Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Willets Point reality

What was promised in 2009:


Affordable housing!
Schools!
Shops!
Luxury Condos!
Convention Center!
Jobs!

What will actually be developed as of today:


Renderings courtesy of NYC Economic Development Corporation - click for larger versions

Shops!
Luxury Condos!
Hardly Any Affordable Housing!
No Schools!
No Convention Center!
Hardly Any Jobs!

Note that half of phase 1 is listed as a "buffer". So people will lose their property and their jobs for empty space that will likely become a parking lot for Shitty Field.

This is nothing more than a Wilpon-driven Citifield beautification project. The development is concentrated right across the street from the Mets' offices.

But we're going to pay for it.

As well as Claire's bridge to nowhere.

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

Will the buildings across 126th street be tall enough so tennants can view Met games for free or willthe Wilpon's demand some sort of remuneration for the view?

Anonymous said...

I never liked the name..."Mets" (or their playing).

Sounds like Fred & Ethyl Mertz.

I do love Lucy and go...go... Yankees!

Anonymous said...

Oh...just bury Shulman in the outfield or hang her at home plate...the "old squidgelum" (a W.C. Fields term).

Another one of his quips:
"She looks like a well kept grave".

Anonymous said...

Isn't it..."Wellington Pointe"...
because Chen is quietly behind it all?

Anonymous said...

Isn't it..."Wellington Pointe"...
because Chen is quietly behind it all?

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It sure is!

Mr. Nostalgia said...

BRING IN THE FEDS!

Anonymous said...

Can't wait for this new development...the Willets Point area is such a dump, all those nasty chop shops..ewwwwww...anything is better than whats there now...well i guess except the projects

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

So you want the whole area to be built at once? Aren't these things usually done in phases?

Anonymous said...

It has proven impossible thus far for EDC to obtain any approval to construct additional Van Wyck access ramps, which are necessary for the entire project to proceed. So what EDC has done is to attempt to downsize the project to such an extent that no ramps are needed. What is unsaid, is that if the ramps are never approved, then all will ever be built is the puny "Phase 1", which is merely a CitiField beautification project.

This project is now a hobbled, Frankenstein's monster version of what EDC originally intended. The Willets Point property owners are essentially prevailing against the City, and are killing the project. Excellent work.

Anonymous said...

LOL.. declare victory.. even whilst the project is getting done.

Anonymous said...

The project is getting done? It's been 3 years and they haven't obtained the property and even said they have no plans to until next year at the earliest.

Yeah, I'd say momentum is in WPU's favor at this point.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone have an accurate figure for the amount of money spent so far on the Wallet's Point project? Remember that this is OUR money they're giving away...to Shillman, Kelty, Appealian, and hmmm........John Liu?

Evan S. said...

Mommy! They're picking on me. Do I look like a nose? And no, I didn't wet myself. Well, maybe only a little came out.

Anonymous said...

STOP EMINENT DOMAIN!!!!!!

Claire Shillman said...

STOP EMINENT DOMAIN!!!!!!

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HA! Is that all you got?

Wimpy Wimpy

Anonymous said...

Claire Shillman said...

HA! Is that all you got?

Wimpy Wimpy
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@ Claire

You're Hefty Hefty

Anonymous said...

I believe that Shulman's pedestrian bridge to nowhere, between Flushing & Willets Point, was designed by Walker Group (?)"V" Studio's Jay Valgora...the same architect doing the RKO Keith's redux.

No doubt "Nussie"...the Trib's whore master Michael Nussbaum has more than his fingers in it too!

These Manes bag men & women are still walking around and so are "the Donald's" plans for the area...given a change or two.

Morticia said...

Shilman will be pushing up stink weeds before a spade is put in the ground at Wallets Point!

Anonymous said...

TDC is intent on developing that swath of land from W.P. to the RKO Keith's.

Patrick Thompson is likely just a front for Asian developers RE the Keith's.

And "Nussie" has been hired to do Trib puff pieces for the whole damn thing.

Maybe we'll see a chorus line of scantily clad Chinese "Rockettes" kick up their heels on opening day at Shitty Field.

Nussie & Co. will be busily handing out leaflets advertising his "Shanghai Nights" clubs.

Nussie said...

A-a-a-a-ahhhh....come again!

Anonymous said...

Wasn't Nussbaum Manes' whore procurer?

Anonymous said...

Read "City For Sale".

After successful deals were concluded, it was common for Manes and his friends to participate in orgies.

I wonder who got the "ladies" for those "parties"?

What a pack of crooked pigs.

And some are in the "publishing" business.

Anonymous said...

And waz up with Ackerman and Zeisis?

Moby said...

I wonder who got the "ladies" for those "parties"?

We has a "whale" of a time!

Winky Winky

Anonymous said...

ugh that whole site is a dump, whats wrong w/ you people?? anything is better than whats there now!?!?! why are you against progress??? that area is filthy w/ nasty chop shops, it needs to be razed & cleaned up now!!!

Queens Crapper said...

"Progress" is code word for eminent domain abuse.

If the area was attended to by the city, it would clean itself up. That's what people can't seem to get through their thick skulls.

Anonymous said...

ugh that whole site is a dump, whats wrong w/ you people?? anything is better than whats there now!?!?! why are you against progress??? that area is filthy w/ nasty chop shops, it needs to be razed & cleaned up now!!!

Look out!!! Evan's trolling again. What a loser!

Emir said...

You want "progress? " Your progress looks more like destruction. The only "progress" being pushed around is eminent domain and overdevelopment.

The people in our city government, agencies,etc continue to sanitize what's left of New York City.

The EDC are land grabbing assholes. They are merely tools of Mayor Moneybags. They aggressively push his pro development agenda. The EDC president, Seth Pinsky, was appointed by mayor Moneybags.

These big development projects are being forced on people in the name of progress. So we have our "pro development, anti preservation" mayor of NYC and his minions that thank for the mess they created.

The never ending efforts to sanitize and over develop is not progress.

Anonymous said...

You want "progress? " Your progress looks more like destruction. The only "progress" being pushed around is eminent domain and overdevelopment.

I know that and you know that. Too bad the citizens of Queens have been so dumbed down by the likes of corrupt politicians and incompetent media! Long Live Queens Crap!

Queens Crapper said...

The trolling will stop. It's one person from one IP address.

Anonymous said...

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ha ha hahaha evan you loser scumbag

Anonymous said...

hey evan , willets point will never get built , you and your momma can shove it .

Evan said...

and your momma can shove it .

True. She likes that. Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Ah...witness the true power of "Queens Crap"!

Evan & Co. are forced to follow it daily to see what's written about them so they can counter post...and all from one i.p. address.

I love it!
Got you by the short hairs...eh?

What the weeklies and a lot of dailies won't touch "Crappie" surely will!

Praise be to the "Queens Crapper"!

Evan S. said...

and all from one i.p. address.

I thought you said p.p. address. No big thing.

Really,no BIG thing.