Must wanted to make your North Flushing readers aware that the house at 161-16 33rd ave is scheduled for demolition. Below is the NYC DOB job approving the demolition. This is a beautiful center hall dutch colonial and there is no need to tear it down. It was sold on 4/10/15 for $960,000.
Here is a link to some photos of the home.
- anonymous
112 comments:
Give it up,times change and newly minted millionaires don't like to be told what to do with their money
THIS IS NOT YOUR WHITE DADDY'S AMERICA ANYMORE,GET IT!
YOUR FLAG IS A DOOR MAT AND YOUR MOM'S APPLE PIE ARE GONE FOREVER, ACCEPT IT.
Du Rite realty,lol realtors are low life scum, I love watching nort east queens die a slow death,you liberal ass wipes elected the very people who did this to you,
You deserve every ounce of pain coming your way.
I hope they build a Huge Chinese temple so as to eat your soul one day at a time.
Yep more third world china moving in means more crap houses. Nothing else new. Soon all of china will be living in nyc and California and white people will just be backed up into a little hole in the wall because whites are becoming the minority in this country especially in new York shitty! I was just speaking to this Indian dude who lives in nassau county about this last night and he asked "how could white people do this to new york?" And "what's going on in america with all the white people"? And I said "it's called white genocide because the government doesn't like us anymore because we don't breed like rabbits anymore so we are being replaced". He laughed and said "I think you're right!".
It's not that they hate an attractive home, it's all about maximizing the available square feet.
Soon attractive homes like this will disappear, so take photos of them while you can.
Vincent Gianelli of Do Wrong realty is definitely one of the scum bags destroying the area. Number one is Judy Markowitz..."It's not just my business, it's my neighborhood" ? Then there is Corollo.
And Paul Vallone sits with his thumb up his ass and refuses to URGE the landmarks commission to calendar the area for long overdue historic district status. What about the house next to St. Andrews that Paulie got the church, who owned it, to sell to one of his goombahs for a cheap tear down price? Voters, you have a councilman who is in league with the devil developers. He lobbies for them, not you!
China will be eclipsed by India in about 2020 , as reported by respected economists.
Their economy is in free fall right now. Their GNP output is suffering. Hang in there. Soon China will not have the expendible cash to invest overseas like it has in the past. China is also experiencing a great internal upheaval, though they try to minimize publicity.
Workers are demanding more....money and freedom. When their outmoded totalitarian government finally withers away, China will be left with its huge makeup of hundreds of almost separate ethnic areas. What a mess. You ain't seen nothing of the corruption that's rampant in this quasi communist/capitalist megalith of a cumbersome nation. Do you realize that if Walmart cancelled all of its imports from China, the country would fall into a tailspin. Contrary to belief, China is a highly dependent nation. Without its exports it falls back. And that is what is beginning to happen. Doesn't Walmart account for about 10% of all of America's imports from China? That is a lot of power!
I can remember the area when it was heavily Irish, Geman and highly bigoted towards anyone else. Italians were not liked here.
St. Andrew Avellino Church was rebuilt in 1940 with a lot of Ronzoni family money.
Remember, the original church had father Mc Goldrick as its Monsignor.
With Ronzoni money, the Italians finally had their say.
Scotch Irish English Germans...the original "White Americans".
Unless you are a first nation tribe, which precedes America, Americans are all immigrants from another country.
American colonists referred to their mother country in the 17th century.
I'm sure a brick box will replace this home, but this is a boring example of vernacular 1920s Dutch colonial architecture that was stamped out by the hundreds. Think of all those cookie cutter ranch houses of the 1950s. These are an earlier version of a repetitive design.
Until there is a historic district established here, expect a continued rash of tear downs.
"..... I love watching nort east queens die a slow death,you liberal ass wipes elected the very people who did this to you,"
N.E. Queens "Liberal"? That is the reddest part of the borough though it is slowly changing.
No doubt you are right. I agree it's sad and I also know there is nothing that can be done about it. I wonder if it's time for "Queens Crap" to move on from these stories? They are only depressing. The die is cast. In ten years Old Queens will be gone and the place will look like a nightmare-- except to all the Russians and middle eastern immigrants who love the new look. Times change. Centuries change.
