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- City council aide rented out forcibly vacated ille...
- An idea that's literally full of crap
- Woodhaven's ongoing graffiti battle
- Construction billing practices being investigated
- Some Jews go to great lengths to protect fruit trees
- Housing project becomes eyesore
- Feds probing Meeks' money
- Hold onto that MetroCard!
- NY to pay more for illegal alien heath care
- Surrogate system is all in the family
- People who want raises shouldn't be no-shows
- Who is James Robert Williams?
- Richmond Hill-Woodhaven rezone approved
- Down with the old, up with the new
- Picking up the pieces in Middle Village
- Astorians want more transportation options
- Crime isn't up, and we have enough cops
- This is how stupid hipsters are
- Myungsuk strikes back
- New life for the Eagle Theater
- Safety concern in Springfield Gardens
- DA Brown messes up yet again
- 33 hotel rooms to replace 3 one-family homes
- A Friday puzzle for you
- Pelham Parkway is narrowed instead of widened
- You want flies with that?
- "Cash-and-Carry Larry" convicted
- Is College Point oversaturated?
- You can catch a lot more than planes at JFK
- TV show to remodel Woodhaven home
- Fireworks may come back to East River
- 65th Place inundated with trucks
- Meng called informant after arrest
- The sad condition of 162nd Street
- Bloomberg doesn't care what you think
- Claire's been at this for years
- Jamaica trash problem continues
- 1940s time machine
- Grace Meng's father arrested for wire fraud
- Say it ain't so, Mo!
- Short-term rentals and long-term problems
- Fort Totten ecodock on hold
- OTB site to continue gambling?
- $850K bocce courts coming to Juniper Park
- An appeal to the Italian-American community
- Airplane noise a new Briarwood concern
- USTA plans to gobble up more parkland
- Derek Lee back as Queens DOB Commissioner
- Astoria potholes to be repaired
- Is this really a good thing?
- The traveling man
- Sampson should stay off the roads
- Queens men charged with cigarette trafficking
- Council bails out High Line charity - again
- Douglaston civic wants new park
- Johnny pays his lawyers
- BSA approves Staten Island "Skinny House"
- Special ed school ripped off taxpayers
- Someone at Breezy Point pilfered plover eggs
- MTA bringing back Q79
- All lined up and no place to work
- Queens company selling dog fur products
- Major Mark Park has major trash
- All Hail, Julius Bloomberg!
- Howard tries to help Jamaica garbage situation
- Grant money used to shill for major Queens venues
- Dead woman signs petition of Stavisky & Iannece
- Little Bay Park crapper bids due
- Quinn got paid by Related
- Fat Boy kidnapped; not coming back
- DA Brown's selective enforcement
- BSA grants variance to Mormons
- What's Cuomo hiding?
- Quinn oinks all over town
- Ticket recipient to get refund
- Cooper charged with grand larceny
- DOI arrest numbers up
- Residents upset with Astoria S&M club
- DOT's paving is killing birds
- Aqueduct subway station still not open
- Another candidate tied to whore ads
- House collapses in Brooklyn
- Word getting around about Jamaica garbage problem
- Kew Gardens squatter evicted
- Crackdown on illegal Main Street buses
- Pols have different views on illegal lobbying
- NYCHA shamed into installing cameras
- NYC subway justice
- Pissed off gamblers take it out on casino machines
- Liu still raising lots of campaign cash
- Sexual assault complaints up
- Senate Minority Leader vs. "cat"
- Hallett's Cove project coming sooner than later?
- Does this look safe?
- Trashy National Park
- Skate park for Woodhaven
- Macneil Park getting kayak launch
- Law probably won't stop library pervs
- Woman ripped off by City gets check from Good Sama...
- An end to politically-motivated renamings?
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21 comments:
I have news for you: Most of Queens is going the way of 162 St. Jamaica, Ozone Park, Woodhaven, College Point,
Rego Park, Briarwood, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Fresh Meadows, Rockaway, Broad Channel, ...
Greedy olde tyme landlords are gouging renters...that's why nobody's opening up new businesses.
It's a vastly overpriced street.
But the 5+ (Korean?) whore houses on that block are doing just fine!
And "OB's (sic) Cavem" is bustling
on the southeast corner of 164th Street and Depot Road.
Then there's that shady "barber shop" further north which was raided once for being a house of prostitution.
