A few years ago, I sent the Original Crapper a photo of this modern day McMansion that was developed on the corner of Cohancey St and Albert Rd. in Ozone Park. I was not only surprised that it survived the usual speeding traffic from vehicles coming from the North Conduit and the Belt Parkway exit, but also at how this area metamorphisized into a new suburb.
And judging by the way Hawtree St. has looked for decades with all that unsightly vegetation buttressing the Aqueduct train station, now there is a whole new swatch of potential residential or commercial real estate. Or maybe real affordable housing? (I don't think I'll hold my breath that long)
But so far the most dramatic change to this intersection and new locale is that Hawtree St is now a two-way street. Along with the arrival of a Bolla Market store where the old auto shop used to be.( Even though there is another Bolla Market at the gas station nearby on Cross Bay Blvd. And Pitkin Ave.)
It's almost kinda surreal how all of this over-development manifested from one little ostentatious mansion placed delicately on a busy street corner (along with crossroad fork with one road going back on the Belt and the other a downhill road on Albert) and with still more to come.
To top this off, the city (or someone) decided to put an old-timey sign on the wooden electrical pole and marked it for the original settler's date of 1882. Despite the fact that most of this settlement got completed in the 20th year of the 21st century.
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Toilets backing up, Hurricane Sandy II rolling up to the front yard, third world all the way.
Not McMansions, but housing for extended clans. Any guess as to who will be moving in? Like Flushing, in Queens you always have a world of choices.
BUT!!! They vote Democratic so there is no problem here. Move on people.
Try to communicate in no more than 4 images - 18 is a bit overkill.
Tax revenue is more important than anything else.
It is an interesting transition to be sure. Not sure that I would bemoan it much (beyond to echo your affordable housing lament)- was it better as an essential underutilized space bereft of anything else productive or attractive or active? Not like a park or anything similar could've gone there.
@Anon re: overkill
I guess I should just get a drone with a camera on it and make a few videos. Pay me.
Good gosh, what hideous Asian and Bukharin shitters.
I bet the Italians are thrilled about this or did they sell them all those property's ?
You can bet those homes will be filled with 20, 30 people and BOOM goes the school district. --Put the kids in trailers, boiler rooms and roofs.
Hire 200 ESL "English Second Language" teachers with our tax dollars too.
What a disaster, this shit would have never happened back in the good days with John Gotti crew around. We have Rudy G to thank for that, now we pay for it.
Ugly houses ,ugly streets . Get out of NY.
I wonder if it's a brownfield and they're covering it up.
Heads up, folks!! The Land was condemned by the City of New York -- Court Order https://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/DocumentImageView?doc_id=2015100100416001
August 2014
"Good gosh, what hideous Asian and Bukharin shitters."
Well said! These houses are all hideous.
The Asians and Bukharians have not made it that far south yet. Those houses gotta be West Indian or Guyanese.
Oh, and Gotti's crew never cared about anything other than Gotti's crew. You watch too many movies, bruh. Stop being so naive.
>unsightly vegetation
The rest of the world calls it 'nature'.
@Anon #2:
>Try to communicate in no more than 4 images - 18 is a bit overkill.
No such thing. Is your attention span that short? The PG DN button is right there.
@Anon. re: nature
I was pointing out the reason why it was excavated. If they put anything there it better be a park, but I don't think it will.
Thanks for rebuttal at anon 2.
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