One more down, and many more teardowns coming to Broadway-Flushing.
The new house right near this one between 156th & 157th already started parking illegally before the more-than-likely parking pad is built.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Another Broadway-Flushing house bites the dust
One more down, and many more teardowns coming to Broadway-Flushing.
The new house right near this one between 156th & 157th already started parking illegally before the more-than-likely parking pad is built.
116 comments:
Has the zoning changed in Flushing or is there no enforcement of current codes? One would think the price tag on these houses would give the owners some clout in maintaining the quality of life and protecting the property values.
The problem is the Building Department. There is eather no enforcement. Of building plans or they are permitting variances
DoB doesn't "permit" variances - the Board of Standards & Appeals does that. The DoB, however, IS charged with the review of proposals for code & zoning compliance, and enforcement of those regulations.
Wait until they get ahold of this one: http://m.trulia.com/property/3199789259-3204-171st-St-Queens-NY-11358 2.3 million and not in the BF/Rickert Finlay area!
The big problem here is Paul Vallone. He' a developer's lobbyist who is also anti landmarking. Where is he leading a fight to landmark Broadway? Hmmmmm.....at the Jersey Shore washing his dirty feet in the Atlantic Ocean. LOL! Can you imagine the brothers Peter, Paul , and Perry , playing volley ball in the sand while our nabe goes to hell?
Isn't there a house for sale right next door to the Vallone's on 32 Avenue?
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What happened to Broadway's push for a municipal landmark district, you might ask? Stonewalled by the LPC.
Their director of research, Mary Beth Betts, voted thumbs down.
The rest of the LPC commissioners never got to see the request for evaluation. She is the gatekeeper for the whole damn commission, and that appears OK with them because they are lazy. She does their prescreening and heavy lifting as they see it.
As long as she remains with this kind of power you can forget about Broadway.
Avella will hold his landmark rally, but Betts will remain deaf.
Added to this, Wellington Chen, who supposedly cares about Queens is a newly appointed LPC commissioner. His real job was promoting overdevelopment for decades.
If he ever gets to vote, it will be against Broadway.
Them's the facts. Nothing will prevent tear downs except a landmark district.
New arrivals, with money, want the cache of living in Broaway's exclusive R1-2A zoning, but they hate "old" and build "new". They hate wood and love brick. A lot of those Dutch colonials, as depicted, are wood. Brick face, aluminum, plastic or tear down is their fate.
Give my regards to Broadway. Think of the changes to be. Then, of course, "We no like tree"!
Buzz go the chain saws.
This follows zoning. The only violation here is a barbarian's bad taste. Only landmarking can stop this.
BFHA will lose their mission , in five years , to keep a quality neighborhood. All of the after meeting coffee social times will only amount to indigestion.
Pretty front garden awards and bronze recognition plaques will amount to nothing.
Get militant! Go viral! Or lose your ground!
Get rid of your current president. He has been no help here!
I wonder what Robert Hanophy Jr. is thinking now?
Rally all you want for a historic district. It's Spring, and the tree cutting and tear downs are in full swing.
Let's gather in Autumn and review the casualty list.
Anyone who might be assuming
that I might be posting any "vile"
or confrontational comments anonymously here , are wrong. I sign my posts!
When I've got something to say, I say it openly.
And I now I say that I am not too happy with certain positions taken by my own Broadway Flushing Homeowners' Association, which I am a member of.
Everyone works very hard here, but some tactics need reviewing.
I work very hard for my neighborhood too.
Another crummy little vernacular Dutch colonial bites the dust. But, oh, what an atrocity will replace it! Charm gives way to shit!
Little by little this fine old nabe will be nibbled at until it will no longer be charming or fine.
That old church lady mentality of BFHA will not be able to stop it soon. The elders are passing. Their money is going. Rickert-Finley (and his covenants)
will soon sound like the title a silent horror movie photo play.
Chinese, Greek or Italian?
They all love brick Mc Mansions with two story lawyer foyers and columned porticos.
This brick box is more modest than those Malba palazzos.
