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January
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- DOB damage control
- Building up and bringing down Briarwood
- Fencing in Astoria
- Law to make contractors show worker status
- The great Queens mosaic on Jamaica Avenue
- Wake for cemetery caretaker's house
- DOB wind advisory
- Adios a Los Estados Unidos
- Open letter to Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr.
- Now here's a house!
- Pete wants to secede from New York State
- Big and Rich = oversized and cheap
- Pullout without penalty
- Joe vs. Serf (and Albert): The battle begins
- Talented go-getters at borough hall?
- Hub snub
- Blackwell's Island 1903
- Cool post office
- What's left of the real College Point
- Bloomberg has hired the Parkside Group
- This is how pols-turned-lobbyists do it
- Sounds like a great place for luxury condos
- Losing an important part of our history
- Stop the Q45!
- Pedicabbers win in court
- Restoring the NYS Pavilion Texaco Map
- Tall fences make bad neighbors
- No Day Care Center
- Falling Star
- Hope you enjoyed your stay in Queens
- Focus on the AIA zoning text amendments
- A message from the MTA
- Best Buy not the best choice
- Bless this Father, for he hath sinned
- Under the Triborough Bridge
- Giants fan dyes dog blue
- Brian says bye-bye
- Queens fairytale by way of Atlantic City
- Why Rudy's losing
- The rising Queens water table
- Astoria becoming a shantytown
- Where To Go?
- Chappetto Square
- Barbara's latest words of wisdom
- Isn't it ironic?
- Dorm town
- Next on the agenda: congestion parking!
- Bloomie: Do as I say, not as I do
- Safety nets save lives
- Tommy and Scott's Fresh Meadows Fiasco
- Pinky clear for now, re-indictment looms
- Beginning of the end for St. Saviour's
- The G Spot returns
- Who needs CraigsList?
- Run down dog run is a real dog
- Developers pour $$ into campaigns
- Hubcap crap
- Return to the Court of Crap
- Parks denies own toxic turf memo
- The great Queens mosaic in Jamaica
- RFK, go away
- Housing slump affects Gary's bottom line
- Preservation Vision: NYC has been launched
- To sit or not to sit
- Queens West's affordable housing takes a hike
- City refers homeless to illegal dwellings
- More hipsters kicked to the curb
- Crowley's war chest
- St. Paul's Woodside may be demolished
- Fire response time up in Queens
- Admirals Row demo delay
- Astoria pool looks very uncool
- Guess the landmark
- Slow as molasses in January
- DOB commissioner breaks own policy
- Beware of house-flippers
- Jim on film
- Stringer & Yassky want more development
- A crap above in Astoria
- Dutch Kills development opposition
- High-rise accidents on the rise
- SRO fire claims 3 lives in Brooklyn
- Wake up, Senator
- Javits Center plans shrunk
- Katz a Kash Kow
- Water's edge crap
- Crap above in Carroll Gardens
- Congestion pricing, emphasis on the con
- Junction-gate?
- Temple will become mosque
- Don't Support Illegal Aliens
- Dialycrap
- How's this for a neighborhood profile?
- Bribes for green cards
- Bloomie mentions Tweed in speech
- Bedbug meeting date set
- A letter from Elizabeth Crowley
- Nazli opens mouth, crap flows out
- Ackerman's double standard
- The crappiest el stations in Queens?
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6 comments:
Some of the worst demolitions in 2007 are:
1. St. Saviour's parsonage, trees, endangered species
2. Colonial Club, a mansion-quality Beaux Art institution on W 72nd St, which had ties to George Washington
3. Playpen Theater at 693 8th Ave, originally the Ideal Theater in 1916. It was NYC's oldest extant Vaudeville theater as of 2007.
4. Long Island Savings Bank at Queens Plaza, a would-be prized building in Greece, but landfill quality for Queens.
5. Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor in Richmond Hill, a 1920's branch of the renown 1890s shop. At least most of the ornate interior was shipped out west to caring souls!
6. Hackett Building in LIC, the 1st Queens Borough President's office (as if Helen Marshall really cares!)
7. Simonson's Funeral Home in Richmond Hill. It's unfortunate the owner sold to a developer to destroy a Victorian era mansion. It was completely intact under its shingle siding, as evident during its demolition. If only the LPC had a brain.
Any other suggestions for the list? This is the Queens Crap "Hall of Shame" list for all those responsible for destroying the character of our rich city.
HACKETT BUILDING, Long Island City
Built: 1885.
Why didn't this building become protected by Historic Preservation idiots? They go after eveything in Manhattan - a lot of them were outhouses to begin with. Did they not like the bodega tenant? I don't Bodgeas but you need to look past that to see a building that merits protection, adds value to the character of the remaining neighbor.
It wasn't a bodega, it was a perfume and cosmetics store, and it probably would have been a pretty lucative business now with all the new rich folk walking around LIC. I still get sick to my stomach when I walk down Jackson (Avenue) and see the mess that stands where that beautiful building once stood.
RIP thanks to LPC....those filthy curs!
Let's not forget that chair Tierney
promised to look at Queens.....yeah.....
with a blindfold on !
Bloomberg has got his puppeteer's finger up
Bumbling Bob's ass.
Tierney will wave his arms as instructed!
While preservation experts
continue to draw large salaries,
are awarded new study grants.
and heaped full of honors....
Queens awaits for their verdict
of more destruction!
As "Pogo the Possum" might say.
"We have met the enemy and they are us"!
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