Hi Crappy,
I wanted to let you know of an development that may be of some concern to Bayside residents. One of the Irish restaurants just off Bell Boulevard has been sold....and I am told that it will be redeveloped as "Mixed Use". The new owners, paid $2.5 million dollars which is fine, but I am wondering about zoning and what they can actually build there.
I am just concerned that the new owners plan something that is out of character. Hoping that someone out there can review the zoning maps and identify what zoning this parcel is under.
Thanks,
A concerned Baysider
According to zoning consultant Paul Graziano, "This parcel is in an R6B zone with a C1-2 commercial overlay. 40 x 100 lot - expect a 4,000+ square foot building with underground parking and community facility use."
37 comments:
"Out of character"?
I did not think that there was any character left there.
Welcome to the Flushingization of Bayside.
Too many bars near Bell Blvd. anyway....if you want to call that "character" .
Oh, there are plenty of those characters hanging out in them, especially on Friday nights.
Community Facility? Get ready for another "church" or "Body Work" facility.
Whatever it is, it will be built to the max allowable.
Nobody pays about two and a half million dollars just to throw it away.
Did Donovan's buy it? I believe Donovan also owns the little White House at the end of the street.
And that could be subject to tear down. After all, it is also a
parcel of underutilized land.
That whole Bell (bar) Blvd. is just a bunch of rotating turnover businesses.
Bars and booze joints...aptly named "Bar Boulevard"!
Don't worry, it'll be used to house more chinese along with some chinese place attached to it ....perhaps another asian school or learning center.....bell blvd is turning unrecognizable.....it's sad....you see the sign "welcome to bayside village" around the holiday time? Well soon that will be written in chinese just like everything else is.
The zoning consultant has spoken.
Now you all know what you might get.
Monahan's has been losing business to Donovan's for years.
Donovan's owns a parking lot right next door to Monahan's.
Come to think of it, Mr. Monahan who's a retired NYC firefighter has done well for himself.
Donovan's of Woodside...Donovan's of Bayside.
Bravo! Bottoms up!
Is zoning consultant or cockeyed optimist? It will probably be a 6 story 16,000sf building with retail on the 1st floor. It's the adjacent lot also... Both were sold in the same date, 8,000 sf combined lot with and far of 2 in R6B and C12
Donovan's ?
I remember Christmas time a couple years Donovan was in his suite going table to table saying goodbye to everybody. He was closing the place. Reason being his kids wanted no part of working in a restaurant and the neighborhood was changing.
Today Italians moonlighting under Irish names own most them bars, these people also own Louie’s waterside and some other $$ joints in Port Washington. --Cheap bastards, don’t want to pay bands, put illegal’s in the kitchens and charge over $15 + added 20% tip + state and federal tax for a hamburger. You think you’re in friggan London.
What’s with "Bell has too many bars" That’s Queens Heritage! Half of them are gone already, do you really want more banks, $$ retail and nail salons where Benzi & Lexie kill each other over a parking space !! That’s what Miracle Mile 4 miles east is for.
Shit give me a parking space White Castle and the 99 cent store anyday over that BS !
Monacan's should have gone under years ago just for serving terrible food. But, the timing is right for a shabu-shabu joint to open there.
A nail salon.
A happy ending massage parlor.
And a Chinese/Korean/Indian grocery.
Likely another storefront with a happy ending joint upstairs or Paki noodles clubhouse like the former Jahns ice Cream parlor. Bayside is already lost and Little Neck is following. This overseas Asian cash is like nuclear fallout blowing east.
Actually I would rather have nuclear fallout then the obscene landscape devastation and colonization this group enacts.
In Little Neck Asian businessmen are going in doorways to read the certificates on the walls, ringing doorbells to locate the landlords to offer cash (Northern Blvd). They then quadruple all the rents to get the tenants and lower floor business owners out and bring people from back home in to work like slaves. Has anybody been in an Asian store ?
Check any private store from Main street Flushing to Bayside you instantly notice things like the famous $25 Rolex, XL work T shirts, sneakers & sox more then men's size 9, or prices in English no longer exist because these people DO NOT WANT business from Americans. "No speak English" "NO HAVE HERE" "YOU LEAVE NOW"
I think it's about time a middle east Arabian lamb joint opened up in the Bell Blvd area.
Shish-kabob, Curried goat, couscous and camel testicles for the growing Islamic crowd.
Shish-kabob, Curried goat, couscous and camel testicles for the growing Islamic crowd.
Where in Flushing or Bayside?
You have to go to Europe for that.
Wrong ethnic group, wrong area.
And this message gets posted?
Joe is right. The Italian mob gave up their pizzerias...now most run by Albanians employing Mexicans, and have branched out into restaurants. The sons of the old construction industry type rough wise guy restaurateurs, don't want to do restaurant work. They are in Wall Street type occupations living in Muttontown , Old Brokkville, Sands Point, or Glen Cove. The ones who live in Beechurst, Malba Bayside Gables are taking over restaurants of all ethnicity. Of course the hired help is ethnic, appropriate to the type of restaurant.
Bukarinivian, or whatever the fluck they are called, coming. Right?
The racism in these comments is despicable.
I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read, and I have to say that myself and all my colleagues from the other papers read the comments on this blog and feel disgusted at the entitlement of people who have nerve to spew hate about other races settling in the area. It's not acceptable to long for the "good old days" of Flushing or Bayside by spreading anti-Asian rhetoric, and yes it is racist to make jokes about how we're in "a third world country" because there are some signs written in your neighborhood in Chinese or Korean.