So maybe a king doesn't live here. It was built for a prince.
Give my regards to BFHA's Broadway!
Community Bored....YAWN....7 is on the ball. Not to worry.
The next general meeting of BFHA will be fun.
Better put out some Anisettee to spike the coffee.
Will Don Vallone make an appearance?
What is it with these "Klassy" Disneyland computer program designed Paladian windows that all these tacky buildings always include to denote "style"?
Maybe the captain of the Bowne Park Bocce team plans to live here. Those goombah gamblers play for money.
To be replaced by low class 'n up yer ass!
Broadway will become the future homes of the wealthy warlords who will refuse to rub elbows with the common Chinese of downtown Flushing.
I though that northeast Flushing was more of a destination for Korean homebuyers.
They will be pushed out by Chinese buyers. A lot of Koreans who bought in years back are leaving for financial reasons or otherwise. That seems to be a pattern.
M.B and B.H....two flies in the ointment.
Figure out this cryptic comment. LOL! No prize, if you do.
That red house is disgusting. Who designs such things? A small child could do better using a crayon.
Mr. Hanophy:
Douglaston does not have these kind of problems.
Why? Because they have municipal historic district status.
When the meetings are over, Mr. Hanophy, are you really gung ho in favor of landmarking?
We would not like to think that you are pulling your punches here.
As long as BFHA's attitude remains not to make any waves, the tsunami of tear downs will reach epic proportions. The area will be swept away soon. Then, the association can file to disband.
What a pity. They have been doing great work since 1964.
How about putting all of this infighting and backbiting to better work in saving Broadway from obliteration?
What a waste of energy!
Where is Pauly Vallone???? Why doesn't he protect community??
"Isn't there a house for sale right next door to the Vallone's on 32 Avenue? "
Someone posted the link to it above. 2.3 million!
"Isn't there a house for sale right next door to the Vallone's on 32 Avenue?"
That's the one for $2.3 million on Trulia.
I hope some developer lays out the $2.3 Million for the 171 St. house, knocks it down and erects several attached four family Fedders tenements complete with parking pads, mini-terraces for storing dead plants and Dish antennas.
Then let's see how the chrome dome Vallone reacts. He'll be the last on but the loudest passenger on the Historic District train to city hall and Albany.
Friggan shame.
My old girlfriend Linda had a basement apt in that house was a lot of good times. The oil burner made a racket you could never sleep during winter. An elderly owned it, she never did much upkeep. I guess she died and her kids cashed out as the story goes with most of these.
"What is it with these "Klassy" Disneyland computer program"
The program is designed to use every cut and scrap of the cheapest building material possible. If you notice their is very little scrap when these shit boxes go up. They are built so shitty you can hear movement or a toilet flush on the upper floors from anyplace in the house.
"Gung ho"
I love it!
Ugly piece of shit.
Only Asians build this way, give them a place in their society among their peers.
This is not their country to bring their ass backwards "culture" along with their sorry ass.
Mingle, abide by and try to get into the melting pot, don't fight against it, you came here because your country is a shitty place to live, try to improve your life and that of others, don't pollute Americana.
"Isn't there a house for sale right next door to the Vallone's on 32 Avenue? "
Someone posted the link to it above. 2.3 million!
You'd have pay me $2.3 million to live next door to Stinky.
I though that northeast Flushing was more of a destination for Korean homebuyers.
Koreans have been moving east along Northern Blvd for the past few years - you'll notice more and more Korean bakeries and restaurants pushing through Bayside into Great Neck and Manhasset.
Horrible people. They been colonizing in Little Neck. At a friend Johns house you say hello and they simply ignore you. Especially if your American.
They will then use your tree sapling as a toilet for those little dogs they love.
This also happened in Manhasset. This Asian woman from the 2 shitboxes over 2 blocks ignored my warnings and kept coming back to let her 3 dogs shit & pee in the wells of my Bradford pear tree saplings.
I did a stakeout one evening and came at her dogs in my grandfathers chef coat & big old meat cleaver. That seems to have rectified the problem.
