They actually want you to believe that single family homes are being torn down and rebuilt by their owners. Yeah, OK. Why is the numbnut in the photo standing in front of a pricey attached house from the 1920s that's for sale? Is he looking for a new owner who will tear it down and build something modern in its place?This was in the Queens Chronicle on 12-7-06.
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Could that blob standing in front of the house be "my cousin" Vinny of Du-Wrong Realty (give a few years and lbs.) who sold me my house 28 years ago????
Nice of Liz Rhodes to grace Gianelli with a freebie puff piece ad. That's real good impartial journalism!
I could not agree more. One of the biggest problems in this borough is the abysmal newspaper coverage on preservation. This provides an almost impossible barrier to getting the word out to the boarder community.
Something suggested time and time again to groups like HDC to address, but not an important issue in their opinion (yes, I want to hear about landmarking post war architecture)
I think it's about time for the papers to get some new blood. Liz has been around for years and has written pro-development piece after pro-development piece which, in our opinion, has severely compromised the credibility of a newspaper that has one of the finest editors in the borough. Meanwhile, an entire generation of cub reporters comes and goes (particularly the latter after they start to ask question on how Queens is REALLY run). And this is from a newspaper that actually writes about preservation issues.
What is needed is a group in the preservation community to patrol media for bias against preservation ready to serve notice at the least provocation, both real and imagined (hey, Johnny can we borrow the 'Liu Crew'?) Wait, we already have Queens Crap!
Correct on that one!
Also no comments from any elected official or the community board, or borough hall!
One of Liz Rhodes' reporter competitors once told me that he thought she wrote her stories" like a bored housewife". Uninformed and uninspired. There used to be a great editor of the Chronicle named Betty Cooney. She was eased out, after her anti USTA opinions in her superb coverage of the takeover of Flushing Meadow Park by that same organization. Betty, if your out there thanks for trying. We won't forget you.
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