Monday, March 30, 2009
Willets Point Cleanup Day slideshow & videos
"Councilman Tony Avella speaks about eminent domain and the lack of paving, sewers and sanitation services at Willets Point. While he is speaking, Department of Sanitation workers are shouting at us in the background."
Cleanup along Willets Point Boulevard.
More videos are available at Willets Point United.
45 comments:
I'm just curious. Avella says there are no sewers there. When the denizens of WP "have to go", do they use a toilet or a bucket? Aren't there WC'S in WP?
There are septic tanks there.
Most of what is being cleaned up is what's been dumped there. Dumping has been called in multiple times, but DOS refuses to clean. As you can see in one of the videos, the most DOS does is push a broom around. This is a hotbed of dumping, yet DOS does not set up stings to catch the perps.
The people who had garbage around their property also generally weren't the people doing the cleaning. The businesses like Bono, USP and Crown keep the areas in front of their places neat.
Most of the garbage was and is around businesses that are either already moving or not part of the group that's fighting to stay. They were asked to move the vehicles that were parked alongside their businesses so that more of the trash could be gotten to.
There were 17000 lbs. of garbage picked up and that was only from a limited area. This costs money and this can't be done every week. Since taxes are paid for street repair, cleaning and sewers, they should be provided.
Thanks for linking to this.
Here's a question you can ask yourself...
DOS has a station in College Point where tires are recycled. Yet they only take them from people on Saturdays with ID. Why the hell do you need ID to drop off tires? Why can you only drop off 4? And why doesn't DOS pick them up when they see them on the side of the road if they have a facility that accepts them?
Why has DOS left derelict vehicles that they were notified about on the streets of Willets Point for months when they claim they tow them within 3 days when you call 311 to report them?
Which raises another question: If the streets are full of garbage because of the businesses who operate there, why hasn't DOS ticketed them? If they enforced rules maybe there wouldn't have been such an accumulation of debris. Another neglect. Having said that, I often see workers sweeping and cleaning in front of the businesses when I go there, even in front of the shacks.
Others at WP have been spoken to as well. They were good enough to put the garbage in piles for pickup.
311 has been called multiple times to no avail. The other property owners have now been mobilized and are taking action.
This could have been the most pristine land you have ever seen and that still would not prevent eminent domain from being used to take these properties.
Yes, I have called them and asked them and have been told, "those are the rules." No one could answer why because its the City and they don't have to answer why. Oh yeah, complain until something gets done... They came around and half-heartedly cleaned up last week and the tires were still left there.
Yeah complain to the elected officials who all just voted to seize the land. That'll work. I'm sure they give a shit.
I'm surprised more comments weren't made about the sanitation crew who were there (Doing nothing). The truck is visible in the slideshow. The willetts point volunteers were tossing trash into the DOS truck until the guys came back and drove off.
I know it's unbelievable. People go out of their way to do a massive cleanup and they are blamed for not doing it sooner. There's a freakin' Sanitation truck sitting there and in fact these same asswipes drove back and forth harassing the volunteers while they were having their press conference but somehow they don't get criticism and people whose land is about to get taken do. No wonder this city is the way it is. A lot of the people seem to have the same mentality that lazy overpaid civil servants do.
Nice to see out tax dollars paying for DOS workers to pretend to do work at Willets Point.
Great! So taxpaying businesses will have to pay to send workers multiple times during the week to get rid of the tires that DOS should pick up themselves. Makes perfect sense.
Things Willets Point workers should do even though they pay taxes to have the City do it:
1) Pay to clean up dumped garbage.
2) Pay to bring tires to DOS.
3) Pay to pave the roads (and get arrested for doing so).
4) Pay to install septic tanks.
5) Pay to plow the streets.
6) Unwillingly sell their property to the City for 1/4 of its value.
7) Get the hell out so a developer with connections can make a huge profit.
Anything else?
My point was that they could have collected the tires and hauled them over to College Point as well during the cleanup but the DOS rules are so stupid that they will have to make multiple trips. And DOS should be picking them up anyway.
I think it's great they did this. Embarrass the mayor and his cronies at EDC!
FYI it wasn't QC who deleted the posts. It was me. I don't have time to follow up on this post this week so I pulled it. I still feel the way I do and it wasn't QC it was me. I feel bad for WP and the ED issue. I have shopped at WP for car parts and such for many years and have spent thousands of dollars there and would hate to see it go down like that. But even though I pay taxes as well I still rent my own 10 yarder once every 2 years for serious spring cleaning and other stuff I need to get rid of and don't want to leave at the curb. It's still an opionion. Thanks.
If they cleaned every two years at WP they would still never catch up. Dumping happens on a weekly basis there, if not nightly. The abandoned cars especially.
P.S. I'm sorry I have to turn comment moderation on because Biggie is back and acting like an asshole.
What happened to that video I forwarded of Shulman being carted off in a wheelbarrow...being dumped into the Flushing River?
What a splash! Ka-splo-o-o-sh!
The floating effluents clinging to
her soaked hairdo.. or is it a wig?
BTW, there were 3 trucks. I could only follow one of them. The major trash (and I mean MAJOR) was picked up by another truck on 37th Avenue.
Crapper: Biggie is not acting. He really is an asshole.
Is this "Biggie" fella really
Evan Stavisky?
He's certainly plump enough...
runs in the family I suppose!
