Keep in mind that this is considered to be the "good" part of Elmhurst, south of Queens Blvd...also remember that most of these replaced one-family homes on large lots.
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- Como wimps out of debate again
- Birds of a feather...part 7
- Haunted mansion murder on Staten Island
- Bushwick's spooky mansion
- Ghostbusters called to SI church
- Avella tells Bloomberg off
- Nydia: "Land Grabs Like This Give Eminent Domain A...
- Crappo Italiano in Red Hook
- Rest in Peace, Nancy Cataldi
- Cardinal confims he's not a Como fan
- 1940s NYC returns in old photos
- Another major surprise - schools are overcrowded
- The decline of manufacturing in NYC
- Vallone vs. Astoria housing for homeless
- An excellent piece about tweeding
- Rangel protest expands
- Downzoning fails to stop overdevelopment
- Overnight fire at Main St and Roosevelt Ave
- What politicians, ugly buildings and whores have i...
- Jesus Christ, Cardinal Egan endorse Como?
- Far Rockaway: NYC's "toss-away location"
- 'Healthy' tree falls down
- LPC gives blessing to St. Vincent's demo
- Citizens Union sticks with Frank
- Crazy inspector and building owner go at it
- Tide: Not just for laundry anymore!
- Lady Liberty coming to LIC
- Campaign sign doubles as wanted poster
- Metro visits Crescent Street
- Touchy Tierney
- Assembly's Silver opposes video slots at Belmont
- Documenting illegals: good luck with that
- Voters want statewide term limits
- Kissena cell tower
- Crane accident in College Point
- More on the plummeting price of homes
- Houseboat eviction at World's Fair Marina
- Chronicle defends Queens hipster
- Como sends out hilarious mailer, part 2
- Allegations of cat starvation at Sunnyside stores
- How the Campaign Finance Board wastes our money
- Collection of term limits articles
- Marge's malarkey
- Pregnant woman stabbed to death in S. Ozone Park
- Testimony and protest over Hunters Point South
- Henry Stern makes interesting point
- Queens Tribune vs. Queens Council pigs
- Negotiations failing at Willets Point
- An open letter to the City Council
- Chronicle's big fuss over Muss
- Mystery boxes popping up in Bayside
- Red-faced over green 'pumpkin'
- Hotel fight back on in Springfield Gardens
- Addabbo bill to stop foreclosure
- Queens house prices plummet
- Shocked on term limits
- Battle between boroughs over oldest building
- Transit report recommendations
- Grand Avenue house of horrors
- Birds of a feather...part 7
- Thompson: "Democracy has been suspended"
- What happened behind closed doors
- Tweeders united
- Aqueduct deal official
- Construction fence sums it up perfectly
- 33 poodles taken from Queens home
- Parkway Village considered for landmarking
- Queens rapist in Astoria and Corona
- More Forest Avenue Crapitecture
- Did Como make a deal with the devil?
- Another piece of Shea gone for good
- Funky Jamaica flower looks like Hindu god
- Long Island Motor Parkway turns 100
- Queens lady gets non-stop phone calls
- Gallagher acting as Como's attack dog
- Firehouse in Flushing hits century mark
- Rickles remembers where he came from
- Arrested aliens back out on the street
- NYS Pavilion: Weedy, seedy and needy
- The term limits plot thickens...
- Day laborers busted on 69th Street
- Kensinger's Creek photos
- Piano factories to condos
- Bastards...
- 2 cops shot in subway by illegal alien
- Laurelton LIRR station unsafe
- Flushing Meadows boathouse restoration
- Don't get snaked by fake sewer fix
- Queens kids go to school
- Kew Gardens Hills: where everything is low-rent
- Will of the people to be trampled on Thursday
- Thompson blasts Bloomberg's tactics
- Kaufman Astoria breaks ground on expansion
- City poisons our waters while fixing potholes
- Hooray for Hiram!
- How do we have money for this?
- Bad vibrations in Jackson Heights
- Daily News vs. Aqueduct Casino
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29 comments:
Love that laundry hanging out in the driveway!
When's the economy and stock market going to recover? My portfolio is in the toilet. I have to buy a home in Iceland, and a one-way ticket on Iceland Air to Reykjavik. This "vibrancy and diversity" is giving me headaches and indigestion. I need the boring monotony of Iceland.
i have to cosign on the headaches and indigestion.. not saying its a 'diversity' issue. just one of suckhood in general
Look out!
"VD" is making a comeback!
A clubhouse transmitted disease!
"Vibrant & diverse"...
PR spin to divert one's attention away from the noisy, filthy qualities that make a neighborhood a hard sell to would be investors!
Most people prefer to live where a more peaceful quality of life
exists along with good schools etc. and not in a cramped ghetto living elbow to elbow with your "neighbors"! .
Thank you Mayor Bloomberg for creating such a beautiful city to live and work.
Hey Wade, Bonds! Buy Bonds.
Hits a home run every time
Vibrant! Diverse! America tomorrow.
Where is Francis Moran when we need him.
I want him to do a restaurant review featuring mystery meat!
Get that clothesline out of the driveway!
You know folks, its time we put up a website celebrating the Diverse! Vibrant! slum the clubhouse has made of Queens.
We need to put links everywhere.
We need to dedicate it to the Democratic Party in Queens.
You know folks, its time we put up a website celebrating the Diverse! Vibrant! slum the clubhouse has made of Queens.
We need to put links everywhere.
We need to dedicate it to the Democratic Party in Queens.
I have the displeasure of living in diverse elmhurst. Knowing what it was like as a child, and now finding myself back there thirty years later, It is truly a ghetto. It is bad enough the neighborhood is treated as peoples garbage can, one must pay market rents and have to indure selfish, dim witted neighbors who feel that they rent a house they can pretend to have a club in the backyard. I cant wait to get the hell out of this place!
