What once was a private park and playground at the corner of 109th Avenue and 171st Street in Jamaica has long been an overgrown eyesore for nearby residents.
Now it has been designated as a rat-infested danger by the city, which has laid poison in traps around the property and down holes on the lot itself.
“People in the apartment building across the street tell me they don’t want to go outside at night. That’s when they come out,” said Pam Hazel, a neighborhood activist, in one of two telephone interviews with the Chronicle in the last week.
The first treatment was put down on July 7, according to both Hazel and signs posted on the chain link fence around the property by the Department of Mental Heath and Hygiene.
During a visit by the Chronicle in 2013 the property, while already fenced off, had remnants of playground equipment and dilapidated but still recognizable park benches.
A visit last Friday showed the trees to have been cleared out, but that grass, brush and smaller trees have taken over all but the concrete-and-paving stone paths inside.
A handful of residents last Saturday staged a rally outside the property in an effort to draw the attention of the owners and elected officials from the area.
Why did a developer get control of this instead of the Parks Department?
16 comments:
Rat problem? What do you expect in third world infested Jamaica?
what do you expect when the biggest rat of all is at city hall
Chicago might be the rat capital but NYC is close behind. You'd think the DEP or Department of Sanitation would be ontop of problems like this but it's only until the media starts reporting on it that they intervene.
Political rats?
Gee, who do you think put that piece of rat-infested land under the control of a developer instead of the Parks Department? It stinks from the biggest piece of rodent vermin of all: Comrade Bill DeBlASSio.
Jamaica hasn't changed it's ugly face in over 40 years. $Millions in investments all wasted. There's a bad element there but nobody will say it.
On the bright side, the speed which these properties become overgrown is a nice reminder that if our species vanishes, Mother Nature can heal from our damage with astounding speed.
The mangy sewer rats that 'abound' are the ones who work for Greg Meeks (and Meeks himself!), Leroy Comrie, Floyd Flake——and, the rest of the 300% false, fake and monstrously failed leadership (that has never led by any pretense of example), all of whom are the same ones who ignored their OWN people of color, and all that the Reverand Flake accomplished is increasing church membership ranks (a/k/a 'The Faith Business'), as those kleptocratic, piously fraudulent churches just kept taking more and more of the poor people's money in that diabolic tithing tray that served to enrich the greedy, empire-racket henchmen at the expense of its duped, bilked, robbed, scammed and damned congregation.
"No man will ever be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." ——Denis Diderot, French philosopher
The chains of habit are too light to be felt——until they are too heavy to be broken.
And next door to my old house. Glad I moved out!
Request Type
Rat or Mouse Condition
Request Status
Closed
Address
65-33 Jay Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378
Response Details
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found violations on the property you reported. Follow-up inspections will be scheduled.
Request #
1-1-1576859431
Reported
06-16-18 05:05 AM
Last Update
07-05-18 12:00 AM
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Rats & mice running around garbage
I've seen dead rats on Whitestone sidewalks in the past week
The mangy sewer rats that 'abound' are the ones who work for Greg Meeks (and Meeks himself!), Leroy Comrie, Floyd Flake——and, the rest of the 300% false, fake and monstrously failed leadership (that has never led by any pretense of example), all of whom are the same ones who ignored their OWN people of color, and all that the Reverand Flake accomplished is increasing church membership ranks (a/k/a 'The Faith Business'), as those kleptocratic, piously fraudulent churches just kept taking more and more of the poor people's money in that diabolic tithing tray that served to enrich the greedy, empire-racket henchmen at the expense of its duped, bilked, robbed, scammed and damned congregation.
"No man will ever be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." ——Denis Diderot, French philosopher
The chains of habit are too light to be felt——until they are too heavy to be broken.
I first saw this overseas in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp27Tx32SHU
Rats in Jamaica? I thought you were talking about the elected officials, and not just the ones in jail...
Rats all over the place in Astoria, there’s a bad infestation around The Vitality and Health store... gross
Afraid to come out at night? Good then stay indoors. No one needs you sitting on their steps dealing drugs, smoking crack and causing mayhem.
Leave it alone.
The rats are smarter, cleaner then most Jamaica residents and will keep the homeless out. If you f_ck around and bring the city's attention a homeless lunatic asylum will land on it.
--Your much better off with the rats occupying the property.
Hows that story go with the the mouse elephant, cats, lions and tigers?
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