I want to hear more about Vallone and the house next to the church. Sounds like BS to me.
This sucks :(
On another note, anyone else surprised at how small that kitchen looks?
Yeah-that house needs to go. So ugly and dilapidated.
It's not that they hate an attractive home, it's all about maximizing the available square feet.
Soon attractive homes like this will disappear, so take photos of them while you can.
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You can still maximize your floor area in a landmark district; you just can't demolish a building as-of-right that's landmarked, and any new additions have to be approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Unless you are a first nation tribe, which precedes America, Americans are all immigrants from another country.
And EVEN this so called "first nation tribe"may not be the original North American settlers as some maintain. Check out the Solutrean hypothesis which claims that indeed people from Europe pre-dated migrants (aka "native American") from the Bering land mass.
Unfettered immigration has destroyed so much. Thanks again, liberals.
Isn't this house within the Rickert-Findlay covenant area?
Perhaps the Broadway Flushing Homeowners' Association needs a new president.
Robert Hanophy Jr. has not represented the wishes of the majority of homeowners who voted to pursue municipal landmark district status.
He has publicly expressed his personal views against landmarking at BFHA meetings. For the good of the association he should step down.
Without historic district status, Broadway will be gone in two years.
There goes your property values down the Flushing toilet!
While I do not want to see a brick box replace it, there is nothing really unique about this house.
It is a gem in a nice setting. As far as great architecture....ehhh.....I've seen better.
As long as Don Paulo "the dome" Vallone is representing developers, instead of the neighborhood, you'll be seeing a lot more of this happening.
La Famiglia Di Vallone has been running a political mafia since Judge Charles Vallone was appointed a judge in the 1950s.
I clicked on the DOB link and guess what?
The applicant's name is Huang.
Could this be the infamous TOMMY HUANG who wrecked the RKO Keith's and is responsible for erecting shitty buildings where workmen are routinely injured???
Douglas Manor is in northeast Queens.
It is certainly not dying a slow death.
Why is that?
Because it is a municipal landmark district. Their home values have risen instead of declined.
Paul Vallone is holding back the process of landmarking Broadway.
He has not raised a finger to contact the LPC.
He is public enemy #1 when it comes to Broadway's future survival.
WTF is BFHA doing?
Have they replaced some of those social tea deadheads with some new active board members?
Do you know how many Huang's there are? As many as there are Smiths. It is a most common name.
Paul vallone needs to make a public statement either in favor or not in favor of landmarking.
No more bs. Residents have had enough.
Time to move to Crown Heights historic district.
I can sell my Broadway home for one million and swap for a great Victorian townhouse with stained glass and fine architectural detail.
Face it folks. This ain't Brooklyn which has far superior architecture.
You will never see a landmark district for Broadway the way things are going.
This is a borough of petty political crooks.
We cannot even produce high caliber felons , capable of slickly committing grand larceny.
Our thieves only posess enough skill to raid a cookie jar.
We have become a forgotten borough, because we voters allow it!
How come BFHA hasn't sat on Vallone's hands to contact the LPC?
Maybe it's because Miss tea and crumpets M.B. would rather kiss Vallone's ring.
Time to show some backbone.
Hanophy is one of the weakest presidents that BFHA has had in years.
I agree. He should resign his arm chair presidency. A more robust leader is sorely needed.
B.S. About Vallone and the old house that was left to St. Andrews?
Not so! Anymore info you can follow the trail yourself.
Isn't Vallone on the finance committee or something to do with financing at St. Andrews?
We believe the house was sold for well below market value.
Highly suspect!
Absolutely correct, George. I should have said Indiginous peoples.
Ummm. Huang is like Smith. Fourth most popular Chinese surname.
LOL!
Those silly bronze Broadway recognition plaques are really doing a lot to prevent tear downs. What a wasted effort.
Only the real, genuine LPC marker will protect this fine nabe.
