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- The end of Estelle Cooper
- This year in tweeding
- Whitestone Expressway's 3rd Avenue exit to close f...
- Dead woman found in Kissena Lake
- Annual 7 train bitchfest commences
- Here comes the property tax hike!
- MTA considering doors on platforms
- Donald cries 'uncle' on Jones Beach project
- $686M in lawsuits this year
- Time to fix the wall
- Kew Gardens residents working on Forest Park mural
- Sandy victims hit with DMV charges
- Forest Hills chicken heads for greener pastures
- Crimes of opportunity
- "Community facility" and retail for Scobee site
- Too main chain stores spoil the nabe
- Queens Library must have found money
- $500K state money to study Queensway
- NY Times' Queens coverage is in travel section
- Katz comes out of the woodwork to run for BP
- LPC violators rewarded with a city grant
- Avella wants new tree care policy
- CB1 sides with developer
- Creedmoor tweeding project revision
- Mentally ill defendants to get treatment
- Storm damaged building gets worse
- Brownfields not actually tested post-Sandy
- Merry Christmas from Queens Crap!
- Crazy Christmas house in Bayside
- Is NYC the cheeriest at Christmas?
- EDC encourages developer to use loophole
- Bigger problems at Quaker Meeting House
- Manhattan hospitals expanding, Queens hospitals pr...
- Koo supports developer over CB7's wishes
- Flooding to resume in southeast Queens
- Peter Vallone, Jr's swift cleanup action
- Group home in Zone A intends to expand
- Who needs a permit?
- Developer dumps on Whitestone housing site
- Con Ed may bury overhead power lines
- Another Bovis fraudster gets away with it
- Crime down, but arrests up...?
- Giant sinkhole under house is "insufficient" damage
- Huang sued for fatal wall collapse
- Laurelton's haunted house along the LIRR
- Rapid Repairs slow & excludes mold remediation
- Meeks failed to disclose loan but faces no punishment
- Brooklyn Bridge Park condo development questioned
- Developer bribes community with school
- College Point sidewalk abruptly ends
- Quinn revises tweeding bill
- Who knew you could do that?
- The final moments of Civic Virtue in Queens
- NY's financial health in jeopardy
- MTA boss running for mayor
- Poletti Plant to be demolished
- A new school for Sunnyside
- $100M in city tax money to fund Wilpons' scheme
- City Council introduces flood mitigation bill
- Bunch of lawyers arrested for immigration fraud
- LaGuardia getting a huge upgrade
- Coney Island to get plastic planks
- Fat Boy heads to greener pastures
- Havoc wrought by illegal alien
- Must...keep...building!
- Strange collection
- Hope you folks like tennis (and have money to burn)
- All in the family...
- Quaker graveyard still has pole in it
- Bad timing for important projects
- Take our soccer stadium - Please!
- Staffs of losers win larger paychecks
- Marshall is "wicked stepmother of Flushing Meadows"
- More restrictions on Maspeth Bypass route
- Quinn pushes legislation to keep more illegals
- We're less trashy these days
- Expensive trains scrapped
- David Weprin on the hook for more than $350K
- It's going to be noisier in northeastern Queens
- Concrete tester pleads guilty
- City Council votes to designate Brinckerhoff Cemet...
- What we think
- It's happening because of us
- HPD wants slumlord bill passed
- Strange rise and fall of Cecilia Chang
- Better luck next year
- Roosevelt Avenue underworld
- Bloomberg calls out Quinn on shady legislation
- Koo wants local input on gambling decisions
- Those "left behind"
- Auto Palace sales tax fraud
- Koch endorses Katz
- Short on help, long on pine needles
- Con Ed decimates another street tree
- How's this for tweeding?
- Flushing doctor pleads guilty to Medicare fraud
- Concrete king owes $20M in fines
- One getting out, another going in
- Community doesn't want soccer stadium
- MLS spent a ton on lobbying
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10 comments:
A lot of such votes in Queens are often pretty shady.
This is a borough where sunlight rarely penetrates through the dense foliage of government!
Back room back stabbings are a common practice at Queens borough hall.
I ask again, if this magnificent Piccirilli Brothers-carved statue is "anti-woman" as some have "argued", how does that reputation disappear by placing it in a cemetery? What magical incantation removes that "infamy"?
How do we know that the two sirens are even women? What woman do you know has the lower half of a fish? And they could even be interpreted as transgender/transsexual. Maybe as recipients of "sadistic" pleasure. "Bottoms" perhaps? How come the LGBT community hasn't weighed in on this?
Hands off Civic Virtue!!!
I think there was a REASON that LaGuardia sent something called "CIVIC VIRTUE" to sit in front of Queens Borough Hall.
Might explain its disdain and neglect by the current group that runs things in these parts.
On the other hand getting rid of this work and replacing it a monument walk that likely starts out with Queen Catherine doesn't speak too well of them either.
The world HAS moved on, Queens, and frankly where ever you happen to be now, no one really cares.
Everyone in the country is laughing at Queens. You take a masterpiece and throw it in a graveyard.
All the rest of the things that go on, (politically ) that you think nobody knows, just makes everyone laugh harder.
Its amazing how things their have gone. Nobody has t anything to worry about in Queens, except destroying some of its best artwork?
Its funny, very sad but very funny.
I've got news for you buddy.
The rest of the country doesn't even know that Queens even exists!
AND...If they did....they couldn't care less about it.
Babble babble, babble!
WTF are you talking about Missing Foundation?
WTF has Queen Catherine got to do with all this?
I think that Missing Foundation is missing some brains!
This argument has been going on for too damn long already!
A work of art goes to where it gets preserved the best!
i.e.
When Lord Elgin "moved" the sculptures from the Parthenon pediment in Greece, to the British Museum, it was a godsend!
Left there...the Turks would have destroyed it all.
If Queens has left Civic Virtue to rot and crumble, then that masterpiece is better off in Brooklyn...
PROVIDED...it's restored and WELL cared for.
Take the subway to Kings County and see it there!
Maybe Greenwood can offer us a fiberglass replica after Civic Virtue is restored.
LOL!
We need Michael Perlman to take this up as his latest crusade to save Queens' history.
Why do you speak so sadly of a masterpiece about to be thrown into a graveyard?
You're missing the point old boy.
QUEENS IS A GRAVEYARD...
of lost monuments and demolished (could have been) landmarks...thanks to our borough hall barbarians!
Civic Virtue does not depict a nude man standing over 2 women. The figures are an allegorical representation of Greek mythology. Hercules stands over but not on top of 2 female sirens symbolizing vice and corruption, which Civic Virtue denounces in society. Some politicians cannot bear passing it en route to Borough Hall. Just examine the track record of those who had to step down in recent years due to their shattered oath not long after being elected to public office. This is a peaceful statue designed by the world-known Frederick MacMonnies, who was the last major American Beaux Art sculptor. Civic Virtue is public art that belongs to & in Queens. On behalf of the citizens of Queens who wish to secure its future where it has sat for 71 years, it is unethical behavior by Department of Citywide Administrative Services, the NYC Design Commission, and select "public servants" to concoct a deal to transport Civic Virtue to the privately-owned Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. This was not agreed upon by the Queens constituency. We pay our fair share of taxes. Join http://www.triumphofcivicvirtue.org
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