The chockablock density that defines this part of Queens may have also have been its undoing. Doctors and community leaders say poverty, notoriously overcrowded homes and government inaction left residents especially vulnerable to the virus.
From Huffington Post:
You call your district the “epicenter of the epicenter.” What makes your district specifically so vulnerable to all this?
"Well, we have a lot of service workers that live here, undocumented folks that live here, immigrants who are here, and oftentimes, we see that those folks are of lower income, and in order to survive, they have to live in overcrowded, illegally converted homes, which only makes the spread of COVID worse. So there’s really no place for many people who live in my community to self-isolate because sometimes they live 20 to 25 people in a house. We’ve seen this on numerous occasions here in the district." - King Tweeder Council Member Danny Dromm
But remember, folks, if you want to downzone your neighborhood or prevent out of character development, you're racist and should move to the suburbs.
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Dromm can say the exact same thing fluently in Spanish without missing a beat.
@JQ LLC Stories on significant Local Issues is why I like to read Queens Crap !
I think its important that this information get out to the rest of the country.
Lets make this very clear. Let us focus the responsibility for this on the one organization that is responsible for the suffering of those people, and by extension, the suffering of our great city. Let make certain that the number one issue discussed this election season are the roots of all our misery: the Democratic Party.
That party of the common people, of the man on the street, of the downtrodden and discriminated has caused policies, in the face of local and Washington protests, that has subjected 10s of thousands of those very people to fear and misery, and to 1000s of our most vulnerable death.
They have a lot of explaining to do to the nation between now and November.
The neighborhood of Corona, Queens has the highest number of positive COVID-19 tests of any zip code in the country.
All the liberals who called me a racist for claiming Queens was turning into a third world nation can own their virus breeding cesspool. Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class but is now a diverse illegal immigrant sanctuary city of filth. You wanted progressives? Well,..you gets!!’
No wonder a Republican can't win in diverse areas of the city.
You’re a racist because you say things like this .
It can’t be a nice place the middle class? Why did you add “ white “ to that description ?
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Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class
The Democrats have lots of explaining to do.
Interesting in California they are talking about using public funds to support illegal non-citizens while in other areas citizens are being threatened with eviction, loss of utilities, and other actions because they lost their jobs and income from actions they had no hand in.
Its a tough issue people and we need to start discussions. We have plenty of time between now and November.
It's cute that you think your're middle class.
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Anonymous said...
Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class
Without any sense of irony you just said the neighborhood was once a nice place for white people.
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Anonymous
All the liberals who called me a racist ...
Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class
CNN Was Just CAUGHT Running Chinese Communist Propaganda, Quietly Edits The Article In Shame.
What's wrong with referring to the white middle class? If they said black middle class you wouldn't have batted an eyelash.
All the liberals who called me a racist for claiming Queens was turning into a third world nation can own their virus breeding cesspool. Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class but is now a diverse illegal immigrant sanctuary city of filth. You wanted progressives? Well,..you gets!!’
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Don’t worry. It’s being gentrified by wealthy whites, blacks, etc. Look at LIC and Astoria.
@Abe said..."You’re a racist" Why ? Explain that to me ?
Dosn't that poster have a right to say how he feels !
Without any sense of irony you just said the neighborhood was once a nice place for white people.
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Anonymous
All the liberals who called me a racist ...
Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class
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Don't know Jaun, I saw the Spanish speaking old man go through the garbage on my street the other night - with bare hands looking for beer cans. I wondered about the basement he is likely going home to with other people like himself. I pondered their future in a city gripped by plague.
I thought about this existence in the greatest city on Earth, unknown for decades, the stuff of ancient history when I was a child - how now it is the history of a young child who looks out his window. That is sad. That is so unnecessary - so evil by those who let it flourish - no indeed encourage it - under their benign eye. And fight every effort to banish it back to the history books where it so deserves to remain.
So let me amend your amendment to 'Queens used to be a nice place. Then came the Democrats.'
"CNN Was Just CAUGHT Running Chinese Communist Propaganda, Quietly Edits The Article In Shame."
Source that please...
OMG!!!! Using the word 'WHITE' middle class makes a person a racist!!
