Glad to see the big turn out. People of the community care what happens here. We have to fight for it too. Many of us have been here a long time. Generations. Many of us know how Maspeth was....look on the Plateau I came here from Woodside in 1974...we had a good little supermarket, Oneills was just a small pub with stores all around it. Remember John's Deli? The meat market up from it? Many of us did not need to go up to the Avenue but when you did there was A&P, Ben Franklin, Griff's Hardware and my favorite Leberfelds. You could see the seasons just in their store window. Spring was my favorite especially with the communion dresses in the window. Well Maspeth may have lost some stores but not its charm. I just do not want to see Grand Avenue become a panhandling place. We must fight this and must tell this mayor and this Banks guy you have to do better than warehousing the homeless in hotels. You ask us to be sympathetic to their cause and I am but really Mayor deBlasio and this Banks guy are you? Put yourself in their place would you want to be shuffled around hotel to hotel by an intimidated mayor and his people? Keep up the fight Maspeth do not be intimidated by these clowns!
Keep fighting Maspeth nice job. Homeowners its fall be sure to keep your sidewalks clean and any leaves, trash, keep cracks filled and level. The mayor has another and worse $3200 ticket blitz about to launch on you quote "Racist Mothe%$rs".
The traffic police already out again giving tickets up here on the Plateau. We are waiting for the sanitation police to come around. They are next. We also can not wait for the first accumulative snowfall...we will be forgotten once again.
When the people in Forest Hills protested the low income housing that the city wanted to build in the 60's off the LIE and the Grand Central there were big protests and the LIE was even blocked by protesters.At the time Forest Hills was mostly white and most of the low income people were black. White people saw many of the neighborhoods they grew up in and lived turned into ghettos with high crime and declining property values, this was the beginning of white flight. I was a student at PS 73 in Maspeth in the early 60's when the city, the mayor at the time was Wagner,started bussing kids in from Corona to integrate the schools. At the time Maspeth was all white except for a few black kids in the whole school.There were many protests outside the school and some of the students were prepared to fight the incoming students but I don't remember if there were any race fights. Today IS 73 is mostly all Asian and Hispanic as well as PS58 and Maspeth HS all within 3 blocks. The busses which are city busses and school busses line up around the block each day. They double park and sometimes triple park and when they pickup and drop off students traffic has to stop on Grand Ave, a major thoroughfare. The city can't seem to build schools fast enough and still the schools are overcrowded and still the city encourages more development as our infrastructure is collapsing .How can we ever get a handle on the homelessness problem if they allow someone to come here from any where in the world and give them sanctuary. NYC has the highest city population and the highest taxes and this is why most smart people when they retire sell their house and buy something for half the price and half the taxes down South and have a better quality of life.
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Glad to see the big turn out. People of the community care what happens here. We have to fight for it too.
Many of us have been here a long time. Generations.
Many of us know how Maspeth was....look on the Plateau I came here from Woodside in 1974...we had a good little supermarket, Oneills was just a small pub with stores all around it.
Remember John's Deli? The meat market up from it? Many of us did not need to go up to the Avenue but when you did there was A&P, Ben Franklin, Griff's Hardware and my favorite Leberfelds. You could see the seasons just in their store window. Spring was my favorite especially with the communion dresses in the window.
Well Maspeth may have lost some stores but not its charm. I just do not want to see Grand Avenue become a panhandling place.
We must fight this and must tell this mayor and this Banks guy you have to do better than warehousing the homeless in hotels. You ask us to be sympathetic to their cause and I am but really Mayor deBlasio and this Banks guy are you? Put yourself in their place would you want to be shuffled around hotel to hotel by an intimidated mayor and his people?
Keep up the fight Maspeth do not be intimidated by these clowns!
Unfortunately the city has UNENDING resources to do what they want, from your tax moneys...
Keep fighting Maspeth nice job. Homeowners its fall be sure to keep your sidewalks clean and any leaves, trash, keep cracks filled and level. The mayor has another and worse $3200 ticket blitz about to launch on you quote "Racist Mothe%$rs".
The traffic police already out again giving tickets up here on the Plateau. We are waiting for the sanitation police to come around. They are next.
We also can not wait for the first accumulative snowfall...we will be forgotten once again.
When the people in Forest Hills protested the low income housing that the city wanted to build in the 60's off the LIE and the Grand Central there were big protests and the LIE was even blocked by protesters.At the time Forest Hills was mostly white and most of the low income people were black.
White people saw many of the neighborhoods they grew up in and lived turned into ghettos with high crime and declining property values, this was the beginning of white flight.
I was a student at PS 73 in Maspeth in the early 60's when the city, the mayor at the time was Wagner,started bussing kids in from Corona to integrate the schools. At the time Maspeth was all white except for a few black kids in the whole school.There were many protests outside the school and some of the students were prepared to fight the incoming students but I don't remember if there were any race fights.
Today IS 73 is mostly all Asian and Hispanic as well as PS58 and Maspeth HS all within 3 blocks. The busses which are city busses and school busses line up around the block each day. They double park and sometimes triple park and when they pickup and drop off students traffic has to stop on Grand Ave, a major thoroughfare.
The city can't seem to build schools fast enough and still the schools are overcrowded and still the city encourages more development as our infrastructure is collapsing .How can we ever get a handle on the homelessness problem if they allow someone to come here from any where in the world and give them sanctuary.
NYC has the highest city population and the highest taxes and this is why most smart people when they retire sell their house and buy something for half the price and half the taxes down South and have a better quality of life.
Great! Hire somebody to kidnap Duh Blaz and sell him into slavery somewhere.
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