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October
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- Groups join forces to stop the insanity
- City Council wants to crack down on AirBnB
- Worker dies in Manhattan building collapse
- Bill to end double-dipping
- Oxy suppliers shut down
- The end of Whitestone Lanes?
- Building collapses in Astoria
- Projects produce lots of trash
- Unique Kew Gardens house finally sold
- Pod living in Flushing!
- AirBnB hostess arrested?
- Big sports gambling bust
- DOB says yeshiva dorm is not kosher
- Homeless taking over Penn Station
- Crackdown on fake OSHA cards
- LIC residents freaked out by waterfront rats
- Jamaica: hotels! hotels! hotels!
- A new story regarding Bayside AirBnB shooting
- Grave robbing at Maple Grove
- Van Bramer backs congestion pricing
- More details about Bayside house party gone wrong
- Diner deathwatch
- Bayside McMansion rented out on AirBnB for house p...
- Dogs to combat rats?
- City cleaning up Jamaica Bay
- Silvercup building more condos
- Overhaul of dollar van industry proposed
- AirBnB not happy with council bill
- MASSIVE watermain break on Queens Blvd in Elmhurst
- Vallone stands alone in support of new school
- Abandoned Fresh Meadows house a major eyesore
- LIC hotel alleged to have bedbugs
- City planning thinks seniors don't drive
- Concannon & Grodenchik debate on NY1
- Construction fatalities on the rise
- Ridgewood dog abuser arrested
- Paul Vallone takes credit where credit is not due
- DOB determines that 16-unit building is a 2-family...
- DeBlasio a no show for murdered cop's street renaming
- Homeless to be booted from subway
- Skeptical about DEP plans
- Transportation geared toward millenials?
- She never met a tax she didn't like
- F*cked up Flushing house finally shut down by DOB
- NYPD cop charged with stealing house
- A matter of priorities
- CB5 says no to yeshiva dorm
- $1B spent on NYC homeless
- Don't believe the affordable housing hype
- Farrington Hotel prostitution bust
- Alley Pond dumpster saga continues
- Aigner Chocolate to reopen
- Junk in Flushing Bay
- The NYPD can see right through you
- Bill may force utilities to repair streets they de...
- Guy blames dogs for being a squatter
- Contractor cops to bribery
- Flushing West bus terminal talk
- Sunnyside parents suggest new school location
- Another one bites the dust
- Lovely in Laurelton
- Former Council Member Tom Ognibene has passed away
- CB7 wants restriction on Waterpointe site
- No place left to shop
- And so the SWO violation continues
- Nolan wary of LIC ferry dock
- Gentrification hurts the poorest residents (duh)
- Another Flushing project mishandled by DOB
- Woman found dead at Kissena Park
- MTA finally funded
- SWO violated at f*cked up Flushing house
- Avella rally today in opposition to Pan Am shelter
- Live like the servant you always dreamed to be
- Huge Pelham Parkway project done incorrectly
- Cool footage of LIC from the air
- Owner of f*cked up Flushing house speaks
- Department of Bribery
- They scam their own first
- It takes a year and a half to pave a parking lot
- More money thrown at the Queensway
- Dog run in Astoria to cost $1M
- All Queens libraries will be open 6 days a week
- Guess who pays 1/3 of all U.S. tolls?
- Cuomo flip-flops on pork spending
- Vallone to block Douglaston historic district exte...
- US being screwed out of jobs
- Lots of kids in shelters & special ed
- That's a lot of pot!
- About those scooter cabs...
- Meng wants the EPA to take over plane noise issue
- More people living in overcrowded conditions
- Congestion pricing DOA in Albany
- Eyesore at Alley Pond
- "Minor interior alterations" shut down in Flushing
- City enters Supreme Court fight re: voting distric...
- 6 months of destruction at the Steinway Mansion site
- Forget what you heard about the economic benefits ...
- Fresh Pond Road Staples closing
- Air rights an issue
- Forest Hills business scene changing rapidly
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6 comments:
Yep. That's the future. Hotels every few blocks along Jamaica Avenue/Jericho turnpike in eastern Queens. Why? Bellerose and Floral Park have a huge tourist influx? I don't think so. The city is obligated under law to house the homeless. The problem is intractable and insoluble. The pay-by-night solution in hotels is the future.
You build for maximum return on investment. DUH
So have you ever woke up in the morning and said "I think I should invest a few million into affordable housing, where I will hopefully break even and rent way below market rates to people who don't care and will most likely destroy the place"?
Or "I hope I win my two dollars back on this Mega million ticket"?
Me neither.
Are tourists really staying in these hotels? Friend is a hotel maId at Sheraton in Flushing and she says the rooms are empty most of the year. Went it to use the bathroom last year and was amazed the Sheraton brand would allow the conditions I witnessed. Unreal.
It has to be hotels because so every foreigner who invests $500,000 in a BUSINESS can "come over" and receive instant green cards for the whole family and stay for life. These "hotels" then cry HARDSHIP then become living space.
Its a "buy your immigration" scam for foreigners who can come up with cash.
If it were pay by hour, the community will flip out, but pay by night, and they seem ok with it.
Hopefully these properties could eventually be turned into affordable condos by joining 3 rooms together. At least these properties are likely built to a higher standard.
In the long run, investors dont care who stays in their hotel, but do care how much they will get per room.. so a nice check from the goverment, garaunteed per night, is a good business decision.
I recall in the late 80's rather large gatherings of rouge covered thigh high booted street walkers walking up to cars plying their trade.
This decision should bring it back.
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