Those kinds of ladies auxiliary efforts go nowhere. "Precious Moments" and "Hummel" figurines go along with that type of twee nonsense.
Don't expect anything from the dumbest of the Vallone sons, Paul.
Pete Jr. runs rings around him. Perry is smart enough to stay out of politics and lives in New Jersey.
LOL! For real?
Peter, Paul and Perry Vallone?
Sounds like a familiar sixties folk group .
F Flushing !
F America !
F it all !
Its over people.
We have been betrayed.
This 0LD Rickert Finlay postcard always reminded me of this house.
So sad what is happening.
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Those plaques are so tacky. They look ridiculous.
Rickert Finlay does not dictate taste.
I am sorry but this precept is what is wrong with the world today. That is, the belief that everything is 'relative'. This mindset is a disease that has philosophically infected the thought process of aesthetics and morality. It is akin to arguing Madonna is just as good musically as Beethoven. No !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There IS an objective reality. AND,.....Rickert Finlay properties ARE superior to the drek that is being put up today. I am so disgusted by Progressivism and the need to blight everything it touches. Maybe you sir or madamme ghave no taste.
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"Rickert Finlay does not dictate taste."
Madonna IS as good as Beethoven. Are you fucking out of your mind?!? Was that a joke? Who wants to sit around listening to that boring classical crap? Your objective reality is off the wall. I bet your house has really complicated landscaping.
You can bet a shitbox is going up, a BIG shitbox
Not sure this house could have been land-marked.
Its been severally modified, dormers and "blown out" every way possible. These Dutch houses had a porches (many wrap around which in this case have been closed in and faux bricked over all the way to the roof-line, inside wall gone. For example: That kitchen is narrow because it was part of the outside porch!!
Its still a dam shame, a crime, a rape what dumb ass democrat voters and foreign bastards are doing to America. --That imperial Marxist Kenyan called Obama included
Wow! I'm so glad McDonald's is gonna double my salary. I think I can finally afford a place like this.
So tired of all these morons screaming about "taking the neighborhood back"
Back from who?
The people who are coming in and offering you top dollar for your property?
Give me a fucking break.
Wake up.
It's not YOUR neighborhood anymore.
True. The newly minted Chinese economic warlords want to build their dream palaces in Broadway. Why not? You would in their shoes. They do not want to be associated with the lower class Chinese of downtown Flushing. Just as Malba had become a center to predominantly high earning Italians and Italian Americans...some Greeks too.... and Cord Meyer Forest Hills to rich Bukharians....Broadway will follow suit.
The neighborhood is undergoing rapid change. You can either cash in or stick it out and learn to become bilingual.
This is the history of immigration in the big apple. There are no more real ethnic neighborhoods left in Manhattan...Germantown, Little Hungary, etc. the new ethnic neighborhoods are growing in Queens.
I really don't care who lives here, but maybe some of its unique architecture should be protected.
But you will never see a municipal. landmark district created here. There are not enough fine contiguous blocks to warrant a district. Most homes have been altered beyond the standards of acceptance from the LPC.
Broadway Flushing Homeowners Association has dwindled into a vestige that it once was, just like the neighborhood.
Their real problem is weak leadership, and a few church ladies who think that garden judging, welcome committees, and social hours will accomplish what they want. You can put names on these people yourselves.
Accept some change. Change is good. Without it we stand still. Evolution is the key to Darwinian progress.
If somebody offered me $900,000 for my humble home in Broadway.
I'd ask for a closing next month and start having the movers pack up my goods.
Hello Brooklyn. A real borough! Queens is full of cheap political vipers that steal small and throw candy money to their constituents as a boon. Paul,Vallone is your king cobra here.
He will smile and bite with that same set of teeth. He proudly strokes his dome while he banks money from developers.
When is Vallone going to hold a rally in Bowne Park demanding a landmark district for deserving Broadway?
Never! He won't even commit an opinion on it.
Sly Vallone won't ever cross his developer pals. They pay for his campaigns. You stupid voters keep believing he's your friend.
Soon BFHA will be bankrupted by Rickert Finlay lawsuits. Then there goes your last line of defense.