I hope some developer lays out the $2.3 Million for the 171 St. house, knocks it down and erects several attached four family Fedders tenements complete with parking pads, mini-terraces for storing dead plants and Dish antennas.
Haven't seen either of the two elderly brothers who live/lived there walking through the neighborhood lately - hope they're ok and just decided to downsize.
One of the Brothers passed away.
The Brothers were twins ?
Hey all,
My friend lives on the block with the white colonial and he is not tearing it down. He has MS and is making the house wheelchair and ADA compliant.
He is removing the soil from around the house to make wheelchair ramps.
The Brothers were twins ?
Don't know, but they certainly had a family resemblance, and tended to wear those light color linen clothes in the Summer which made them look even more alike. I always smiled when I saw them walking along 32nd or 33rd Ave - one was usually about a block in front of the other.
The fact remains, president Hanophy is too busy butt kissing Vallone. BFHA needs a Winston Churchill bulldog, not a Neville Chamberlin appeaser to run the show.
Robert "soft boiled" Hanophy needs to be replaced!
Go light a fire under Paulie's ass instead of soothing it with cocoa butter ointment.
Wheelchair and ADA compliant ?
I will read the permits this weekend and find out and post my findings.
The BFHA legal defense fund used to run at about $60,000. It's down to about $23,000 now.
How long can the precious covenants be defended?
The De Luvio case practically broke the association.
Next one up , might do the job. Landmark district now , or forever see Broadway gone.
Wait until Yang, the hotel-house owner , sues BFHA for whatever his lawyer can dream up.
The average lawsuit costs about $120,000 to see through the court of appeals. Get off the pot and get on the stick.
Once again, landmark, or lose it! Every other move is just pissing into the wind!
Bravo to your friend in the white colonial, but Broadway is seeing an exodus. It's a matter of time, lack of money and lack of volunteerism with young new homeowners.
It's. just a small leak now, but the dam is about to break.
This will make the Johnstown flood look like something that happened in a bathroom.
Be scared! Be very scared!!!
Either sell now or roll up your sleeves and fill the sandbags.
Broadway is on the verge of becoming one of the great lost neighborhoods.
There were three boys who grew up in that house. Two were twins.
Damn you critics! Take a look around! Broadway is still great. Put some gusto into doing instead of posting complaints online. Reach out. Dig in . Do something!
Please, it is not just "the Asians" who are building with bad taste. The Greeks and Italians, etc. started uplifying the area years ago.
Peasants are peasants. Low class is low class, no matter how much money they have.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to spend doesn't mean you're
upper class. Five years off the boat with new money in your pockets only makes you nouveau riche.
There is somebody here who keeps posting anti Asian rants. This is all about UGLY. Whoever destroys quality design and replaces it with severe masonry eyesores is a barbarian. Get the message?
Another reminder, all the moves made will do nothing without a landmark district for Broadway. BFHA will be shooting at flies and spending down their cash in legal battles.
Only a portion of the area is protected by Rickert-Finlay deed restrictions. Under city zoning, R1-2A, you can do whatever you want if it's a single family house that replaces another with an approved footprint.
Sue, sue, sue! Flail your arms in the wind. Membership is not what it used to be. Too gloomy for you? Then get behind landmarking, Mr. Hanophy & Co.
Be sure to attend the next BFHA general meeting to find out what's up, besides front garden judging awards and and coffee time. LOL! All ends up well with the after session social time. What's the scoop Mr. Prez?
There were three boys who grew up in that house. Two were twins.
The Wetzler brothers held several patents for colorizing black-and-white films, through a company they purchased, American Film Technologies.
Ah....the "soothing " sounds of chain saws and hammering....the bright ode to Spring.
Where is Paul Vallone? Where is Melinda Katz? Where is CB7? Where is Ron Kim? Where is Ed Braunstein?
Will they support a landmark district along with Tony Avella? It depends on what instructions they receive from the county organization.
These are normally political animals and followers of their machine's wishes.
