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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
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Blog Archive
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January
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- Queen Angers Her Subjects
- Coney Island Developer's Threat
- Another Construction Death
- 2nd Avenue Subway: maybe, maybe not
- Lots O'Landmarks
- Coming Soon: Another House Too Narrow
- Curbed on the Crapper
- Brooklyn Matters
- Quinn Hearing Tonight
- A Dirty Rat
- More $$$$ for Ratner
- Update on 88th Road Homes
- District Disparity
- LIC Renaissance Man
- What's going on at the NY Times?
- Bloomberg: Ending Self-Certification is a Bad Idea
- The Big Squeeze
- Demolition Review Legislation
- More on the forced gentrification of LIC
- Catering Crap
- Rundown Republican Club
- Pfizer leaving, but still giving back
- Nassau could give NYC a lesson in preservation
- And speaking of forced gentrification...
- "LIC? What a Dump!"
- Which is Worse?
- Cuomo Cuffs Contractors
- A Case of Crap
- Queens? Where is that?
- City Coffers Overflowing
- Laments in the Ledger
- A picture worth a thousand words
- Tour of the Ridgewood Reservoir
- Dominick Now Domiciled!
- Builders seek weaker immigration laws
- Inside Tierney's World
- How to Save Street Trees
- NYPD & DOB: Working Together
- When Less is More
- The Councilman doth protest too much, methinks!
- Southeastern Queens Fights Overdevelopment
- Brownstoner Buzz
- Press Conference/Rally on Sunday
- Risky Water View
- FNY in LIC
- Crappy Condo
- The Latest on Sunnyside
- Foreign Money Fueling Overdevelopment
- Yes, they start and end their trips here!
- State of the Borough, part 2
- Coincidence or Connection?
- Losing more than houses
- The Wrath of Crappy
- Update on Stop Work Order Property
- All Decked Out
- Quinn Took Fraud Money
- They're Down on Bowne
- The big 421-A lie
- A Man Who Talks Sense
- Houses of the Rising Sun
- Power Perks
- Food for Thought
- The Money Train
- That playground again
- Squeezing Richmond Hill
- Carvel Crap
- BOOKMARK THIS!
- Hipster Satire
- Hasta La Vista, El Barrio
- Flatiron Fiasco
- Sunday 3-for-1 Special
- Huanging Out
- An Excellent Question!
- More on Sunnyside
- Fabian Flophouse
- Someone who does have a million dollars...
- If I Had a Million Dollars...
- Building Queens Green
- News from Brooklyn
- "Lure for business investment" or urban nightmare?
- Another Stairway to Heaven
- Pinky Protests Park Proposal
- Felonious Reporting
- Overcrowded Schools
- Queens Chronicle on Sunnyside Gardens
- State of the Borough
- Hackett Building's Demise
- The New Coney
- It's Official: Helen Marshall is a Moron
- Cloud buster
- Con Ed Still Being Blamed
- Spitzer Takes Back Pataki's "Gift"
- New York: Not Number 2 Anymore?
- More Fun With Public Disclosures
- Bloomie's Billion Dollar Tax Cut
- Builder not giving up on glass tower plan
- Crap-o-rama
- A Real Weiner
- Landmarks Gives Tower The Thumbs Down
- Port Chester Case Rejected
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4 comments:
Bravo for the Chronicle and Sunnyside Gardens! Let's not forget about other sites in the more obscure parts of our borough that also deserve the same, not just the one that houses a Historic Districts Council member and other residents with substantial "community clout"! I wish you all good luck with the LPC. It's a beautiful community.
Is it good that Sunnyside Gardens has a positive editorial? Yes.
Does this help the cause of preservation in Queens? Not really.
The truer picture of news reporting on preservation is the Chronicle's gingerly handling the wanton and needless destruction of the old borough hall in LIC. They quietly sidestepped embarrassing those responsible for its destruction and taking to task those who were in a position to save it. This was another wasted opportunity to do the right thing.
Across the city, people with access, rather than building quality or historic importance has been the deciding factor on landmark designation. This is a clear violation of both the spirit and the purpose of the city’s landmarks legislation.
You see, the editor of the Chronicle lives in the Gardens. We firmly believe, if that were not the case, they would not trumpet landmark designation.
We didn't know that the editor of the Chronicle lives in Sunnyside Gardens, along with with some of those other influential folks mentioned elswhere in this blog . Wow! It looks like the Gardens has got some real "juice", not like some of the other neighborhoods throughout Queens that lack any kind of "clout". We still wish them good luck on thair Landmarking endeavor!
... well if they want people's support now, then we should extract a deal from them: that going forward, they should be a ready advocate for preservation in Queens no matter where it be.
And perhaps, just perhaps, the editor, if he lives in a landmark area, agrees to vigorously pursue that dignity in his paper for other buildings and communities.
What say ye, Sunnyside Gardens?
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