Once the covenants get broken enough, they will become void. Then it's really goodbye.
Time to dump your president and infuse your association with some new blood, the kind that has some fresh effective ideas on how best to
preserve the quality, if not architecture, of a fine nabe.
LOL! Those tacky plaques are some hotesse's idea of a Good Housekeeping type seal of approval.
Maybe BFHA ought to move their meeting place out of Church On The Hill.
A more modern venue might suggest they are moving along with more modern times.
When you walk into one of their public meetings, you get the impression that some old blue haired ladies picked the place.
It resembles a geriatric club, save a handful of new comers.
Like I really want a committee of commissars at the LPC to decide which replacement window is best for my historic home.
I have no problem accommodating respect to history, but not one that will cost me $1,200 per window...UNLESS...I can get a $600 rebate from NYC, the state or the feds for the extra cost of maintaining my landmark property. Isn't that fair?
Get rid of B.H. and M.B from BFHA.
Sorry for the cryptic references, but I love code.
Go figure out my Rubix Cube.
If BFHA had formed its own federal 501C3 tax exempt org decades ago, they could have raised enough money to buy a home that was up for sale and insert a deed restriction to prevent tear down or extreme change and then resell it.
Now they have naught left but to beg politicians to get them their long overdue landmark status.
That's not likely to happen, no matter which Don Quixote pol come to bat for them.
It is far too late. You have been passed by. By all means, hold another rally, but do not expect much.
Go back to your drawing boards and come up with a new solution that will work now.
I am in full agreement. BFHA has got to do some housecleaning.
This once resourceful powerful organization, which has accomplished much good in the past,
needs some refreshing change from old ideas. We have begun the 21st century.
Tasteful is a matter of taste. Therein lies the wrinkle.
I'm staying clear of this battlefield until the last barrage.
What I will say now is that angry finger pointing and blind criticism gets everybody nowhere.
BFHA is an organization composed of very hard working VOLUNTEERS!
Volunteer with some good ideas, as I do, then you have earned the right to complain.
Join BFHA. Pay your dues. Membership adds up and counts, and it is counted by your political representatives.
That is the key to political clout.
Become a block watcher on YOUR block.
Notification of any wrong activity is easier now thanks to the Internet.
C'mon fella, third world China cannot afford to live in North Flushing.
Almost one million dollars for this home just to tear it down?
That don't sound like a third word buyer to me.
The Huang's are going to put at least another million bucks into building their new home.
Bitterness and bigotry has no place here.
The plaques are ridiculous. They mean nothing. Who can we blame for them? I laugh at people who have them affixed to their aluminum siding. It's preposterous. The neighborhood has changed. Get over it. This isn't Old Greenwich. It's Flushing, Queens.
I think that the queen of BFHA's social hour....M.B. ......is responsible for them.
Who is M.B. ?
You figure it out. Nobody wants to get sued for naming names....LOL!
A better idea than wasting money on tacky plaques is to place some kind of big marker near the Broadway station to indicate that the neighborhood is a national register district.
i.e.
"Welcome to Broadway, a national historic district". M.B. can even plant a ring of posies around the sign post if she wishes.
BULLSHIT third world China has figured out if they pool their money and come over as one big family with the same last name they can legally pack 30 people in a cement box and who's to check ? As in what are you gonna do ask China (who is happy to get rid of them) to verify the people claiming the last name Lee or Hwang are related ?
This is exactly what many of these Asians are doing, its become HUGE sneaky business going on throughout all the Asian, Bukkarian and real estate community for years.
Stupid voters refuse to believe our politicians and media have been turning a blind eye to it not to be called RACIST !!
Wait until some junkie gathering bronze for a recycling fee starts prying off these dumb ass plaques.
What's the going rate for scrap brass these days at a metal recycler?
Duh....would the bright light that came up with the plaque idea please sit in the corner and don your dunce cap.
What a f-----g waste of time and money. This homeowners' association is living in the past.
Sorry "BULLSHIT" you are an ignorant fool who is disseminating anger, bigotry and misinformation.
