Coming soon to 63-34 Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood:
TOTAL: 28 UNIT CLASS"A" MULTIPLE DWELLING WITH 1 PROFESSIONAL OFFICE AND OPEN ACCESSORY PARKING FOR 17 CARS.
But don't worry, there's going to also be "ENCLOSED ACCESSORY BICYCLE STORAGE ROOM FOR 14 BICYCLE SPACES".
The other buildings on that block are 3 stories high, but this one will be 5. Because it just has to be.
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What's wrong with bike parking? Transit is better than some parts of the city, not everyone needs or can afford a car.
Another eyesore being dumped
In shit-filled Queens.
All of this at the old Four-Ones car service storefront and Karl Ehmer parking lot. And if the residents need additional storage space there is always the old Karl Ehmer building across the street.
What's happening with the evacuated CVS/Oasis movie house?
Not - It doesn't HAVE to be - but it WILL be because you do not organize your communities to make those responsible miserable until they change their tune.
HINT:
No, the mayor is not responsible nor are are city agencies.
Its your community board, your community newspapers and the high lord of the manor, your city councilman.
But don't worry, there's going to also be "ENCLOSED ACCESSORY BICYCLE STORAGE ROOM FOR 14 BICYCLE SPACES".
Hooray!
Now, if I can only find a place to get my free trade coffee, artisanal cheese, and biodynamic wine in Ridgewood!
It's not the developers fault.
Blame the people that approve projects like this so they can get more property taxes for that same land.
I'm more upset at the open parking for 17 cars. Because blacktop parking lots just make places feel all neighborhoody.
I'd make a trade with the developer. Build to 3-floors, and you can forget the parking lot.
Community newspapers responsible for zoning and buildings laws? Interesting theory.
Hey, you're not teaching government classes anywhere, are you? That'd be disturbing, but might explain some things about today's students.
What the commenter was getting at is that no one holds those in power accountable for anything. It used to be the job of the media to do that.
I ... guess ... He said "those responsible" and otherwise cited people with votes on zoning. But I guess the tired old mantra is so ingrained in everyone here that he didn't need to be clear.
Be aware that making the media miserable would constitute pulling their advertising, which would mean less money for good reporting and therefore more of just what he complains about. If your goal is to degrade the media, don't complain about your successes.
No, it has to do with writing letters to the editor and calling them out when they omit important facts. Has nothing to do with advertising. Except when the local pols take ads out in the papers for every holiday. That would cut into their bottom line, which is why they get the kid glove treatment.
The media IS responsible because they do not actually report news. They simply forward press releases from the developers (with the odd quote from lapdog politicians which explains the reason there are tax breaks.)
Are their critiques of independent ideas or are both sides of the issue reported evenly?
no.
Are similar projects that crash and burn elsewhere or filled with the same empty promises (as the affordable housing bullshit) that never see the light of day reported?
no
Does the media ever go beyond simply mouthing all the benefits (real or imagined) by the developers without examining the problems.
no
Are infrastructure problems (from transit to schools to hospitals to sanitation) and or displacement or the health hazard from building on toxic brownsites next to what amounts to open waterfront sewers ever discussed?
no.
How about the stupidity of building on the waterfront after the wakeup message Mother Nature sent from Irene and Sandy?
no
Does the rendering or a group of forty story buildings - with the top cut off so only the bottom 3 stories show hazily colored in pastel grey in the background...
with kids and pets and parents all walking in a green garden that looks like it was lifted from a Jehovah Witness pamphlet..
in a one inch square image (while a politician doing a street renaming gets a full front page) realistically depict the environmental impact of a 6,000 person project?
Hell even a politician can answer that. Go ahead, ask them.
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