Another lovely weekend in Jamaica

Just taking my Saturday morning walk to the gym on Jamaica Avenue and this is what I encounter on a regular basis and what I always have to deal with.

I head out my building walking down 170th Street towards Jamaica Avenue and have to pick up a small bag of garbage filled with all kinds of fast food crap that some low class slob dumped in front of the empty lot next to me owned by some low class third world immigrant slob. Great way to start the morning and of course the huge box of industrial fluorescent lights are still in the empty lot along with the high weeds that are getting higher every day and coming out onto the sidewalk. Even though I reported this over a week ago, THREE TIMES, nothing has changed.

Huge box of over a dozen industrial fluorescent lights that were dumped into this lot at 170th St/ 90th Ave over a week ago and still lying there. It has been reported three times: told a sanitation officer the first day I saw it, called DOS and filed a 311 report and let our elected officials know. NOTHING DONE.

As I turn right onto Jamaica Avenue off 170th Street into a pretty disgusting nasty block, I encounter this mess on the sidewalk.

The definition of “ghetto”, crap all over early in the morning.

Across the street, where a very ugly empty lot is, they have put up a wooden fence and the sign states that a retail project will be taking place here (not the $50 million retail project that will be on 168th St/90th Avenue). I do have to say that the building that has just been fixed up is very nice and hopefully low crap retail, a nail salon, a wig place or a 99 cent store will not go in there and when the retail project is built it also will not contain a bunch of low class shit. I am crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath.

Future sight of another retail project on Jamaica Avenue between 169th and 168th Pl

Okay, I have some hope, till I encounter a space that they had been working on and wondered what was going to go in there. After attending the “Jamaica Revealed” event and hearing that they wanted to bring in some high end retail and restaurants, I was very depressed to see this:

Another fucking beauty supply store going to open on Jamaica Avenue right across from a huge beauty supply store already in place. That brings the count up to 10 of these places on Jamaica Ave.

Really, this is “Jamaica Revealed”, another fucking beauty supply store on Jamaica Avenue. There is already a huge one directly across the street that just opened up not too long ago.

This place which opened not too long ago is directly across from the new place which is opening soon.

Is this what is meant by “Diverse and Vibrant” that I keep hearing all of our elected officials and business leaders saying. Ten huge beauty supply stores on Jamaica Avenue and about 10 more on the side streets does not say “Diverse and Vibrant”, it says “laundering dirty money”. Am I the only one that gets that. There are not enough people in Jamaica to sustain that amount of beauty supplies stores. Oh well, depression is really setting in, so I pop into my gym, Blink (actually a great addition to Jamaica Ave) to work out my frustration.

Leaving the gym to pick up my dry cleaning on Hillside Avenue, my depression begins to sink further as I walk this stretch of low class third world immigrant crap and garbage.

The law offices of Z.A. Wani. Now this is class for an attorney.

Well if there is no garbage can, just pretend there is one and dump your shit on the sidewalk

Not much different from this scene from an actual third world country:



Now back to our third world country, along Hillside Avenue.

It does not matter where these people put shit.

Now if this little tour does not spell out low class ghetto behavior/low class third world bullshit, I do not know what does. Oh and I am sorry if I offend anyone…………………well no not really, I do not really give a shit who I offend, because I am offended by this morning walk and what I have to see on a daily basis due to people’s bad behavior, corrupt or do nothing elected officials and community leaders and the apathy that has spread like wild fire in our community. I just keep thinking on this walk if our community was a better class of White, Black , Hispanic and middle class immigrants would it look like this and the answer is a definite NO, NO, NO.

Speaking of apathy, if you did not sign my petition to some of our elected officials including Governor Cuomo (http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/clean-up-jamaica-queens.fb28?source=c.fb&r_by=7853233) to clean up Jamaica, then you are no better than the low life people who throw garbage all over the place and have no respect for our community. You also do not get to complain or bitch about the garbage problem because YOU are part of the problem by doing SHIT.

“Jamaica Revealed” my ass, this Saturday morning walk showed  the “Real Jamaica Revealed”, not the “Make Believe Jamaica Revealed”. Wow, some of  you are as bad as the Republicans who live in the bubble.

Supposed clean and repaired Jamaica Subway Station women’s restroom. 5.17.13. Not much different before it was closed for repairs.

Joe Moretti
Jamaica, NY  11432
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