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- Who builds a house like this?
- An unacceptable situation
- Still wary of Walmart
- It's not just happening in NYC
- Phony park group stands on phony platform
- City plans to spray pesticides on concertgoers
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- What else? Garbage!
- Let's play a guessing game
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- LIC: A true "bedroom" community
- That's some interesting logic
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- Problems once again at public pools
- See...it actually does exist!
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- What's a Tropical Carrot?
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- An unusual crime
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- NYC Council Watch is watching Paul Vallone
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- The latest food stamp fraud
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Actually the entire post reads:
This is on the corner of 28th avenue and 41st street. It has been like this for almost a month. Our neighborhood is turning into a slum. Shame on the government for letting this happen and shame on the residents who treat the neighborhood like this. Has anyone ever tried to start a beautification group in Astoria. Anyone interested in trying?
-Nick
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The answer is you are already involved in cleaning this place up ... without spending a second of your time and or a penny from your purse!
You see, Steinway Street, Broadway, 30th Ave, all major shopping streets, are covered by BIDs, Merchant Associations and the like. For example, this area is being handled by Central Astoria Local Development Coalition.
CALDC receives lots of money from your taxes, donations from the Power Authority and the like.
Indeed it gets so much it bought a co-op (or whatever) just a block from Steinway Street - so just stop by there and voice your complaints - that is why they are there.
A certain Mr. Stamatiades of Dutch Kills Civic is the president and is a name familiar to habitues of this board ....
Time for a Clean Up Astoria Campaign & Blog.
You go Nick, keep embarrassing the powers to be there and don't let up.
It seems that whenever certain groups of people begin to move into a neighborhood, this is what you see.
Not that Jamaica was great before, but the major garbage problem did not really go into full effect until about 10 years ago with the arrival of many Pakistan, Bengali and Middle Eastern people.
Astoria is now seeing the effect. What makes it worse is the powers to be are allowing this to happen, instead of nipping this shit in the bud.
Let's get the DSNY inspectors to get out of their vehicles and walk around our neighborhoods. I always see inspectors driving around in their cars...never on foot. They are not doing their job effectively.
Leave it there...In 20 or so years it will turn into mulch.
... it bought a co-op (or whatever) just a block from Steinway Street
I DON'T UNDERSTAND - ARE YOU SAYING THAT A COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE THIS AND AN ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEAN UP USING ITS MONEY TO BUY A CO-OP WITH PUBLIC FUNDS AND DONATIONS INTENDED TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY?
Again, this looks like every street in NYC. I am really not understanding these posts of pics of garbage.
You're not? I feel sorry for you. You are part of the problem.
Roger said...
Again, this looks like every street in NYC. I am really not understanding these posts of pics of garbage.
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First it does not look like every street in NYC. Second, it is not okay to normalize this by doing nothing and just accepting this as the status quo, especially considering the amount of taxes we pay and the cost of living.
I am not glad to see all of this shit, but I am certainly glad to see other people in other areas of Queens bringing this to attention.
New immigrants are told by native New Yorkers that when they move into a house they must take out their trash. That's what they are doing, literally.
Oh leave it alone you ignorant Archie Bunkers! It's ART, I tell you! Glorious, beautiful urban art, in the same vein as our beloved grafitti! It tells the enriching story of our gorgeous mosaic, of our VIBRANT! DIVERSE! multicultural neighborhoods! When I simply cannot wait to tell all my friends in Michigan and Iowa about this glorious experience when I move back there! Oh, we will have such a laugh over it!!
our beloved grafitti!
oh, you mean the drug dealers
advertisements.
and the gang warnings. where ever there's graffiti, there's threats,violence and crime.
no, trash and garbage is not cool.
turning a NYC neighborhood into a slum is not cool.
do your god dammed jobs DSNY.
And why were the Greeks any different? Used to quakes demolishing their buildings, they never repair them. They only know to deny tell their tenants to put toilet paper in the trash and not flush it. That's why Astoria trash is as pungent as Greek sausages.
One of the reasons that the Tower People in LIC, like the hipsters in Astoria, outside of restaurants have as little to do with the communities as possible: western Queens is becoming a slum from the garbage on the streets to the ugly ghetto architecture to the brain dead civic leadership that is running the place on autopilot as they slash and burn as much as possible before they move on.
These were strong communities filled with civic pride.
Now they lay prostrate betrayed by the civic leaders from Stonewall Van Bramer to the Vallone clique, from the two bit thugs of Sunnyside to the one bit thug of Dutch Kills, the message to Eastern Queens is clear: the barbarians are heading in your direction.
Make sure they don't get through the gates.
Remember this every time you see the name Vallone:
God Save Queens!
I don't understand. Aren't the two answers really synonyms?
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