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- An environmentally friendly Kew Gardens Cinema
- Living wage expanded
- Astoria Cove approved by planning commission despi...
- Even more homeless on the streets and in shelters
- Brooklyn area eyed for affordable housing is alrea...
- Why not just close LaGuardia Airport?
- Red fox discovered in Queens
- Giant Manhattan developer takes over Astoria megap...
- What Resorts World must resort to
- "Revealing money's influence on politics"
- Piss poor planning leads to parking nightmare
- New Elmhurst LIRR station in the works?
- Something else to dislike about Astoria Cove
- Forest Hills Stadium experimenting with sound blan...
- Arrests of family shelter residents made in Rockaway
- Former Elks Lodge added to National Register
- Elmhurst library construction is 2 years behind sc...
- Woodhaven wants housing left alone
- Hotel contractor has unsafe history
- City Council attempts to end harassment of rent re...
- Businesses to boycott
- Big Allis a big polluter
- Win or lose, it's all about the money
- Silvercup West proposal back for renewal
- Council members want Clinton Foundation to stop us...
- City lets Boro Hall municipal garage fall apart
- Developer receives loan for St. John's hospital co...
- Oakland Lake closed for at least a year
- City Council adds fine for leaving scenes of accid...
- Noise from Forest Hills stadium exceeds permissibl...
- Worker dies after concrete slab falls on him
- Did someone run out of money?
- 7-11 owners plead guilty to fraud
- Arrivaderci!
- The tweeding never ends
- Vibrant and diverse fishing habits
- Archer Avenue walls get a facelift
- Astoria Cove battle is gonna get interesting
- Man with a plan?
- Pied-a-terre tax may be on the menu
- Question about College Point storage yard
- Major crappification comes to Elmhurst green space
- Just a bit crazy
- Taking a walk on Sunnyside's wild side
- This is nuts
- City Council on climate crusade
- James loved hotel after campaign contributions
- Greenway meetings coming up
- DEP ignores reported water leak
- CB5 rejects liquor license for hipster party venue
- The parrots of Queens
- Illegal conversions left uninspected
- City taking its sweet time to fix Bayside curb
- Problem corner kept clean
- Benefits associated with city ID card
- Spectacular restoration unveiled
- Finding poetry in Queens trash
- Resorts World is raking in the dough
- A novel approach to NYCHA repairs
- The final round of skeeter spraying?
- CB1 denies liquor license to topless bar
- Enterovirus now in NYC
- Perhaps not the city's biggest priority
- Soccer stadium may be built at Aqueduct instead
- Thar she blows!
- Protecting and polishing the Bloomberg legacy
- Traffic confusion in Forest Hills
- Liu finally admits he lost
- CB11 denies variance for car dealer
- Pathways to hell
- DOB no longer updating stalled sites list
- Skeeter spraying for southern Queens
- NY Senate bill would provide citizenship benefits ...
- Ridgewood monument should get more respect
- Enterovirus may be headed here soon
- Turning parking spaces into micro apartments
- When will there be enough development?
- Schumer gets grant for Rockaway study
- Galante placed on leave
- Candid Camera comes to Queens
- Never ending variance goes down in flames at CB7
- "We the People" for NYC?
- Affordable housing group wants AirBnB ads nixed
- Astoria Cove decision pending
- Abandoned, burned building causing problems
- Pan Am shelter brings additional crime to Elmhurst
- Casa di Como is for sale!
- Liu failed to file paperwork to appeal sign fines
- Junior's owner has change of heart on development ...
- DeBlasio focusing on Jamaica for affordable housing
- Remembering 9/11
- Feds may noiseproof Astoria school
- Litter plaguing Elmhurst as well
- Watch your step in Forest Park
- Goldfeder asks for sewer cleanouts
- Forest Hills intersection needs to be made safer
- Roaches crawling all over Ozone Park block
- Blissville chemical company in hot water
- Queens Dem voters reject corruption
- Lots of murder happening in Flushing lately
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10 comments:
So many neighborhoods in Queens used to have a tremendous sense of place. That was destroyed to make room for everyone to drive. We may have gained mobility, but it came at a heavy price.
