Goodbye, yellow brick road...er, Yellowstone Key Food
From
Forest Hills Post:
A large real estate development company filed demolition permits last week to bulldoze Key Food, located on the corner of Queens Boulevard and Yellowstone Blvd.
The owner listed as David Schwartz of Slate Property Group plans to demolish the one-story building, which has multiple addresses such as 105-02 Queens Boulevard, 105-25 Gerard Place and 69-65 Yellowstone Boulevard.
Schwartz filed his demolition permit on June 23. The filing did not list what might replace the building.
Schwartz had no immediate comment.
However, hours later, the Real Deal reported that Schwartz had notified the publication that he planned to build an 11-story, 170-unit rental building.
18 comments:
No place for the people of Forest Hills to shop for groceries -- and trucks delivering groceries will increase traffic problems IF they can even get through the terrible FH traffic to deliver ...
There will be no more one story buildings left soon with all this over-development. Sunshine will disappear with all the tall buildings blocking the sun light. The streets are over crowded along with the sidewalks and the transportation system is ready to pop.
Queens has terrible urban planing and we all are paying the price with diminished quality of life.
To tell you the truth, it's really not such bad news, and believe me I am a totally crappy fan like the rest of you. I live in FH and can tell you that Key Food is a dump with a really bad reputation. If they are going to at least keep the ground floor as a nice, new, supermarket with apartments above that's great; if they just put apartments with no store, then it's a big loss.
Who grocery shops at a store? That's so 2015.
Use Amazon Fresh. Order in the morning, have your groceries in the evening.
When will the powers that be realize that the outer boroughs don't need more people. Where us the additional transit to support these extra people? Where is the office building for people to work in so that everyone and their mother isn't squeezing onto the train to get to Manhattan?
yes. let's put another residence near the forest hills subway stop as if the subway there is not overcrowded enough.
The block-wide building has been mostly vacant for years and the Key Food is no great shakes, but it's still the only reliable grocery in the vicinity, certainly on the south side of the Boulevard of Death. Insufficient housing is hardly the biggest issue in the area, not with Rego Park endlessly sprouting whatever the apartment building version of McMansions is...
That's a great location for a new apartment building. There's so many available parking spaces and Russell Sage JR HS across the street is about to close for lack of students. Plus they just opened a few more hospitals in the area. Win - win for everyone!
Looks like Pea Pod and other online grocery companies are set to make quite a bundle. Is this collusion or will the new building have space for a large supermarket? Maybe Mr. Schwartz will give this information to the local papers.
They couldn't kick out Restaurant Row, so they realized a single business owner would be easier to expel?
Remember when the news media chased VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro around this store in 1984.
Use Amazon Fresh. Order in the morning, have your groceries in the evening.
Yeah right. Some of us maybe want to see what we are buying.
They couldn't kick out Restaurant Row, so they realized a single business owner would be easier to expel?
Exactly. These developers never give up.
Judging by the parking lot at Trader Joe's on Metro. everyone in F.H. already shop there.
"No place for the people of Forest Hills to shop for groceries"
Oh bullshit! Theres a Keyfood on the other side of Queens Boulevard Jus a couple of block away....
Judging by the parking lot at Trader Joe's on Metro. everyone in F.H. already shop there.
Including the folks that don't have cars.
You see where common core education got you?
Oh bullshit! Theres a Keyfood on the other side of Queens Boulevard Jus a couple of block away....
Couple of blocks you mean.
So how does one carry the heavy bags from a couple of blocks away, especially the elderly and the disabled?
You shameless real estate shills have an answer for everything, but no logic at all.
>So how does one carry the heavy bags from a couple of blocks away, especially the elderly and the disabled?
The same way grandma did it, the same way everyone else does it. Grocery carts.
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>Remember when the news media chased VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro around this store in 1984.
Anywhere us young 'uns could view that video?
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