From the NY Times:
In the gilded, leafy confines of Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, the house on Greenway North and Puritan Avenue stands out for its shabbiness.
While nearly every other one of the Tudor homes in this stately enclave is meticulously maintained, and their English garden-style grounds extremely well tended, the large corner house looks as if it has been abandoned.
“Everyone says he keeps the house that way so it looks like no one’s home,” a neighbor said as she gazed out her screen door at the house on Friday.
She was referring to the house’s owner, John F. Haggerty Jr., the Republican political consultant currently on trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges that he stole $1.1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and used much of it to pay off the house.
The lawn has apparently not been mowed for months, chest-high weeds have sprung up, and the path to the front door is littered with fallen horse chestnuts from the mammoth tree in front. Bricks have come loose from the porch, and a pair of neglected, dirt-laden cars snooze in the driveway.
I have no comment on this article except to say that if the point you are trying to make is that the house is a fixer-upper, then the photo chosen does not show that.
6 comments:
The neighbors should look around all of Forest Hills and be grateful this guy has not bulldozed down all the trees, paved over the lawn, put up a big wall and stuck ridiculous chrome doo-dads all over everything.
Wallpaper from old petitions?
Maybe his brother should help him.hahahaha
Pampered FHG brats....
help the guy out and offer to mow his lawn like a good neighbor.
I shovel out my next door neighbor when it snows and he's unable to get to it.
"Pampered FHG brats....
help the guy out and offer to mow his lawn like a good neighbor.
I shovel out my next door neighbor when it snows and he's unable to get to it."
I'm guessing your neighbor isn't an obnoxious prick and under indictment? John had a few days off from the trial last week because of the Jewish holidays. You think he'd have mowed the lawn. Instead he went to court with Ognibene. F'him.
Maybe if he actually spent his time doing something useful, like fixing his house, instead of tring to be the emperor with no clothes.
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