Got some more info on the Elmhurst Wendy's property. Here are 2 reports that detail the history of the site. They also contain historic photos of the area.
1A Documentary Report
An Archaeologic Mitigation
If you would like to search the LPC's archaeology database for any other site, this is the link to it:
LPC Archaeology Reports
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The hard facts:
Bloomberg's concept of "Luxury New York", he's been pushing for 3 terms, isn't compatible with caring for the history of an area.
i.e.
Flushing had abounded in historic and native American sites that have been either paved or built over.
Until this tyrant finally leaves office in November...it's still "City For Sale"!
Then flip a coin to see which way our new mayor will blow on preservation.
At least those "Indian" tribes had a better diet than Wendy's cholesterol laden fat burgers and fries.
Maybe a cardio-vascular hospital should be built on the site to make some amends for Wendy's sins against good health.
Why is Wendy's given a hard time while the massive apartment complex on the corner of Broadway and Queens Blvd was done relatively quickly? It to sits atop Horse Brook.
Done relatively quickly? It was held up for years.
The immediate area around Queens Blvd, Grand Ave. and Broadway is quite historical.
During the Revolutionary War General Howe resided for a time near Queens Blvd and 57th Ave.
The Moore family owned a large summer estate up on Broadway. Clement Moore is said to have written "The Night Before Christmas" here. The Dutch settled this area in the 1600's and quite a few of there ancestors remained in the are until the late 1900's.
Ambiguous use of the term "Native American". Who are these so-called "natives"? The Beringian Asiatics who migrated over the Bering Strait? Or earlier settlers, the Solutreans, white Europeans who migrated via the Atlantic ice bridge?
Amazing what lengths we have to go through to preserve what is left of our borough. If just one bone of a 19th century African American was found anywhere in Manhattan, nothing more than a memorial would ever be allowed to be built.
Compared to other buildings along QB, that building on the corner of Broadway and Queens Blvd was actually built decently.
Keeping close tabs of the boys when our community was getting rezoned discovered they were interested in compiling things like cemeteries.
The info was to be sent to the LPC, or so they said.
It was made clear that the work was not for the benefit the community but to assist developers in selecting sites that did not have potentially toxic 'issues.'
Pretty cool use of the zoning study and LPC, don't you think?
Oh yes, goes without passing ... that the info gathered was not shared with the community at large
'Compared to other buildings along QB, that building on the corner of Broadway and Queens Blvd was actually built decently"
There was a building on that site that should have been protected by the historic laws. As soon as the chinese bank moved into the property the building was "torched"
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