From the Daily News:Queens Plaza, with its serpentine traffic patterns and dangerous pedestrian crossings, is receiving the lion's share - $39.4 million - of the direct federal funding to the borough. That allows the city to ante up more of the $135 million price tag for the project, Mayor Bloomberg announced Monday.
The borough's share of the $261 million in federal funds will also be used to rehab bridges, resurface and extend streets, and repair the Rockaway Boardwalk.
A dilapidated stretch of College Point Blvd., from Fowler Ave. to the Whitestone Expressway, will get a new concrete top to accommodate an anticipated increase in truck traffic.
The Greenpoint Ave. Bridge, which connects Long Island City and Brooklyn, will get $6 million in upgrades to extend the life of the bridge by 10 years.
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Hospitals are closing, fire houses and police are cutting back, no money for the transit system, BUT QUEENS PLAZA?
PLENTY OF MONEY FOR AREAS EXPECTING BIG DEVELOPMENT.
THANK YOU MAYOR BLOOMBERG.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE OVERTURN TERM LIMITS.
This is why he overturned term limits.
Wants to insure the investors that a prodevelopment guy is in charge, and the public's interests (and desires) are ignored.
Cannot speak for the mayor, but as a member of the public it seems as if we are serving up our end of the deal
You jerks.
Now we will be able to run from the Crips who infest Queens Plaza.
"PLENTY OF MONEY FOR AREAS EXPECTING BIG DEVELOPMENT."
-not according to the guests I saw on the Stoler Report that aired last night. L.I.C. is DEAD. No financing-NO market for finished product.
Same for Williamsburg, Harlem and don't even mention the Bronx.
Even in Manhattan it's expected that after what is already financed gets built..that will be "it" for several years, perhaps as many as 5-10. The main thing that will ameliorate the situation here is the fact that residents that had settled for the outlying boroughs now find Manhattan a bit more affordable.
Too much supply both commercial and residential.
-not according to the guests I saw on the Stoler Report that aired last night. L.I.C. is DEAD. No financing-NO market for finished product.
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I think construction will continue. There is a major concern that people around the world will get very restive in the downturn.
They will need an escape valve.
Remember Plan2030 with a million people coming to NY?
That is what you get when you let the mayor ignore your wishes on term limits.
One million new people
whose kids you are going to pay to educate,
whose medical needs you are going to pay to take care of,
whose housing you are going to pay to build,
whose trash you are going to pay to pick up,
whose fire/police you are going to pay to maintain.
That is the price for being passive.
Feeling wealthy?
Ready to take on a new family to support?
Well look on the positive side.
The developers should have no problem paying for their daughters to go a-whoring in the Carib during spring break.
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