I could swear that this boat has been in this yard at 59-95 Grand Avenue since I was a kid. Luckily, a nifty tool called CityMap allows one to check his or her sometimes shaky memory against reality.
This is a screenshot of a 1996 aerial shot. And sure enough, there's the boat.
By the way, a boat parked in the front yard is a zoning violation. Still, I'd rather see a quirky old boat overgrown with weeds on an oversized lot than see it filled with Fedders houses.
16 comments:
It's a house boat you dummy. There's an immigrant family living there.
...a two hour tour, a two hour tour...
Lol...don't get land sick!
Hey crapster:
That isn't a front yard, it's a side yard.
The front yard has the obligatory birdbath and the Statue of the Virgin Mary in a white and blue plastic grotto.
I think that boat was there when Wetson's burgers was up the block.
A boat parked anywhere on residential property is a violation.
If I am not mistake that yard has a sad history.
Back in the sixties the folks who resided there had a pool in the yard for their kids. An accident on the corner sent a car careening into the yard killing one or two of the kids.
If it's private property then the owner can leave it there. I once had a neighbor in construction business. He would keep a backhoe, dump truck, and bucket truck parked on his lawn in front of his house or in the driveway. I had no problem with it. My kids used to play on the trucks and actually learned how to use some of the equipment, while the owner was watching of course. It's Queens. Anything goes.
The boat is legal. It's St. Stan's nautical annex.
Zoning laws dictate what may be done on private property, not you. Just because your neighbor parked commercial equipment on his residential property and you didn't have a problem with it doesn't make it legal. In fact it's people like this that are a large part why things like this are allowed to happen in Queens. If enough people called things in and raised hell like they do in Park Slope, we'd be treated a lot differently.
"Wetson's burgers"
God you're old.
Do you remember "Hungry Herman's" burger place as well?
"God you're old."
So's ya mama!
; )
Another "side yard" with a boat (under a blue tarp) is at the corner of 154th Street and Willets Point Blvd.
Why don't our electeds walk and drive around their district to see what's relly happening. Wouldn't you? I would. I couldn't sit in an office all day while my community fell apart!
Id would leave them people alone.
1-That old boat has far more character then a cement box. 2-Piss them people off and they may sell that whole corner property to a builder.
"Why don't our elected..."
Dizzy Lizzy Crowley??? She probably thinks that this yard is a park and the boat is a playground accoutrement.
Looks still in floatable shape, with a decent trailer. They could get some dollars for it if they put a sign on it.
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