"This building is on Depot Road next to the Flushing-Broadway station. It is still standing. Thought you might appreciate this old postcard...as it is gorgeous." - Matthew Ryan Reischer
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- More trash in Jamaica
- Avella's bills to protect environment
- Call boxes made beautiful in Woodside
- Bridge to be named after Dinkins?
- Fire escape victims back in their Bronx apartments
- Bloomberg looks like really big asshole
- Quinn should return campaign money
- Douglas Manor beach tops in pollution
- Sand replenishment a short-term solution
- Woodside intersection made safer
- Rules don't apply to them
- Needles found on Rockaway Beach
- Soccer stadium floated for FMCP
- City missed a lot of cell antennae
- Shoddy construction kills
- Member item pork is once again shady
- Here are the winners of yesterday's primary
- Atlas Park lot used for towed cabs
- More people ask for review of property tax bills
- Used car seller in hot water
- Ground broken on huge Fedex facility
- Why Elizabeth Crowley is uniquely qualified for co...
- The plan for 5 Pointz
- Fat Boy getting a makeover?
- Counterfeit Angry Birds toys seized
- DOJ to monitor Queens elections
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- Even allies think the EDC is full of crap
- Bike Share program a liability
- Rich folk leaving USA in droves
- Delays for Bloomberg legacy projects
- Thar she blows in Astoria!
- Has problem bodega reformed?
- Avella sex offender legislation passes Senate
- Gang takedown
- Asians are largest immigrant group
- Open door policy trumps law
- Ackerman thinks his constituents are stupid
- SLA goofs on liquor license
- Horse riding school subject of complaints
- Vallone ordered to cough up correspondence
- Documentary about Prospect Cemetery
- Bye, bye, Dutch Kills farmhouse
- Lancman calls for eminent domain at St. Saviour's
- Squatters make life hell in Ridgewood
- Noise from sidewalk cafes a concern in Astoria
- City designs system to save developers money
- Here are the NY-6 candidates in their own words
- NYC gets money from congress for transportation pr...
- MTA loses millions due to bus farebeating
- Alley Pond playground reopens after fire
- DOB catches a mad paver!
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- Caveat emptor in LIC
- DOB shuts down Brooklyn clinic
- Crapper in the cellar
- Pols request outer borough transportation options
- Mazeau Street "Garage House" demolished
- Tale of the tape on the parking sign
- More garbage crap from Jamaica
- Another unique church building in danger
- Do they really deserve this?
- Ridgewood trashed
- They either want to vote for him or beat him up
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- Junkies at the docks
- Concern over natural gas pipeline
- Hey Estelle, where did the dough go?
- Avella vs. property tax cheats
- Cock-a-doodle-doo!
- Dirty goods, sold dirt cheap
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- Woodside's dangerous intersection
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- Ban on using benefits for bad things
- Council ethic committee investigating Wills, too
- Baiting buyers with gummy bears
- Banding owls at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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17 comments:
Thanks Matt.
Very cool
"Only 23 minutes from Broadway"
to Penn Station.
Thanks, George M. Cohan
for allowing me to alter one of
your iconic lyrics.
Thanks LIRR, for making it possible
for me to skip by fetid, overcrowded, seedy, downtown Flushing in a flash.
Hoorah! Hoorah! Hoorah!
Keep on doing a great job, BFHA,
in defending those Rickert Finley covenants in the courts!
That's what's kept this fine residential nabe from being flushed down the crapper with the rest of Flushing by avaricious
developer-speculators.
Those deed restrictions do not expire after time.
The run with the land in perpetuity!
That was fine responsible community planning by a realty company who wasn't in it for their own greed.
What year is that picture from?
It's beautiful, Matthew. Thank you!
1907 is my understanding.
the beautiful trees on the south side of the station,across from the P.O. vanished ,when the Asian owners bought the stores.
too bad...it is only concrete now for cars that jump the illegal pretend curbcuts (sidewalks).
I don't think
that Asians bought up these stores.
Most are just renting.
Check the deeds online through Acris.
Maybe we should blame the lazy olde tyme property owners who might have cut down those trees and who barely maintain their buildings adequately.
While we're stereotyping,
there are a lot of Greeks and Italians who hate trees as much as Asians do.
So take your pick
on which race to hold responsible.
"Keep on doing a great job, BFHA,
in defending those Rickert Finley covenants in the courts!"
I am confused. When I walk to Bowne Park and pass 159th and 32nd there are two homes on the corners that have fences. One is a hideous pink brick mess and the other is a wrought iron job with a stockade fence facing 159th.
Are these in violation of the covenant?
the trees that vanished across from the "Auburndale P.O." were located between the curb and sidewalk. they were nyc /parks/forestry responsibility and illegal to remove.
they survived for the 50 years that i have visited the P.O., until the Asian owners/renters moved into the stores. a coincidence ?
Nice graffiti....................
Old, disgruntled, grumbler...
those old Silver Maple trees you speak of had hollow trunks and were already losing limbs during storms.
They were on NYC property.
FYI:
That species of tree
have very shallow root systems.
Most of the trees that were lost during that devastating tornado were Silver Maples.
Not all of Broadway-Flushing
lies within the RF Covenant area.
I don't think the "bubble gum"
(pink) house is in the covenant area.
Compare north of the boulevard
to the south side.
BFHA has done a damn good job
over here since 1964.
Without municipal landmark status there isn't much, beyond enforcing the R1-2A zoning, that can be done to regulate architectural abortions
like the "bubble gum" house.
This IS NOT intended as a door busting, hard sell commercial for the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association.
These are merely some
observations based upon fact.
BFHA does (and has done) some very good work!
Each of you can decide...
whether you want to spend your time complaining about current conditions, or to begin getting a little more active in protecting your greatest investment...your home and neighborhood.
I would begin by advising everyone to join BFHA if you live here and are not already a member.
I, most certainly, am
a member...and for over 30 years!
$10 a year membership fee, is the cheapest supplemental homeowner's insurance you can buy.
Then...you might want to contribute whatever you can...in additional time or money or both.
By no means are we well-off,
but our family has already made some modest contributions to BFHA.
Every dollar and every minute
really do count.
This is an association of fellow homeowners and there is strength in numbers.
Collectively,
WE ARE THE GLUE that holds it all together.
There is no Wizard of Oz we can go to for a magic solution.
Diligence and dedication has kept our residential neighborhood one of the finest in Queens.
These postcard views of the past often leave many of us unhappy with the present picture.
But,
please remind yourself that life is still good around here.
Don't waste time getting angry.
I invite all to start
GETTING ACTIVE instead!
The very success of our republic, from the earliest days of the American Revolution, has depended upon the proactive involvement of its citizens.
The quality of life in any neighborhood hinges upon its solidarity.
Start up, or support your existing local civic organizations.
#13 why hasn't the nyc parks/forestry planted new trees across from the P.O. , if the others were removed because of age.?
the vehicles of the store owners would not be able to jump the curbs for free parking.
I am the super of a small building that is around the corner from this insurance building our garden is right behind the insurance building. Ours is a small residential building built in the 1960s. The insurance building and parking lot has been sold to the restaurant next door. My fear is the sale of this building will be disruptive to our garden and our tenants. the BFHA is only for single family detached residences so i'm guessing i cannot join. Additionally depot road is not w/in your physicall boundries. I would like my voice to be heard i'm guessing the community board is where i should express my concern? There are 3 24hr restaurants on that block w/ very noisey extractor fans on the roof
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