From the Daily News:A long-anticipated deal to acquire new park land in Jackson Heights is imminent, officials close to the talks told the Daily News.
The city has been negotiating with the Garden School for more than a year to buy the private school’s roughly 29,000-square-foot yard to expand Travers Park.
The park is one of the few open spaces in the congested area.
Joshua Laird, an assistant commissioner at the city Parks Department, said this has been a complicated multi-million dollar agreement to reach.
It involves a provision to allow Garden to use the yard exclusively during school hours, he said.
The land would be open to the public after 4 p.m. on weekdays, on weekends and in the summer.
It also involves a non-city loan to tide the school over until the city hands over a check, he said.
Before money changes hands, the property must first undergo a land-use review, which is expected to take about a year.
Hmmm...it seems that the City will move mountains to get parkland in Queens for the right communities and for the right elected officials. I guess the excuses given by Crowley in Maspeth (St. Saviour's) and Halloran in Whitestone (CYO fields) as well as the Parks Dept, that these deals would be "too costly" or "too complicated" are just flat out bullshit excuses. Thank you, Danny Dromm, for revealing the truth. I may not agree with your politics most of the time, but you delivered for your community, didn't back down, and didn't take an easy way out and try to pass it off as a victory.
There is no excuse for an elected official to do anything less than fight for what their communities need and there is no excuse when they give up. Well, that is, unless they're corrupt and/or totally inept, which may just be the case in Maspeth and Whitestone.
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Bread and Circus ?
I don't know that any egregious overdevelopment was in the works for the Garden School site, so with no developers to wave subtle hints of wire transfers to the no-bid contract approver-in-chief in order to saddle the area with unwanted and unneeded projects, this was an easier slog.
Thanks councilman Halloran great job with the "No money excuse" and the teacher lay off tactics.
councilwoman Crowley you are almost as useless and Dan 0, two drunken useless irish politicians.
Happy St. Pats indeed
At least Senator Avella says hes woeking with the bank owners on the Whitestone property, lets see if he makes it happen or is just stringing them along.
Now now Halloran did get half a million dollars along with an unspecified amount from the Queens Delegation for the "Pliazza" soo what if the funds get pilfered.
Yes, there was a plan to sell the schoolyard to a developer. I believe a deal was in the works when the city stepped in. Of course, they only do that in Maspeth when they want to dump something on us, like a contaminated high school.
You might do more research on some other blogs, etc., as this was something pushed by Dromm but was also the work of several community groups and perhaps dozens of people. They raised their own money, and pushed pushed pushed. Dromm did deliver for them but to suggest that this was anything other than an ugly fight is ignorant.
As for the inittial plan to sell the property,I checked and you are correct. Thank God for Historic District designations is all I can say at this point.
Maspeth, College Point and the Rockaways all get pretty much the same treatment.Now let's not hear from the neighborhood haters out there
Maspeth, College Point and the Rockaways all get pretty much the same treatment.Now let's not hear from the neighborhood haters out there
unless they're corrupt and/or totally inept, which may just be the case in Maspeth and Whitestone.
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everyone can add to this rather lengthy list.
why don't you list the exceptions rather than the rule?
I totally agree with Crappy here: Results speak for themselves. Good for Dromm. Dromm is Irish heritage as well as Crowley and Halloran, so don't make this an ethnic thing.
Dromm for Mayor. This cat works.
this is why we need people in whitestone who care about the community
WRITE IN AL CENTOLA
the "chosen" special interest group gets the spoils , once again.... 1 rino mayor and 47 city councill lib.progs. vs 3-4cons/g.o.p.
And what "Special Interest" are we talking about here?
Egregious development. Listen, our politicians refuse to fight Tommy Huang. The Huangs have harmed many people and continue harming people. Councilman Halloran did "nothing" about their Bayside fiasco. They will all standby while the "illegal" projects gets C of Os that are unwarranted.
The DOB does nothing. Commissioner Lancaster told Crowley they were going to keep a close eye on them. Make them compliant, etc. So what happens?
The fatal collapse on Queens Blvd.
As a result, he keeps doing as he pleases. Work without permits. Unsafe construction.
They should be pressing the DOB, DOI and DA for their investigative reports on the fatal collapse on Queens Blvd.
