Is Center Blvd a danger zone?
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PIX11:
Parents in Long Island City, Queens called for increased pedestrian safety measures along Center Boulevard Friday afternoon.
"We've had many high rises go up in the past couple of years and a lot more families moving in. And we need our city to help us keep our community safe," Heidi Braunstein told PIX11.
Families were joined by City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer in a press conference. He explained why extra measures are need along Center Boulevard.
"There are three schools. There is a massive park on the waterfront that everyone wants to go to," he said.
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Nice planning Jimmy - show up after the fact and claim 'concern' to grab a headline.
Such deft city planning at LIC. Zone the area for like 20 500 ft towers and don't prepare for the extra pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
And isn't it not so strange that that park slope intersection and avenue did not get any bike lanes or extra pedestrian space to walk on like on Queens Blvd, a redesign absolutely nobody wanted (including this bike rider) yet the mayor's neighbors have been complaining about that virtual speedway in park slope for years?
Yet another exhibition of hypocrisy and elitism by the day co-mayor. And another case of someone having to get killed for the city to take action.
Again, put shit in place without any fucking kind of thinking. I mean this city LOVES to waste so much money on studies, you mean they did not do one. BUT then you don't need to do studies to know that if you cram many high-rises, many people, many vehicles in small space, what do you expect.
And where was this asshole council member in the pre-planning stages.
Unfortunately this city does not care and so do many of it's sheeple. I mean come on folks, you all moved to this fucking over-crowded, over-developed shit hole, what you thought there was going to be no issues.
This shit hole city never ceases to amaze me with its ignorance, stupidity and greed. Ever notice on the site YIMBY, the huge amount of one family homes that are being torn down for crappy too tall apartment buildings for the areas. Eventually there will be no one family houses anymore with yards, trees, bushes, etc. Just shitty either overpriced ugly glass towers or shitty cheap third world apartment buildings where you can hear your neighbor fart.
I think that whole LIC area stinks. While it does offer unrivaled Manhattan views, all the rental buildings there give the neighborhood a very transient feel. Many blocks still have that somewhat gritty industrial look as well. I just don't think it's worth the hype. I would bet that all of these families mentioned in the story will be out of LIC in a few years and headed to LI or Westchester. With the exorbitant prices and lack of space, LIC is not a practical place to raise a family (unless you limit to one child). The next bunch of yuppy suckers will move in then!
think that whole LIC area stinks. While it does offer unrivaled Manhattan views, all the rental buildings there give the neighborhood a very transient feel. Many blocks still have that somewhat gritty industrial look as well. I just don't think it's worth the hype. I would bet that all of these families mentioned in the story will be out of LIC in a few years and headed to LI or Westchester. With the exorbitant prices and lack of space, LIC is not a practical place to raise a family (unless you limit to one child). The next bunch of yuppy suckers will move in then!
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We could be so lucky. A number of things could happen to LIC and when you add up the probability for each scenario its almost certain one of them will happen:
1. Coastal flooding will not only bathe junior's nursery in toxic harbor water, but will uncap the thinly covered industrial sludge of a century and a half of caustic metals, hydrocarbons, dead horses and cows landfill: all good healthy stuff for junior with his rapidly growing body full of cells that are dividing in overdrive, to be exposed to!
2. When all that hot foreign money suddenly dries up (as economic cycles always have ups and downs) the mortgage holders will be desperate to keep a cash flow to cover payments. If its three young lawyers budding careers, or three young 3rd world families budding babies per apartment, they will not care. I'd give a silver dollar to see the look in Buffy and Bif's faces when that new 'smart set' invades the pool and lounge areas.
3. Like dying Roosevelt Island, hoards of Chinese students or Asian tech drones take over the nabe bringing the funky new vibe of 16 hours of work-8 hours of sleep and eating noodles at home / 16 hours of work-8 hours of sleep and eating noodles at home / 16 hours of work-8 hours of sleep and eating noodles at home / well you get the picture / you sell the club or it becomes a karaoki bar for Asian men. Fun.
4. They can never fill the entire community with 50 story buildings. Unless they depopulate Brooklyn or something, you will always have a ragged urban fabric of the dead past that will never be completely erased mixed with the poorly built new, which will start to show its age in about a decade. Try sustaining that to the 'smart set' that is legendary for their fickleness.
No, what you have is tomorrow's barracks for the tech drones of Manhattan's cyber-complex and waitstaff of Manhattans' elite. A police state may be able to keep the wild dogs away, but the buildings inside will become the towers of terror that dot South America and South Africa and the suburbs of Paris.
Non (or poor) infrastructure caused by poor or stupid choices by people in power (chosen for their loyalty to the Democratic Party rather than competence or imagination) will be the least of your worries. It will be cool to see the blissfully indolent hip-shits get this dumped into their laps, and because they never were challenged to think useful things, will be totally unequal to the shit-sandwich we left them.
"There are three schools. There is a massive park on the waterfront that everyone wants to go to," he said."
What he didn't say is He's considering a run for Queens Borough President in 2021...
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