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- The 'bullseye building' in Dutch Kills
- Development complaints skyrocket
- Riders give 7 a 'C minus'
- AM-NY visits the Rockaways
- FNY in Hunters Point
- Future of the Elmhurst Library?
- Crappy on Racked
- Stories of preservation
- Was Pinky's accuser harassed by the NYPD?
- Unhappy with Crappy
- Location, location
- More arboricide in Maspeth
- Queens sewers not up to speed
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- Crap Columns
- This is not a new house
- "What the...?" in the Meatpacking District
- Bloomie: "What's a little water?"
- Smoking caused Deutsche building fire
- Member of the dirty pol club
- Bait and switch
- NJ Senator in lobbying probe
- Crap village in Rego Park
- The Powerhouse - seeing is disbelieving
- Not getting what they paid for
- Houseboats forced to pick up anchor
- People made to move, lots left to the rats
- A tram for Fort Totten
- Storm causes big fat rat to scurry
- Tin Can Alley
- Call to have FDNY retirees inspect buildings
- It's not the first time Bovis is in trouble
- Avella vs. Crescent crap
- Sunnyside gets a facelift
- Some food-related quickies
- SUV crap
- New York Post pissed at Times Ledger
- Bye-bye Ben's?
- 'Cat & mouse game' at Deutsche building
- A tale of two Jamaicas
- Race matters
- Corporal punishment
- Rally against the Jamaica Plan
- Crappy's arrived!
- More street trees for Queens
- Bronx Hall of Waste
- Ladder 39 - the Pride of Woodlawn
- Stop in the name of the law!
- Soaked by tweeders
- Drinking tap water with Bob
- Creme de la Bronx crap
- More firefighters hurt at Deutsche building
- Council vs. containers
- Jamaica plan enters the home stretch
- Pete vs. pervs
- United against United Homes
- Crappy on the go
- Excavation a problem
- City says 'scram' to scammers
- Big plan for Metro corner
- New portable Queens Crap issue
- Putting up crap on Putnam
- Crappy visits City Hall
- ‘Street God has forgotten’
- Fixing up the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
- Powerhouse crap
- Padavan against Jamaica plan
- Cromwell Crescent crap
- Crappy underground
- NY1's Queens: Then & Now
- Keep your Queens Crap rat-free
- More skeeter spraying for Queens
- Outta cash & outta luck
- Comm. board votes on Columbia expansion
- The Future Of New York
- State lawn litter bill becomes law
- Cause of fatal blaze under investigation
- A Grand 'Alteration'
- Johnny: Asians don't dump grease in sewers
- Guttman getting away with it
- Overdevelopment causing loads of garbage
- FDNY: Contractor responsible for deaths
- CB6 unanimously passes Forest Hills rezone
- Seeking dead end to development
- Quality-of-Life Inspectors Will Scoot in the City
- Parks flip-flops on U.S. Open parking plan
- Centerville still waiting after all these years
- Another corner of crap in Bayside
- Vickie still lost at sea
- Politicians divide us, politics lead us astray
- Queens Machine blames overdevelopment!
- Queens actress selling her mansion
- Bayside crap corner
- Tearing down the Times
- Sidestepping
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- The bad old days
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16 comments:
Yawn.....that styro-foam Euro-stucco Disneyland
"architecture" is becoming an epidemic.
Its cheap looks abound everywhere you set your foot !
Hey....wait a minute....
don't be so hasty to put this down.
Just look at all that railing space.
I can hang a whole wash load on that.
My dryer is on the blink.
I like the pinkish one on the right.
No.....don't tell me that one belongs to Pinky !
Structures as unique and imaginative as trout.
The old, falling-down bungalow shacks were far more attractive.
Yes, they are horrible, but better than the vacant lots full of garbage and feces I used to have to walk past when going to the beach 20 years ago. Even my mother, who hates ugly buildings, was impressed that something small got built there.
Mom and I recently went back to the beach at 105th Street after many years of going to Long Beach exclusively. Still very easy to get to the Rockaways via the Q53 across from the Queens Center Mall, which no longer charges express bus fare! Now, just the regular MetroCard fare! Yay!
I don't think the decrepit bungalows were in shape that was worth saving, but I agree wither others - I wish they had put up something better, more "sea-faring" perhaps? Maybe a riff on Cape Cod "salt box" style?
Can't you see cloths drying on the railings, fishermen's nets hanging from the arial junkyards.
Why go to Rio? Club Med can open a tourist destination right here (listening Terry?)
The politicians wanted diversity. They got it.
Of course, none of them need see this. Their vacation hidaways are safely tucked away in communities with building restrictions and good zoning.
yeah - totally intelligent place to build anything. Leave the barrier beaches to the birds. First hurricane to hit NYC, and we'll be out rescuing them, and they'll be screaming for a rebuild just like the folks on Fire Island and New Orleans
These buildings look fine and they replaced horrible, desolate vacant lots. What did you expect them to build in a run-down area, Renaissance-style mansions? We should be happy that this area is being developed and is improving. I think they look better than the 1940s and 50s boring flat brick rowhouses that are in many areas of Queens. The bitterness on this blog is unreal.
Those metal stairs and that elongated balcony make it look like an elevated subway platform.
Also, note the thoughtful stairways to the balcony.
Are they the builder's notion of "Handicapped Access"? The handicapped being the drugged out burglars who are too stupid to learn the proper break-in techniques?
crime in the rockaways is pretty bad, now that you mention it.
are those the the front steps or is it the fire escape?
wonder if anyone showed up for the open house?
There once was a man from far Rockaway.....
who could smell a whore a block away.
One day he did sniff and contracted the "Syph".....
and now his nose shall rot away!
encore, encore . . .
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