So does that make Senator Avella a lone wolf howling at the moon? If the pack does not follow him, what can really be accomplished? It looks grim, because, under the law, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission has the last say in the matter of granting historic district status to Broadway or not. Really meaning, that if their director of research, Mary Beth Betts, says no again, there is no further recourse! Hmmmm, except maybe to file an article 78 lawsuit against the LPC. Who will do it? Where's the money?
I'll bet a lot of BFHA board members are wetting themselves reading all this.
It actually really upsets me that no one has mentioned that Avella and Graziano were given a tour of the "supposed" hotel in 156th street by the owners and their attorney. The Courier ran a piece about it and even the BF Homeowners Facebook page did not link the article. I will never support the BFHA for reasons such as these. Always jumping to conclusions and always a deeply ingrained Anti Asian bias that is at BEST tacit.
"Asian rants" "Whoever destroys quality design and replaces it with severe masonry eyesores is a barbarian"
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Then why is it like clockwork Asian names on a good 90% the permits and violations ?
I judge by actions and its clearly the Asiatic immigrants doing most the contempt, damage and tear-downs in Queens, Bukharan's included.
Hey IF THE SHOE FITS GUESS WHAT? I dont sugar coat or stand down to PC crapola. Especially from the loonie left looking to destroy the country my grandparent fraught for and helped build!!
-Joe
-Joe
Lay off of Bobby. He isn't the one kissing Vallone's butt. It's little Maria sunshine.
Who is Maria?
There are a few Polyannas that don't have the stomach for fighting. They're nice genteel folks who make great hostesses. Stick to your trade, ladies. Broadway needs soldiers now. The Salvation Army needs girls like you to hand out donuts.
Before the Asians came gavones , mainly Italians , who hated trees and planted tomatoes in their place after they cut them down. Yes, you have Asian and Bukharian gavones who cut down mature trees too.
Malba and the Cord Meyer area of Forest Hills are examples of non Asian destroyers. Whose castle is bigger than your palazzo?
A lot of Greeks also hate trees. So who is next?
A low born barbarian is a low born barbarian....PERIOD!
Dummy, Graziano works for Senator Avella, and the Yang family invited them, I believe, no one else. I doubt that BFHA will miss a festering bigot like yourself. You are the one who sounds anti Asian. Yes, we can read between your words. You don't fool us!
BFHA, deeply ingrained anti Asian bias? You are off your meds again! Get yourself a renewal from your shrink, please. You are foaming at the mouth.
"Stand down to PC crapola"?
Joe, get a grip. It's only a discussion.
Semper fi....no need to go Marine ballistic.
Fraught for or fought for Joe?
I hope Vito is following all this for boss Vallone.
Look at all these posts! Wipe your ass, councilman. You've been hiding out in the crapper for too damn long.
Wattsamatta? Afraid to face your constituents?
Maybe they should take up a collection to bribe you with to get some action.
The Courier is the worst of all the weekly newspapers. Do not trust their news gathering skills. The reporter is a wet behind the ears novice....a nice lady...but rarely gets information out there accurately.
If you are disatisfied with BFHA....remember this....they kept the neighborhood in the good shape it's in since 1964. Without them you got nothing!
I'm disatisfied too, but I continue to support them.
I remember attending BFHA's 30th anniversary international buffet dinner at Church On The Hill.
Every nationality who lives here brought food reflecting their heritage.
It was great. So DO NOT try to sell BFHA as having any bias against any group. That's pure baloney, and you well know it!
Nobody's listening, and nobody believes it.
You have got to have some warped mind to be pushing this kind of tripe for fillet mignon.
I remember attending BFHA's 30th anniversary international buffet dinner at Church On The Hill.
Every nationality who lives here brought food reflecting their heritage.
Yeah okay, Pollyana. A couple of spring rolls and some meatballs and moussaka and everyone singing Kumbaya. Are you for real?
Asians? Gavones? Bukharans? Greeks? Who's welcome here? Really? So basically if you allow your decades old azalea bushes and rhododendrons to grow big and full and don't plant any tomatos or figs , you're okay? This neighborhood will NEVER be landmarked. Stop whipping yourself into a frenzy. The times they are a changin' and they will include many a pink house!
