Friday, June 16, 2017

Spike strips cause controversy in Kew Gardens


From CBS 2:

As CBS2’s Jessica Layton reported, residents want to know why spike strips have been installed leading up to their front door.

The six-story building in a pleasant Kew Gardens neighborhood seemed like the perfect place for Katerina Masheeva to raise her kids. But now, the strips of spikes have raised serious concerns for her family and others in the building.

“It’s sharp, yes; it’s dangerous, yes,” Masheeva said.

There is now a double line of spike strips, each several feet long, just installed on both concrete ledges leading up to the apartments on 118th Street.

“I’ve seen a lot of, you know, hostile architecture over the last 20 years or so that it pops up more and more frequently, and this is just the most vile type that I’ve seen,” said Dan Irving.

“The woman that was just passing by said it looks very prison-like,” said Jessica Gomez.


(Check out the thug that slapped the camera.)

28 comments:

Countervail said...

Cause I doubt this was done for no reason, I would guess they're trying to discourage crappy tenants that loiter in that area making it uncomfortable for others.

JQ LLC said...

This was done to discourage working poor people and rent-stabilized people from living there. This story confirms this with that poor woman's statement at the end.

Those medieval spikes are not only dangerous, they were terribly installed, you can see it's not even nailed down.

There is a lot of shady shit going on in Kew Gardens, this comes right after that recent story about that slaughtered park area that was ruined for new green space

That piece of shit subhuman reacted that way because he knows it's acceptable and normal to threaten and even physically attack journalists. And thanks to this pussy mayor, it's acceptable and normal to do the same to tenants that don't spend enough money.



(sarc) said...

These are for "Your Safety"...

kapimap said...

These spikes came from that friggin super in the video. What is he so grumpy about?

I could see tenants hanging infront of the building,using the ledges slas seating, only to piss off the elderly, and the grumpy super. He probably lives right next to the ledge.

Joe Moretti said...

They need these up in every ghetto neighborhood building to keep loitering loud folks from fucking up quality of life issues.

And speaking of ghetto, who was that low-class ghetto fuck super who slapped the camera. They just asked a simple question. What a scum.

Gary W said...

Is it private property? If so move along nothing to see. Guy is an asshole tho.

Anonymous said...

Gary W - wrong answer.

No heat in winter *private property move along nothing to see*
No hot water *private property move along nothing to see*.
Bad wiring *private property move along nothing to see*

It's that type of logical that caused caused a whole lot of people to die in London this week. Private property isn't so private when you're renting it out for profit and creating dangerous conditions for people locked into leases who can't easily leave.

Super probably didn't even have the building owners permission for this. He sounds like a total asshole who should be fired.

Anonymous said...

The proper job is to install "Loafer rail"

Anonymous said...

What is he so grumpy about?

Everybody is sick and tired of lousy people, lousy kids hanging out smoking cigarettes, littering, hooting at women and blocking people way. It goes on all dam day and night, he got sick and tire of cleaning up the litter and cigarette butts every morning.
Why is the landlord always to blame, how the hell did all these slobs people get into this city so fast ? These dam people even let their kids wash feet, spit and pee in the fountains which became an airborne viral danger now guess what ? --The city is saying no more fountains unless you pay for round the clock security and water monitoring !

Anonymous said...

What kind of sadist puts spikes where kids sit, run, and play?

Anonymous said...

"low-class ghetto fuck super who slapped the camera"
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Russian super who is sick and tired of all the bullshit with these tenants.
And I cant blame him one bit !!

Its the liberal media who is the scum, always portraying immigrants as these sweet victims and angels.
Why did the news edit out all the slobs sitting on those walls hanging out, smoking cigarettes, slurping noodles and doing every dam thing else like it was a 3rd world playground olympics tournament.
Those newspeople deserve far more then getting a camera lens pushed away for editing the footage and leaving key video and facts out. Where is footage of the 2 other residents backing up the super confirming since the weather has warmed up the loitering drinking & smoking with these newer tenants (most single moms who don't give a shit what their many unsupervised feral kids are doing) has become unbearable.

Those newspeople got answers but they choose to leave them out of the story to make a select group look like victim's.

Gary W said...

No heat in winter? Move out
No hot water? Move out
Bad wiring? Move out

Sorry, sounds like you need the Gov't to hold your hand and tuck you in at night.

KG has bigger problems that should have media spotlight on it, besides some spike strips that are easily seen and avoided.

Cue the fountain guy!

Anonymous said...

Another example of the ghettoiztion of Queens.

Note the classy older building in the background as part of its past -and everything else, the reality of the borough today.

Now if a party insider lived there, you would have enough electeds to pass legislation there complaining.

Anonymous said...

These people complaining about the spike strips are probably the first ones complaining when there are people sitting there hanging out that the landlord or the police should do something because people are hanging out and they are disturbing them.

Anonymous said...

Soviet style tenant control.

Joe Moretti said...

Anon:

Russian super who is sick and tired of all the bullshit with these tenants.
And I cant blame him one bit !!

Its the liberal media who is the scum, always portraying immigrants as these sweet victims and angels.
Why did the news edit out all the slobs sitting on those walls hanging out, smoking cigarettes, slurping noodles and doing every dam thing else like it was a 3rd world playground olympics tournament.
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How do you know that the news edited out something, do you know that for a fact or are you just saying that. I am curious and believe me I am hardly a fan of low-class immigrants or ghetto slobs doing all the bullshit they do, but if that was the case why couldn't that super just say that instead of being a dick. AND really CBS2 is now the liberal media, give me a break, it is just your typical crappy local news station that barely actually reports on news.