Flushing was not destroyed by cars but by the "vibrant and diverse!"
Our politicians sold us out! QC commenters keep saying to vote in different pols but THEY ALL SUCK!
Except Tony Avella! The only honest politician in Queens, perhaps the entire city!
So many neighborhoods in Queens used to have a tremendous sense of place. That was destroyed to make room for everyone to drive. We may have gained mobility, but it came at a heavy price.
The same tired argument has been used about American small towns in general and the rise of surburbia; it's not unique to Queens.
But the fact is, cars have made our lives infinitely better. It's not the fault of technology that low class humans use it.
The issue isn't just the bad drivers anon 3, or that the mobility cars afford let any scum reach your neighborhood, it's that cars are loud, dirty, dangerous, and just generally unpleasant to be around. So the public commons gets reduced from everything between buildings to small oases of green in a handful of parks.
Anon 2 is there a place with high traffic levels that is pleasant to walk around? A template for a redesigned streetspace in queens?
I don't deny the mobility that cars afford, but ask if there's a way to preserve that mobility and at the same time recreate some of what was lost.
Anon #4, "loud, dirty, dangerous, and just generally unpleasant to be around" What do you think horse and buggies were?
It's one thing to landmark buildings, but quite another to dictate what people should be driving on the road daily.
"It's one thing to landmark buildings, but quite another to dictate what people should be driving on the road daily."
Why?
I don't hate cars. I have a car and use it almost every day. Just because cars are useful don't blind yourself to the trouble they cause.
"Our politicians sold us out"
:) :) Ohh Ooh Ohh, Bang all the pots and pans HAPPY NEW YEAR you "armchair" warriors are just realizing what all the IN THE FIELD & TRENCH educated have been telling you for years now ?
WHY you people still elect and continue to re-elect shit till the term limits or they croak I have no idea.
DeBlazio, Crowleys, Cats, Cuomos and all the rest of Liberalnoia back stabbing shitters not excluding abundant Queens votes for a black president, a scumbag avowed racist, who claimed a gangster, rapist, felon, attacker and a doping thug such as Trayvon Martin could have been his son – oh really?
“Liberalnoia” was once considered a disease disproportionately associated with college campuses however it's now showing up at, parades, hipsterfests and gatherings like that 1964 World Fair anniversary fiasco. A disgrace with Katz and Crowly) where “Liberalnoia” is clearly identified by trademark mob mentality and hijacking.
Fact: Nests of “Liberaloia” are the most extreme manifestation of dangerous affliction. Severe property damage, moral and brain atrophy are often associated with it.
The only known cure for “Liberalnoia” in my opinion is a strong dose of reality.
"Boo Hoo Hoo Our politicians sold us out" Its to late now buddy, the ship is going down fast and its the bands last song.
I have no doubt the infinite sadness of some of you people will continue, R.I.P Queens. I was born in Bushwick when it was a tree lined streets of beautiful manicured homes brewery's called Williamsburg. It was a small wooden house with a huge yard and side yard. The city I knew has been murdered so I think I will move back to Mississippi or Texas. I had enough of this shit !
This "Our politicians sold us out" really took the cake. SHAME on some of you people and I bet most STILL can not comprehend why I declare this last comment !!
Ned
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this is a great video,I like how the train ride to rockaway still looks the same from the window even to this day.
Yeah I always loved that train ride across the virgin marshland to Rockaway.
But now you get off Beach 98 or 116 and say "holy shit what the F happened here"
Lots of bums and impoverished, neglected inner city urban youth looking to "kick ass and split some white booty" with women going to the beach everyplace.
Breezy point is also messed up, even before the hurricane "new money" blew out all those cute bungalows into 2 story blinged & bloated crap with big plastic windows, plastic capping, plastic siding, massive wooden decks all the way out to the property lines removing every shrub in the process.
That's whey they all caught fire so fast and went up like gasoline despite what its local corrupt officials (who are all related to each other) said on the news.
Look at the population number on the sign and you'll see why Queens is what it is now versus then.
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