You cannot stand the idea of a multicultural Broadway so you keep on slinging the anti Asian shit like your're a short order cook in a hash joint.
We know that you are a shill trying to stir up trouble that does not exist. Go get real yourself , fella. Put your head back up your tookas and smell what you think is roses.
Capeesh, goombah?
Do your work for Vallone or are just an independent BS malcontent? Nah, you're just an unhappy racist no matter what you profess. Everybody's got your number.
LOL! You are as phony as Valloney baloney.
Never say never. You are a majority of one. Maybe you've got a couple of idiotic friends who also share your views and low IQ. Huh...did I guess right?
Zip your fly closed and stop pissing on our shoes claiming its early morning dew. By the way, I'm Italian and have a backyard full of tomato plants. Does that bother you? And my 40 year old Azaleas are also doing just fine.
Is that local cuckoo, John, watching us?
You know who he is, that crazed Libertarian.
His brain is adled.
Are YOU real yourself or just a phantom creation for the purpose of looking smart on a web site?
You sound like a real neurotic.
Control yourself. Sorry to have struck one of your raw nerves. To get so excited about a blog post indicates you could use some professional help. You are over reacting.
Chill out.
It sounds like there are some real worried developers posting here, who think that their free for all screwing of Broadway is coming to an end. They've got to be goombah friends of Don Vallone. They are paying his fees to lobby for them.
So you think you had a friend in Don Paulo just because he lives in the nabe? Think again! The Vallones crapped all over Astoria.
What kind of dog shits in his own yard without his constituents getting riled up about it? A scheming vicious dog? Here boy...here Paulie. Please don't bite me.
Sounds like the pink bubble gum house owner is pissed.
That house has become practically a tourist attraction as an example of a supreme outlandish architectural abortion.
Hey, that's something that puts Broadway in the news.
Isn't it?
Dontchaluvit? What a grudge match of comments!
The handful of throwbacks that are anti landmark are trying to sound like an army.
You can rattle all the sabers you want.
You're a squad not a division. LOL!
Watch your blood pressure, boys!
The times , indeed , are a changing...and you sound like you're past it. All we hear is your whipped up anger.
You're past whipped cream and are turning to butter.
And it ain't sweet.
Dummy, Graziano works for Senator Avella, and the Yang family invited them, I believe, no one else. I doubt that BFHA will miss a festering bigot like yourself. You are the one who sounds anti Asian. Yes, we can read between your words. You don't fool us!
For the record, I don't work for Senator Avella. I've been his consultant on and off for over a decade, as I have been for the BFHA.
I was asked to do the site visit at 35-20 156th Street because of my background in urban planning and familiarity both Broadway-Flushing and with zoning and building code.
Paul Graziano
Of all of the residents of Broadway Flushing that were polled just a few years ago, over 80% of the residents voted in favor of the creation of a municipal historic district.
The wave has spoken. I'd call that a landslide.
Whipping yourself into an anti landmark frenzy means little. Your voice is dim.
But you are, of course, entitled to your opinion.
That's the way democracy works.
Ah, the power of Queens Crap.
This is the place where both calm and heated opinions can be exchanged without censorship.
Try that with the Queens Courier. Vicki will never print anything that's raw. That paper is all about weddings, restaurants and helpful hints for each season.
Real news gathering is an afterthought.
Watch out, Jerry.
Now you've made an enemy of the Courier.
I couldn't care less.
I never send press releases to the Courier.
They've been short changing me since 1990.
You can't rely on their accuracy in reporting.
Now, the Chronicle, I will always speak to them.
What a fencing match.
Somebody deserves Olympic gold !
Touché, non ami.
YAWN! How many comments have we hit? I've lost track. Time for bed. Sweet dreams everybody. CU in the AM.
I for one find the pink house charming.
Can we get to 100 comments? Please! While Rome burns. You people are unreal. Stick to the effing issues.
