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- LI not as eager to approve overdevelopment
- Could the census be correct?
- Unfunded mandates killing school districts
- The epitome of crapitecture
- National Guard wants to junk Admirals' Row
- 'Spite wall' comes down
- Break the rules, get a waiver
- Here comes the toll proposal again
- Noisy AC unit makes for bad neighbors
- Bloomberg introduces city to Ben Dover
- Buy a fake, go to jail
- Build first, worry about the rest later
- Phasing out dirty oil to take a long time
- Time to change the signs
- Chinese gambling parlors getting robbed
- 2 rapists still on the loose
- Pick up your dog's crap!
- Don't let bedbugs bite you twice!
- Where the game was played in 1956
- Where were they 4 months ago?
- DOB was given ample warning about firetrap
- Shocking news: illegal aliens can be really danger...
- City can't keep its own buildings up to code
- Riot at Sikh temple
- Hindu rituals threaten Jamaica Bay ecosystem
- LIC railyard is still noisy
- Family dead in Bronx SRO fire
- Big brother Bloomberg is watching
- Cops not interested in video of attempted rape
- Cyclists get bike lanes and tickets that come with...
- Bloomberg policies hurt the elderly
- Claire's baby put on the back burner
- Here comes Crappy Cottontail...
- Taxi spot to be decontaminated
- Douglaston's WWI dead get no respect from city
- Council Republicans celebrate Easter
- Vallone vs. e-cigs
- A Blimp Lands In Flushing
- Expansion of tennis center causes concern
- You post the sign, you pay the fine
- What's he up to now?
- More development, less public transportation
- Missing munimeter means tickets
- Feds target Flatbush Gardens
- Zoning code has stifled development?
- Admirals' Row in limbo
- Bring back sponsorship
- Trouble at the South Street Seaport
- Do as we say, not as we do
- Vito is right to scowl!
- Stop honking!
- DSNY harassing innocent citizens with bogus tickets
- Marshall likes hospitals (and development)
- 208th Street brawl
- That's some salary!
- He meant well, but...
- Jamaica rally postponed until Thursday
- What will Christine do?
- What's going on at Meyer's Hotel?
- By the city, for the city
- Flushing crap disgusts activist
- Locals upset about JFK runway plan
- City outsources BikeShare program
- Going off the Deepdale end?
- RESIDENTS & COMMUNITY LEADERS PROTEST DANGEROUS DE...
- Clogging up College Point Blvd
- Time to clean the cart!
- The Queens Machine, in about 200 words
- Win a home makeover
- 400 cops to be pinched?
- Walled off
- Developers want more handouts
- Parking meter time extended on Queens Blvd
- Short-term leases soon to be a thing of the past?
- The only good Democrat is a liberal Democrat?
- Warning on illegal apartments
- Bye, bye Blockbuster
- Hipsters kicked out of illegal trailer park
- Mass arboricide comes with not-for-profit expansions
- 1-4 years for Hevesi
- Mocker calls out Bloomberg for caring more about t...
- Finally, some enforcement
- Violent day laborers plague Hart Playground
- Is this the historic Shaw hotel?
- Developer lied to Council, Walmart probably coming
- Let's develop Flushing!
- It's good to be in charge of your own schedule
- Mocker at the dirty train tracks
- More of Upper West Side to be designated
- Budget cuts mean more trash for outer boroughs
- Bridge repair fund looted
- Co-ops socked by tax mistake
- Oh no! Not enough pre-K in LIC!
- Household garbage in public trash cans
- Bloomberg bitchslapped by Fed judge
- How not to rob a bank
- 3rd term's not a charm for Bloomie
- He has money for this?
- Profiling Nettie's right hand man
- Hotels and houses coming to brownfield site
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18 comments:
my chinese friend, property owner for years in flushing, is also fed up with his neighbors breaking all the zoning and d.o.b. regulations. as well as illegal immigration control.
he reports the violations but the city government evades them.
he is ashamed and is planning to move. he says it is a waste of time complaining to this government.
My Chinese neighbors say never to eat in Flushing or buy fresh cat from their stores as it is not as good as what is available in China Town.
This interviewer is so naive! No one comes to Flushing to enjoy the ambiance except perhaps a few Manhatttanites venturing out into No Man's Land for a once-only experience.