JQ LLC said...

The segment pointed out at the end that there were no complaints or incidents involving loitering and those ugly spikes were put there without notice.

Anyone notice the hasidic mother and kids going into the building? And seeing the kids playfully going down the ramp?

There has been too much corruption in the past 3 years under De Faustio involving scumlords and their goons and flunkies like that syphillic pussy that attacked the reporter trying to force people out and bring in a new young sucker demographic to pay the fabricated market rates, that they will go to even more sadistic and demonic means to coax poorer people to move. This has become standard procedure and it's actually encouraged by p.r. adviser groups.

And there are so so many of them, it's a shock they actually got those lowlife Israel brothers and Steve Croman, the latter who only got busted because he tried to cheat the banks. Kushner was doing the same shit for years in the East Village and was lucky enough that his poppop-in-law became predisent.

Great London Tower inferno analogy earlier. Those people made complaints for years and got screwed over. The city is clearly liable for those deaths and the homelessness they caused. It's a foreboding of what's to come with Ben Carson making decisions via the Goldman Sachs cerberus hound of Mnuchin, Ross, and Cohn

Anonymous said...

Holy shit ! Hey that news crew was at the location for a good 4 hours constantly poking at the super and interviewing people afternoon till dark near 10PM. No joke, Look at the sky in the footage !! Over FOUR HOURS yet they only used the word of 2 people complaining who don't even work and 2 "mystery people" who don't even live in the building.
The people coming home form work who get up 6AM told those news people EXACTLY what the stinking problem was.

As one by one as tenants came home from work the news field producer didn't like what they were saying when asked. Sure enough all those people were ALL cut right out of the story. Those news scum only showed what they wanted to show. (troublemakers as victims and a villain super they antagonized all afternoon) -as in a story line they "created" and that's drama or fiction NOT NEWS, NOT THE FACTS !!

What the hell is going on with these TV and news people ?

Anonymous said...

Why are these news people always siding with the mayor about how great (and what innocent victims) every minority, freeloader and criminal parachuting into the city is.
BTW those spikes are sacrificial rubber and designed not to hurt people, only stop sitting and skateboarding. You can see in the photo how some cones are already broken.
The news left that out as well !!

Joe Moretti said...

Anon stated:

Holy shit ! Hey that news crew was at the location for a good 4 hours constantly poking at the super and interviewing people afternoon till dark near 10PM. No joke, Look at the sky in the footage !! Over FOUR HOURS yet they only used the word of 2 people complaining who don't even work and 2 "mystery people" who don't even live in the building.
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Get the fuck out of here with that shit, NO NEWS crew is staying for four fucking hours on stories like that. Please this shit takes a few minutes to shoot. No one is hanging around for four hours to shoot this.

Where do some of you get your bullshit from, Trump, because that would be something he would make up.

Anonymous said...

Calm down and study that video Angry Joe it starts in bright daylight, no doubt a relatively high sun elevation(look at the shadows) and ends with a clip at dark night time.
A few minutes to shoot ?
Absolutely no way, the proof is right in front of you !!
Who's bullshitting ?
Your behaving just like a Queens voter's (part of the problem) things can be right in front of your nose, eyes and pointed out to you (read the post) yet you STILL refuse to see it. It has nothing to do with Trump (and now I'm thinking he may be correct)

Those news-people clearly pulled another fast one !!
Question is WHY are they doing this, for rating's, to make nothings "sensational" to keep viewers hands off the remote control, to please immigrant viewers, WHY ?

Joe Moretti said...

Anon:

Calm down and study that video Angry Joe it starts in bright daylight, no doubt a relatively high sun elevation(look at the shadows) and ends with a clip at dark night time.
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It doesn't mean they were there for four damn hours. Ever hear of coming back to shoot later on, I doubt they were hanging there for four hours as you stated. That was the damn point and I watch the video and no one was being interviewed at night, even though the reporter filmed that last part in the evening. It does not prove they were there for four hours.

OH WOW, the magic of film making, a scene goes from daytime to night.

JQ LLC said...

That's some fake news analysis.

"no doubt a relatively high sun elevation(look at the shadows", really Galileo? the shadows?

Instead of hazardous and intimidating spike strips maybe the property owners (an LLC based in Connecticut by the way, so who knows who the owner(s) or partners are) and their servant goon should install a sundial in front of the ramp to buttress their/your defense.

Anonymous said...

I n my day they used the broken sheared bottom pieces of coke and motts apple juice bottles in the concrete. Done for the same reason.....

Anonymous said...

Its truly alarming how many up in New York truly believe what they get fed in print and on TV is honest and accurate.

Talk about sheeple hell !

Gino said...

>>trying to force people out and bring in a new young sucker demographic<<

Do you have any idea what hell it is to have Hasidic in your building?
They constantly call the police at the peep of any noise, and want evebody else to follow all these rules. They demand you shut elevators off, unscrew your light bulbs. Its just crazy !
Not near as bad as having one of these new family where you end up with 6 more kids (due to the refugee program) tearing your building up and the parents don't give a shit what they do then want to sue you when they get hurt or fight you if you say something to avert a problem. They booze and play Latin music all weekend sometimes packing 50 drinking people into one apartment on certain holidays
Yes landlords want them the fuck out, landlords are victims in New York because the law gives the shitty tenants the upper hand on EVERYTHING !!!

Anonymous said...

I come to this country and try to get everything free, all you have to do is complain, and perfect. Katerina

Anonymous said...

So, Gino, the two worst types of neighbors are the ones that follow the rules, and the ones that don't follow the rules?

I bet they love living next to each other.