With the 2008 season underway, much of the major construction work on the Mets’ new home at Citi Field has been completed for the stadium’s planned opening in 2009. Citi Field Construction in Home Stretch
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Citifield almost done
With the 2008 season underway, much of the major construction work on the Mets’ new home at Citi Field has been completed for the stadium’s planned opening in 2009. Citi Field Construction in Home Stretch
Watch your step!
From Gowanus Lounge:This conditions on Berry Street are pretty horrifying even by shoddy Williamsburg standards. If there’s anyone at the Department of Buildings who isn’t too occupied trying to explain why cranes keep falling over and smashing into buildings and slaughtering people, they might want to send an inspector over to check on the mess at N. 12 and Berry Street. Falling cranes aren’t the only things that can kill people; it would seem a two-story fall into a mud pit could do the job effectively too.
Mud Pit of Death: 40 Berry is Burg’s Scariest Construction Site
Tammany Hall in Astoria
Politicians survived scandal after scandal. It worked on the spoils system filling 12,000 jobs after election day on city, state and federal levels. They always helped immigrants that nobody else would help while enriching themselves. Pictured is the Tammany Club of Astoria, 25th Avenue and 31st Street — winter 1935.By the 1960s, Tammany Hall had finally ended its long run of corruption that lasted over a century.
Tammany Club of Astoria
Really? Could have fooled me. It sounded like the author was talking about NYC in 2008. Incidentally, Rep. James Maurice took on Tammany Hall and won. This explains why the powers that be fought so hard to get his church torn down...
Development not necessarily good
An open letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
Thank you for your recent letter regarding North Flushing rezoning. It is true the city has experienced unprecedented growth, but encouraging all this development in Queens is wrong. Most neighborhoods, especially in eastern Queens, are not accessible to all modes of transportation. Residents there have many cars, so encouraging builders to convert dwellings from one-family to multi-family is wrong. It is adversely affecting the quality of life in those neighborhoods.
You stated in your letter that you are discussing these issues with City Planning Commission Chairwoman Amanda Burden, and I am glad you are doing so. We would like to discuss them with her, as well. The residents here would like you both to come and take a tour of Flushing and other Queens neighborhoods to see how City Planning's inaction has negatively affected our communities. If "City Planning works to ensure that development is responsible and benefits all New Yorkers", then why am I still trying to figure out how I benefit from a builder ruining my street so he can make a profit?
I look forward to your response on this increasingly pressing matter.
Rose Forkan
Flushing
Thank you for your recent letter regarding North Flushing rezoning. It is true the city has experienced unprecedented growth, but encouraging all this development in Queens is wrong. Most neighborhoods, especially in eastern Queens, are not accessible to all modes of transportation. Residents there have many cars, so encouraging builders to convert dwellings from one-family to multi-family is wrong. It is adversely affecting the quality of life in those neighborhoods.
You stated in your letter that you are discussing these issues with City Planning Commission Chairwoman Amanda Burden, and I am glad you are doing so. We would like to discuss them with her, as well. The residents here would like you both to come and take a tour of Flushing and other Queens neighborhoods to see how City Planning's inaction has negatively affected our communities. If "City Planning works to ensure that development is responsible and benefits all New Yorkers", then why am I still trying to figure out how I benefit from a builder ruining my street so he can make a profit?
I look forward to your response on this increasingly pressing matter.
Rose Forkan
Flushing
Queens' Changing World
Greetings, I’d like to you invite to check out Queens’ Changing World, a special report by the NYCity News Service.
With Census figures eight years old, the NYCity News Service - the student-powered multi-media news organization at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism - set out to take a snapshot in time of immigration patterns in Queens.
Some three dozen students in three classes examined the latest statistics for more than 170 public elementary schools to get an idea of where immigrant families are settling, and how they are changing the landscape of the borough.
The NYCity News Service staff discovered that at least one of every 12 of Queens' 122,000 public elementary school students arrived in the U.S. after October 31, 2005.
The youngsters represent more than 50 countries, with Guyana, China and Mexico leading the charge. After crunching the numbers, our reporters mapped out the statistics community district by community district. Then our staff hit the streets - putting faces and names to the stories behind the numbers. The result was Queens’ Changing World, which contains 14 multi-media story packages.
We’ve also added interactive sections, encouraging folks to send us their comments, stories and pictures. So please let us know what you think – and help us spread the word about Queens’ Changing World. We’re hoping to take on similar projects in future semesters, so any feedback would be of great help.
Cheers,
Jere
Jere Hester
Director, NYCity News Service
www.nycitynewsservice.com
City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism
219 W. 40th St., Third Floor
New York, NY 10018
646-758-7736
jere.hester@journalism.cuny.edu
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