From the Times Ledger:
The elderly attendees of the Whitestone Armory are joining with the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Civic Association and state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) to decry a plan by the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs they describe as designed to force them to pay more money.
The division has said it wants to raise annual rent from $25,000 to $31,000 for the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Community Center to use the facility to offer courses and activities for seniors as well as athletic classes and recreation space for children, Avella said.
But state funding has been slashed to the center — a separate entity from the civic — and it is already having trouble making its rent. So last week about 100 seniors, Avella and members of the Greater Whitestone Taxpayers held a rally outside the Armory, at 150-74 6th Ave., aimed at drawing attention to their cause and calling on the division to find a way to allow the center to continue to use the space.
Avella said the state agency said it is raising the rent because it needs to pay for added security, but his deputy chief of staff said Tuesday that the agency’s rental agreement with the community center already dedicates too much money to security — especially since the National Guard has a presence there.
23 comments:
Didnt Avella take care of the rent when he was the councilman?
Let Toby Stavisky take some money from the "North Flushing Senior Center" to bail them out of the rent increase.
Share the wealth Moby!
Toby Ann's NFSC gets some of the highest level of funding than any other not for profit organization in Queens.
And why is that? Aren't there other far more deserving orgs?
What do the Staviskys do with all of the money left over after providing senior lunches?
H-m-m-m...lunch money becomes campaign money?
The Stavs have maintained the largest campaign war chest than any other pol over the years....except, more recently, John Liu's treasury.
Wherever there's a camera....
Phony Avella is sure to appear!
That ploy is taken right out of page #2 from the 'ol Stavisky tactical manual.
Please note:
Avella was once chief of staff for the Stavisky Dynasty!
Has he paid back "son-of-bitch" Evan's "Parkside Group" yet for running his campaign?
The daisy chain of political corruption gets longer each passing year.
The "National Guard" comment is irrelevant. NG personnel, uniformed or otherwise, have no role whatsoever in acting as security for parties renting state armories. People know this , but choose to ignore it. Different mission; different purposes and uses; different pots of money. The NG is not security, law enforcemnet, or anything else for a senior center that happens to rent in a building they also use. Move somewhere else if you can't pay.
Let 'em use the North Flushing Senior Center. We're ALL paying the big bucks for that one. Right, Toby? Are you listening Evan? Can your personal piggy bank be in trouble?
Evan is the piggy (judging from his girth) and you can bank on that.
I'd love to catch him posting on that gay "Chubby Chaser's" site.
His wife's gotta be his "bear"!
Why hasn't sonny boy made you a grandma yet Toby?
There's always artificial insemination if Evan's wife can't bear the thought of it.
Oops, correction;
I meant "BEARD" not bear.
Maybe she'd prefer a bear.
Maybe she'd prefer a bear.
I prefer not to see Toby bare!
Stavisky's grandchildren or lack thereof have nothing whatsoever to do with the issues here, you little seventh-graders. If you have something to say about policy, post it. If not, shut up and grow up.
THE FREE GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST LUNCH IS BANKRUPT.
Anon No. 10:
Some say Corporate America welfare is bankrupt also.
Ethanol relief for the midwest anyone?
ask obama? who, got the most money from the banking industry than any presidential candidate in history. double the amount that G.Bush got.
obamas government is loaded with wall streeters.check out the GOLDMAN-Sachs love affair with Obama.
Is george soros ,multi-billionaire, his puppeteer ?
is he connected to the Obama UGANDA invasion to protect soros' oil investments?
Stavisky's grandchildren or lack thereof have nothing whatsoever to do with the issues here, you little seventh-graders. If you have something to say about policy, post it. If not, shut up and grow up.
Screw you! Ever hear of Freedom of Speech. Whatcha gonna do? Tell Evan???? When he gives back the taxpayers' money he stole, he'll get better treatment! You're a schmuck.
PS I didn't make the original comment that upset you but I support the commenter's right to post it.
Anon No. 12:
George Soros is President Obama's puppeteer in the same way that the Koch Brothers are the puppeteers for the RepubCons.
The obsession that your puppeteers at Fox News has for the guy is amazing.
for soros data check out AARON KLEIN OR KLEINONLINE.com
As soon as you check out what Media Matters says about the Koch Brothers, Gramps. Kleinonline isn't exactly an unbiased source.
FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!
why don't you list the approx. 30 leftwing organizations that G.Soros funds and i will list the Koch funded groups ?
To be honest, Gramps. I don't care who or what Soros funds. You have the Koch Brothers, we have him. If one is wrong, then so is the other.
your logic is flawed. because socialist/marxists always
LIE.
marxists believe a square peg can fit nicely into a round hole if you keep trying it again and again.
You idiots keep yapping off topic, and the funding keeps getting pulled. Yet, there is funding for land grabs to give to developers. This is why the politicians and developers keep fucking us over and over and over.
Anon No. 20:
And you keep mindlessly repeating all of the Fox "News" cliches.
You idiots keep yapping off topic, and the funding keeps getting pulled. Yet, there is funding for land grabs to give to developers. This is why the politicians and developers keep fucking us over and over and over.
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