From the Times Ledger:Crime is an issue in all city parks, but College Point Park has long seen a relatively low rate of incidents.
That seems to have changed in recent months, as complaints by area community members and business owners have risen about issues including drug dealing, loitering, public drinking and fighting at the park located at College Point Boulevard and 14th Avenue.
So Monday afternoon in College Point, about a dozen community leaders, area residents, business owners, police officers from the 109th Precinct, state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) and City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) gathered for a meeting in the park to discuss ways to address the recent rise in criminal activity there.
“Some of the local business owners had expressed concerns with recent upticks in crimes in the park — there was drinking in public there, there was drug dealing,” Steve Stites, a spokesman for Halloran, said. “They brought their concerns to Halloran, Padavan and the 109th and the meeting yesterday was to take the temperature of everything, discuss everything and see how they can move forward and make the park safer.”
The consensus was that the park would do well to have a fence around it, as many parks across the city do, and to have an official open and close time, which would enable police officers to arrest individuals who are in the park after-hours.
Halloran plans to take the lead and work with the city Parks Department to get the fence and signs indicating a closing time of 9 p.m. installed.
First he should take the lead on buying himself some long pants...
20 comments:
Hey Halloran! I've seen better legs on coffee tables.
That park has been and will continue to be a shit hole, like the rest of CP, for years to come...
Hey Whitestone I hope you enjoy Vallo Bus Company.... For Years to come... MOOHAHAHAHA!!!!
college pointless
white trash cesspool
The war on drugs is such a ridiculous and EXTREMELY useless fight.
So much money wasted and so many lives lost.
SO wait, as more and more white people get driven out of the area, crime goes up???
Who would have guessed!!!
Poor College Point - once so grand and beautiful.
a LOT of history in that town starting with the Algonquin Indians - after the Civil War all the underground tunnels turned into speakeasys during Prohibition - many of the tunnels are still there.
A GREAT town once.
Now he really looks like Kevin James making a delivery.
Now he really looks like Kevin James making a delivery.
I see little plastic baggies for holding pot and beer cans everywhere in the park now, especially in the playground where that picture was taken. All the 109 has to do is drive up and down College Point Blvd. Friday and Saturday nights but obviously they aren't going to do that because it would require them to do work.
A fence? And who will be stuck closing the gate at night and opening the gate in the morning?
Old man Padavan looks like the only fit man in the bunch.
2010
college point = Shit Hole!
Why does QUeenscrap omitt comments that aren't completely off topic, but not on the agenda of Crappy....
Because some concern themselves with the President or Congress when it's their local pols that are fucking them hardest. I can flip to the letters to the editor of the local papers if I want to read that nonsense.
And yeah, your diatribes are completely off topic.
CPless is a sewer getting deeper as whity gets driven out very few old timers sticking around to wittness the Desecration of good old C.P. pointless to stay move out for your grand kids and leave the sewer to the dirtbags
If they weren't total morons they would also focus on MacNeil Park, which has similar problems as well.
You let bloomturd cut 6000 cops through attrition.........now you have to live with the consequences of an inexperienced,diverse police dept.....
@ Anonymous
I could give a shit about Vallo, I'm out of Whitestone in the near future.
It's just shame though how College Point and Flushing have just gone to shit. I have fond memories of both neighborhoods as a kid from the early 80's. Nowadays, I hate having to travel through either one.
And as one person remarked, once the minorities came flooding in, both neighborhoods went to shit. I'm not racist, but thats the facts.
I'm just waiting for 20-30 years down the line and I come back to visit Whitestone and Bayside. They probably both be dirty shitholes as well....so long Queens, nice knowin ya!
How sad to read an article like this about what was my town for the last 20 years...But is is ssssoooo true.I moved to CP years ago from Jackson Heights,which became so drug infested.I wanted a better life for my two young children at the time..Life was great in CP...Have alot of fond memories there,as well as bad ones..I recently moved out of College Point,after a long battle where i lived..I was a resident of ''Schleicher's Court Mansion''It totally broke my heart to leave,but i took with me my sanity..the constant harassment i received from the new owner was not worth me staying there...I did what i had to do while living there,and i can come back to visit & know that i took an active part in having the Mansion ''N.Y.C. Landmarked''So as i sadly read the comments left here,all i have to say is I am a black/Hispanic woman who took pride in being a good citizen in College Point..but now have to agree College Point unfortunately has goon to shit...so with that said,i am out of here..
So Sad reading this,
E.R.Douglas
former resident of Schleicher's Court Mansion
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