I think that the FDNY would immediately stop any illegal occupancy of a single family home by 30 people, be they family or otherwise.
They have numerous times in the past.
Didn't I run into you near I-Hop at the "hotel demonstration" press conference held by Senator Avella at the old Halleran residence?
It must be you. You were fuming and spouting anti Asian remarks like a geyser.
YOU are the one who has NO PLACE in our variegated community. All ethnicities are welcome here.
This is about the destruction of fine homes not personal hated of a particular group.
I ask you now, what is your own ethnic origin, which is so purely "American" , that places you above all other races?
You are clearly the RACIST here, bubba. And that ain't BULLSHIT!
You would have fit in very nicely in the 3rd Reich.
Sieg heil!
"Maria, Maria, I just met a girl named Maria".
Can we help you with those heavy plaques, señorita?
Church ladies, old farts and Vallone ass kissers seem to predominate BFHA.
The 1950s are over, folks. Get with a new program. The "Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver" days are gone.
Time to dump the Miss Manners approach.
Dump Don Vallone. He's the one who has sold you all out, even if you are too dumb to realize it.
So he threw a big fireworks show at Fort Totten. John Gotti did the same for Howard Beach.
Are you going to be taken in by Don Paulo's charade?
He is a developers lobbyist. He does not represent you, unless you choose to put him on retainer.
Yeah, "Cousin Vinny" Gianelli is a sleazy real estate opportunist
Three days after my father's funeral , he came over to our house and asked if it were for sale.
I should d have drop kicked him in his Nutella.
When the time came he did not get the listing. Avoid Du Wrong Realty! They are sharks.
They should have placed a bronze BFHA plaque on that front tree. LOL!
Broadway is on the national register. Ho, ho, ho! I'm gonna order one, right away.
Every time I attend a BFHA general meeting, and see Miss Busy Bee buzzing around that side table full of these bronze plaques,
I hope that BFHA would upgrade its after meeting coffee time with some 90 proof relief.
Good Lord. The St. Andrews mom approach won't stop tear downs.
Yeah, flowers on the stage....donuts and goodies on the rear table...thank yous and platitudes...smiling "White" faces in the audience...a sprinkling of ethnic looking ones....and the meeting begins. Melinda Katz even made a personal appearance at one. What did she do?
Talk about " the world's borough and tourism. I did not see a fair representation of the world's borough in attendance.
BFHA had better change its act.
I am a new homeowner in Broadway, but I must confess , that after attending three of these association's meetings
I was hard pressed to want to continue attending.
A new form of outreach is needed for the organization to continue remaining vital. It is losing people's interest in it.
Blah, blah, blah. I have developed a case of the blahs. How about inviting each new ethnic group of homeowners to present a program on their native culture? That 's worth a try to bring new blood into a stagnant group.
They might feel that they would belong. Instead of being intruders into a white society.
Maybe the denial of municipal historic district status is based on a small portion of the inherent racism that exists here in the northeast.
Becoming a partner to an area using landmarking to keep out certain groups could become quicksand for any politician.
Anytime one of you racist assholes opens your mouth online, your statements are being read by your elected officials or their staff.
Rickert Finley is becoming rickety.
There are violations all around. Soon it will become unenforceable.
I thought that Tony Avella was going to save his district.
Who will unseat Vallone? That's the real ticket!
They'd better have oodles of dough and an efficient army of volunteers.
Everybody and his mother will run in the primary, which will wind up strengthening Vallone's position.
The losers will claim they did well. Well...for who?
Everyone is so cock sure that they can beat a Goliath.
Matching funds for candidates that don't have a chance, just drains our coffers.
Why should my tax money go to perennial runners and losers like Evergreen Chou, for example?
Who can really match up to the Vallone dynasty's power in this district?
What wannabee will challage him and win?
Yawn! Here we go again. And Vallone is the winner by a knockout.
You all better make sure that Vallone does not continue to hold his district in his greasy paws for a second term.
Otherwise you are screwed! Screwed once...ehh....OK. Screwed a second time...mamma mia....you deserve it!