The world's oldest profession is where it's at for a businesses' financial stability during (excuse the double meaning) "hard" times....LOL!
What nabe is this? Jamaica?
FLUSHING as the story says and as is tagged. Sigh...
it didnt help that NYC did construction that closed off the drag for what seemed like almost half a year recently. I walk by this drag and OB's all the time. I see bars not whore houses -- or is buy a hoff draft and ask about the house special?
Do not blame the land lords. The real blame is the City Council and the Mayor as well as Albany. Look at property tax increases,water and sewer charges. All have skyrocketed. The landlords just passes it on. Soon the outer boroughs will look like Detroit.
Local government is taxing the middle class right out of New York. No one has money for the escalating rents and overhead. Middle class people don't qualify for government handouts. Only the illegals get everything for free. This is how Bloomberg wants it. Queens is for the poor people and immigrants and Manhattan is for all his rich cronies and tourists.
Queens Village/Bellaire (west of 212th street on Jamaica Avenue) looked like this 3 years ago-- maybe longer. Will never come back-- not as street level retail at least. With each passing decade, even in NYC, we shop at malls and big box.
Why pay $2k - $4k a month rent? Set up a business on the Intwerwebz.
un real , and they want to build in willets point?????????????
let the land lords sit with no income , those greedy ass holes
LOWER YOUR RENT ,
But Claire insists it will revitalize Queens
The dump that already is and that she had a hand in creating.
"Queens Village/Bellaire (west of 212th street on Jamaica Avenue) looked like this 3 years ago"
No more Megan's hardware I guess...
I do blame the landlords.
One of the business owners on the street confided in me that if he didn't own his property, he would be priced out of business.
Go out and get yourself some street smarts....dummy.
You don't know shit from chocolate syrup!
They might appear to be bars by day, but "call girl" services are available in the wee hours of the morning.
It's pick up and deliver,
when it comes to the sex trade that's flourishing in the area.
No madam wants to get caught with whores doing their Johns on the premises.
So, where is the 109th PCT,
you might ask?
Getting paid and laid to
let things go on as they are.
An example:
On weekend nights (mostly Saturday)
scantily clothed women can be seen being conveyed by limo from "OB's Cavem" to who knows where...a waiting client?
You are more ignorant than you sound fella.
True...
the street construction didn't help very much.
But this was originally conceived of as a local street traffic retail shopping area during the 1900s-20s.
Everybody uses cars these days and the parking situation sucks.
That's why business generally sucks...except for a few lucrative "after-hour" emporiums.
An associate of mine wanted to open up a business here, but he actually got a better long term deal in Manhattan and is doing quite well.
The empty old Quartet theater
was renting for over $60,0000 a month!
Eckerd Drugs originally moved out because they couldn't afford that large a slice.
You've also got 2 (or 3) regular drunks hanging around the Broadway LIRR station.
Don't trip on their supermarket cart full of cans, bottles, belongings when using the underpass.
The nabe is definitely turning seedy.
It being Flushing and with so many high-rises going up, I'm betting that LL's are colluding to drive tenants out so they can sell the parcel of land for a mall, hotel, or mega-housing development.
Murray's Clothing on Northern Blvd. ( a full block) at 161 street was the first large space to sell to the Far Easteners. it was devastating to observe. i could always find a fit for the tall man.
at 162 st., Jackie Gleason's orchestra leader, Sammy Spears owned a club,about 1956. i think the name was "BLUE NOTE". Gleason would appear at times .
i believe the pub, "Netties" @ Depot/Northern was a popular local place for commuters to wind down after a day in the big apple.
and finally on Depot Rd.one could visit the W.J.Clinton ( once proud dem. club ,before hijacking by progressives) formed by prisoner B.Mc Glaughlin.
Queens COUNTY and 162 ST. sure has PROGRESSED WITH THE PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL ?
FYI:
"L&L" does not own the property you speak of on Northern B'lvd.
It's also for sale for about $25,000,000.
Nobody will buy it for that price, and it will sit vacant for at least 3 years unless the rent gets lowered.
If someone wants to build there,
they can only go up 3 stories high with a setback.
I used to be on 162nd all the time. But now everything is run down and there is constantly a population of gang tattooed high-as-a-kite illegals standing around and trying to talk to me. No thanks. I'll shop elsewhere.
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