This scene takes place in Fresh Meadows at this hotel steps away from the Horace Harding Expressway and also a strip mall and public school. This hotel, which has clearly failed to generate any business, was subjected to numerous scoops and solidarity condemnation from the community and elected officials representing the district for it’s use as a homeless shelter for men who were recently released from Rikers Island and was used during the pandemic as housing for a hundred inmates during the pandemic to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on the island’s facilities. Which was irresponsibly made possible following former Mayor de Blasio and the City Council cronies collaborative effort to shut down Rikers to build four tower jails in the boroughs except for Staten Island. But from the optics of this building, it seems that this hotel in Fresh Meadows is being used as a trial run tower jail while the official tower jail in Kew Gardens gets developed and which has already started it’s construction.
It’s utterly amazing that the city approved this hotel on a quaint residential block like this. Who in their right mind thought that tourists would dwell here while vacationing in the city and it’s much to big and out of the way to be utilized for prostitution and sex trafficking.
Upon close inspection, the optics in the front entrance belie the element that’s being housed here as cars line up on the sidewalk obstructing most of the entrance of the hotel, despite the ample parking in the lot behind it and the garage inside the building, conveying a palpable sense of security for their neighbors across the street and the passerby young and old.
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Per the certificate of occupancy, there is supposed to be a paid attendant in the parking garage that is part of this hotel.
What happened to
The jail in the Queens criminal court building above the courthouse? There’s plenty of room.
The parking lot behind the "hotel" is NOT for use of the hotel. It is part of the commercial shopping center, run by Federal Realty who have been known to ticket/tow illegally parked cars in their lots (also Kohl's across the street).
Depressing area at the best of times.
I knew this thing was a huge mistake to begin with. They claimed they put it there so foreigners would come and visit their kids at st John's. This was a terrible idea and the other hotel on the other side right next to Francis Lewis high school is also a huge mistake. Just wait until those shit jail towers go up in Kew gardens, they are in for a rude awakening.
Promises made, promises kept!
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