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- Recipe for tweeding
- College Point should be so much more than this
- One last bill, thanks to Vito
- Just embarrassing...
- Crowley takes her time having vandalized office cl...
- Disturbing sight by Muni Lot 1
- Paying is for suckers
- Avella now part of Independent Democrat Conference
- Building collapse injures 8 workers
- Pastor convicted of immigration fraud
- Our underfunded roads are in bad shape
- Frank Lloyd Crap outdoes himself in LIC
- Sanitation says to put all trash in front of house...
- Natural rock a happy sight in Woodhaven
- Queens-based photography
- Could this be...an honest politician?
- Wow, what a bargain!
- Goldfeder wants more $ for Aqueduct
- Hopefully, less expensive = less ugly
- Someone needs a better hobby
- HHC has gigantic budget gap
- Slumlording in LIC
- SI green space saga sounds like the same old story
- Have fun moving your car & dealing with bums
- Flushing residents love AirBnB
- “The monkey’s on my back and I have feces floating...
- Cameras coming to Forest Park
- Eminent domain invoked for project that may never ...
- Staten Islanders trying to rescue sad landmark
- Flushing Town Hall needs new crappers
- Don't be a postal jerk
- Crap replaces 1935 rowhouse
- Legislation to keep sex offenders off beaches and ...
- All Queens subway stations to get wifi this year
- Transportation projects delayed
- Melissa dumps staffer connected to County
- DeBlasio leaves Queens like a bat out of hell
- A look at the RKO Keith's of Flushing over time
- High rise likely to replace thrift shop
- Homeless to be removed from E train
- DeBlasio makes clear that he's a developers' whore
- People are finally waking up
- IBZ funding nixed
- "Hello Mary, this is Macy's..."
- 110 Frost-y the slumlord
- Vallone seeks to ensure delivery of ethnic meals
- Law proposed to forcibly clean sidewalks
- It's piled high and deep in Ridgewood
- Everyone's got their hands out
- Lucho's out of luck?
- Kitty Genovese apathy story was pretty much made up
- Hydrant outside burning church was frozen shut
- Magical Blue Bus finds a friend
- Dromm wants ID cards for illegals; sees no terrori...
- Nightmare may hopefully come to an end
- From IBZ property to luxury condos
- Lots of conflicts of interest keeping boathouse pl...
- Koslowitz & Katz blew him off, so he called Help M...
- Is it time for English to become our official lang...
- AirBnB laid it on a little too thick
- Today is not about every president
- Obama as hospital savior? Maybe not
- Bowne Park: No garbage there!
- Better park protection at Spring Creek
- Rockaway candy maker hitting the road
- A new day at CAU
- Crap cleanup campaign to launch in LIC
- Does this house in Jamaica date back to 1799?
- Senior center location not exactly ideal
- Supermarket tied up in red tape
- Comrie vs. Smith?
- The case of the flying garbage can
- Better get up early if you want to visit
- Bill introduced to stop swan slaughter
- Council suddenly standing up to developer
- Tax cut proposed for burger joints that allow seni...
- Is there a variance that CB7 won't approve?
- FMCP mosaics back to looking like crap
- People leaving NY in droves
- Absent gas tanks inspire poem
- Look out below!
- He's gotta go (or take a pay cut)
- Growing up in Fresh Meadows
- Liz Crowley takes credit for something she had not...
- Steinway Mansion museum idea needs a lot of money
- Pol wants better cell service for Rockaway
- NY-born cabbies a thing of the past
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- What conflict of interest?
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- Motor Parkway restoration gains steam
- Cockfighting ring busted
- Pedestrian safety on people's minds
- It's not kosher to advertise this way
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8 comments:
Yeech, that used to be such a nice block, a door to the past. Sad.
Those utility meters are a nice accent.
This is a direct result of the complete lack of community preservation in the city - except for a notable minority of savvy well heeled areas.
In Queens we are told that everything is better if its new - so say our newspapers, our elected officials. We see that all the laws that were passed for good housing and building strong communities are now looked at to circumvent. We see our taxes not being used for our communities, but to displace us and subsidize development. We see all the think tanks on urban studies have been hijacked by the development lobby.
Only the most elite communities that have managed to preserve the principals of community preservation for their neighborhoods.
These areas do can do a tremendous help to Queens with advice and ideas.
They don't.
They could be in Timbuctoo as far as we are concerned.
Why?
Its true that they need our councilmen to support them with funds and this might be cut off if they help us.
This should not be fatal - they have the money to neutralize the petty pathological Van Bramers and Vallones that grow in the petrie dish of Queens politics.
They know it would be a waste of time for them to share with us their access to information and know-how on how organize to get the word out.
They know that these things seem to be beyond the reach of Queens.
They wince at the local talent's efforts as we stumble around frittering away every opportunity, or worse, have complete loss of self respect when a pol strolls into a room.
They roll their eyes as Archie and Edith blather nonsense, and those that dare to try are stabbed in the back for a paternalistic pat on the head.
We have earned the attitude that rest of the city has towards Queens: 'forget it Jake, its Chinatown.'
Until and unless we change, things will only get worse no matter how hard we pathetically 'hope.'
Where are the satellite dishes. Judging by the number of people supposedly living here , there should be no fewer than 8. Queens: Vibrant. Diverse.
"Missing foundation" is absolutely dead on about what's the problem with preservation in Queens. It's a terrible terrible state of mind residents and politicians have in Queens. It just makes me angry when I think about it.
Well it's not much but I started a fb page just to spread info on Queens historical and community events, old houses for sale, and information on preservation. Feel free to post anything or join. https://www.facebook.com/oldhomesQUEENS?ref=hl
the church burned downed.Did you really think they were going to rebuilt for a community that doesn't go to the church.
It's all about the $$$$
As for the other house I'm sure they were lifelong residents who cared about the community.
Ha
I could swear that queens has changed for the worst! Ever since more Hispanics and Greeks and Asians moved to nyc, the houses have gotten more expensive but look 10 times shittier looking! Vibrant and diverse my ass!!
Let's leave the Greeks out of this. For now, anyway.
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