Get over it, and accept that things change or you'll be left behind as every other part of the world becomes more inclusive to other cultures.
"I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read, and I have to say that myself and all my colleagues from the other papers read the comments on this blog and feel disgusted at the entitlement of people who have nerve to spew hate about other races settling in the area."
Here's an idea...don't read the comments. Or better yet, hold these comments up to the standards that other websites have. There are objectionable comments on just about every news website out there.
"The racism in these comments is despicable."
"I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read"
How about the rampant money laundering, corruption, prostitution, gambling, over development, running illegal businesses out of residential areas?
That does not bother your sensitive eyes and ears?
Also last time I checked the official language of this country was English.
If the signs are put up in foreign languages only, isn't that racist?
"It's not acceptable to long for the "good old days" of Flushing or Bayside by spreading anti-Asian rhetoric"
Preserving history is not racist, so you are trying to silence criticism probably, because someone is really uncomfortable with some of the disclosures here on this site. Lot of underhanded stuff is going on, so I understand why you posted a message that has nothing to do with reality instead of making everybody guilty of some invented racism. That's the easy way out. Code word.
Hey PC Local Queens Paper Writer-- the truth hurts. Get over it, and accept that things don't have to go to shit when they change, and that if they do, we end up as behind as every other part of the third world.
While we are on the topic of what will be, does anyone know what the storefront called Evergreen is? It is on Bell Bell about 1/2 block from the LIRR and looking in it looks like there are tables. Every time I pass by I do not see anyone except for 2 or 3 people.
>Also last time I checked the official language of this country was English.
Last I checked, this country has no official language.
doesn't everybody like a happy ending?
Yeah, we really believe that you write for a local paper. Anybody can fake anything on a web site. If you are real publish an editorial in the paper you supposedly write for. Or you could identify yourself here by name. The truth really hurts, suble or direct, don't it?
"Here's an idea...don't read the comments. Or better yet, hold these comments up to the standards that other websites have. There are objectionable comments on just about every news website out there."
But you're the admin., you allow what goes through or else why even bother filtering at all--I would agree some of what goes through is very overtly racist--just my opinion for what it's worth...
The racism in these comments is despicable.
I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read, and I have to say that myself and all my colleagues from the other papers read the comments on this blog and feel disgusted at the entitlement of people who have nerve to spew hate about other races settling in the area.
You are the self-hating anti-white racist. Nothing wrong with wanting your city and nation to maintain a certain racial mix. I don't see China or India allowing themselves to be invaded by foreign cultures. Is there one city in China that is being taken over by Africans or refugee Syrians and Muslims? Why not? Japan is rich. How come they don't allow in one million Chinese and one million Syrians? How come it is only white nations in Europe and mostly white America and Canada that must allow in millions of incompatible foreigners. You are a naive young idealist and my translation for you is IDIOT! When I grew up America was (rough numbers) 88% white, 10% black and 2% others. We should have stayed this way or at most gone down to 80% white.
To repeat___ You are a brainwashed self hater!
Last I checked, this country has no official language.
Check again. Start with the Board of Ed. Asshole.
"I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read, and I have to say that myself and all my colleagues from the other papers read the comments on this blog and feel disgusted at the entitlement of people who have nerve to spew hate about other races settling in the area."
So you and your precious paper endorse all the illegal activities, starting with the politicos, Huangs and so on.
No wonder you fuckers are out of touch. That's why Trump is leading, because you political hacks and paid shill are so messed up, cannot even tell right from wrong.
Anyone bringing facts and truths out is immediately labeled as racist.
You know what? Nobody here is racist, but you.
You hate your own country, your own race. That's what globalism is about.
In the end you'll be very lonely, because most everybody has figured out the gig.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
One day we will find out why no real investigative reporting was done on all the illegal activities taking place.
Yes
The embracing of "diversity" in Europe with the flood of invading migrants is working out so well...
"But you're the admin., you allow what goes through or else why even bother filtering at all--I would agree some of what goes through is very overtly racist--just my opinion for what it's worth..."
I filter out spam and trolls who want to argue about things that have nothing to do with the topic. I don't care if people want to express politically incorrect opinions. This is America, not North Korea.
"I write for a local Queens paper that you all probably read"
"I write for a local Queens paper that probably no one with two brain cells to rub together reads".
TFIFY.
(sarc)speaks, people listen.
Being politically correct just says your scared shit and a coward.
>Being politically correct just says your scared shit and a coward.
he says, posting anonymously.
Anonymous said...
he says, posting anonymously.
Coming from you is really rich, punky.
I wasn't aware that there was some law against posting anonymously.
Signed,
Anonymous
Yeah like the Tribune's famous whore ads are in great taste and do not exploit racial minorities, human trafficking, etc.
If Queens Crap is too tough for your sensifive eyes, just look away. Don't log on. It must be good or you wouldn't be reading it.
>I filter out spam and trolls who want to argue about things that have nothing to do with the topic. I don't care if people want to express politically incorrect opinions. This is America, not North Korea.
HEAR HEAR!
I disagree strongly with the racist comments posted here, but I respect Crappy for letting everyone have a voice.
And I even more strongly and vehemently disagree with the growing SJW idea that allowing people with distasteful opinions to speak is the same as agreeing with them.
Thank you, Crappy, for not only running this blog and keeping us updated on Queens news, but for being a small bastion of free speech on an increasingly censored internet.
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