Hey Wade,
Iceland is bankrupt!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_meltdown;_ylt=AnRG1ggTfJD_G2EndmIhv9dvaA8F
Why don't you move next to Blumberg and live in Bermudah?
hmmm..Elmhurst is beginning to look like the Vibrant! Diverse! parts of Corona... has anyone driven down Xenia street lately? Disgusting.
Another 4 years of Bloomberg's vision of improving the quality of life for the outer boroughs? No thanks!
Naw....the laundry is the best part of these Jacoob Riss wanna be shots.
the concrete covered gardens, huge SUV's, new model cars, unregulated housing where the rents go up, up and up each year and the bad housing conditions do down the drain are the ugliness that is now Queens, NY. With all that neglect and skyrocketing rents how do they afford new model cars????
wade nichols said...
"...This "vibrancy and diversity" is giving me headaches and indigestion. I need the boring monotony of Iceland."
Actually, Wade, it is YOU that is the boring monotony of Iceland. Please, do not go there and further their misery.
Iceland is bankrupt!
Just wait another 5-10 minutes, and NYC will probably be in the same boat!
Despite Iceland's bankruptcy, non-vibrance and homogeneity, it's still a safer place than NYC. I wonder why?
Plus the natural beauty can't be beat - geysers, the Vatnajökull glacier, Blue Lagoon, etc.
Actually, Wade, it is YOU that is the boring monotony of Iceland. Please, do not go there and further their misery.
Don't worry. Until the economy recovers, I'm staying in Queens for the foreseeable future, and I'll continue to make your life miserable via my eloquent prose writings on Queens Crap.
dear poluting, narrow minded queens crap readers, there is nothing wrong with air drying laundry.
I agree except that washlines belong in the back of the house, out of sight. Not in the front driveway...
good point; but i think those houses don't have room in the back. that's where the vegetable garden is :-)
How in the hell did Wade get that umlaut?
I can't even get good polka music anymore.
Damn!
good point; but i think those houses don't have room in the back. that's where the vegetable garden is :-)
No, the chicken coop is in the back, that's where they keep the birds until they need them for the Santeria ceremony.
How in the hell did Wade get that umlaut?
Three years of high school Deutsch was good for something. But what would you expect a bigoted intolerant "Archie Bunker" type such as myself to study, Spanish?
geh scheissen wade. die drei jahre deutsch waren total verplempert. sag mir mal wer THEY ist? haeh? heraus mit der sprache du rassistischer arsch.
Fick dich! Analfixiert schweinehund!
wow wade - hier hast du wieder deine beruehmte "prosa" geliefert. du bist wirklich ein toller dichter und denker.
Ist diese Königin-Scheiße?
Oh just get over it. Everyone but the idiots on this blob knows that Elmhurst is mostly newly arrived immigrants. This is too easy for QUEENS CRAP~. You must be too lazy to look up anything really noteworthy that so you target this area. BIG DISCOVERY. I also grew up in Elmhurst and as my parents planned I moved on up and out. Too crowded now but I still visit old restautants that taste amazing.
If you can't take it or can't follow the consistent pattern of New York City history and the immigrant wave. MOVE.
There are hundreds are perfectly affordable all white areas in this country. Thousands actually. FIND ONE!!!!!!
Give up and move?
Great strategy. I can tell you really care about your neighborhood.
What happens when the immigrant wave ends up at your doorstep once again? Do you move again until you run out of places to move to?
And there are plenty of immigrant neighborhoods that don't look like slums. Are you saying the ones that moved into Elmhurst don't know how to behave?
i remember going to a chinese restaurant once there. how can you go wrong?
i still have flashbacks at what i found.....
From the Queens Chronicle...
Dear Editor:
What is with the commander over at the 106th Precinct? Seems you can party for days on end, blast your neighbors out of their homes with loud music and drumming, park a car with speakers blaring at all hours and drink enough Red Stripe at the festivities to float the Titanic — but heaven forebid that you drink a beer in front of your own home.
In the past month or so I have heard of a number of separate incidents in Ozone Park and Lindenwood where drinking a beer just outside a local bar (the person in question had stepped outside for a smoke) or your home gets you a $25 ticket. In the latest incident, a gentleman vacuuming his car in front of his home while drinking a can of beer (covered in a brown paper bag) was shocked to have an officer pull up and give him a ticket. Meanwhile, this summer has once again been a season of 3 day weddings complete with 24-hour live drumming, blasting music and driveways and yards crowded with revelers who are drinking alcohol. But the precinct seems to have no problem with that, even though i t goes on right on the sidewalk and in the street, where beer is dispensed from the trunks of cars — no summonses issued here. Why?
The answer is simple — our officers are obviously under orders to be culturally sensitive to the ethnic immigrant community while the rest of us have to go by the rules. I have written to Commissioner Ray Kelly about this and received a response from him that the 106th Precinct brass would shortly follow up with me to address this nuttiness. Needless to say, more than a month has gone by and no one from the 106th Precinct has so much as glanced in my direction. Maybe I have to drink a beer in front of my house to get their attention.
Ann Rychlenski,
Ozone Park
Ann:
Its called Tweeding.
Jack:
We examine Elmhurst as the exhibit A of what not to do, a modern cautionary tale preservation mothers tell their children to keep them in line.
Wade:
What can I say? No one does umlauts better than you (six years of German and two of Russian, but alas, no Bangla, Spanish, or Chinese)
Harpers Magazine has an article about Iceland.
Got sold down the river cause the population is so feakin passive and they don't want to talk about unpleasant things (it seems like half came from slaves)
Just like Queens.
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