Rickert Finlay? Is that an old vaudeville team?
Enforce those covenants until bankruptcy claims BFHA.
What did the famous Deluvio case cost the association?
They really dropped the ball on that flat roofed house
which was much more egregious.
And all that with an ADA on their board.
Queens DA Richard Brown would not have approved.
BFHA is an accomplice in this!
Maybe not número uno, but partially guilty for refusing to put Vallone on the hook for not supporting landmarking.
Oh, shit, now I'm gonna catch hell from this venerable group!
Don't waste your energy on me. Reform! Regroup! Circle Vallone's home!
Fugghettabout it...just a bunch of polite pussies!
I don't see a single Asian face on BFHA's board, so why should "they" take any interest?
White and old seems to be a prerequisite for board membership.
Every board member should come in 1950s costume featuring blue or purple tinted hair, octagonal rimless eyeglasses or pill box hats.
White church lady gloves , optional.
Oh and that vallone fireworks show was SHIT
Only the 12 people that made it in Fort Totten could enjoy it
What a bust if you were not in Fort Totten
What , Grucci didn't have the bigger fireworks? Come on vallone
Who's bigoted?
Most of the recent big brick boxes have been put up,by Asians. Deny that truth you knee jerk liberals.
I wouldn't mind if the Chinese followed some of the fine aesthetics of their own country. No, they just build like
Greeks and Italian immigrants. "No like wood. Cemente e benne. House too small...scatta no fas".
I doubt that only 12 people attended Vallone's Fort Totten fireworks show.
C'mon, stop pulling our legs. I heard that about 3,000 attended and about 1,000+ were turned away at the gates.
Vallone is a scum bag...no doubt, regardless of how many people went to his show.
I wonder if some of Vallone's mafia buddies contributed to the occasion.
The news media confirmed that Joey d'or Franco, of the Whitehouse restaurant in Whitestone was a Gambino crime family friend.
Don Vallone voted to approve Joey's expansion plans when he was on CB7.
How do you spell political mobster? V-A-L-L-O-N-E!
Of course Grucci had better and bigger fireworks, but the dumb locals are easier to please.
The local yokel voters are also easier to fleece. Vallone lights up the sky with some rockets and blows off some firecrackers.
When it comes to doing the same good for his constituents as he does for his developer clients,..Vallone blows!
But his sheep will re-elect him despite them being sheared by him.
And what whipper snapper will primary the don? The one who thinks he can harpoon Moby Dick. LOL!
Voters will vote for bread and circuses, just like the plebes did in Ancient Rome.
The fireworks show was a good move for Emperor Vallone.
Most residents concerns about neighborhood are far from historic preservation.
Vallone is going to get Bayside a new high school.
Vallone will do this and that.
So Vallone does not support a historic district for Broadway. Big deal!
He's a dad, soccer coach and is concerned with building needed schools.
Bingo! Re-elected! Wise up you dumb ass voters.
Take a good look behind you and see who really has his dick up,your ass.
VALLONE!
I'll bet Vito, Don Paulo's chief of staff, I s spending his weekend comprising a summary of these posts to turn in on Monday to his don.
That's progress, folks.
Move along with the times, or move away.
What other choices are there?
When you're getting f----d, you either grin and bear it or bite the rapist's joint off when given the opportunity.
Is the mealy mouthed homeowners' association ready to confront Vallone?
Highly doubtful!
There are too many soccer moms sharing the same St. Andrew's church connection
with their illustrious city councilman.
Now I am going to jump into this bar room brawl.
If you have no real solution to offer, then stop bashing and blaming.
Try working with BFHA instead of complaining about everything.
Anonymous backstabbers are cowards, pure and simple!
Now I'll tune out. Trying to follow all of this crap is giving me a headache.
Seems like only Queens Crap bothers to cover the awful construction that is tearing apart much of Northeast Queens. There are very few other sources of outrage on all the bad construction. Why not even a single article on this in the locals?
Travel to Seattle or Portland. Upzoning and expansion looks A LOT different. Communities are given a final say in whether or not a construction project is respectful of the neighborhood. The new buildings are big, but not "cement boxes". We could easily have that sort of development here. The utilitarian crap bozes have to go.
