Three candidates running for office did make appearances. Sondra Peeden, running for Councilman Leroy Comrie’s seat, Jon Torodash, running for City Council in Kew Gardens and Everly Brown, running for Queens Borough President. Both Torodash and Brown marched the entire way from 171st/109th Avenue through South Jamaica via 108th and Guy Brewer to Jamaica Avenue and ending at 89th Avenue/168th Place. Torodash, who is not even from Jamaica came to show his support, but no where to be found where Councilman Leroy Comrie (his district 27 is one of the worst), Assemblymember Vivian Cook (I still think she has been dead for several years), Ruben Wills, William Scarborough or the grand dame of incompetence, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall.
So let me take you on a most interesting tour of just what we saw on this march.
Before I even get to the beginning of the march at 171st St/109th Ave, I encounter these wonderful sights:
I step out my building and walk a few feet down 170th St near the empty lot at the corner of 170th St/90th Ave and encounter the classic low ghetto garbage, chicken bones galore, with a side dish of rice. Our little dog, Teddy, would have had a field day if he was with me.
Then at 170th & Liberty the “plastered all over the place signs” on telephone poles, fences and trees greets me about carpet cleaning and I am totally shocked by this sign……………………………low class ghetto and low class third world immigrants clean their carpets.
Next the big Jamaica epidemic (and no I do not mean diabetes). I am talking about cars without license plates and/or registration stickers which is a huge problem in Jamaica as you will soon see by the photos. This one was at 170th St/Liberty Ave.
Then another one, with a South Carolina license plate and no registration sticker taking up space at 171st St/104th Ave.
Yet another one at the corner of 171st/104th Avenue. By the way it is illegal to cover a car on city streets. This particular one has no license plates or registration, flat tires and the front is demolished. I reported this to DOS several days ago and it still sits along with another one a few cars down.
Right across from the car above is an empty lot that just several days ago had garbage and several mattresses tossed on the street. I reported it, it got cleaned up and then just a few days later, more garbage. There is even more there, you just cannot see it with all the high weeds (and not the good kind). Keep in mind I am riding my bike and still have not even approached the initial protest spot at 171st/109th Ave.
Another sign. A call to the number revealed a gentlemen of Middle Eastern descent who told me the company is Priceless Realty based in Florida. Do any of you leaders or city officials even look into this kind of shit.
Another car, this time an out of state license, no registration. Again this is illegal. But this is Jamaica and Queens, where really nothing is enforced.
Ah, surprise, another car.And another.
One more. This one with a California plate but no registration and it looks like it has been sitting here for some time.
And this beauty, which the woman who lives across the street has been complaining not only about this one, but all the others and the auto repair place next to this vehicle, which she stated they place many of these smashed up cars there, but alas her calls lead to no where. Hmmmm, wonder if this would be tolerated in Chelsea or the Upper East Side or Long Island City or Forest Hills or a white community?
And here is the auto repair that is responsible for some of these cars but not all. Hey Comrie, all this fucking shit is in your district. How about lifting a finger on this issue or are you too busy looking in the mirror at the not soon to be Queens Borough President job.
Wow, I finally reach my destination for the march, the notorious abandoned playground (owned by Crown Realty owner David Landau of Brooklyn) at 171st St/109th Ave to find garbage all over, high weeds and a pile of something near the fence.
On closer inspection, the pile is broken up concrete and blocks, dumped I am sure by Pedro the Handyman.While waiting for my fellow protesters to show, I notice another “For Sale vehicle”, with no license plate and registration. But I am bored waiting for my comrades, so………………………………
I decide to give it the Clean-Up Jamaica Moretti treatment, broken wipers, broken side mirrors, and garbage to top it off. I think the value of the vehicle has dropped down, so if anyone is in the market…………… After my customized job, two police officers come by in a patrol car, I flag them down, tell them about this illegally parked car and the others. They tell me they have some other business to take care of down the street but will send someone to take care of it. It is 9am, by 4pm, it is still there. I call the number on the vehicle, but it is hard to understand the heavy accent, but something about his brother, blah, blah, blah.
