From Brownstoner Queens:Also at today’s meeting, the commission approved zoning changes for the $1 billion Hallets Point project planned for the Astoria waterfront. The project (pictured above) will bring 2,600 units to a now-sleepy corner of Astoria. Plans for this mega-development have been floating around for years so it’s big new that it’s finally ready to roll. The commission-level approval today follows the Community Board 1 vote of support back in May.
Lastly, the CPC approved landmarking of Jamaica High School and Forest Park Carousel. No surprises there, since the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to landmark these two structures earlier this summer.
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Hallets Cove: A disaster waiting to happen.
If the buildings don't flood, then the tenants willing to live next to the projects miles from anything will overwhelm it.
I give the project 50 years before its torn down. Go ahead, suckers, invest.
Future generations will scratch their head on our stupidity.
When Peter Vallone becomes beep your neighbor, who is displaying a Vallone sign on their lawn, are doing it because they want to develop their property and try to extract every nickel out of it.
They will do it secure in the knowledge that your community board will appointed by Vallone and your councilman will act like Vallone.
In short, you are screwed.
Better have your conversations on development and the future of your community with your neighbors now.
Cause once Lil Pete is in, you are out.
You don't see this kind of expansion near the Ditmars section of Astoria, because that's where Don Pietro Vallone senior lives!
But it's OK for the Vallones to shit all over the rest of Astoria. Curb your dog and be sure to curb the Vallones!
Look out northeast Queens. La Famiglia di Vallone wants to extend its empire of Vallonia to your eastern border.
Defeat Paul Vallone. He can be stopped just like the Germanic tribes had defeated the ancient Romans who tried to extend their turf.
VOTE GRAZIANO...NOW...MORE THAN EVER!
To hell with singing "God Save The Queen".
To arms! Man the ramparts! Red alert! Stop the Vallones!
God save Queens!
OOOOOH: waterfront development! I'm so looking forward to media coverage of the next super-storm. Tell me, how does this square with the SIRR recommendations? and why is CPC rezoning right before the "resilience" zoning changes are passed? Could it be because everyone's in a rush to show they play nicely with capitalists because Bloomberg's leaving? planning their future careers, eh?
It's called "housing" without a something called a "neighborhood".
The 6-10 cops that the 114 turns out per tour are certainly going to have their hands full. This area ALONE will need at least 6-10 cops to patrol it, without having to worry about the rest of Astoria and LIC. How many cops are PSA 9 (Housing) turning out per tour? Maybe 2-6, and they have to be divided up between Queensbridge, Astoria, Ravenswood and Woodside Houses, in addition to being calld to the Pomonock and Bland houses in Flushing.
OOOOOH: waterfront development! I'm so looking forward to media coverage of the next super-storm.
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What media coverage. Every time a storm comes around, the newspeople are all either in Manhattan or on the Jersay Shore or out on Long Island. Queens gets minimal coverage at best.
Queens gets minimal coverage at best.
Believe me, our politicians are to blame - if they can get press to put a stop sign in Dutch Kills to help out a developer friend they can get press for this stuff, too.
But why stir things up? LIC-Astoria is like a frog in water. If you turn up the heat slowly it falls asleep and gets cooked alive.
Wait till this gang spreads its influence to eastern Queens.
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Those proposed building's and layout look exactly like the new pods and blocks on Rikers Island.
Its likely the same builders involved.
See Google Earth
Guess what, this is an improvement over what's there and existing residents support it. They don't care what you people in Glendale and Douglaston think. Nor should they.
Yeah--change for the worse as usual. It would have made a nice park, with a small marina and launch ramp.
Queens residents get f_cked in the rear all the time when it come to parks are anything green.
The mayor and his bunch want to fill it up with Sec 8' barracks thinking NYC will get big $$ from the federal government and Albany.
Dream on, wont happen by the time these proposed barracks are built. That's because both local and federal the governments will be BROKE-ASS bankrupt by the time they are built !!!
What then ?
flip everything to some billionaire in Hong Kong with lots of cash ?
Guess what, this is an improvement over what's there and existing residents support it. They don't care what you people in Glendale and Douglaston think. Nor should they.
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Oh come on, you are so 1970s Peter. The Vallones might have saved Astoria from the nightmare of the Lindsey era, but they world has moved on and they haven't.
Everything in Astoria is scripted by your and your semi-literate cronies. Nothing happens by chance. Nothing the residents want gets anywhere unless you make it happen.
The Elmezzi Foundation, Rev Taylor with his East River Development, the local press relentlessly pushed for this with all sorts of lollipops to gain the local's trust. Any other opinion is relentlessly crushed and ignored.
Local government in that part of Queens is a shambles that the folks in Glendale and Douglaston are fully aware of - and don't want to happen in their back yard.
As a matter of fact, most of the people in your own back yard are fed up with you and sick of the way you ride roughshod over them.
When you are finally out of office a long night of darkness will finally be over.
The people will dance in the streets.
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