South Corona can’t take it anymore.
That was the message on Monday when Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights), state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) and Community Board 4 District Manager Christian Cassagnol gathered outside PS 16 to call on the City Planning Commission to look into downzoning the overtaxed neighborhood.
“Corona is growing. Old one- and two- family homes are being replaced by multifamily dwellings and buildings,” Peralta said. “Simply put, development is going too fast right here in South Corona and that is making things very difficult for residents seeking better services and students seeking a quality education.”
According to the lawmakers, the area’s infrastructure network simply cannot keep up with the seemingly never ending construction of multifamily developments.
Fire and police units are already stretched thin and parking is incredibly scarce, they said, but it is the sheer lack of school space that is hurting the community the most.
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Bloomberg started the overbuilding......you can't put 5 quarts in a gallon container.
Lip service just before an election where the people are outraged.
You know they are lying, their lips are moving...
Ruining neighborhoods by replacing homes into multi room homes is crazy. Already overcrowded schools, overcrowded streets where one has to park far from their homes. Some apartments go for 2,450 with multiple people living in the place just to afford the rent.
We are not talking families here! Where I live a three room apartment has four men living in one unit. Four cars on a already crowded street. Of course the landlord has two cars but at least uses garage and driveway.
Why can they just rebuild the old homes? Why is everything these huge cement nightmares? In this area you will never see affordable housing with buildings going for 1.2 million with railroad rooms and no backyards because it is all concrete.
Look on 61 street in Maspeth...turning those homes to multi homes with a doctor's office there? Really a doctor's office? They do not even plow here in the winter and with NO viable subway and walking distance to the q18 or q67 really a doctor's office? The block loaded with access A rides. Not a practical idea.
How about the city buy those houses and help out homeless families with children. They are cute little houses and need a nice family in there. As long as they can deal with the transportation issues we have here they will enjoy it. Not no brick monster with a doctor's office. Here is where the city should focus on affordable housing.
This crap started in corona in the early 2000s and has not stopped. COMPLAINTS go No where! Elected officials cant wont stop it.
What was once a 2 family home on a 50x100 lot, with parking for 3 cars has been turned into a 24 family apartment building monstracity.
These new apartments are small with 10x10 bedrooms and a terrace. 1 br starting at $1750, and 2 brs going for $2200.
And over crowded publics schools over capacity with 4 out of 10 in the rating system.
I moved the hell out in 07' and never looked back. Crime, low income, mostly immagrints, stuck in the vicious cycle that is corona.
When these buildings take up the entire block, right up against the lirr tracks, you know its very bad!
Look in Woodside by St Mary's buying up all those old homes and knocking them down to build these huge apartments. Why do we need so many of these apartments? With the homeless rate rising would it be better to build affordable housing and get these people out of hotels?
Deportations would do a lot to free up some space
someone in power gets it?
hell no! they are just doing a little moving around of chairs thinking that you will tire and go home now the holidays are upon us and by next may a new bogus civic will be started in your community meeting at the local queens library which will be issuing statements covered lovingly by the queens press.
the only way to really really change things is to replace the people responsible.
Just figuring how rampant over-development & changing zoning for high density DESTROYS communities. This could hand been handled right decades again. But greed and corruption prevailed. Over crowded schools, dangerously crowded subways, mind-numbing traffic issues and a host of so many other problems when a city bursts at the same. Worse to come.
I love how people complain about overbuilding and high rents in the same post. If we didn't have the large houses being built to try and meet demand, rents would be even higher.
Anonymous said...
"I love how people complain about overbuilding and high rents in the same post. If we didn't have the large houses being built to try and meet demand, rents would be even higher"
Wow!
It is amazing that there is another poster here that has studied economics 101.
If only some others could enlighten themselves through the power of education...
Economics 101? Williamsburg, Bushwick, LIC and Greenpoint have been overdeveloped to kingdom come and they are MUCH less affordable now than they were before. Forced gentrification does not create affordable housing. Perhaps you failed all your economics classes?
Not to mention that the communities that were downzoned are still some of the more affordable ones. If a developer can't target an area for towers, he'll move on.
Astoria is overdeveloped and yet incredibly expensive. They could build 100 towers and never be able to meet the demand. So it will continue to be expensive while quality of life declines. At some point we need to face the fact that just because we can build in an area doesn't mean that we should.
Absolutely, Queens Crapper!
Social engineering by NYC to drive out poorer folk and replace them with n"better" classes has been going on since the early 1980s.
"Affordable housing" is a big lie!
Supply and demand - that is one of the foundations of economics.
Regardless of the supply, if there is greater demand the price will be higher.
Oh By The Way, I was Valedictorian of my graduating class at the online college from which I graduated...
I was driven over the bridge a couple of weeks ago and could not BELIEVE the number of new high rises going up. Astonishing. And those will be pricey apartments. If they have a few "affordable" units that go to a few lucky lottery winners, that will do nothing to alleviate the pressure and only add more people. We have to many people!!!! An unlimited supply basically.
Valedictorian of University of Phoenix I am guessing. Online diploma mills. I'd keep that to myself. What a maroon!
>Williamsburg, Bushwick, LIC and Greenpoint have been overdeveloped to kingdom come and they are MUCH less affordable now than they were before.
The demand came first, not the supply. Those places got redeveloped after they started gentrifying, and boho artists were being replaced by trustfund hipsters.
Everyone remember Kathy Black and her infamous statement about birth control? Not politically correct, but she was correct
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