I first came across this awful site (one of many) in Jamaica, although since this is on the north side of Hillside Avenue this is technically Jamaica Estates, way back in 2010, when I first moved to this god forsaken place and who knows how long it was like this before that. Fast forward to 2015 and this mess is even worse. At 175-01 Hillside Avenue right near Bank of America and a MTA bus stop, sits some kind of I do not even know what to call this crap. It sits above the MTA subway grate and I guess our wonderful low-class residents figure it is a big garbage can, since all kinds of garbage gets tossed here. Besides all the garbage the whole thing is falling apart.
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Ahhh.... Come to Jamaica. Jamaica feel good.
This is Jamaica...the darker part of the borough...and nobody is in a rush to correct the mess.
If this were the lighter complexioned part ....say...northeast Queens, this would have been fixed fast.
Maybe Melinda can throw a block party and perform and allocate a few hundred grand to clean up the trash piles that she will just happen to notice,
Or maybe she will spin all these enviromental hazards as some sort of modern street art to begin the oncoming gentrification and tourist onslaught in Jamaica.
I have seen similar piles on the other side of the van wyck, and find the dumping on subway gratings inexpicable. And despite all the market rate pandemic going on in northwest Brooklyn goddamn and Queens, the same shit is present in those towns too. Mattresses, bags with clothes and household garbage, furniture and even engines. I guess with how narcissist people are that live in that area, maybe they don't give a damn about pollution (maybe they also contribute to the filth), especially with the ridiculous high rents in former and current superfund sites.
It's an extension of the high-rent blight that is ruining "quality of life" here.
Sorry Joe that you got to live next door to it and the trucks too. But the prevailing attitudes of the majority of citizens here are rotten and mostly cynical, and probably bereft of any hope since the city doesn't bother to serve them. And of course most people are just arrogant lazy slobs.
Sorry Joe that you got to live next door to it and the trucks too.
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I don't live anywhere near that mess, other messes, but not that one. And for the record, that is located in Jamaica Estates, not Jamaica.
We take credit for our own shit.
I didn't mean literally next door, just symbollically.
It should be renamed hellside. There are other messes that start by the Van Wyck. Including the protruding grates that are above the F line.
Your last comment should be on a sign proclaiming Welcome to Jamaica.
This has been going on for decades, I believe that the present elected officials obliviously think that the majority of residents are adjusted to it.
Thanks for the new slogan JQ, I will use it.
"Welcome to Jamaica. We take credit for our own shit."
Your comment "that residents are adjusted to this", are they really or do they just not say anything and do nothing.
I mean if so many are complaining, then why does this shit still take place. I mean if 20,000 people filed a 311 complaint or called Borough Hall or their councilman on one particular issue on one day, do you think it would be taken care of. I think so, but most are not even willing to do that. Let's face it, it takes a few minutes to day that.
Maybe we all need have a "311 day" twice a week. Pick an big issue with a location and have people file the complaint, even if they do not live in that area. Just flood the system.
This is Jamaica...the darker part of the borough...and nobody is in a rush to correct the mess.
If this were the lighter complexioned part ....say...northeast Queens, this would have been fixed fast.
Bullshit, I live in Bellerose Queens and it's the same shit here. I've called 311 on many ocassions for different issues. The problem is 311 dosen't work unless the Community Board or Council Member gets involved. It's alot of work but I agree, we need a 311 day. This shit will not get fixed without a game plan.
Thanks, Bellerose. Yes...sad to say that if you are anywhere in Queens, there is litter everywhere. I just drove through Vermont ...not a piece of litter anywhere.
Very sad.
Vermont is the whitest state in the nation.
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