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- Is CB2 violating the law?
- Former council member Al Stabile passed away
- Forest Hills mystery accident
- Not a smart move
- Shulman's pet project up for review
- DeBlasio thinks he's doing a great job
- Affordable housing won't be affordable when it's done
- Yes, we know
- 34th Street 7 train stop to open next month
- Now that's a man cave...
- Police finally arresting panhandlers
- Flushing pigeon house is a big problem
- Bay Terrace Barnes and Noble loses lease
- Funding provided to buy Brinckerhoff Cemetery
- City Council District 23 candidates appear on NY1
- Fire damaged property left to rot with tenants inside
- Out-of-state murder suspect caught in Jamaica
- Target replacing Forest Hills B&N
- Giant affordable housing project planned for Sunny...
- Plan to clean up stink of Flushing Bay
- The history of Jamaica High School
- HPD ignores fire escape safety complaints
- Arverne development resists hipster invasion
- Developers fail to register apartments with tax in...
- Four Freedoms Park President defends Katz gift
- Another hotel for downtown Jamaica
- Legislation introduced to eliminate LPC backlog
- Shit hits the floor in South Jamaica
- DeBlasio defends green space-to-housing plan
- Resorts World bus crashes on Woodhaven Blvd
- Ferreras, Peralta not notified of shelter
- Kinkajou captured
- DHS lied about opening East Elmhurst shelter
- Wyckoff wants to join North Shore-LIJ system
- Pols want airport employees to park at the airport
- Neir's Tavern seeks interior landmark status
- Waterpointe site back on the market?
- What does Bill have against meeting with people?
- 1-family house replaced with three 2-familes
- Waiting for care at Queens hospitals could kill you
- Seeking peace and quiet in Whitestone
- This week's de Blasio leadership summary
- Weird ass project proposed for LIC
- Woodside film shoot starts too early
- Something really smells rotten in Queens Village
- Dem council candidate doesn't realize 311 already ...
- De Blasio declares war on painted ladies
- Mayor quite dense at being transparent
- Katz issues statement on Manhattan park funding
- Fewer Queens foreclosures
- Juvie facility nixed
- LIC: hotel or homeless shelter?
- Fewer people playing tennis
- Astoria Mountain being flattened
- Huntley owes big bucks to the state
- De Blasio enables never-ending welfare cycle
- Queens Blvd trains are going to be delayed
- LPC sues homeowner over building neglect
- Short-term Rockaway transit solution?
- The latest from Northern Blvd
- One business replaced by another in residential zone
- Charles Park needs regular cleanup
- Mission: To catch a kinkajou
- Subway grate sidewalk mess on Hillside Ave
- An idea whose time has come?
- Weisbrod wants to change physical culture establis...
- Inclusionary zoning won't actually create that muc...
- More left turn signals for safer streets
- DeBlasio: "Just because you see more homeless does...
- Select Bus lane on Woodhaven Blvd pretty much a di...
- Still waiting on the USTA's Flushing Meadows money
- Weeping Beech Park invaded by homeless
- Law in the works against panhandling with children
- Hoarding can be deadly
- Fish die-off at Kissena Lake
- Arboricide in Whitestone
- Katz allocates $300K to Manhattan park
- LaGuardia taxi bribery scheme uncovered
- Is this drone a good idea?
- Car2Go expands to Queens
- Park repairs go undone for too long
- Koreatown Plaza becomes controversial
- K2 causing problems in Jamaica
- 1st contractor ever to get license yanked
- Close call in Douglaston
- Major Mark Park is in disgraceful condition
- Stopped in their tracks
- Warehouse wall erected on Steinway site
- Looking to bring back "cease and desist"
- We want Walmart
- More than 92% of Lynch's contributions are from ou...
- Van down by the river is back in business
- Big developer preserving existing housing?
- Legionnaire's inspections are new territory for city
- West Nile spraying this week
- "Handball"
- Report: Lynch donors attempt to stoke anti-gay sen...
- DeBlasio homeless plan doesn't actually house anyone
- Crane king will pay heavy penalty
- Weird deed fraud case in Jamaica Estates
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11 comments:
Mega Ugly.
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What ugly brick boxes.
And some more needed greenery vanishes.
There went a charming little respite.
And what happened to the law from a few years ago, that state a certain percentage of space must be green. Most of these crap places that go up have no green, so what is the deal. Laws with no enforcement.
A nostalgic pause:
When I was a kid I cheered the wrong side.
The "cowboys" we're the good guys and the "Indians" were the bad ones.
I eagerly donned my chaps and roll cap six guns, like a Roy Rogers of the Bronx.
I could not grasp , at that time, that the "Indians" we're fighting "over development" which the "iron horse"
brought right smack into their backyards. They respected nature. The "white eyes" took great advantage of it.
Then came the ranchers, miners, etc. all of which were developers, under their skins.
Wherever gold or silver or copper was found....some tribe had to be moved away to a reservation.
Was that progress? Perhaps, but it was certainly recorded history. Eminent domain was the key to a growing nation,
so I was taught. Maybe so. I'm still thinking on that premise.
Think of Queens as the "Wild West" for "development". How many indigenous long time residents of their neighborhoods are being forced out by developers and their political allies?
Speculators buy your land, then they buy the politicians. Politicians are not good for much else , so they remain on the dole of these land speculators to continue their employment. Campaign contributions are their wages.
P.S.
Later on in my childhood, I nagged my mom into buying me an "Indian suit" for X-mas..
My "cowboy suit" had lost its charm, and the boyhood photos of me in costume was in my "Indian suit".
There I was, up in a tree branch, training my cork firing rifle on some unsuspecting "developer".
So here I am again, in my older age, doing the same thing, I guess.
One thing I'm sure of.
We had better learn to strike a balance between intelligent development and the preservation of our green space.
We are obliterating our own history along with the carbon dioxide filtering , oxygen producing trees at an alarming rate.
That "one million trees" program , to replace old growth trees, is a boondoggle to appease us.
McMansions are so 2007
Where is this? Looks familiar
What a charming vintage house. Now it's so fucking ugly! Thanks DeSleazio!
Looks like Maspeth, off 69 street near Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
where do you expect all the illegal aliens to live? they need more space for their jackpot babies and old folk. they lie and say that these are their parents. they are not. Chinese indentured servants.
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