Friday, May 13, 2016

CB7 suspicious about builder's plans


From the Queens Tribune:

Attorney Michael Michnias came to speak regarding the construction of two three-story, two-family dwelling on a mapped but unbuilt portion of Ash Avenue, with the addresses 42-29 and 42-31 149th Street. The project needed to face a vote from CB 7 because it was being built on an unmapped street.

The vote to approve the project might have been relatively routine, but board members quickly expressed suspicion that the houses were intended to be used as a boarding house rather than kept as two-family units as the application stated.

In all, each two-family house would have nine bedrooms, with two on the first floor, four on the second floor, and three on the third floor. There would also be a boiler and bathroom on each floor.

For many, that was another sign that the owner had intentions to further subdivide the property. They also noted that the number of rooms was large in proportion to the size of the lots, which are 25 feet.

The final vote regarding the construction of the dwellings was 35 to zero, one abstention because of conflict of interest and zero to allow.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

More "Crap" on the way !

Anonymous said...

They are going to do it anyway regardless of what the community board says. They will find a way around the community board.

Anonymous said...

Very happy to hear this. All of the illegal living situations are ruining our neighborhood and quality of life. It's about time people get called out on their deceit. If it talks like a duck and it walks like a duck.....guess what? it's a duck.

There's a house that's getting away with it on 156th St and Northern, 14 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. The bedrooms that don't have bathrooms all have a "closet" with a window and fittings in the wall for guess what? a bathroom. They even have a check in desk drawn in the plans, and the DOB has given them the go ahead. Just because it's legal to have that many rooms doesn't make it right. The owner of that house always brings a crew of young women with him whenever they need to shovel snow or clean up. He must have only daughters and they are all the same age, It is highly suspicious and obvious but no one except Tony Avella had ever had the guts to say No to situations like that.

I hope CB7 keeps it up, we are in a very dire situation because the brothel owners and the crooked developers and realtors are more aggressive than ever. They are gobbling all the property in Flushing, stuffing in people like sausages, causing very dangerous living situations and putting up brothels every where.

Anonymous said...

The brothels and gambling and shitting on the street are a "cultural" thing.

Anonymous said...

Was at a civic meeting Thursday night in Northeast Queens. A representative from the Buildings Department was there. Not only did he make mention of this Blog he kind of told the people in attendance that they were all F**ked. Unless it's a life safety issue, the only tool the NYC Buildings Department uses is issuing violations with a fine. If you are a commercial property owner and don't plan on selling your building the fines will never have to be paid and the the violations WILL NEVER HAVE TO BE CORRECTED.
Great system, when are our elected officials going to change the laws so that the law abiding property owners in Queens are protected from the people who know this system is a joke.

Anonymous said...

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/BScanJobDocumentServlet?requestid=9&passjobnumber=421088389&passdocnumber=01&allbin=4121396&scancode=SC130430018

Partly in the bed of Ash Avenue -- 15 feet.

Does anyone see a lot subdivision document for 42-29 or 42-31 ???

Flushing Phantom said...

Apellian will approve the plans as soon as the builder increases his pay off. Follow the buck Chuck is just negotiating for a better skim.
C'mon, Preet Bhaharra, scope CB7. You will net a load of crooked fish there.

Anonymous said...

The FBI should be suspicious of CB 7.
Subpoenas Apelian's financial data.

Anonymous said...

CB7?
Hahaha very funny!

Anonymous said...

Subpoena DM Marlyn Bitterman. She knows where all the bodies are buried, dumb as she is.

Anonymous said...

Attorney Michael Michnias came to speak regarding the construction of two three-story, two-family dwelling on a mapped but unbuilt portion of Ash Avenue, with the addresses 42-29 and 42-31 149th Street. The project needed to face a vote from CB 7 because it was being built on an unmapped street.

Is it "mapped" or "unmapped"?

Anonymous said...

My CB, 502, is working on a request to revise BSA... which was created to provide relief from charges of "illegal taking" when zoning rules went into effect. Now developers can buy parcels for development, knowing full well they can't be developed, and then seek relief. Hey, they "took" themselves! Has nothing to do tiwth zoning.

Anonymous said...

What is "zero to allow"?