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- Massive development to be built atop taxi garage
- Tomorrow's borough board meeting sounds like fun
- Doctoroff pushing hard for development of Sunnysid...
- Drinking & biking: a bad idea
- Noise monitors coming to Broad Channel and Bayswater
- Street not repaved since 1997
- Pedestrian safety = taller buildings?
- Queens is where yuppies want to be!
- Chuck wants black boxes for trucks
- Bayside complex landmarked
- Schumer says ObamaCare was the wrong priority
- Jamaica garage may be developed
- TDC unhappy with traffic mess it caused
- Weird statue to be placed somewhere in LIC
- You win some, you lose some
- Thankfully, it's not a teardown!
- Thankful for new boardwalk
- Giving thanks for his blessings
- Thanks for the memories
- Business owners thankful that DOT listened
- Katz taps Liu's former aide for cushy spot
- Dirty developer's deals detailed
- Goodbye, Queens Plaza Clock Tower?
- There goes the green: unhappy ending
- A warning from Landmark West!
- Fish going belly-up at Willow Lake
- An eyesore for almost 20 years
- Kim calls out shady towing company
- Paul Vallone's year in review
- Brinckerhoff Cemetery sidewalk is a mess
- Gluttons for punishment
- Sad Japanese-style home in Kew Gardens now for sale
- They just never learn
- If Parkside isn't Dems' preferred vendor, then who...
- Workers' wages being stolen
- With development looming, Flushing River may get c...
- Exxon off the hook - for now
- Briarwood subway entrance construction almost done
- Special court for sex trafficking victims
- Untouchables get props from NY1
- Schneiderman fines dirty developer
- Developers work on introducing "microsuites"
- Subways will stay crowded
- Because the DeBlasio administration is all about t...
- Do you believe police stats?
- Council proposes new mixed use zones
- Mysterious oil truck at Memorial Field
- Another illegal conversion leads to death
- Fun Friday Foto
- Vibrant and diverse clothesline decor
- Pharmacies also filthy
- DHS accused of lying 3 times this week
- Bayside watermain project underway
- Hudson Yards is more than the city bargained for
- Honeymoon is over for DeBlasio
- IDC and GOP make a deal
- Dirtbags steal tribute to Woodhaven's veterans
- Dirty grocery stores are everywhere
- Brinckerhoff Cemetery still needs help
- Squatters trash stolen home prior to eviction
- Factory illegally converted into yeshiva
- Western Flushing is the next overdevelopment target
- Illegal conversions cause school overcrowding
- Food carts are filthy
- Protest against post office closure
- Big project to prevent big problems
- The Ridgewood that the Times failed to see
- Avella calls Willets Point developer out for doubl...
- Cheating workers is not a problem for city
- Don't eat these veggies!
- Flushing is not a sight for sore eyes
- Loyalty to Parkside may cause Gianaris' downfall
- Plane noise may be mitigated for many
- Homeless men congregating in city parks
- Queens Blvd speed limit to be reduced
- Find out where homeless families are hailing from
- Trucks barrel down quiet Jamaica street
- Drivers ignore fact that pedestrians have the righ...
- Auf Wiedersehen, Chalet Alpina!
- College Point trash facility has yet to open
- Go ahead and build, we'll pay for the amenities
- Women use kids to scam people
- Shelter placements cause neighborhood wars
- ASPCA & NYPD form animal cruelty unit
- No texting and biking!
- Legislation will create list to opt out of unwante...
- Queens hipsters continue to behave badly
- No one but landlord wants bakery to close
- $79,500 for part time work is not enough
- Surprise, surprise: Council now loves Astoria Cove...
- Council hopes to speed up bin removal process
- WTC rescue effort has happy ending
- Pan Am garbage heap
- Peralta wants Roosevelt Ave in one precinct
- Lots of trips could be made on a new subway line
- Middle class blacks are leaving
- Argentos to receive "good Catholic" awards
- Wild geese that fly with the rust on their wings
- Bye bye belly bombers
- Poverty pimps
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11 comments:
I remember the hoopla regarding this property. It's located in Astoria on what used to be known as doctors row.
