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The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
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- Should Dave take some of the blame?
- Baby brain dead after ambulance gets stuck in snow
- Steinway Mansion owner dies
- Kelty tells Bloomberg to duck
- King has tougher stance on illegal aliens
- Goldsmith failed major test
- Answers, pal!
- Snow means trouble for bubbles
- And now the other side of the story
- Bike lanes cleared of snow before Queens streets
- Every street plowed?
- Was it intentional?
- Deadline for snow removal has passed!
- No happy new year for Richmond Hill men
- Vallone wants fluoride out of water
- LIC street necrology
- Reforming and fining public authorities
- How they built the Unisphere
- Eastern Queens buried
- Mad as hell!
- The aftermath... death by neglect
- Toby concerned about pork in her hot dogs
- Another state senator with a shady non-profit
- Bloomberg after welfare recipient's Lotto winnings
- Corrupt pols should lose pensions
- Admiral's Row building in danger of collapse
- Snowplows, buses stuck in snow
- Bloomberg's block one of first to be plowed
- Subway crime increases
- State forgets its history
- Johnny's living the high life
- City studying stability of the Pavilion
- Illegal dumping in Elmhurst
- New Jersey helps with City EMS calls
- "The city is going fine."
- MTA not going their way
- Manhattan councilmember supports terrorist
- MTA budget bloat
- It was Nazli's job to get mosque approval
- Living in Jamaica building is no picnic
- Manhattan Project still haunts Ridgewood
- Watch the mayor blow his nose and cough
- ER alternative popular
- NYPD to change policies on sex crimes
- Bimmy's goes bankrupt
- They had fun while it lasted
- Bayard balcony crap
- Wreath a victim of budget cuts
- Snowball fight pits Vallones vs. Crowleys
- Christmas in Brooklyn
- Anyone still need a tree?
- Christmas in Connecticut
- Republican elves prepare for Christmas
- Gennaro to help church overturn landmarking
- Illegal alien phone scammers bilked the elderly
- Another proud first for Queens
- Armstrong museum expanding
- Dutch Kills residents resort to traffic cones
- And here are the proud double-dippers
- Immigrants with criminal records being told to leave
- NYPD arrests guy for photographing nostalgia train
- We need more people like him
- Space-saving sink-toilet combo
- What could she possibly be asking them?
- Hindu priest was a slave
- Bike accidents actually have increased under Sadik...
- Council looks at raising age for FDNY exam
- Mocker visits Fresh Pond and Metro eyesore
- DA probing Sampson, Meeks, broker connection
- Christine Quinn bathes on Sundays
- Proposed bill would allow immigrants to vote
- Anyone missing a jackhammer?
- Animal Care and Control?
- Albanian mobster may be in Ridgewood
- What do you mean you didn't know?
- Bay Terrace wants to secede from CB7
- Goodbye trees, hello crap!
- Give the guy his signs back already
- Collecting the garbage and raking in the dough
- So much for that...
- Keeping a garden green in Jackson Heights
- Trucker has close call on train tracks
- Council member wants to paint the town
- Our commutes suck
- How about some basic street repair before bike lanes?
- Halloran Denounces “Secret Contract,” Corrupt Demo...
- Borderline crazy!
- Security cameras for Manhattan buses
- Do you trust this man to do the right thing?
- Karla looking to cash in
- A trip to Hammels
- Top Dems collude to line Parkside's pockets
- Feeling Groovy....
- Open enrollment still a joke
- CityTime consultants busted
- JFK bomb plotter gets life in prison
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13 comments:
Possibly the dumbest report I've seen on local news in a long time.
First he refers to it as an LIRR overpass, when in fact it used to be the Fresh Pond train station until 1998.
Second, he doesn't explain who owns the vacant gas station...is that LIRR property, too? If it's privately owned, it will rot for as long the owner wants it to. It happens.
Actually, it's not dumb at all. The bridge he was standing on is an overpass. The station is down stairs.
The gas station was condemned by the city for the construction project he referred to in the report. That was supposed to have been done years ago but then the MTA didn't have the money. At least not for that...
There hasn't been a train station there in at least 25 years, if ever. The underpass is just a thruway for the LIRR.
He should do a story on the Crap in Whitestone . Corner of 11th avenue and 154th street, the old Whitestone Farms store. Malba Gardens Civic has been complaining for years. They can make 11th and 12th avenues one way against the residents, but they can't get this mess cleaned up?
CB 7? Halloran? Anybody?
The whole area is trash.
The abandoned gas station and newsstand are only a part of it. The trashy strip malls, car dealerships, car wash, and Beach Bum Tanning only add to the depression that is that area.
From an urban design standpoint, the mistake is letting so many busniesses establish themselves so far back off the street line. This isn't the suburbs. Its a city. Parking lots in the front of buildings do not work here.
But they dont learn their lesson. They should have never let that bank get built there without it being right on the corner.
The bank is the least of the problems there. That whole intersection has always been a dump. The bank arrived after the newsstand, car lot, car wash, gas station, etc. The bank is the nicest looking thing in the vicinity.
On the contrary. That corner didn't always look like hell.
Here's what it looked like back in the 1940s.
Christina, can you tell us what the sign on the pole says: "Keep your side walk clean. Please _____ ______". I can't make out the last 2 words. Thanks
I moved from Ridgewood almost 3 years ago now. That Newsstand has been vacant since around 2000 and the gas station for just has long.
The Gas Station is LIRR property as well now as years ago there were rumors of a new LIRR hub and train station being put on that intersection.
Once they got rid if Fresh Pond Diner the area started to decline and fast. All the pharmacies, banks, lack of supermarkets, etc. made Ridgewood total crap.
I loved growing up in Ridgewood in the 80's, was decent living there up to the mid 90's but once the late 90's rolled in the area went to crap and fast.
George:
Here you go.
Thank you. I guess there were slobs back in those days as well.
Interesting that "co operate" was almost like 2 words back then.
See the running board on the car at the bottom of the photo. There were a few of these left in the '50's when I grew up - the running boards fell out of automotive design favor at that time. These running boards where great seats to rest on when you were playing ring-a-levio, cops and robbers, or scully. Also, a great place to rest on with your playmate buddies on a hot July day eating a Popsicle or a Mr. Big cone or drinking a Mission soda.
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