 95th streets. The old B.R.T. system officials decided to switch the trolleys over. During the 1940s there was a loop alongside the station, with a beautiful flower garden in the center of it, which was looked after by an old employee of the railroad, Charles Van Houten, from an old and well known Canarsie family, who kept it very nice.

Many trolleys went in and out of this loop, back and forth to the shore. There were three or four stores. One was a bar and grill occupied by the well known Frank Dumches, later by Dick Evarts, a retired ice man, and when he passed away his popular wife, Marge (nee Staub) ran it. Next to it was the candy and stationery store of Charles Buchanan of an old Canarsie family who sold it to the popular Ike and Jerry. Next to them was Lenny the Barber.

When the Green Point Bank decided to build a bank at this spot in the early 50's, Marge Evarts gave up the bar and Ike and Jerry moved next to the bar of Ned Caro and Mazurk. Lenny the Barber moved over to Glenwood Road and East 95th Street until he sold out and retired to Franklin Square, L.I. Charles Buchanan retired and went to Florida. Ike and Jerry sold out after just a couple of years at the new location.

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