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- Living wage expanded
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- Brooklyn area eyed for affordable housing is alrea...
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Remembering 9/11
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12 comments:
Wow!
How beautiful. I only know the RKO Keith's as an abandoned theater - unfortunately it was closed long before I was a kid. Was it as breathtaking as this?
It is such a shame but we must fight to keep, preserve and restore our history.
Thank the administrations of Donald Manes, followed by his able accomplice Claire Shulman, for sandbagging efforts to fully landmark and preserve the RKO Keith's Flushing Theatre. If CB 7 was fully on board protecting the historic Keith's, we would not have the sad state of affairs that exist today. Hence the big difference between the corrupt, small time crooks of Queens with the grander borough of Brooklyn. Here we're cater to developers who destroy history in exchange for campaign contributions they bestow on our politicians.
True about the commune boards betrayal of the Keith's. They feigned caring but didn't really care. They were only going through the motions while kissing the asses of developers who came before the board seeking favors. Follow the buck Chuck Apelian serves his clients (developers) rather than his community. His partner Paul Vallone backs his plays.
That's Brooklyn and this is Queens...a borough of dumb hick farmers who don't know shit from Shilola when it comes to electing decent pols to represent them.
#1, Google RKO Keiths and check out the You Tube videos. It was awesome in it's day...but started to go downhill with the City itself in the 60's.
Tens of millions spent to revive an auditorium that will no doubt cater to gangsta/hip hop artists. I can assure you, Barbara S. and Neil D. will not be returning to the old neighborhood to do a benefit concert there.
Queens theaters become condos.
Anon No. 6: You never know. It was just on the news that Neil D. is going to do a concert in Brooklyn at an unspecified location. Could be the Loews Kings.
It doesn't matter who and what performs at the Kings. The point being that it was saved unlike the Keith's which was plundered by greedy politicians who went along with Manes script and enabled Tommy Huang to destroy it in exchange for his political campaign contributions to them. CB 7 just sat around with their thumbs up their asses, taking their cues from Claire Shulman and the great Democratic Party dictatorship of Queens. Amen. Rest in peace.
Dummy....the Keith's was in fine shape in the 1960s. What were you smoking or drinking that led you to see otherwise?
Now that the great inv-Asian has secured Flushing as a colony, it don't really matter anymore. Does it? Forget it Jake it's Chinatown!
FYI
The Kings is one of 5 great "wonder theaters" built by Loews which are still standing....Paradise (Bronx) 175th Street (Manhattan) Valencia (Quueens) Jersey (Jersey City). The Loews Jersey is mostly restored and has been offering programs for years. That is where I now go to get the movie palace experience. Shame on all of you who allowed the Keith's to become what it is now. There is no need to name names for you all know who you are. Enjoy your legacy to Queens. The name of the Keith's will be remembered long after your names will be forgotten.
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