And BFHA, though I am not a member, is a great group. There would be no PART 150 study without them. True story.
So glad to know I'm not the only one who finds those plaques ridiculous!
Ridiculous?
They are positively assenine!
Those plaques are continuously being foisted on us. I was told rather rudely that my not proudly displaying one shows that I don't care about the "state of our neighborhood" yeah okay. Such bullshit.
Wait until a home displaying one of those plaques gets torn down.
That ought to prove their effectiveness.
The danger of displaying one of these plaques is that a passerby assumes that being on the national register protects a home from being torn down. Only an LPC plaque accomplishes that.
These are dumb efforts towards false security. I don't need a "pride plaque". What I need is a more forceful homeowners association.
Get rid of a president who doesn't believe in landmarking.
Proudly display a big plaque where it can be read by all beats individual bronze beer coasters being afixed to individual homes.
Location suggestion...Broadway station vicinity or Studley Triangle....whatever.
Maybe the promoter of these dumb plaques can sell BFHA members a voo doo mojo charm to protect the nabe from tear downs.
Years ago the Queens Historical Society undertook a program of awarding bronze "Queensmark" plaques to deserving structures.
When Flessel's historic inn (College Point) was being torn down a woman who was walking by said to me, "What a shame. I thought it was landmarked". I replied , the bronze "Queensmark" plaque offers no protection. It is an honorary award.
I've noticed some of these plaques placed on homes.
You would have to walk right up to the door to read them and look suspicious doing that.
If you placed them near the sidewalk, where they could be easily read, somebody is going to steal them for scrap value.
The whole idea was half baked from the get go.
Unfortunately , the lady who keeps hawking them, thinks they're just peachy.
Come back with a better idea, if that isn't expecting too much.
Those plaques are great for identifying idiots who don't see the forest for the trees. I haven't seen one exception to this rule. Plaque on front of your house = moron. Plain and simple.
Fly an American flag if you want to show some pride.
Placing one of these stupid pride plaques on your home is an admission of your association's ineffectiveness.
This plaque program is eating up money that would be better contributed to BFHA's legal defense fund.
Thank you for the flowers and cookies, Ms. B.
Please stop encouraging people to waste their money and time on fruitless plaques.
How about substituting a button everyone can proudly wear to show solidarity...
"Just say no to tear downs". LOL!
Some Broadway Ostriches are putting their heads in the ground, once again.
Time to wake up! You have been targeted! Hiding won't help.
Plaque? Visit a dentist.
Every big sized underderbuilt property along the avenues will be built on, and much bigger. That is the future.
Bronze plaques will not prevent what is already happening. Witness south side 35th Avenue between 163rd and 164the streets.
Pride plaques are just some polite nitwit's idea of spitting in the wind. You wind up with a wad of your own spittle dripping from your face for such a dumb move.
This is war, folks. Hold out an olive branch and get stabbed with it.
Without an LPC landmark district, it is like trying to hold running water in the palm of your hand. Get with the program, Mr. President.
The problem is , some people who insist on playing politics at BFHA with pol's who are their enemies.
How can an ADA eventually become a judge, if he bucks developers desires to see Broadway remain unlandmarked?
Hmmmm! Mum is the word that is most applicable here.
One of Life's great lessons:
One man's shit box is another man's castle.
Quaint housing is not the draw to modern familes that it used to be almost a century ago.
This is 2015 not 1923.
I guess we have to be thankful that property values are not suffering, instead of mourning for a past era that's going fast.
We could be living in south Jamaica with far worse problems.
Groan...now I'm just philosophizing to cut my loses.
Valloney baloney and Avella press events.
BFHA's meek shall inherit more brick shit boxes being built.
Energize yourselves. Stop passing gut wind and dump on your councilman!
Are you afraid of the wrath of Don Vallone?
Though he might have ties with real mobsters, he is only a political mafioso,
and afraid of his own political shadow.