Every other ethnic group gets to denote their ethnic background without a scintilla of racial implication. BUUUUUUUT,.......a white person says a neighborhood used to be a nice neighborhood for the "WHITE MIDDLE CLASS" and immediately the cries of "Racist!" spew forth.
Whites are the new minorities here in Queens. Every public sector worker from the DMCV to the Post Office is predominantly minority now with small sliver of white representation. So whites are allowed to be discriminated against more so than any other group here in Queens. Liberalism is a disease.
wait...is there someone else going by "Harry" in here?
If so, let me know and I'll change my nom de plume to another
literary character favorite of mine, like Antoine Roquentin or Patrice Mersault.
Sincerely,
Harry Haller
As far as "white" middle class, that does have an iffy undertone to it.
There has been a thriving black middle class in South Queens (St. Albans, Addisleigh Park) which was home to such jazz greats as William "Count" Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, just to name a few. Don't forget Louis Armstrong's house in Corona is now a museum.
Anyway, let's not paint with too broad a brush.
HH
Stop the bullshit. These people have come here to work at jobs we simply can't get white America to take anymore.
It is the same in ALL food service and processing operations here in No. America. The contracting and manual trades are going Latino and Asian too. Look around -you'll see it every day.
Do any of you barstool potentates ever actually think beyond your own prejudices and resentments.
Most of those hiring these folks are republican small and medium business owners.
...And don't trot out that tired axiom about 'making the blacks and Puerto Ricans" do those jobs. Do you really "think" they'll work bent over in the sun picking fruit and vegetables or butchering meat for what these immigrants get paid?
Try that and watch how long it takes before the entire industry gets unionized and demands $80+k/yr and full benefits -if they'll take the jobs at all. With no immigrants, that is exactly what will happen. The food industry has this country by the balls. They just haven't squeezed -yet.
Look at your local diner, florist or small contractor. What do you see -a (nominally) white owner with darker-skinned Latinos and Africans as employees. Throw out the those immigrants and those businesses will either close or the same thing outlined above will happen.
If anything positive comes of this awful period we may finally refocus our priorities away from tax breaks for those who don't really need them and huge military budgets and into a health care system befitting our (supposedly) number one status.
Rob in a desolate Manhattan
Someday some Asian guy or girl will write,queens was a great middle class Asian place to grow.
The WHOLE city, Democrats and Republicans own this problem. You think it started when DeBlasio got into office? lol. This has been going on since the late 70s and even earlier in the late 60s when the Asian immigration laws changed. Rich people need poor people to work as maids, cleaners, grocers, and laborers. Stop blaming one party. This was going on in full force during Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
@Juan said...
"Without any sense of irony you just said the neighborhood was once a nice place for white people."
@Abe said...
You’re a racist because you say things like this
Both of Your posts simply show the lack tolerance of white people. Shows how intolerant the Left is when they rage. Every time a liberal uses the word "white" as an epithet, an angel gets a red MAGA hat.
illegal immigrants living illegally,did he just say that?
"Illegally converted homes"
Would love to see the stats of un-resolved 311 illegal housing conversions vs COVID-19/ZIP Codes stats.
Vallone should have a meeting in Bowne Park and tell us what his plan is for Public saftey.
He allowed all the over development on my block and did not stop the illegal conversions!
Queens used to be a nice place to live not now.
That is garbage when you say white people do not do certain jobs.
Any real American does not consider work beneath their status. Our grandparents and gg-grandparents built this nation and we can too.
You start at the bottom and work your way up. If the alternative is to starve its amazing what you can do. That thing that is beneath the dignity of an American to work hard is garbage and merely an excuse to import future Democrats.
@Anon 1 re: local stories
The crapper posted that story/juxtaposition not me. I can see the feckless, developer owned Danny Dromm was quoted and this is why it's here. Of course he doesn't mention the prevalent reason why this overcrowding has happened, the scarcity of actual affordable housing and the brazen segregation of de Blasio's NYC Housing program.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
wait...is there someone else going by "Harry" in here?
If so, let me know and I'll change my nom de plume to another
literary character favorite of mine, like Antoine Roquentin or Patrice Mersault.
