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- Hunters Point library besieged with delays
- LIRR platforms to be widened
- Whitestone sidewalk & car damage resolved
- Cooper Avenue shelter, take 2
- Liu not very adept at fundraising
- Silver gets 7 years
- "The People's Beach" has gone to the hipsters
- Now we're getting e-bikes
- Dutch Kills wants firehouse reopened now that it's...
- Rego Park tower to be pretty tall
- Another too tall tower for LIC
- 311 call turns into 2-year saga
- Is this the way to stop rampant K2 use?
- Rats abound at Jamaica site
- March 2021 is new end date for Van Wyck project
- Charter changes up for discussion
- Flagship Diner forced to close to make way for apa...
- Posting a property on AirBnB will have consequences
- Bars almost always get away with being loud
- Liz Crowley considers losing boroughwide
- Pedestrian plazas are homeless havens
- Cathy Nolan calls for moratorium on building throu...
- No one ran a background check?
- Bowne Park is a disaster
- Real estate money flows into Cuomo's political pocket
- Dockless bike program hasn't gone as planned
- Jury still didn't buy the excuses of Skelos and son
- Community beats back overdevelopment project
- Freight rail to be expanded
- We should do this here!
- Crappifying Ridgewood by hook or by crook
- Hope for the Lefferts Ave bridge
- Illegal demo leads to garage collapse
- Homeless people are causing mayhem
- Damaged sidewalks remain after 4 months
- 670 "affordable" apartments to be constructed in F...
- A glimpse of Queens in the 1960s
- Kew Gardens house dating back to 1899 is teardown-...
- Barriers proposed for NY Harbor
- Queens now outpacing Manhattan in building permits
- Slick Silverstein
- Another community fed up with illegally parked trucks
- Tweeding routine backfired big time
- King of the hill, top of the heap!
- Dopey DOT program is hurting small businesses
- Developers love flood zones
- Jetsetting Bill!
- Yet another turd that won't stay flushed
- They're always cited after it's too late
- Composting program not progressing as planned
- Truck parking legislation sounds nice, but there's...
- Close call in Bay Ridge
- The new Astoria stations are spiffy
- 54 years later, city seeks contractor to fix "temp...
- Overdevelopment leads to shitty beaches
- "With liberty and freedom to build crap"
- It's all so convenient
- 28,000 kids poisoned by lead - and no one seems to...
- Disgraceful field conditions at FMCP
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16 comments:
What the fuck MTA.
Maybe we should commission these shitty artists to do some art on the tracks and signal system in order to speed up true infrastructure needs for commuters.
Sure waste money in making the surface nice and shiny, while underneath the damn subway system itself is falling apart every day due to a shitty infrastructure that has been ignored for decades. I would take a crappy looking subway any day if the damn subway ran on time 24/7 without incident.
As usual waste of money of shit that does not matter, while what matters keeps turning to shit.
Polish a turd, it's still a turd.
I find it ironic that on a blog site devoted in part to NOT building stuff that looks like crap, readers prefer the crap. I guess there's more support for Fedders houses than I thought. Nice looking doesn't have to cost more.
General consensus is that the shiny decor will be marred in a few months - and the platforms will be all but impossible to walk in the winter with no protection from the wind and snow.
Come on people, it is an improvement for the eyes ! Little by little things get better.
OKAY, HOW ABOUT DOING THAT FOR ALL THE STATIONS ON THE 7 LINE !!
I always liked the 1917 decor.
But the service is still terrible.
Keep your temporarily shiny station and WiFi. Just make the trains run on time!
Bright and shiny subway for the millennials. They will love it and keep voting for the "progressives" while the trains run like shit.
I saw the new stations at 30 Ave. and 36 Ave. for the first time today. It was my first time in a few years taking that Queens stretch of the N/W train line and I was rather astounded. Astoria really has become the other yuppyville to some extent (though not as extreme as LIC). I'm seeing people and stores that I never would've seen in the area ~10-15 years ago. Heck, there was lady (in her 30's probably) on the train asking me if Astoria was a good area to live and she mentioned that Manhattan was expensive. These people are pretty much folks who would rather live in Manhattan but have either outgrown their post-college lifestyles or don't want to pay as much in rent. Lol.
One other thing to note is that the MTA recently redid one half of the 121 St. station for the J line, which is also above ground. It looks nothing like the new ones on the Astoria N/W line. These vanity projects were clearly done with an eye to the newer people moving into the area. But that shouldn't be too surprising considering that transients, tourists, and the wealthy get the most attention from the government in this city.
Anonymous said...
Come on people, it is an improvement for the eyes ! Little by little things get better.
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WRONG. It is not an improvement, but a vanity project to take away from the main problem of the fucking subway, IT DOES NOT RUN PROPERLY. You don't spend money washing a car, giving it a great paint job and brand new shiny bumpers when it does not run.
Another idiotic comment from the clueless gullible masses
Astoria really has become the other yuppyville to some extent (though not as extreme as LIC). I'm seeing people and stores that I never would've seen in the area ~10-15 years ago.
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Yes, and they don't give to sh*ts to Astoria - its just a place to sleep, play trivia, hang out in gin mills showing off their new tats, and a burning desire to get back to the real world as soon as $ permit.
The locals still wax poetic about hanging out in school yards in the 80s, how the newies are a pain in the butt, and a 'cultural scene' pretty much composed of saying how great Vollonia is and taking picture after pictures of the Triboro Bridge.
To paraphase Woody Allen, there is more living culture in a vat of yogurt. All this talk of revitalization is merely a real estate shill to fill apartments shoddily built, with surly sketchy Greek landlords and overlook noisy Queens Plaza or the Ditmars Line.
I would rather have industrial strength that lasts a century over contemporary design meant to fall apart. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Another case of using budget money on crap so that you can request more every year.
This was done mostly for the yuppies who can’t afford Manhattan anymore.
I remember, as a kid, nothing getting done in Queens because our neighborhood was still working class. It seems the majority of projects today have negative consequences anyway.
Then POOF....the yuppies steamroll in and the people living there for decades are either forced out by increasing costs of living or have to pay more through the nose.
ooh yes ! the freekin station "mezzanines" where people spend under 3 minutes MUST BE recreated as friendly ,inviting safe spaces for the yuppies and hipsters.
Let's see the mediyuuh return in six months and show us what happened to this waste of money.
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