Mr. Graziano,
Thanks for the clarification. Would you care to share with us your impressions of the walk through? Was the BHA too hasty in its call for a protest? Is the house presently a hotel?
"Are YOU real yourself or just a phantom creation for the purpose of looking smart on a web site?
You sound like a real neurotic."
1. I am not a phantom.
2. I LIVE to look smart on websites.
3. I'm a real neurotic alright. Card-carrying. You got me on that one. A great side effect to my neuroses makes me sensitive to bullshit, and I know a bunch of xenophobes when I stumble upon them.
Yep....absolutely...neurotic to stick it out this long.
Get a real life. You can't win all the time, even on a website. Does megalomania run in your genes?
100+ comments. What a hot issue. Don't worry, things are being done besides posting online. This is the best way to spread some truth and break through the lies printed in the weekly news rags. The Courier is the worst of them.,
That "neurotic-megalomaniac" sure has some kind of bug up his ass. He will hang onto his version until the waves roll over him.
It is amazing how a such a diminutive voice tries to rise to a volume that might suggest that he is a crowd in a football stadium.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. A weak voice with a big problem. Prove you're not a phantom and sign your name!
Yeah! Right!
Wow! I just woke up and this is still going on?
Let's see what Sunday will bring. I think I'll skip church today. This is way better than listening to a sermon.
A pink house is charming in Disneyland.
There is no accounting for taste. But I'd put some figures of Mickey and Minnie on the lawn to complete the decor scheme, if it were my house. Don'tcha think?
Maybe even a pink Flamingo or two.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
That phantom neurotic poster who keeps crying "xenophobia" smells like a real xenophobe himself.
That's the only thing that's real about him.
Trying to muddy the issue with false xenophobe accusations does not work here.
BFHA was never guilty of exhibiting any bias towards any group or singular residents of the area.
Clean your eyeglasses. Your view of things appear to be obstructed , to say the least.
BFHA was formed strictly as a homeowners' association back in 1964 to protect the residential quality of the neighborhood when expansion was beginning to become rampant.
Do you like living in a suburban area so close to the big overcrowded city and not have to pay high Nassau county taxes?
Well, thank BFHA for its long hard working volunteers!
The best insurance you have, besides your homeowner's policy, is being a member of BFHA.
$25 membership dues each
year buys a lot of great coverage.
Get real and stop complaining. The strength of this neighborhood depends on cooperation and including everyone. All are welcome to live here.
That xenophobic crap you're throwing around does not work here. Instead of inventing false accusations to smokescreen the real issue of preserving a fine residential nabe, try joining in and accomplish something.
Sputtering and fuming gains you nothing but ulcers.
Keep on stomping around in a circle and you will wear a hole through the floor.
Pull the census tract and discover for yourself that Broadway is an ethnically varied neighborhood.
Everyone seems to have lived together in some degree of harmony for years without any major complaints.
Now some malcontent , who has a gripe against neighborhood preservation, seems to have cranked up the volume on his "anti Asian" radio program.
You are tuned in to the wrong show, bub!
No, BFHA WAS NOT too hasty with its protest.
MYou nip things in the bud before things get out of hand. Besides, Councilman Vallone did nothing about complaints about this so called house.
When your rep turns a deaf ear you go ahead and do what it takes.
This has been an ongoing problem with this site for years.
The expansion has already exceeded the permissible square footage allowed by the zoning code.
So whether it is a hotel or a house the additions have to be torn down.
For the owner's lawyer to claim they were ignorant of such matters is pure BS.
Ignorance is no excuse for LAW BREAKING!
No exceptions and no excuses. The law has been broken here!
LOL!
They'd better have a sergeant at arms present at the next BFHA general meeting. That "xenophobe" accuser might bring a team along to support his warped vision and attempt to disrupt the proceedings.
OMG. Definitely skip church if it's St. Andrews. That place breeds these crazies. Wonder what game show theme music they will pipe in this week?
The expansion has already exceeded the permissible square footage allowed by the zoning code.
So whether it is a hotel or a house the additions have to be torn down.
So what is the next step with this?
