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- Union plasters strike warnings all over Grand Avenue
- Term limits and temper come back to bite Quinn in ...
- Losers, all
- Developer malfeasance causes restaurant to close
- Mr. Noguchi, meet Mr. Crap
- Paul Vallone: Animal Advocate and Environmentalist?
- Soccer stadium coming to Queens-Nassau border?
- At least he didn't take it to a drive-thru
- Huge Rego Park apartment building sold again
- Someone is suing to get Fat Boy back
- Illegal stickers have ties to mafia and fake charity
- FMCP mosaics won't be repaired this time
- Tenants of foreclosed buildings want fixes
- Flushing & Whitestone parking hogs
- Quinn not being as bitchy as last year
- Worker falls into basement of demo project
- Avella vs. Stavisky on FMCP parkland alienation
- Stop butchering street trees
- Whitestone Cinemas to become mall
- Jamaica High School landmarked
- 5Pointz doesn't want to move to MOMA
- Forest Park Carousel landmarked
- Weiner first in polling
- Legislators helping out developers
- Judge's wife abuses parking placard
- FMCP to gets new volleyball courts - but still loo...
- Concerts coming to Forest Hills Tennis Stadium
- Rape at Flushing massage parlor
- Smokin' power plant
- Everything you wanted to know about illegal front-...
- Sunset Park wants to stop the insanity
- Sealed with a kiss
- CD19 palm card poll
- Proposal to move 5 Pointz to MOMA PS1
- Sunnysiders hoping for more restful nights
- Sanitation worker dumps trash in front of restaurant
- Dunkin Donuts thinks street tree is their property
- Grand Avenue concretions
- Auburndale arboricide
- Farewell to another old house
- Metropolitan Avenue Ghost Bikes
- The sordid history of the Four Sparrow Marsh project
- 977 rental apartments proposed for Rheingold site
- LIRR considering re-opening Elmhurst Station
- Idling trucks in College Point
- This is County's pick for council member?
- DOB continues to harass Willets Point business owners
- CB2 not too keen on aluminum house
- Cunningham Park truck problem
- When will Johnny drop the charade?
- Parks responds to yesterday's posting
- Liu rejects Central Park Conservancy contract as u...
- Walls for Rockaway
- Jet age architecture soon to be lost
- When a lifetime ban isn't for a lifetime
- SCA = School Construction Arboricide
- No one can seem to shut illegal site down
- Vito getting taxpayer cash
- No more welfare for booze, sex and gambling
- Worker trapped where he shouldn't have been working
- Digging for missing mafia members
- Ozone Park soil contamination to be removed
- Get your junk off our poles
- Dromm defends Silver
- National grift
- Park maintenance shouldn't rely on discretionary f...
- Proposal to plop aluminum house into Sunnyside Gar...
- It earned its stripes
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- Weiner was a lame congressman well before scandal
- Making new architecture fit in
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- Turtle preservation plan
- Pedro sent to the clink for 5 years
- Not now. Not ever.
- They're out to get Mary Ann
- Proposal to tackle the weed problem
- Boat race a pro-development stunt
- CUNY to destroy mural by famous black artist
- City destroys "Forever Wild" area
- Some bikers backing Comrie over Vallone
- The push for fair election funding
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- Instant runoff voting may be coming in 2017
- Too much info!
- Supposedly sealed building caught fire
- Consequence of irresponsible zoning and development
- Columbia pushes for lots more development
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- New Bloomberg strategy: propose things that will n...
- Limited love for Quinn?
- Vegas is calling him
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17 comments:
I speak from long experience--of what it took to build "5 Pointz"--to the amazing world attraction that it is today.
Although I hail from northeastern Queens, I've been involved with this site for about 20 years--as a volunteer, mentor, advisor, financial supporter.
I have served on the board of directors of "Phun Phactory", which preceded "5 Pointz".
This type of "great idea"--put forth by (perhaps) a well meaning loner, who's mugging for a WPIX camera--is most typical of these "save" movements.
I question this ambassador of compromise's "win-win" situation motives. This IS NOT a case of 1/2 a glass of water is better than none!
You save it all or it goes with dignity!
In my opinion, trying to co-opt or incorporate a mere fragment of "5 Pointz"--to benefit a rather so-so museum like "PS 1"--is not an option.
"5 Pointz", as it stands, IS THE major tourist attraction and MONEY MAKER for LIC as well as NYC.
In reality,
"5 Pointz" gets more visitors than "PS 1"--LEAVE IT ALONE!
Do you want some proof?
Just stand outside, on a summer's day, and count off the number of visitors to "5 Pointz"-- then do some multiplication.
Transferring "5 Pointz" art to a wall controlled by the artistic tastes of whoever the executive director of "PS 1" happens to be for the day--is not a viable solution.
Here's an alternative suggestion. Let NYC offer a land swap deal to the Wolkoff family who owns the "5 Pointz" site, so it can ALL be saved.
Note:
The name "5 Pointz" happens to be a copyrighted name. It CANNOT be used by anyone else for their purpose.
Remember this--ANYONE who stands against saving the art masterpiece that "5 Pointz" is--will be remembered as accomplices in the murder of great art.
Choose your legacy carefully borough President Marshall--elected officials--Mayor Bloomberg!
