Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Southeast Queens Communities open letter to YIMBY Hochul

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 For decades, Southeast Queens has been held up as a model of the American Dream for those striving for a better life. Our communities in Southeast Queens have more than 220,000 residents claiming African American and Caribbean American heritage, many of whom themselves (or their parents and grandparents) left other denser parts of the city – often at greater cost and expense than most other ethnic groups in the city – to have some breathing room, own their own home, a backyard, grass and trees and to give their children a better life.

From Hillside Avenue to JFK Airport, Lefferts Blvd. to the Nassau County line, our mostly suburban neighborhoods have survived and thrived despite systemic racism and redlining. We cherish our low-density communities in Southeast Queens, and we have consistently defended our detached one-family zoning in places like Addisleigh Park, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, St. Albans, South Ozone Park, and Springfield Gardens. Additionally, over 60% of our residents own their own homes, more than double the citywide average.

We want to be clear: we are united with all of our neighbors in Queens, Staten Island, the rest of New York City, the suburbs in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and beyond regardless of race, ethnicity or economic background who oppose the “Housing Compact” which, in our estimation, will be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off in our communities.

Having the Governor mandate more development in southeast Queens, increasing density by 500% within ½ mile of our LIRR stations, forcing increases in housing if we don’t do it ourselves by overriding local zoning, giving blanket amnesty to dangerous and deadly basement and cellar apartments – these are extinction level policies that will wipe out our neighborhoods, plain and simple. Most of our elected officials from southeast Queens understand this.

Some supporters of Gov. Hochul’s plan, such as Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher of Brooklyn have equated single-family zones with Jim Crow practices, and have deemed the governor's plan as necessary to achieve "racial justice." While historically that is true, it does not apply to our communities in Southeast Queens in 2023.

What we’ve achieved over the years is the ability to live the life we want, where we want and how we want.

The governor's plan, far from bringing "racial justice" to our black and brown communities in Southeast Queens and other areas, would bring devastation throughout our neighborhoods if implemented.

The financial and political gains that African Americans have made in our city, our suburbs and across the State – our top elected officials except for the Governor herself are African American in both the State and the City – all of this will be lost if the “Housing Compact” becomes law.

We are the civic leadership of Southeast Queens. We are Black and we are 100% opposed to Governor Hochul’s “Housing Compact” and the attempts to increase density exponentially in our communities. We hope that the Governor and Legislature are listening very carefully.

Signed,

Addisleigh Park Civic Association
Alpha Street Civic Association
Brinkerhoff Action Association
Eastern Queens Alliance
Greater Triangle Civic Association
Queens Village Civic Association
St. Albans Civic Improvement Association
149th Street South Ozone Park Civic Association
221/222 Street Block Association
South Ozone Park Civic Association West
Sojourner Truth Democratic Club
United Coalition for Veterans & Community Rights (UCVCR)
United Neighbors Civic Association (UNCA)
Wayanda Civic Association

I'm going to leave this here too. This is a malignant thread from Manhattan Twitter, I mean Borough President Mark Levine that wants to destroy community boards as well so this housing compact can get rubber stamped and approved. Even though it still doesn't provide enough affordable housing for lower income working people.


 

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

You were born in New York State, but you didn't ask to be. Do you really want to spend many more years in a struggle to solve and eliminate the many problems that you did nothing to create? This might be the right time to migrate to another State. Many have very successfully made this transition to a less taxing and "Free" life.

Anonymous said...

Go Woke Go Broke !
FINALLY, the pendulum is starting to swing the other way.
Stories that push a radical political agenda seem to garner a lot of attention from the Mainstream Media and the uber-liberal/woke left. But, when push comes to shove, if the message is dead wrong or simply outrageous, most Americans won't bother to watch or support it.

Anonymous said...

They the Electurds have a direct line to our bank accounts thru unfair taxation.

Anonymous said...

You can thank the UFT and the now modern brainwashed college graduates...sad

Anonymous said...

But the white saviors want to SAVE the Backs in SE Queens! What good are the Blacks if they don't need saving? You mean they are happy with single family homeownership and wealth building?

Anonymous said...

But if the election was held tomorrow that would still all vote for the same people. Because "reasons".

FreedomFries Fred said...

Communism in action. Resist progress, and we'll end up like some remote part of Alabama or, worse, Florida.

Anonymous said...

Wake up Sheeple.
Adam's and Hochul bow down to the progressives all the while pretending and playing to the moderates.

Anonymous said...

Didn't Hochul win big in Southeast Queens? You get the government you deserve...

Anonymous said...

Let them eat chocolate chip ice cream !

Anonymous said...

NY has become a sad extreme folly of brainwashed sheeple.
New York Democrats..new york communists... They got plenty of them, these same fine people keep voting for them year after year. Madness....

Anonymous said...

Do all Dems take from the hard working tax paying residents to virtue signal false Climate Change BS ?

Anonymous said...

The people running the NYS Gov administrations don’t care about the ramifications of their policies. The far left is pushing for total control at the expense of our freedoms.

Anonymous said...

The far-left is forcing this New Green Deal Housing Scam on everyone.

Anonymous said...

Weak Sheeple Voters make hard times !

Anonymous said...

We are special. Everyone wants to live here!

Anonymous said...

I will own nothing

Anonymous said...

@"You can thank the UFT and the now modern brainwashed college graduates...sad"

Says brainwashed creepy QAnon TrumpTurd.
Sad ...

FreedomFries Fred said...

@"You were born in New York State, but you didn't ask to be. "

Take a hike, ya Floridian swamp rat. And keep your closet gay meatball governor in Florida too.

Anonymous said...

#TDS is real...

FreedomFries Fred said...

I've no time for communists blocking "we the people" from building wherever and whatever we want.
If you want restricted neighborhoods with oppressive town restrictions, take your inflated butt to China or Florida.



Anonymous said...

No facts or links just fellings,name calling and hatred for the BlueAnon creeps.

Anonymous said...

I Like Icecream said...

@ "Floridian swamp rat" "gay meatball governor" "remote part of Alabama"
Are you the result of the UFT Leftist Mental Health Crisis ?

Anonymous said...

Thomas Sowell said there is no such thing as affordable housing the government can’t make anything affordable only the free market can do such things.

Anonymous said...

America First said...
@"You can thank the UFT"
Teachers only deserve respect if they are teaching and NOT indoctrinating children - do their job/do it well and keep their pronouns nonsense to themselves.

Anonymous said...

@“ Teachers only deserve respect if they are teaching and NOT indoctrinating “
Good, they must deserve our respect then, as all that indoctrination nonsense is a fabrication by QAnon creeps, Murdoch empire just to allow a corporate takeover of our schools.

Why do rightwing nuts hate regular Americans and love corporate executives?