Dana Beecher

     Dana's earliest memories are from the house at 53 East 82nd street and attending Grace Church Day School on Park Ave.  Beginning in 1956 Dana attended PS#6 at 82nd St. and Madison Ave.  In 1961 he attended boarding school, Watkinson, in Hartford, Connecticut, and then in 1965 moved to Webster Academy in Webster, Mass.  In 1967, when the whole family moved to Cornwall, Connecticut, Dana attended Housatonic Valley Regional High School from which he graduated in 1969.

      Dana noticed Laura on her first day on the job at Kingsborough Psychiatric Center when she began her internship program for her Phd.   Her natural instincts prevented her from  accepting any request except lunch for six months. But, once they began dating they were together all the time.   On July 15th, 1978 Dana married Laura Janine Friedman .  The non-religious ceremony was held at "Cornwall Farms" in Cornwall, Connecticut. They lived on Berkeley Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.   Six years later Ashley Karen Beecher was born on October 26th,. 1984.   Benjamin David Beecher was born September 8th, 1988.

       In 1989 Dana and Laura bought a house on Hillside Avenue in the Baxter Estates section of Port Washington and moved the family out of Brooklyn.

       At the time, Dana worked for Forest City Ratner Companies, a real estate development firm which had moved to Downtown Brooklyn from Manhattan.  Forest City would build MetroTech, the corporate campus near the Manhattan Bridge.  Dana's job was to assist with the relocation of the residential and business occupants of the 16 acre site.

      In 1994 Dana and Laura separated.  Dana moved to Brooklyn to be near his job and Laura, who worked as a school psychologist in Port Washington, stayed in town since Ashley and Ben were in school there.

      It was at a 1995 Memorial Day lawn party at the home of Betsy Halohan that Dana met Louise.  Her full name was Marie Louise Coogan.   She was the music programer and morning DJ at the local radio station WKZE.  

      On Dec. 30, 2000 they married on Megan's Bay, St. Thomas V.I. (See attached video).  It was an intimate affair with only their children: Juliette Meehan, Jacqueline Meehan, Ashley and Benjamin.

      During the Bush Recession of 2008 Dana and Louise moved to Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut where they ran the Cornwall General Store. They had a great run, enjoying support from the community and tourists during the Spring, Summer and Autumn. 

      In June of 2013 the owners of the building sold the property and Dana and Louise closed the store. Not finding additional work in the Northwest corner of Connecticut, and owning to the very severe Winter of 2013-14, they headed to Florida at the behest of Louise's mother, Suzanne Coogan. They currently reside in Nokomis, Florida.

       Dana is the managing broker of the commercial real estate brokerage, Commercial on the Coast, LLC