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More than 500 people filled outreach center Ohr Natan on Thursday, July 25 to fight for the facility to remain open. Members of the community, spiritual leaders and elected officials voiced their support for Ohr Natan, where thousands of people depend upon for their food distribution, classes, children’s programs, events, lectures, referrals, ESL classes and Judaic studies each year. Ohr Natan is being evicted and possibly taken over by a developer who plans to convert the center into an apartment building. In attendance were Congressmember Grace Meng, state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz, Councilmember Karen Koslowitz, borough president candidate Melinda Katz and Barbara Baruch representing City Comptroller John Liu. Proclamations were presented to Ohr Natan by Meng, Stavisky, Koslowitz and Liu. The theme of the event was “We are here together with Ohr Natan —No to development! No to Destruction!”
No to development, no to destruction?!?
When was the last preservation rally that this cast of characters showed up for? They usually are the ones proclaiming that a structure needs to be torn down in the name of progress.
Melinda Katz is the reason that they are being evicted in the first place because she told the LPC in 2006 that the site was not worthy of landmarking (at the congregation's urging). The other dopey electeds have caused similar harm throughout the borough. So why all of a sudden is preservation so important? How deep are the pockets of this crowd?
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As a former patron of the Trylon Theater, please excuse me while I do a temporary 360 on my regular anti-overdevelopment position. To hell with Ohr Natan, raze the building, build as high a monstrosity as possible. And if God is good, let it collapse into a massive pile of debris as the finishing touches are put into place.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people.
As a former patron of the Trylon Theater, please excuse me while I do a temporary 360 on my regular anti-overdevelopment position. To hell with Ohr Natan, raze the building, build as high a monstrosity as possible. And if God is good, let it collapse into a massive pile of debris as the finishing touches are put into place.
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Agreed. I'm willing to sacrifice this one tragically mutilated would-have-been landmark if it'd help snap some sense and awareness into people.
Has anyone seen any local politician actively support the Steinway Mansion?
But something like the hulk of the Trylon Theater and you get enough to show up that they can pass legislation.
There isn't a Jewish tax shelter run by deep pocketed Buks at the Steinway Mansion.
When the "Jews" talk, the pols walk. Don't want to be accused of a pogrom.
They are smart - they know how to work together.
As the previous post today states, in Queens the locals are too stupid to work with each other.
You got to give these people credit.
But instead of learning from their success and our mistakes, and continuing the idea of Queens residents being stupid, their efforts only gives everyone a green light for anti-Semitic comments.
I say good for them!
I also say good for them. They are about to get exactly what they deserve.
Let's see how much $$$ Koslowitz comes up with to support theses money hungry people who always have their hands out and abuse the system of millions . Free money for food stamps, Medicaid , housing, etc
These people deserve what's coming to them and Koslowitz should step aside and have Katz apologize for this crooked mess.
Avella for Boro President!
Where's Melinda Katz
Ohr Natan is a constituency made up largely of elderly, poor and working families. So it's not about money. It's about votes and the wishes of the community.
The newer Bukharian residents of Rego Park preferred a community center/shul over an antiquated one-room theater.
"Ohr Natan is a constituency made up largely of elderly, poor and working families. So it's not about money."
"Elderly, poor and working families" who spent $ 2M on a renovation. Yeah, ok.
The point is, they could have still had a community center/shul inside of a renovated theater and had the exterior landmarked, which would have affected nothing inside and would have prevented demolition. Now their greed has caused their destruction. Good riddance.
Oh boo hoo hoo. Where will we go? Why is this anyone else's problem but theirs? If I got evicted from my home, none of these pols would give a damn or offer to help. They must have a really sweet quid pro quo system set up.
It doesn't sound like "they know how to work together". Rather it sounds like the new Jewish landlord is kicking out the new Rego Park Jews. Sweet irony.
Maybe they can apply for landmarking! ROFLMFAO!
No to development, no to destruction. When the community said this several years ago, the pols went with the destroyers. Now they are born again preservationists? Spare us, please.
The shul is Bukharian and so is its new property owner. So in the end, the question over its future will be solved within the community and the electeds will stay out of it.
I expect a condo/office tower with the shul as a tenant.
If that is the case, why was there a press conference with the electeds who said no to development and no to destruction? Doesn't sound like they'll stay out of it.
The owner of this property sits on Community Board 6.
Hmmm
PULL IT DOWN! Evict the hypocrites!
That shifty Kasiev is now getting what he and his cult deserves.
Since former council member, Melinda Katz, DID NOT SUPPORT the landmarking of the Trylon Theater (Ohr Natan site) she can go tho hell too!
Make sure that this crooked oddball bitch doesn't become our next borough president
She's OWNED by the real estate developers.
Just look up her campaign contributors online.
Oy vei...such tsooris.
What goes around comes around.
Kasiev's current calamity is payback for how he destroyed the landmark worthy Trylon Theater!
Ohr Natan is a constituency made up largely of elderly, poor and working families. So it's not about money. It's about votes and the wishes of the community
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Obviously, you haven't read Queenscrap very much, let alone studied history. It works like this:
Politicians with clout need votes to stay or rise in office. Developers want variances, tax breaks, contracts. No-nothing community types like you and Kaziev want something modified. It's a triangular exchange.
Sometimes the interests conflict, and it comes to bite you in the ass. It's the little bit of Schadenfreude for us who try in vain to warn people. Spare us that, eh?
It's called poetic justice!
These Bukho-barbarians are now being screwed by their own kind.
Sweet Lord...you smote the sinning hypocrites.
Ahmein!
I love the way that John Liu is scrambling about town, desperately trying to scape up some votes.
Now he's suddenly become a Bukharian "lantzman"?
LOL! Where's your Orthodox beard johnny?
Last month Mr. Comptroller made the rounds of African-American barber shops in Brooklyn...followed by trips to the Latino nabes.
You're cooked Mr. Liu! You're running 6% in the polls!
After a few of those anti-Black and anti-Semitic comments you've made in the past, what do you now expect from the Bukharians...their financial support?
The Board of Elections cut off your matching funds.
Face it...you were just politically castrated, old boy!
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