The complex included 32 9-story buildings of 32 apartments each (four per floor, plus an open street floor), three swimming pools, two [?] sets of tennis courts (one of which was converted to an ice rink in the winter), a teen club, and a clubhouse that was the 1923 mansion of Broadway producer Arthur Hammerstein.

The name was changed to LeHavre around 1960.

The Throgs Neck Bridge was completed in 1961--right outside our windows--to relieve the heavy traffic on the Bronx-Whitestone.

Le Havre was converted from luxury rental apartments to a co-op on 9/12/84. The clubhouse is now a 6-unit condominium building (independent of Le Havre).

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