My comrades in arms finally show (wow, I am already exhausted). Some interviewing with NY1 (it airs Saturday night) and the Queens Chronicle and meeting some people takes place and then we being the March up 171st St.
We march up 171st, turn on 108th, work our way across Merrick Blvd into the hell hole called South Jamaica, that our elected leaders have totally abandoned all together.
Tomorrow, in Part Two of the March, more abandoned cars, a hell of a lot of garbage, abandoned homes, a crack/prostitution house, and some majorly low, low, low class ghetto people mixed in with the even more low class third world immigrants of the Middle Eastern and Pakistani background.
Tomorrow you will enter the hell hole known as South Jamaica, that even Lucifer himself would not dare enter.
Sneak Peak:
The notorious abandoned home, the crack heads and prostitutes hangout.
Your typical Middle Eastern Deli. Damn, our delis really went downhill when the Koreans sold them to the low class Middle Eastern/Pakistani slobs.
All of this “Vibrant and Diverse” Jamaica brought to you by Leroy Comrie, Helen Marshall, Vivian Cook and Senator Malcolm Smith.
GOOD FUCKING JOB FOLKS!
Joe Moretti
Jamaica, NY 11432
http://cleanupjamaicaqueens.
20 comments:
Love those animal bones!
Did someone hold a Santoria ritual...or where some ghetto "bros" havin' a nice fried chicken lunch lunch?
Keep up the great work Joe Moretti!
Next time collect all the chicken bones and leave them at that dickhead Smith's office located in the Popeye's chicken!
Right Here!
Doesn't he realize that Popeye's is a low-class ghetto outfit? Perhaps that's the crowd he plays well to - or just plays!!!!
I was with you all the way until "low class Middle Eastern/Pakistani slobs." You can't lump all deli owners together with one description. Stick with the facts (garbage, unregistered cars) and skip the personal attacks.
Actually, he didn't lump them all together. He said when they were sold to the slobs of that particular ethnicity. And you can't deny that some cultures value cleanliness more than others.
As we have said many times, the rest of NYC is moving forward, Queens is stuck in 1980.
It is squalid.
This is starting to effect the property values of the remaining good communities in Queens.
They are in danger of the 'Riverdale Syndrome' - if its the Bronx its dangerous and decayed - if its in Queens its a festering 3rd world ghetto.
Just about what you would expect when, massa lives with the rich folk in ol Virginny while his overseers extract every ounce they can from the soil and their slaves.
Marching and yellin isn’t going stop those dealerships and pirate "street flipper's who buy these pieces of shit at out of state auction’s.
Forget calling the cops they don’t do shit because the city can not collect $$ fines on these out of state unregistered cars. Some tickets do eventually go to the last owner (via the vin number) however they must be dismissed. The city only tow's them if they are in Manhattan or in a bus lane, damaged or altered VIN number, involved in a crime, or creating a life-threatening hazard.
The only thing that works is approaching those cars at night and doing the right thing.
Back in the 80s this shit was going on all over lower Ridgewood. This neighborhood group called the Boogiemen put an end to it in 2 nights.
Suddenly you could find parking space and private driveways and used car lots on Cypress ave were suddenly filled with cheap "cars on sale”
Roger stated: I was with you all the way until "low class Middle Eastern/Pakistani slobs." You can't lump all deli owners together with one description. Stick with the facts (garbage, unregistered cars) and skip the personal attacks.
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I am sticking with facts. The two delis in the article are owned by Middle Eastern/Pakistani people and since both delis were disgusting on the outside, yes they are slobs and I am not saying all deli owners, just the ones like this in my community. Also I am not saying all Middle Eastern/Pakistani, I am saying low class Middle Eastern/Pakistani and since I live in Jamaica, where there are many of them, I know what I am talking about and what I see, those are facts, not personal attacks.