Sincerely,
Harry Haller
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Sorry, did not know that name was already being used. You may have it back.
Jude Fawley
Rob in Manhattan said...
Stop the bullshit. These people have come here to work at jobs we simply can't get white America to take anymore.
Yes those people selling nasty fruit and churros in the subway are vital to the US economy.
Identifying someone by race today is not racism; it's sociology, What race do/did/will you fill in for yourself on the Census form?
Robby in Manhattan said...
"Stop the bullshit" I know he is giving us orders again.
He can't help it forgive him he drank the Kool Aid !
If a pandemic can't "WAKE" Robby up nothing will just laugh at him and move on.
Don't feed the leftist trolls ignore them.
Rob in Manhattan said... Who cares ?
Rob in Manhattan said... Nothing worth reading.
I've been telling people for years that breaking zoning laws, IS NOT A GOOD THING! I even have argued with people for years about NYC and long island being a safety hazard. I was told that I was wrong and that the city and long island can hold more than 9 million people. Just because a place can hold so many people, doesn't mean it should. And now look, they are all crying because they live in third world parts of queens where their own people are the ones who made the area dirty and infested. If you want to look for someone to blame, blame your own filthy people and the politicians that hate American citizens especially those that are white.
Rob in Manhattan said...
Stop the bullshit. These people have come here to work at jobs we simply can't get white America to take anymore.
It is the same in ALL food service and processing operations here in No. America. The contracting and manual trades are going Latino and Asian too. Look around -you'll see it every day.
Its because they don't pay fair wages. If taxes were cheaper like they used to be and if housing was alot cheaper, then I'm sure any American citizen would do the job. My grandfather was born in Brooklyn and only had a 9th grade education. He worked on the docks weighing beans when the ships arrived. He was able to live decently in a nice house in Brooklyn and fed 8 kids. Don't you tell me that Americans WOULD NOT do certain jobs. Even soda jerks back in the day used to make a half way good living and could afford a small apartment to rent back in the day. The illegals need to give the jobs back to high school kids and let them do what they used to do. Also, we have always had seasonal workers who came here LEGALLY. So there really is NO need for illegals. Sorry, you are wrong. And Also, if CEOs didnt make 300x more than the average worker, then he can DEFINITELY afford to pay citizens to do the jobs for fair wages, but they REFUSE to take any sort of pay cuts. CEOs salaries have risen from only being about 20x higher than the average worker in the 70s, to now being 300x more than the average worker today. And its quite sickening if you ask me.
"Sorry, did not know that name was already being used. You may have it back."
Jude Fawley
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Ahhh, Thomas Hardy!
Very good choice.
I'm partial to Tess of the D'urbervilles, especially liked the film adaptation with Natassja Kinski.
Cheers,
Harry Haller
Just so everybody knows...
It's OK to be White !
Epstein didn’t kill him self !
Carol baskin killed her husband !
Joe Biden has dementia and def sexually assaulted those woman !
Fredo was bullied by a 65 year old man on a bicycle !
And dont feed your dog donuts, it will make them sick !
Oh and CNN is #FAKENEWS !
I don't think there's anything wrong at all with identifying a racial group in society. I think we're way too sensitive about it.
The line that has people sensitive here is that Queens "used to be a nice place for white middle class".
As I said, I'm not the sensitive type at all when it comes to identifying races, and I agree that Queens used to be a nice place for white middle class in areas like Douglaston, Astoria and Forest Hills.
What we need to add is balance though,
I would add is that it was also a nice place for a black middle class in St. Albans, Laurelton and Addsleigh Park.
I would also add that it was quite a nice place to live when the Matinecock and the Maspeth native had it all to themselves 500 years ago.
That being said,
New York City has been severely mismanaged under this Democrat administration. One that is lead by an outsider clown (where is this idiot even from?) who was voted in mostly by people looking for free shit and didn't even live here through the difficult times of the 70's and 80's.
We really shouldn't have unfettered immigration when housing is at a premium. We certainly shouldn't have sanctuary city programs that encourage illegality and we definitely shouldn't be decriminalizing behavior that at any time in history has been detrimental to decent human society.