How would you like to be remembered in the history books--friend or foe of "5 Pointz"--it's savior or its destroyer?
STOP THE CLOCK NOW!
Let's all take a moment to examine the full value of "5 Pointz" to New York City and not rush blindly over a cliff.
Official city stance: Not in Manhattan, not my problem.
This is beyond Queens...beyond Manhattan...beyond New York City...beyond New Yprk State...beyond the United States!
5 Pointz is a recognized worldwide art site.
You've got a cognition problem, fella.
"5 Pointz" is a disgrace to the borough, and anyone who puts their "work" on there should be arrested.
Did you say MOMA PISS 1?
The art at 5 Pointz beats their exhibitions of "contemporary art", and it's offered free of charge.
5 Pointz is beyond contemporary. It's cutting edge!
Let the truth be known.
PS 1 is jealous of 5 Pointz's great appeal to tourists.
PS 1 never has supported 5 Pointz.
If 5 Pointz goes you'll see a drop in visitors to PS 1. They come to LIC for 5 Pointz and squeeze in PS 1 as an after visit.
What does cultural czar, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, have to say on retaining 5 Pointz as an outdoor ever changing art museum?
It's still just graffiti, to call it art, does a disservice to real art. It's ugly urban trash.
RU a dummy?
Graffiti is illegal vandalism.
This is legally sanctioned art.
Hey...snot nose...whether you personally like aerosol art or not doesn't matter.
In the rest of the intelligent world 5 Pointz is highly respected and recognized as an A-R-T mecca.
Now crawl back under your shady rock and finish your beer...Archie Bunker.
It's a damn good thing that the march of progress in this century doesn't depend upon ignorant assholes like yourself leading it.
What a dullard!
You sound like a piece of uneducated urban trash yourself, buddy...or am I speaking to Wolkoff's spoiled Harvard educated little brat, putzmeister David?
I'm glad you're not my neighbor, in either case.
I think that Peter Vallone Jr. is posting an anonymous hissy fit here.
Uh...may we remind whoever is posting...that ALL of the ART done at 5 Pointz...is done with permission.
Therefore NOBODY will be arrested...wheareas
you could be arrested for stupidity if such a statute existed on the books.
Now, park your butt on my thumb and ROTATE!
So you're an art expert...huh?
Major museums throughout the world recognize "aerosol art... as art.
LOL! but you know better...eh?
There's one particular "graffiti" artist whose painting just sold for $1,000,000!
Doesn't that make you even more envious and dumber looking now?
This is beyond Queens...beyond Manhattan...beyond New York City...beyond New Yprk State...beyond the United States!
5 Pointz is a recognized worldwide art site.
You've got a cognition problem, fella.
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On the contrary, FELLA. I'm just keeping the fight focused and grounded on its true battleground, not inexplicably expanding it to the far reaches of the globe.
Wow, trolls on queenscrap. What a shocker...
But the 5 Pointissue has reached the "far reaches of the globe"...and if you weren't such an insular Queens farmer yourself...you would be aware of that.
The international art world will help win this fight...not the jerk wads like Queens Burro hall, Van Bramer & Co. and the rest of the usual suspects.
Pull your head out of your rectum once in awhile, son, and smell the roses.
BTW...
the office of the French ambassador has visited 5 Pointz attesting to its uniqueness in the world of art.
Many other such stories abound.
"Keeping the fight on its true battleground" ?
So, we should put our trust in Queens' quislings to be soldiers on the front lines?
You're daft, man or need a new optical prescription.
Do you ever learn from past mistakes?
Maybe the Greater Astoria Historical Society will attend tomorrow's meeting at borough hall to defend 5 Pointz? It starts at 10:30 AM if you're at all interested.
There ya go...though I doubt it very much!
My dear fellow--
"5 Pointz's" IMPORTANCE is also in the far reaches of the globe. I think you're missing the point here, old sport.
"5 POINTZ" HAS WORLDWIDE SIGNIFICANCE.
Therefore, it would be a great pity for Queens' corrupt political system to become its gravediggers!
Furthermore--
where does one find his local allies in this fight?
Perhaps, I can count on you to join in?
I've already telephoned Councilman Van Bramer's office yesterday morning to ask for a meeting to discuss the future of "5 Pointz".
I got a luke warm reception--but then--what the hell--who am I?
His chief of staff shunted me onto their "scheduler" who then informed me that their meeting schedule is booked up.
I suppose that the schedule will open up again after the BSA grants the property owner his zoning variance.
Thanx, Councilman Jimmy!
This great cultural issue is very important and I won't just take a number and stand in line.
Now, I'm going to write you a registered letter.
If you're reading Queens Crap--expect it soon!
Ooops--what a big mouth--
did I just burn my bridges with Van Bramer's office?
Not really!
Maybe I just gave them a shot of adrenalin.
After all, this is an election year.
I have learned, a very long time ago, to smell a runaround when I get one--from anyone.
If Councilman Van Bramer is not in the forefront, supporting a major cultural institution like "5 Pointz", then he's behind the scenes helping the undertakers to embalm it!
This is the bottom line with ALL politicians.
I'm not just singling out Van Bramer.
They are either with you or against you from the beginning--with no delay tactics thrown in.
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