Would you like for me to show you every dirty property that is owned by Pakistani or Middle Eastern people in Jamaica. It is a very high number. Again these are facts not generalizations.
This is the future of ALL OF Queens unless voters elect a “clean” Queens Borough president and NYC mayor who understands Queens is part of NYC. This racketeer city nonsense under Bloomberg must go. THROW THEM ALL OUT !!
Politicians are like dirty diaper's. You need to change or dispose because the innate disposition is to clump, fester and stink !!
WHEN WILL QUEENS VOTERS UNDERSTAND THIS ???
Abandoned vehicles should be towed and companies posting signs all over the place should be heavily fined.
the only reason these vehicles are on the street is because they assume they will get towed.
start towing them and the problem will go away.
And what is this BS, we don't have the money to enforce the law. citizens need to start suing the government.
Anon states: "citizens need to start suing the government."
You took the words out of my mouth, we are in the beginning stages talking to some attorneys just about that same subject.
If you think what you saw here is bad, if Queens Crap posts my part 2, you will be astounded. I was and I live in Jamaica. I saw things that I had never seen before especially in South Jamaica which I am not near.
The flier on the I shield of that one car is for the mafia charity featured here last week.
my bad from my post above:
the only reason these vehicles are on the street is because they assume they will get towed.
should have been
the only reason these vehicles are on the street is because they assume they will NOT get towed.
"citizens need to start suing the government"
WRONG--and a waste of time you will go broke or die of old age before seeing a dime.
---Citizens need to start helping themselves and realize the government is not going to help nor represent them.
**most** Queens populate are too stupid to realize they are just census numbers to get those big federal $$$ to spend in Manhattan.
Pack tweeded sheep in like sardines = more federal $$$, welfare and future democrats for life.
Citizens need to start helping themselves and realize the government is not going to help nor represent them.
whoa feller - don't know what country you are from but government is responsible to the public and exists to help and represent people.
sure its imperfect and is a work in progress but when we start to accept your statements as fact then we are off the rails.
It is NYC government that is off its rails and run amuck with corruption. Perhaps some certain people have forgotten Thomas Jefferson's "liberty Tree" letter of 1787 warning William Smith of all this exact crap 200 years ago.
Read:
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/tree-liberty-quotation
Anon stated in response to my comment and another of "citizens need to start suing the government."
"WRONG--and a waste of time you will go broke or die of old age before seeing a dime.
---Citizens need to start helping themselves and realize the government is not going to help nor represent them".
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You are DEAD WRONG and you are the reason things go to shit. At the most basic level, the purpose of government is to protect the people from from within and without. To quote Thomas Jefferson, “The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”
So pretty much your thinking to "fend for yourself" (not unlike many far right Republicans) is pretty much an anarchic system where individuals must protect and provide completely for themselves, and those with greater power are able to offend those with lesser power without consequence.
“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness"
Post the rest of it Joe Moretti !!
What a liberal trick to twist words around. The **intent** of Jefferson's letter continues to say: "the gov will become corrupt and need reminded /removed once and a wile with the blood of both patriots and tyrants" its the tree's natural manure.
The local Queens government doesn't give a dam about Jamaica. If these people don't "act up" and start cleaning up there own shit nothings going to get done there.
Bitching, marching and singing Cumbayá does nothing. That's useless.
Make big scene's outside your useless politicians fancy homes and offices (the TV news love that stuff) as in REMIND THEM .
Start taking care of them illegal cars and mountains of trash on your own and watch how fast the cops, sanitation and code enforcement start showing up.
The squeaky wheel get's the oil, your just not loud and angry enough--Yet.
Joe
You must find a publisher and start putting that book together.
It would make a great Urban Studies resource. Give it a shot!
The truth is that their are too many folks who don't care. They practice no self respect. Queens use to be a place to live a better life when they moved from the projects of Queen and Brooklyn. Where do these slobs come from ??
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