From the Times Ledger:
The reception might be good near the intersection of 150th Street and Willets Point Boulevard in Whitestone, but state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said his calls haven’t been answered yet.
The senator gathered with area residents Friday to protest what he called the poster child for the unwarranted expansion of the cell phone industry outside a real estate office, at 24-12 150th St., riddled with more than 20 cell phone towers and a large generator.
“The amount of antennas on this building presents a handful of dilemmas for the entire community,” Avella said. “The sheer number of these towers alone beg the question of whether the building can even sustain the weight of the multiple towers.”
Avella said he reached out to the city Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications as well as the city Department of Buildings to no avail, asking them for an analysis on the number of radiation-linked illnesses in the last decade in that area.
The DOB returned his calls with what he called an incomprehensible response, only recognizing that each individual permit was valid.
Aside from the aesthetic disadvantages Avella had mentioned, the senator also said area residents were concerned about a potential health risk in living so close to the towers.
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Well, he's running for re-election, so we're going to see many, many more of these photo-ops.
Mamma mia!
That might explain why all the Whitestone goombahs are adled.
The radiation emitted by the cell towers might have a positive effect on the rotting vegetables sold by Strawberry Farms located across the street.
There used to be a barber shop located in that building where I'd stop in for a trim occasionally.
If he were still there
I could go in and get my hair fried.
I've got great 4G reception, and as an added bonus huge mellons and cucuzza!
The mistake is to have them visible to people on the ground. With a little planning they could have been concealed from passers-by and this would be a non-issue.
The Avella repeaters are even worse.
Queens should declare itself a quality of life free zone. I got out a year ago, and while I miss the...um..well, hmmm, sorry, I forgot....
Leave queens before it sinks.
Maybe those repeaters
will sterilize some of our crooked pols so they can't produce any crooked offspring.
"Scream !
What happened to my prunes?
They've shrunk
to the size of raisins"!
It seems that we've seen a lot more
of Avella's face,
than we've seen of cell repeaters.
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