Harry Haller
Then move already.
I think Queens is great.
I love the restaurants, the parks, my kids are at the Baccalaureate School and my house just keeps going up in value.
And for people who think it used to be so great, sorry it wasn't.
-Anonymous
So let me amend your amendment to 'Queens used to be a nice place. Then came the Democrats.'
I heard a few gun shoot outs in this area. Very difficult place to live.
On the Census
I checked off WHITE
And wrote in AMERICAN
Blame Melinda Katz for waving every illegal immigrant to the World’s Cesspool . Think she gives a damn about all of them dying from this dreadful disease? Doubt it.
@Jon said...
"And for people who think it used to be so great, sorry it wasn't." Fuck Off !
Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times. Get It Jonny ?
@Rob-
The main reason that restaurant jobs pay poorly is because illegal immigrant labor brought the wages down by their willingness to work for peanuts, long hours, no protections-- because they are illegals! I had a friend who used to "sous-chef" but he stopped because, yeah, who would want to work that hard for such crappy pay? Give up? Illegals! They ruined a whole slew of jobs that used to pay Americans decent wages.
Hopefully, come November, America (NYC Is Not Like the rest of the U.S.) will remember that the Dems care only about their own political aims and not about America. Come November the entire map of the United States could flip red. I'm Praying ....
Vote all Demorats it's our duty !
Left-Coast Voters Please Start with "Let them eat ice cream!" Krazy Bitch Nancy P
The bigger question is...where did the CCP military industrial complex come from? Western traitors, investment bankers, politicians, and other assorted greedy opportunists created China for profit while betraying everyone else. Now they propose to bailout these traitors to make it easier for them to move back. I think they should stay in China and pay tariffs to sell into the U.S. while newer companies start here.
For I am covid and I exist.
I have destroyed your world and usher in the New Order.
I will force you to take the mark of the beast or never cross any border.
I have turned you into trembling sheep.
You are all fools of a kind.
For I am Covid and I exist-but only in your mind.
Lunar Doc Youtube
On the Census
I checked off WHITE
And wrote in Human
#OKTOBEWHITE
COVID 19....,Earths spring cleaning time
Let me guess, you never finished college and you don't earn enough so you got a stimulus check.
Am I correct?
Anonymous said...
@Jon said...
"And for people who think it used to be so great, sorry it wasn't." Fuck Off !
Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times. Get It Jonny
Where are the city building departments in all this? They're the ones who are supposed to enforce legality and occupancy standards. Why are the zoning boards allowing up zoning in single family neighborhoods?
You're more likely to get a beat down for not wearing a mask than if you illegally chop up a garage and rent it out to 20 "cousins".
“Anybody that wants a test [for the coronavirus] can get a test.”
— President Donald Trump, in remarks to reporters on March 6.
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Anonymous said...
Hopefully, come November, America (NYC Is Not Like the rest of the U.S.) will remember that the Dems care only about their own political aims and not about America. Come November the entire map of the United States could flip red. I'm Praying ....
Yes....REBNY.....Leggo louses!
Build those block cities!
America First @Jonny Said nothing...
Get a life stop trying to project your Brainwashed College Bull Shit on others !
Stay in mommies basement and polish your participation trophies !
Crappy dose not have a bias response team that you can call if you think you have been victimized by micro-aggression ! Today's Colleges have produced little snowflakes that are weak individuals. In summary your sensitivity has been weaponized.
@Robbie said...
"Stop the bullshit. These people have come here to work at jobs we simply can't get white America to take anymore."
I would love to underpay you and have you work long hours in terrible conditions.
Nothing to do but post anger and blame? I’ve been volunteering online at proper social distance and writing donation checks.
Put your money where your mouth is....at least your time. How many useless hours of posting do you do while med teams are saving lives? FU dradbeats
This seems to be a conservative middle Queens blog. Open asses instead of open minds!🤮
Jon....maybe he earns too much to receive a stimulus check.. your bowels have obviously been stimulated🤪
Jon said... NOTHING !
If Biden finds the cure I'll vote for him.
Fake News Goes Full Fascist After People Across The Country DEFY Lockdown, Trump Was Right Again !
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