From the Daily News:Landmarking advocates said the neo-Tudor home on 74th St. and 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights is a rare large house in a neighborhood that is better known for garden apartments, but even advocates were resigned to losing it.
"It's a foregone conclusion," said Daniel Karatzas of the Jackson Heights Beautification Group. "We would have liked it to be preserved. I'm just being, at this eleventh hour, a little more realistic."
It's a clash between two local concerns - education and historic preservation - that the project's opponents said they regularly lose.
Parents support the decision to demolish the home and combat overcrowding in schools, while preservationists wonder if the lavish home can be saved and reused as school space.
...a Korean church that owned the house sold to a developer who then flipped it to the city...
A spokeswoman for the Landmarks Preservation Commission said the agency determined the home may be worth inclusion in a historic district, but it doesn't warrant individual landmark status.
Okay, so why wasn't it included in the historic district?
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I think it used to also house a Orthopedic Doctor's office on the side. It's a great spacious house with a proportionate garden plot. Anything nice in Queens must be torn down and put up Soviet/Red China florescent housing blocks!
Jackson Heights is an example of a community that keeps on crying for bread with 2 loaves under their arms.
Are they not content with what they already have....a rather large landmark district?
Other communities, like Flushing, are starving for the creation of a single historic district....let alone adding any individual landmarks to its paltry list.
Pour yourselves a nice (LOL) Merlot and toast your mansion goodbye....cry babies.
1. The Koreans again. .... No, not racist, but they were the same group involved in St Saviours.
I have had many ethnic racials say to me "Why don't you protect that place - it would be protected in my country" - then shrug their shoulders when I suggest they do they same here "If your government don't care why should we?" they say.
2. Where is QCC? Where is the group that meets at borough hall? Where is the citywide public campaign for preservation in the same spirit as the bike Nazis? Etc etc. Folks, I can sit here until kingdom come and ask these questions ... and fully intend to.
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3. Pitting the school lobby against the community. Only a politician would do something scuzzy like that.
Why don't they use eminent domain against a developer for a school. How about all those empty or half finished lots around the city that are breeding sites for mosquitoes?
Jackson Heights is an example of a community that keeps on crying for bread with 2 loaves under their arms.
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Your are exactly what is wrong with our society today. Just because a community "has" something, they do not need more. Even if it is legit and meriteed.
We are doomed for destruction thanks to this Space Ball soldier! and the many like him or her.
Pour yourselves a nice (LOL) Merlot and toast your mansion goodbye....cry babies.
IM AN ASSHOLE YES I AM
Once again, this true landmark is in Queens, so it's subject to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's rejection. Do you see a pattern here?
LPC REJECTION LIST
- Trylon Theater
- St. Saviour's Church
- Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
- 1st Queens Borough Hall
AND a plethora more!
The fact that such sites are rejected the means of a most democratic public hearing says something.
The Landmarks Law is great, if you know how to use it.
I heard that the Koreans want the place back so they can turn into a big wh..er..uh Health Spa, like the one College Point and scrap the church idea!
Jackson Heights is an example of a community that keeps on crying for bread with 2 loaves under their arms.
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Was that your last neuron? i feel sorry for your kids.
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