A former resident recalls post-World War II life at Bell Park Gardens, Bayside's experimental, nonprofit, all-veterans cooperative housing development. The tight-knit community eventually opened up to non-vets, but in the middle of the last century it was a colorful enclave unto itself, surprisingly devoid of wartime tales, and notable for not only "the physical shelter it provided but the emotional harbor it was, too." [NYDN]
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