From the Daily News:
The all-time Kings of Queens will soon have a throne.
Plans are nearing fruition for a Queens Hall of Fame, with events and exhibits honoring the most accomplished actors, musicians and athletes in borough history, Queens News has learned.
Borough President Helen Marshall is partnering with local business groups on the ambitious venture - set to start next year with an induction ceremony and museum-like displays across Queens.
Organizers said the project will rely heavily on research from two Queens News series on significant sites without city landmark status or historical markers, including the ongoing Queens Heritage Quest articles.
They hope to run the inaugural induction gala in May in conjunction with a festival - perhaps titled "Queens Week" - designed to lure tourists to events at parks, libraries and other borough spots.
By calling attention to Queens' undervalued history, the hall's planners seek to generate civic pride among residents. They also want to attract outsiders to the borough and pump cash into local hotels, eateries and shops.
"We don't do anything in this borough to distinguish ourselves as a destination point," said Jack Friedman of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, which is collaborating on the project.
It's not a "destination point". It's where people live and work. Maybe if you folks got that through your thick heads, quality of life would be a lot better in this town.
15 comments:
How about movie star politician handprints in concrete in front of Borough Hall like they do in LA?
Here comes Queen Catherine again.
Bastards.
Well historical societies, not only are they faced with severe cutbacks next year (don't worry developers, your tit is secure) now they can compete with both funding and media attention on this boondoggle.
Why is Queens unique in concerns to have everyone speak with one voice?
You don't see this in Manhattan.
We need to develop our own cultural and arts spaces for folks to gather at and participate in. Some projects like the NYS pavillion languish in deterioration for there is no leadership to get it done. If there were improvements such as several re-build and re-purposing building Flushing Meadows was done but too few people can access the park or it is to find or travel safely in the park because of the concern of all the criminals that use the park.
Central QUeens is the heart of QUeens. Astoria/LIC/QUeensborough Plaza is to manhattany to be QUeens and Douglaston/Bellerose/Cambria Heights is too Long Islandy to be QUeens. Corona/Flushing/Rego Park/Forest Hills/Jamaica/Richmond Hill and basically EVERYTHING adjacent to the Van Wyck is what I believe to be the quintessential foundation of QUEENS!
Flushing and Jamaica are the two most important places in QUeens (IMO).
Marshall ia #2in my death pool.....
Donald Manes, Gary Ackerman, just to name two who should be in the Queens Hall of Fame and how about Alan Jennings as well
Astoria/LIC/QUeensborough Plaza is to manhattany to be QUeens
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Got that right. Long Island City is NOT Queens.
Leave us alone.
Sure, Queens is Archie Bunker and immigrant neighborhoods (with all their diverse! vibrancy! - code words if I ever heard them) and a quality of life degraded by the year.
Who wants to celebrate that? About as much fun as North Korea.
"Got that right. Long Island City is NOT Queens.
Leave us alone."
Excuse me? Who the fuck are you? Is your name Brad or Buffy?
Well if Long Island City is not Queens, then what is it? A wannabe Manhattan? I'd rather be Queens, lumps and all instead of a cesspool on a brownfield masked by Chanel Number 5.
"Got that right. Long Island City is NOT Queens.
Leave us alone."
Excuse me? Who the fuck are you? Is your name Brad or Buffy?
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Its not Jose or Ng.
In one generation Queens went from the Second Borough to the Bottom Feeder sybolic of small minded stale suffocating leadership living in the past and paranoid of any change, or basement dwelling transient immigrants who have lots of kids, play loud music (each culture seems to have three or four basic songs that each artist plays variations of), eat the unspeakable, revel in ghetto or thug culture, who don't give two shits about their community, are as as often as not, churlish when they get behind the wheel of their black car cabs.
Long Island City, is much more like Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Once 100 years of Queens influenced is purged, it might be a nice place again.
Queens is no longer anyone's home, it's an address.
Long Island City, is much more like Manhattan or Brooklyn.
Once 100 years of Queens influenced is purged, it might be a nice place again."
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Deluded transplant.
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