Wait until the Italians eventually lose control of St. Andrews and it becomes more Latino.
White Broadway will become a memory. It is already one third of the way there. Is that so bad? I don't think so.
It will become purely a matter of attrition. A lot of older people are moving and downsizing.
Some have already passed on. The future of Broadway will depend upon the new and vital creative energy
that BFHA has to bring to its aging attitudes.
Look into the mirror and be honest with yourselves. Are you as board members and members of BFHA doing what's best for the neighborhood?
How can you work smarter instead of trying to apply variations on the same old fruitless tactics for quality of life preservation?
Please, concentrate less on your plaque program and more on developing effective strategies.
Wah, wah, wah! Same old, same old!
Picture another home about to be demolished and follow the same old wagon ruts to Kansas.
ALL efforts toward getting a municipal historic district must NOW be implemented.
BFHA President Hanophy should be putting his back to this with great gusto.
Has he? Maybe an alternate Broadway civic association should be formed to pick up the slack that BFHA has left behind.
There used to be a Broadway Flushing Civic Association long ago.
Maybe it's time to become more civic minded instead of homeowner isolationist.
Anyone for starting up a new organization?
The age of Broadway entitlement was over ten years ago. You all were to busy navel gazing to notice that fact.
Let that St. Andrew's church mom continue to kiss Paul Vallone's ass. It will get the nabe nowhere.
The last time I attended a CB7 meeting, I noticed that a Vincent Gianelli is a board member.
Is this the Du Rite Realty Gianelli?
Are you, or one of your staff, reading this Councilman Vallone?
The reason that I am asking you so boldly to state your position on a public blog (which is read by thousands, maybe millions)
is that we all want to hear it...without you dancing around my question by giving me a private or evasive or expedient or political answer.
DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT support the creation of a municipal historic district for deserving Broadway Flushing?
Take note, if you haven't already, that both New York State and our federal government recognizes Broadway's importance...
both architecturally and historically.
Broadway is already a state and national historic district. It has been waiting to be calendared for an LPC hearing for years.
Do you vote YES or NO for pushing for this LPC hearing? You've remained silent for too long.
I'm signing my name so you may know exactly who I am. You or your chief of staff may respond...again, with a simple YES or NO...
here or in writing to my home. No phone calls will be accepted. No additional exposition beyond a "YES" or "NO" will be accepted either.
Dare I have the nerve to demand this? YES! Your office's silence to my request will not be taken as golden. Man up!
The readers are awaiting your response, council member Vallone.
That smiling hostess with the mostest , who gives out garden judging awards, might be responsible for those silly plaques.
We dunno. If so, she should stick to her tea and crumpets. Mind you, she's very good at that. This is a skill that is needed and appreciated.
I'm thinking of ordering one of those plaques.
Above that I will place my own reading, "What else can BFHA do"?
Over 100 comments, Crapman. Truly impressive. I think this post of yours sets the record in almost 9 years of crapping.
George, this is definitely one of the hottest topics in years. I think the one about St. Saviour's church in Maspeth being torn down beat it out with about 168, maybe 180+ comments.
Maybe it's time for me to do another funny political cartoon.
Should I Crappy? Would you like that readers?
Let's be fair and give the council member Vallone a week to respond "YES" or "NO" to my request.
I don't like gratuitous finger pointing, but my pen and ink are always ready.
Thank you.
Checked out archived Crapper St. Saviour's postings: 72 comments on one of July 2, 2009. Nothing higher in numbers.
Check out the hangman cartoon RE St. Saviour's.
I think that's the biggest #, George.
I love those beautiful bronze plaques, they are classy and represent our status as a State Historic District. If you can't afford one stop crying and hating.
BFHA works hard and they never turn down a volunteer so clearly none of you haters have ever even tried to help.
Can you even afford a house in BFHA?????
If you could then you would be singing a different tune and you would know how much BFHA cares.
I feel sorry for you freaks, why don't you pool your money together then maybe you could afford one of those plaques and take turns sharing it.
Man, That is a nice home..
So sad that is going to be teared down. Was there termite damage?
What is the zoning on that?
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