#17....the Bayside Fiasco, in the E.B.H.A. area was proposed ,built,and contested long before Cm. Dan Halloran was elected in 2010.
if you want to blame a politician, look under "D" PARTY.
your systematic demonizing of this man is back firing .you are not credible .
your systematic demonizing of this man is back firing .you are not credible .
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So Halloran didn't say there was no money and that teachers and firefighters were getting laid off? (SCARE TACTIC)
He didn't say there was no money to pay for the upgrade to Little Bay Fields?
He didn't come out for a mega catering hall and spoke for the owner of that building instead of his constituents?
My oh my, he did allocate funds for a "Plaza Italia" as well as was instrumental in getting the signs changed in Douglaston Manor at the tune of 340,000 of taxpayer money, (give or take). Demonizing?The man has been useless.
this is why we need people in whitestone who care about the community
WRITE IN AL CENTOLA
this is why we need people in whitestone who care about the community
WRITE IN AL CENTOLA
WITHOUT A DOUBT AL HAS MY VOTE
Let me get this right
57,000+ illegal aliens, welfare brats drug dealers and hookers working of the books in JH paying no tax get a free park.
34,053+ Maspeth taxpayers pay for it plus get shit on.
Check ?
Ned
Saw something somewhere asking for people to list what their elected representatives have done for them, anyone?
Speaking of Halloran can someone tell me where all the money the community groups donated for the welcome to Whitestone sign went we want some accounting if everything was donated how the he'll did it cost five thousand dollars?
And what "Special Interest" are we talking about here?
Gay is the new black!
#19...the reports from nyc government since 2009 have been hinting that tax revenues were so low that many public service servants would have to be laid off,or pensions ,healthcare,salaries lessened , or both.
the 2009 Planyc conversions of almost 600 playgrounds to parks in nyc ,had to be ended at a smaller number because of" NO MONEY LEFT."
when the P.S.159 Q playground to park conversion (almost $2 million) was completed, there was no money to pay a city servant to unlock the gates for the teens to exercise. Halloran unlocked the gates for the teens.
recently the governor negotiated with nys public unions to cut there benefits and freeze salaries .
today the governor cut $22 billion from the nys spending, over 30 years.at the begging of the dem.pols not to cut his proposed $113 Billion.so the unions will still vote for them.
get real....THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST...THE FREE LUNCH IS OVER...EXCEPT FOR THE "CHOSEN".
when the private sector is unemployed at a 8-14 % rate, there is no revenue to pay the public servants of the dictator /sanctuary city.
many of the local
projects were proposed many years ago, when the tax money was plentiful.
give sources for your allegations....where is the public record ?
#19...your credibility gets worse....listen to the tape on Q.C about the Douglaston street signs.
only several streets will get new original name signs from the past@ a cost of $3000.00
the community called for them during the 1970's.
i recall reading about this request in the local weeklies ,many years ago.long before Halloran's coming on the scene.
the proposal was in the C.P.B.11's requests during the "D" regime.
the catering hall is a private venture. no taxpayer $ are wasted. why don't you whistle blow if there is a crime being committed. the F.B.I. is all over the queens democrat scene ,especially if you speak Mandarin
Plaza Italia is not the catering hall. It's a publicly funded waste of money on a traffic island. Pay attention, old man.
the catering hall is a private venture. no taxpayer $ are wasted. why don't you whistle blow if there is a crime being committed.
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So the councilman making a statement for the owner when his own lawyer refused is kosher to you?
Speaking of Halloran can someone tell me where all the money the community groups donated for the welcome to Whitestone sign went we want some accounting if everything was donated how the he'll did it cost five thousand dollars?
DITTO
Hey Mocker how about some investigative story here?
Re:Q.C....i never wrote about the Piazza Italia.....
if the catering hall PRIVATE business venture is "criminal ",provide the evidence to the nyc legal authorities.
154 street has been a commercial/residential section for many,many years.
the rezoning of R-2A,recently is questionable. many main streets duplicate this section in N.E. Queens. one does not have a clear answer for this dilemma.
this site is not the only one that pisses the public off.
are you sure that this is not just fodder to bash your minority pol. party elected ? this blog site really is fair to the one of three g.o.p. members in nyc government. isn't it ?
he is not your problem. the ones in prison, and on their way soon, are..... but you will still vote the same way in 2012. liberalism is a illness (Michael Savage).
he is not your problem. the ones in prison, and on their way soon, are.....
so he is the problem then as he is on his way soon....
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