Flushing is such an incredible shithole, and its "ambiance" is spreading to Bayside and Nassau.
How about getting rid of the cheapo, multiple signs on every building and establishing a tasteful standard?
Oh well, it's never going to happen. NYC is so over.
"...we can agree, Flushing has some of the best DIM SUM anywhere."
We can also agree, WPIX has SOME of the DIMMEST news anchors anywhere.
This has been going back and forth for years.
They aren't going to display large signs in English. End of story.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Downtown Flushing is a stench ridden overdeveoped garbage dump, thanks to the rodents on CB7, Boro pres. Marshall, Councilmembers Koo, Chin, and Halloran and Congressman Gary Ackerman. Oust the incumbents.
It might have started out as a good idea---to offer a brochure which translated some common foreign language phrases into English---in order to facilitate better understanding between a customer and merchant.
I believe it was Myra Baird Herce's Downtown Flushing Development Corporation that was pushing this Leonard Stavisky originated measure many years ago.
It wasn't particularly successful back then and would be minimally successful now.
Assemblywoman Meng and Senator Stavisky, please stop passing the buck and enforce your own state laws!
NYC should not have to pass its own law regarding the additional posting of English on all foreign signs.
This is a public safety issue.
Act now!
Evergreen optical, what the hell kind of business is that?!?! Red Hair Salon, Hyun Dae Insurance Mortgage, I don't understand!! Mihe Kim CPA, Myung Dong Beauty Salon,are these dog meat restaurants? What ARE these businesses and how are we supposed to know what they are?!?!
Apparently it's not a safety issue anymore but one of personal offense at the language and choice of another culture. After participating in a similar discussion on this blog, I paid attention to the store signs along Northern Blvd around the 150's and 160's. Most of the businesses already have some signage in English that indicate what the business is. The one business I noticed without any English was a restaurant under the LIRR that appears out of business. Funny, I still knew it was a restaurant.
Flushing signs advisory board?? Who is this clown? He perceives hostility by the people running the businesses(which is probably the case) so he thinks that mandating signs in English will make these businesses welcoming? What a tool.
Funny he doesn't complain about the Greek businesses in Astoria who also prefer to cater to their own first, and everybody else second.
If people want to keep within their own culture, fuck em, let them have it. It wouldn't be an issue except that people are jealous that this particular culture is hard working enough, and has the cohesion and perseverance to buy up all the prime real estate in the neighborhood. Perhaps if we had similar values of culture and unity we wouldn't have sold our own neighborhoods to them. Maybe THAT'S what we should be upset about.
Myung Dong Beauty Salon,are these dog meat restaurants?
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You sound like a racist. Have you even tried their Cream of Sum Yung Gai soup?
Yup. The Greeks are just as off-putting as the Koreans. I'm not Greek and man, do I get the cold shoulder when I buy olives and feta cheese in Astoria. 'strue.
Time to sign over Flushing's deed to the Taiwanese and make it their official off shore colony.
What's the difference if you can read their f----g signs or not.
YOU'RE NOT WELCOME "ROUND EYES"!
And who the hell wants to buy the same cheap souvenirs and mysterious unsanitary goods you can pay far less for in Manhattan's far more interesting Chinatown?
Flushing is just a low class dump of no significance other than it happens to be a transportation hub.
It's a destination of departure, NOT CHOICE, onward to Queens' better neighborhoods.
So, fughettaboutit and enjoy the rest of the fabulous New York City that tourists clamor to visit!
NYC will soon be SIGNING OVER the deed to Muni Lot#1 to Wellington Chen's Chinese based TDC Rockefeller Group to build their "Floo-shing Come-on" project.
Then the old YMCA building (along with their vast parking lot) on Northern Blvd. will likely go to TDC also.
Then the inv-ASIAN will be complete.
Enforce the NY State Law.
Jimmy Trikas for NY City Council!
The "colonization of Flushing" - The Stavisky Team tried to hang Julia Harrison in 1996 for using that term. Julia was so right. AND she won re-election in 1997.
Julia also tried to pass legislation in the early 90's requiring signs be in English. She later found out that a law already existed. A State law. Almost 20 years have passed since this was discovered and still no enforcement.
Flushing is a Shit Hole no doubt ;-( Hard working people my ass ;-( I've never seen such rude filthy or arrogant people in my life ;-( The love their Whore houses that a Fact !!!!!
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