Why would a somewhat respected group like Place in History depict LIC as a pile of demolition debris? Why is this book so popular amongst the area's newcomers?
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
The official mascot of Queens Crap
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." - John Adams, 1765
Spotted a piece of Queens Crap in your community?
Write to us at QueensCrapper@gmail.com
Please note
Italicized passages and many of the photos come from other websites. The links to these websites are provided within the posts.
Why your neighborhood is full of Queens Crap
"The difference between dishonest and honest graft: for dishonest graft one worked solely for one's own interests, while for honest graft one pursued the interests of one's party, one's state, and one's personal interests all together." - George Washington Plunkitt
Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
Become a fan of Queens Crap on Facebook.
Sites that kick ass:
The above organizations are recognized by Queens Crap as being beneficial to the city as a whole, by fighting to preserve the history and character of our neighborhoods. They are not connected to this website and the opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the positions of these organizations.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(2365)
-
▼
December
(219)
- Make a wish
- Cleanup crew
- Green Church owner's bad reputation
- Cops told to look the other way
- Need an axe?
- V train still underutilized
- 100-year old predictions came true
- Huang house plans questionable
- The New York Bloomberg Post
- Don't let the bedbugs bite!
- Stone mansion in the Bronx
- Enemies in our midst
- Gioia in favor of yuppie travel subsidies
- Padavan: SJU no good
- One Hull of a mess
- DOB's "My Community"
- Queens makes 'best crapper' list
- Queens Plaza: What's taking so long?
- Hull of a weekend
- EG in NH
- St. Paul's Woodside suffers fire damage
- Lieber is Bloomberg's choice
- Flushing cop guilty of accepting bribes
- Greeks: Save Astoria from hipsters
- Tree pit advertising
- For a good time, call Jonathan
- Passing gas
- What's really happening in Queens
- Farewell, happy place
- Harassment of photographers
- The spy who screwed me
- New York lost 1.5 million people since 2000
- UES historic district heavily altered
- Ramped up
- An end to curb cut self-certification?
- It's that time of year again...
- Is PlaNYC's growth prediction full of crap?
- Bring those books back on time!
- Why the LPC is a laughingstock
- Hollaback girl
- Get a load of this
- Cold, gray crap
- Christmas Surprise: Trees at St. Saviour's making ...
- Horns will be silent
- Serf and the Pope
- A billionaire's points of light
- Shea subway ramp demo-ed
- History of the WPIX Yule Log
- Have a Merry New York Christmas
- Electric Christmas
- Merry Christmas from the Mets
- I've seen fire and I've seen crap
- Barging into the bay
- Schenkler's wish list
- Downtown Flushing development changes
- Money down the pothole
- Holiday crap
- On the prowl
- Con Ed's toxic waste in Astoria
- How cozy, part 2
- Marshall supports Briarwood rezoning
- CB 8 letter to mayor
- SJU dorm build commences
- One way to demoville
- How cozy
- Post: E-G-REGIOUS SUBWAYS
- Willets Point questions
- Bad month for the 'should be landmarked'
- Suing over sinking
- Why So Quick To Rezone?
- The Saunders Street historic district?
- Water Taxi hibernates for winter
- Reservoir plans made public
- City's soul is disappearing
- Fire Marshals at Fort Totten
- Javits is dead
- Tree-sonous
- Crap hill
- The great train robbery of 2007
- Staff to Weiner: Adios!
- The new Governors Island
- Lost tax revenue
- Trader Joe's traffic
- Phony marriages for green cards
- News from Manhattan
- The stone Victorian
- Crime must be way, way down
- DUMBO landmarked
- Crosswalks covered in plastic
- Thy candles shine so brightly
- Inspector claims bribery at old man bar
- St. Saviour's now a waste transfer station
- St. Saviour's parsonage demolished illegally
- LIC sundial
- Bloomberg defends tax hike
- Home Sharing an ideal solution
- Monkey see, monkey do
- EXCLUSIVE: Lancaster sends cops after complainer
- The real reason for fare hikes
- Old Elmhurst
-
▼
December
(219)
Send submissions to:
queenscrapper@gmail.com
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
12 comments:
they want to make LIC look crappy so that when developers go in with wrecking balls no one will raise an eyebrow, thinking that there's nothing in LIC worth salvaging -- which is completely untrue of course. There are lots of architectural gems in the nabe like that historic bank they just tore down. In case they haven't noticed there are also residential communities in LIC where hard working and decent-minded people have been living for generations.
Because the newly arrived "hipsters"
view western Queens primarily
as a place to leave their droppings!
Ever watch a male dog walk about
and mark its territory ?
It's the same with yuppies !
Yuppies mark their turf with
the proliferation of Starbucks
coffee/crap shops!
The really sad a pathetic thing about this not a single politician, or single newspaper, or single local civic leader, came out against this crap.
Bulldoze the neighborhood? Show the locals as so much vermin in rat infested hovels that should be removed and cleared out for a 'better' element?
Use their taxes to do it?
No problem. This is Queens. No one will say a thing.
Where in the @#$*@$% is civic pride in this borough?
I remember 10-63, a hipster cafe at 10-63 Jackson Ave, the first Borough Hall in Queens, proudly selling limited editions of this booklet for a hefty sum. The fellow that ran the local version of Curbed, LICNYC, touted it as something really cool.
The cafe lost their lease and had to move. The booklet got more funding and is now a few dollars.
Oh yes, 10-63, which could have been an anchor for the proposed Hunters Point Historic District was torn down.
Need I add that an application was submitted to LPC and the notorious hand scrawled rejection form letter was sent?
Need I add that not a single city-wide preservation group had a word to say?
Need I add that it was not visible from Manhattan, so, unlike the Sohmer Piano or the Domino Factory, no one (read someone from Queens) who is important cared?
You can by copies of this at Art-O-Mat.
A community store that sells stuff related to LIC boasts a book showing the community as a pile of rubble on the front cover.
When they move, they can relocate to Dutch Kills.
What is wrong with the people of western Queens. Outrage after outrage greeted with a few discrete murmers of protest
Hunters Point, Dutch Kills, Old Astoria.
What is wrong?
Maybe most people in Queens are happy with the progressive development that is happening, especially in Long Island City, and your view is in the minority.
Maybe most people in Queens are happy with the progressive development that is happening, especially in Long Island City, and your view is in the minority
--------------
Did you ask the community? Anyone left in the community to answer your questions that have not been displaced?
Under which pile of rubble on the front page of that booklet are you sending the email from? - oh I get it, you are not the person whose back yard faces a 15 story building.
You are an outsider. Or maybe you just moved in and haven't noticed all those little ants stories below you little eyerie in the sky.
The people in the community are faceless. They have no opinion. Their lives are soooo much better now that monster high rises have taken over.
Besides, the only opinions that counts are those in favor of development. Right?
That image is an outrage. Urban renewal (removal) went out with the Great Society.
Every loyal son and daughter from the neighborhood should protest this picture of our community.
I know. I am one.
Donald manes would have loved this picture !
Wow..QC did you move over to blogspot, or is this just a new format. Checkie me blog..I have a post on what the EDC should do with the Hunters Point Plan...Scrap it..or should I say, crap it!
Post a Comment