Islip 

Stanley's Bakery, Islip Manor*, NY 11751
Motto: "...Be it the simple pleasure of our fresh baked bread or the richness of our cakes and deserts. There is no doubt that our selection of freshly baked goods will have you returning time and again..."  

50+ YEARS LATER


Pathway Cleaners looking NW 08/06/08

      The bakery was established in 1948 by Heinrich Pieper who lived a couple of  blocks north of Sunrise Highway east of Islip Avenue. He was also the landlord as well. Stanley's Bakery has been family owned and run since 1948 when it was established by the Sadowski family. My parents bought the bakery in June of 1953. As you can see from the awning, the name of the place was already Stanley's Bakery. The sign on the building said Pieper's Home Bakery for several years because my father did not have the money yet for new signs. I can also tell that it was mid-1950's because my father had not yet remodeled the storefront. 

      He moved the front door over to the left side and removed the showcase front window with straight glass and an aluminum front. The illuminated Stanley's Bakery sign on the front of the building came after this picture as well as an illuminated Bakery sign on the railroad side of the building. Those sign boxes are still in use today at the East Islip location as a front sign and a street sign. The actual face plates have been replaced with shatterproof plastic due to vandalism. 

      As you can see in the picture, the rail siding was still there with the dirt backstop showing in the picture. The freight siding was used by the lumber yard behind the bakery which is currently a plumbing supply company. The freight siding was removed sometime after 1960 when the town redid the Islip Railroad station. They tore down the old station and replaced it with the current one. They did the parking lot as well which necessitated removing the freight siding as well as adding gates on both railroad crossings. 

      I remember a man used to close the pedestrian gate between both sides of the station from a booth down by the old hotel. The WPAC radio station clock that used to hang from the railroad side of the building still hangs in the back of the present bakery. You can still see it from the store. In 2006 Stanley Sadowski decided to retire after 58 years at which time he transferred ownership to one of his employees. Stanley's remains a family owned business today.    Thanks to: Stanley Sadowski, Jr.  2009

Stanley's Bakery 
68E Main Street, East Islip, NY 11730
Phone:   (631) 581-1230

Past & Present Business & Industries Along Moffitt Blvd, Islip Manor*, NY 11751

Pictorial view north of both past and present day business and current rail industry locations in Islip  01/2009 Info: Mike McDermet/Steven Lynch, Diagram: Steven Lynch

View looking south of Islip Manor  01/2009 Islip Ave to Grant Ave. 

Proceeding to Moffitt Blvd. there was Kubek's Concrete Block Kiln, a used lumber yard which is now Panzner's Demo Co. and moving east there was Cerny's Nursery. Further east there was Tursellinos's Beer & Ice and the Dzus Fasteners factory. At the corner of Nassau Ave. there was the Station Hotel followed by a fuel and tar business with piles of gravel on the property. Next to that was a gas station which was next to the lumber yard which is now Sigfried Plumbing. Then there was the Manor Inn and the bakery building. These all had the rail siding behind them until approximately 1960.

Starting at the railroad tracks on the east side of Islip Ave. was B&B Deli, a German Butcher shop and then Finky's which was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Finkelstein and Mr. & Mrs. Schiff. They were nice people and one of them lived on Moffitt Blvd I think. They sold out to Lou Mascola from East Islip around 1960 or so. The next store was Frank Tessitore Insurance, the shoemaker and then Reilly's Luncheonette. Around the corner was the barber shop and the Newsday drop off store for the kids with their routes.

Going down Islip Ave. towards Sunrise Hwy. was the Triple M roofing building with the Superette across the street. There was a pharmacy which became the Manor liquor store and two gas stations one of which was a Texaco station. There was the little barber shop on the corner of Spruce with the owner living in the house behind it. After that there was Vic Gremli's auto body shop and the Milk Depot by Sunrise.

I cannot remember where Charlotte and Hans Winter had their Chalet Deli before they built the present shopping center. Was it on the present site and they knocked the old buildings down? I think that the liquor store was next to them in that old building before they moved to the old pharmacy building. The little shopping center next to the roofer was built around 1960 or so. It seems that a lot of changes took place in the Manor around 1960. I hope that some of this information may prove useful to your website documenting the history of the manor. Thanks to: Stanley Sadowski, Jr.  2010

Saxon Ave Panzer View NW

Concrete Impressions

Ex-Lawrence Junk Yard north of tracks 
View SW

Note: Grinnell Lithographic merged into Arkay Packaging Corp 1990s c.1993+
Previously used team track north siding for deliveries. Nassau Ave. was Railroad Ave 05/1958

ISLIP STATION: S. S. R. R. South Side R. R. Depot Built: 1868
(LIRR Montauk Branch) 2nd Depot Built: 1881, Razed: 1963
3rd Depot Built: 1963. Agency Closed:? Remodeled: 1997
Research: Dave Keller

ex-Monzet's Hotel site built c. 1890s view SW  02/02/08

84 Lumber, Nassau Ave crossing View S 

ex-Monzet's Hotel site view NE 2/27/2010

Pathway Cleaners looking NW 08/06/08 from in 
front of where the old LILCO substation was.
Previous location Stanley's Bakery

Islip Manor Shop view SE c. 1928
colorized post card photo

Islip Manor Shop view SE from Full Martini, ex-Anderson's, 
previous ex-Manor Inn.  04/30/2008 

Islip Manor Shops 08/06/08 view NE