Vallone seems very active at St. Andrews along with the late Joe Dorsa's wife. Dorsa tried running for city council years ago.
The church is a great place for Don Paulo to electioneer for himself. That's the Vallone pattern. Pete senior did the same in Astoria.
Paulie can court those church ladies to win their votes.
"Pauli...heesah very nice a guy",
I guess the violation must be removed. That means tearing the extension down....or, it sits there with a stop work order for years. The owner pays his fines and real estate taxes in the meantime.
If DOB let's this one ride, an article 78 lawsuit can be initiated against DOB. Time will tell.
One thing for sure, with BFHA's track record, nobody will be able to get away with any funny business.
"Paulie can court those church ladies to win their votes.
"Pauli...heesah very nice a guy","
I rarely comment, but this assessment is SO wrong. Are you confusing St. Andrews with St. Mels or St. Lukes? There are hardly any Italians at St. Andrews and of the few that are there almost all lean in a whole other political direction than Paul Vallone. Most people at St. Andrews can't stand the guy. Just ask the parents of the kids he coaches on the soccer team! He asks them all to pay 10 dollars per kid each week so he can bring a professional coach in. Lots of cheapskates who are livid over this and have complained very vocally. And they are his friends!
The St. Andrew's "church ladies" are not to be blamed for Paul Vallone being elected. I can assure you that most did not vote for him.
"I guess the violation must be removed. That means tearing the extension down....or, it sits there with a stop work order for years"
Ugh. I was counting on getting a job teaching tai chi and meditation in the yard to the Chinese Anchor Baby moms to be.
Dorsa and Vallone have a lot to do with finances at St. Andrews. That sounds very Italian to me. Follow the money.
If so many people are supposed to "dislike" Vallone, how did he get elected?
Wait and see. Everybody and their uncles will be running in the next primary, and when they lose, Vallone will wind up winning his second term.
The Vallones are a brand name.
Paul Vallone's opponents in the last primary couldn't even score a decent run. They got trounced, despite what they might be thinking.
Let's see what white knight pops up out of the woodwork to challenge an incumbent with lots of money and a campaign army.
The only job youd be getting if that hotel opened would be picking up garbage on the street and calling 311 to report noise and odors! Wise up.
This thread might be my all time favorite.
Thanks, Crappie!
If I lived across the street, I'd be keeping a vieo diary of unfolding events at this site. It could become evidence.
I urge the homeowners to do that.
There is, obviously, high interest in this posting for so many to be still following it in older post archives. Good! Proof that this issue will not go away.
This is an open assault on the quality of life in this community.
Gear up for a protracted fight. War is war! And this is a war to protect your big investments...YOUR HOMES.
If they get away with this latest incident of block busting, the rest of the dominoes will fall.
Oops, was that too harsh? No, just an early warning.
BFHA's own, Maria Becce, will probably be presenting spring front garden judging awards soon. Not to worry. All is well in Fredonia. Then we will all retire for a tasty , cordial , social hour. Members fiddle while Broadway crumbles.
This soap opera is running longer than "The Guiding Light". Let's run some advertising here. We could make a bundle of money.
At BFHA General meeting, a couple of old "White" die yards are handing out anti landmarking leaflets.
Probably keep their own homes in crap shape. Some "anti government" BS is in the literature. Must be Libertarian fools.
May 21, 2015 , Church on The Hill.
Tonight's subject was landmarking Broadway, along with a guest speaker from the deptartment of finance to explain real estate taxation. Very informative.
Extremely interesting!
What a yummy social hour, afterwards.
And photos of the Spring garden judging award winners were posted.
But a few BFHA members were clueless that Paul , in attendance, Vallone actually wrote a letter to the LPC recommending that they do not extend the Douglaston historic district. Let's see what Vallone does for Broadway in their quest for municipal historic district status.
I could have used a little booze with all that schmooze. Next meeting it's BYOB for me. Horse shit is more palatable with a swig of hootch.
Vallone was smiling and stroking his dome as usual. At least he wasn't running off to a soccer game.
He stayed for the full meeting.
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