The former site of the Keil Brothers gardening center in Bayside Hills isn’t a place for timber anymore.
Five city-owned trees and about 40 shrubs saw the buzzer last week, resulting in complaints from residents and fines from the Parks Department.
The trees were cut by the current owner, 48 Garden Realty LLC, according to Community Board 11 leaders who told The Courier that the Parks Department informed the board it has issued fines to the firm. The owner has begun a process to turn the lot into residential homes, according to the board.
“He probably took down the trees thinking he is going to make driveways,” Community Board 11 District Manager Susan Seinfeld said.
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Trees died so assholes from Iowa can come overcrowd our schools? The Nazi bastards...
Bet this construction costs less than one of those bocce courts.
There goes another Queens neighborhood. Why is it that the first thing developers do is chop down 50 or 60 year old trees? Why doesn't the city require and demand that the developers must work around the trees? Amazing.
The company should receive the maximum fine possible for this. The owners who OKed the cutting of the trees and the workers who actually cut the trees should be thrown in jail for a month to make a statement to everyone else that this will not be tolerated.
Mission accomplished. They will pay a reduced fine and put in the driveways.
In fairness, it's no longer Keil Bros. property. Why connect them to the dirty deeds of the developer? They were outstanding neighbors for many years.
It's sad what developers are allowed to get away with or with very little punishment. They are modern day criminals. Wrecking havoc on nature, safety, neighborhood esthetics and preservation efforts. They always build crap and designs that don't make sense or match the surrounding areas. They always come in like they own everything and have no respect for anything. NYC needs better conduct and needs to straighten up these uneducated crooks we have for contractors, builders and real estate firms.
I'm sure the $100 fine was factored into his construction budget.
Its pretty sad when doing the crime AND paying the time still puts you ahead in the game.
isn't this site going to be aP.S. ? more property tax for owners in Queens.
why is P.S. 130 Q at 42ave/F.L.Blvd being used by out of town bus in pupils and out of town spec. ed. pupils ? when the walk in local pupils get to ride a bus miles away ? NUTS and costly.
then the progs social engineers build more schools ,when they are not needed.
home values drop when the local school is given away to progs.fantasy social engineering dreams.
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