It's between 30th and 31st Ave on 34th or 35th St.
I even think I knew the owner, he built the Renaissance building on 21st Street one block south of Astoria Blvd.
The dwelling in question was built about 8 years ago.
I.M.Puke did not forget to install balconies
that looks like lefferts blvd.,probably richmond hill between hillside and metopolitan aves.
Needs more Frank Lloyd Crap
This is in Astoria on Doctor's Row. When this developer showed up, they raised a holy row with banners up and down the block. ‘The zoning book ruins our look’ and the like. Everyone noticed. Was this an opportunity for the local community to take a big step forward? Hell no! Remember, this is Queens. Queens is not Brooklyn or Manhattan.
1. Local politicians show up for meaningless expressions of concern - Mystery Man Mike Gianaris, Vallone Jr, and later Costa. The block was told: We support you! Trust us! We will help! Don’t blame the developer! He is a struggling immigrant who needs the money to send his kids to college!
It was pure bullshit but they bought it hook line and sinker.
2. Landmarking? Don’t go there! They rejected that out of hand. Why their elected officials whispered they would be fools to go that route. After all, what city agency knows anything about their homes? We all know about government (said their politicians with a straight face) for every Queens resident as that same hallowed right to exercise the same sage judgment displayed when they go into the voting booth. Instead, our friends in Astoria chose the blind alley of getting restrictive covenants (which, of course, failed to get the needed majority). By this time the building was about complete.
3. Now, after this treatment, you would think they would wise up and try to get the community to swing behind them. But now their political leadership made their move: We will give you special treatment. We will downzone your ONE BLOCK more than the others … IF you play along with us. Doctor’s Row was soooo happy! You can change city hall if you are nice and play along with your politicians and don’t fight them. In appreciation they stood on the City Hall steps with Vallone Jr with the stupid sign 'Astoria Saved.' Vallone was now awarded by the community as a fighter for preservation!
Well that stunt of divide and conquer ensured that the community would remain disunited. Of course Astoria was not saved. Just ask the people around the medical clinic. A few years later their adjoining block had a similar experience with a developer and when they tried to protest again, the developer physically threatened them. That killed that effort. Now their little block is increasingly hemmed in on all sides.
Should we feel sorry for a group of people that categorically made one bad choice after another?
I live here -- Go Queens!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_Gardens
Original property shown on upper right ...
"I wonder what caught the Courier photographer's eye here?"
The overhanging tree branch in the foreground illustrating the philosophical "crooked timber of humanity"?
It's on 36th street, off 30 ave. The original hoopla comes further down the block, closer to 30 ave. Well over 20? 25? years ago someone bumped ou the first story. neighbors sued, no zoning restrictions, they lost. And from it just got worse. Thanks Dem machine!
Wow looks like Queens the borough where crap us tolerated and encouraged. Ugly building, no class or style.
The fact of the matter is that Astoria specifically, and Queens in general, has been red-lined by Manhattan preservation advocates ever since the torch and pitchfork crowd in Upper Ditmars overturned the Steinway Village designation back in the 70s. It was a watershed moment with repercussions we are still stuck with a generation later - a generation where Queens has fallen further and futher behind the rest of the city.
There was once a real effort to get Astoria (and the rest of Queens for that matter) to understand the benefits of landmark designation - or at least to accept community preservation improves communities, keeps out exploitation and blockbusting from development, as well as enhances long term property values.
Of course that would have required them to think and if need be, stand up to their local politician - something quite foreign to village stock so superstitious and backward they only know how to listen to their padrone and focus on the lowest common denominator - pure greed.
As you can see, every effort at giving these people good advice was rejected, and every piece of garbage feed to them by their community 'leadership' was accepted without any degree of skepticism or thought.
The bottom line is a feeling of a peasant's helplessness and hopelessness which completes a vicious circle of greed and exploitation by their leaders.
And the slow unfolding disaster of the Steinway Mansion shows that absolutely nothing has changed in Astoria over the decades.
Anyone that can help simply does not want to get involved with that community.
the overhanging tree branch in the foreground illustrating the philosophical "crooked timber of humanity"
chiacrap
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