Shulman has already shamelessly racked up $400,000 for herself.
How much is Parkside getting paid
to counter post on QC and various sundry items?
And in this economy...
shame on you Bloomberg!
Once again, Tony Avella is the only pol on the right side of an issue.
17000+ lbs of dumped trash were collected at WP. I know because I saw the receipt for it.
PARKSIDE already got $$$$; PARKSIDE continues to get $$$$$$$; PARKSIDE gets more $$$$$$$$$$; PARKSIDE gets even more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...
and $400,000 has already gone to Shulman out of the taxpayers' pockets...
all IN THIS WOEFUL ECONOMY !!!
The FBI ought to be looking into this...for sure!
But they won't because maybe the "little duke"
has the fix in with some of his "friends" overseas!
Why didn't any of the past elected officials push for this area to be cleaned up? Why didn't Claire Shulman, Helen Marshall, Toby Stavisky, Hiram Monserrate, etc. arrange this? Is it because they knew what the "plan" was for it all along? These folks sponsor cleanups elsewhere, so I am curious.
Because the real plan was to extend
Flushing's "crappy little Chinatown"
across the river into Willets Point.
Who else would want to live there....only people who've left more squalid conditions in Taiwan or China.
Shulman's proposed new pedestrian access bride, just north of Roosevelt Ave. ,
will now make this more feasible.
But wasn't that Manes', the (long defunct)Downtown Flushing Development
Corporation's (headed up by Myra Baird Herce), Wellington Chen's, Tommy Huang's,
old CB#7's, Shulman's, the Stavisky's
etc. original long term plan dating back to the early 80s?
Yep....
"F" is for Flushing
and "F" is for f----d!
Ask Gary Ackerman!
OK so I have to give Avella credit for being there. Though he loses serious points for showing to a clean up in a suit and tie.
He wasn't asked to come and clean, he was asked to come and speak.
The best thing that can happen to that area is for it to be destroyed. It's all crooked ,and it is in the best interest of all Queens residents that it be re- developed. end of story.
Anon said:
"The best thing that can happen to that area is for it to be destroyed. It's all crooked ,and it is in the best interest of all Queens residents that it be re- developed. end of story."
Anon, are you posting this comment to show what a moron you are, or can you itemize a few facts to back up your idiocy? Or, you just don't care, you like to rant?
All those extra spaces in your sentences, do they come out from your brain?
these poor people what's wrong with this city
Queens Crapper said...
If they cleaned every two years at WP they would still never catch up. Dumping happens on a weekly basis there, if not nightly. The abandoned cars especially.
P.S. I'm sorry I have to turn comment moderation on because Biggie is back and acting like an asshole
THATS THE ONLY WAY HE KNOEWS HOW TO ACT OR LIKE A SHEEP lmao
Why does Avella just show up for the camera in a suit then leave???
He is the CM for the area.. If he cared he would be pushing for more clean up
He doesn't care.. Just wants the PR
And not very good PR cause no press articles appeared
Big deal.. You cleaned up your mess.. Want a medal??
Honest business people do it all the time
Anonymous said...
Why does Avella just show up for the camera in a suit then leave???
He is the CM for the area.. If he cared he would be pushing for more clean up
He doesn't care.. Just wants the PR
And not very good PR cause no press articles appeared
Big deal.. You cleaned up your mess.. Want a medal??
Honest business people do it all the time
no ass hole biggie we dont want a medal we want the city to do there job now go to your gay porn site jerk off
News flash
No business Or person in nYC thinks they get the all the services they pay for
They don't cry like a little bitch about it
They order a dumpster and clean up
That is life
You are an illegal immigrant
Anonymous said...
News flash
No business Or person in nYC thinks they get the all the services they pay for
They don't cry like a little bitch about it
nope your the little sheep bitch
you say you clean up in front of your house ( i meen your trailer home ) but do you clean up 17,000 lbs of garbage !!!!! ooo let me guess NO ASS WIPE the city d.o.s. does not do there job the next clean up day is set for may more news and more news to show the is sleeping and doing nothing . now go back and cry to your mama sheep boy .
O O WHAT HAPPEND TO YOUR BIG DAY AT THE POINT .STAY OFF LINE TILL IT GOS DOWN BUT YOUR POSTING HERE
loser
LIER LIER PAINTS ON FIRE
BAAAAAAAAAAAAA
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WP Webmaster said...
BTW, there were 3 trucks. I could only follow one of them. The major trash (and I mean MAJOR) was picked up by another truck on 37th Avenue.
Monday, March 30, 2009
ill be sending you the tape of it
Anonymous said
You are an illegal immigrant
and your a gay sheep
"He is the CM for the area.. If he cared he would be pushing for more clean up"
Councilmember Avella is not the councilperson for this area. That was Hiram "Girl Cutter" Monserrate and now Julissa Ferreras.
Shows what an ignorant ass you are.
Queens Crapper said...
"He is the CM for the area.. If he cared he would be pushing for more clean up"
Councilmember Avella is not the councilperson for this area. That was Hiram "Girl Cutter" Monserrate and now Julissa Ferreras.
Shows what an ignorant ass you are.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
GOOD CALL OUT CRAPPER IT SHOWS HOW DUMB THIS 5TH GRADER BIGGIE IS WHAT A LOSER
How does Evan even manage to use a keyboard to counter post here with those fat little sausage fingers of his?
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