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- Wondering what will replace Monahan & Fitzgerald
- Big project to replace Flushing supermarket
- Civics find Vallone covenant bill's requirements c...
- Legislation to stop DOB from penalizing disaster v...
- Infill is coming to NYCHA, like it or not
- DOB asked to audit Bayside's attached McMansion
- Hamilton Beach votes to downzone
- DeBlasio absolutely opposed to tax cap
- Staten Island homeowner has pipe problem that DEP ...
- Lined up at the trough
- DeBlasio grilled over lack of tax cap
- We were victims of "sectoring"
- Katz declines comment on snow situation
- MTA snow complaints take 15 days to resolve
- Where are the rest of the Queens pols?
- City Hall rally against Hollis homeless shelter
- School buses get stuck in snow
- Sidewalk sheds - an epidemic eyesore
- Queens' stuck-in-snow humor
- Sanitation vehicles get stuck, fail to clean stree...
- Katz called out at her own speech
- How Queens electeds handled the snow debacle
- DeBlasio realizes he left Queens buried in snow
- 3 people have died shoveling snow
- Eagles have landed at FMCP
- Should we lighten up on minor offenses?
- Will new massage parlor bills make a difference?
- 2 huge Astoria projects may never happen
- Fenceless parks: good or bad idea?
- Up-lifting cars too close to co-op
- Is a restaurant being run out of this single-famil...
- Forest Hills subway station to be shut down for 2 ...
- The court case that no one is talking about
- Another secret homeless shelter opens in Queens
- DOE allegedly wants to build on Newtown HS athleti...
- A better plan for Queens Blvd?
- AG slaps car dealerships
- AirBnB jerk cheated and harassed his own tenants, too
- Taxed to death
- It's all about the incentives
- A new way to report quality of life problems
- What idiots came up with this?
- The death of Jamaica Avenue
- Attached house in Bayside becomes McMansion
- Preservation, Queens style
- A different Hallet's Point perspective
- Big turnout at Broadway-Flushing rally
- Deal done for horse carriages
- Habitat for humanity rehabbing Queens houses for M...
- LIC hipsters just want to be assholes
- DeBlasio's non-profit not doing as well
- More crap headed to Whitestone
- 421-A expired
- Traffic not Uber's fault
- Raises all around
- It's who you know
- AG Gianaris?
- Woodside school has bad bug
- Basketball star's shooting becomes a federal case
- Bums kicked out of LaGuardia
- First subway shit stink of the new year
- Queens subways will be getting shown some love
- Calling for an end to Citizens United
- Horses may be moved to Central Park
- Massive Astoria waterfront project gets underway
- Child slavery in Flushing
- There's still way more homeless people out there
- No music festivals at FMCP
- Third man left standing
- Recall power to the people
- Parents want playground potties repaired
- Queens still reads
- Meeks occupies mansion illegally
- Astoria craphouse redux
- Woman scores eviction against deadbeat ex-cop tenant
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- Laurelton deed scammer going to trial
- Gas lines need replacement, pronto
- Taking too long to fix Douglaston streets
- New plan for new Bay Terrace units
- Ticking time bombs on our streets?
- The day Staten Island took over Forest Hills
- All about the zoning frenzy
- Mark-Viverito fined for taking free gifts
- Historic Broadway-Flushing home sold
- Dope sets himself on fire trying to torch pet store
- AirBnB jerks scammed other landlords
- Rumba to lose liquor license
- Community board quotas soon?
- Israel will not run for re-election
- Cuomo looking to lift wages
- Rockaway street has sinking feeling
- MTA finally pays injured worker
- Mayor's buddy lobbying for FMCP music festival
- Cuomo's infamous order to shelter doesn't actually...
- Where the hell is Bill?
- Vision Zero not helping Queens as much
- I couldn't have said it better myself
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18 comments:
And as usual Tony Avella to the rescue. What is wrong the DOB and the idiots who zone? It is criminal to allow such a big house next to a small one. The DOB is not doing their job. I want the DOB and it's blind plan examiners audited.
I wish there were a "Like" button.
10 46-08 216 STREET 46-08 - 46-08 4595600
13 46-10 216 STREET 46-10 - 46-10 4157662
This actually is two tax lots formed from a single zoning lot -- one lot has a one-family home and the other is a NB 2-family home. DOB needs to realize that the FAR is to be calculated for the Single Zoning Lot.
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/BScanJobDocumentServlet?requestid=11&passjobnumber=420963700&passdocnumber=01&allbin=4157662&scancode=SC130430025
Fit 25 people and only needs single space & 1 car garage and one sewer pipe ?
How much money does it cost to get approved I want to buy some small houses on that street and fix them
DeBlasio wants it this way so there is little chance the practice will stop, even if the Senator prevails on the DOB this one time.
The Mayor has to pay back the unions and the real estate donors who got him elected (over 70% of us didn't even bother to vote so maybe we are also to blame here) and so he will look the other way while buildings like this go up everywhere.
"The fish stinks from the head down"
These macmansions remind of The Munsters house.
And it also reminds me that the fire ninja is still out there...
Federal investigation of DOB NOW!
Enough of this bullshit.
One bit of good news today:
***HSBC Curbs Mortgage Options to Chinese Nationals Buying U.S. Real Estate***
"Europe’s biggest lender HSBC will no longer provide mortgages to some Chinese nationals who buy real estate in the United States, a policy change that comes as Beijing is battling to stem a swelling crowd of citizens trying to get money out of China.
An HSBC spokesman in New York told Reuters on Wednesday that the new policy went into effect last week, roughly a month after China suspended Standard Chartered and DBS Group Holdings Ltd from conducting some foreign exchange business and as authorities try to limit capital outflows.
Realtors of luxury property in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, said more than 80 percent of wealthy Chinese buyers have ties to China."
You can read the rest here:
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/01/28/hsbc-curbs-mortgage-options-to-chinese-nationals-buying-u-s-real-estate/
Anonymous,
Pay back the unions? You are dreaming if you think any unions are anywhere near to working on a single family house. Trust me it is not 1961 anymore, regretfully so.
I posted about this before.
There is something very strange going on with these McMansions.
Now is confirmed.
"Arcadia…where have we heard that before. Oh yeah: Welcome to Arcadia – The California Suburb Where Wealthy Chinese Criminals are Building Mansions to Stash Cash"
Money laundering, offshore accounts and EB5 visas.
Multiple laws are being violated on a daily bases.
All of this needs a federal investigation.
If they won't do it, they Chinese government will as they are also interested in all the money laundering that goes on here.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/16/welcome-to-arcadia-the-california-town-where-wealthy-chinese-are-building-mansions-in-order-to-park-cash/
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-10-15/chinese-home-buying-binge-transforms-california-suburb-arcadia
Commissioner Lee is friends of the homeowner. The deal is sealed.
HSBC? Isn't that the Hang Seng Bank of China?
China is in a serious financial slump. Maybe they want to keep their cash within the mainland.
Face it, the addition looks better than what it replaced. Tear down the other part!
Then it will all be in character.
We are all playing by Chinese Checkers' rules.
Offshore money talks and bullshit walks.
"HSBC"
Man you need to do some research,.
No wonder we are getting fucked over around here.
Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation = HSBC.
Is British, headquartered in London!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC
"China is in a serious financial slump. Maybe they want to keep their cash within the mainland."
This much is true. Also true that they are our biggest creditor.
I posted about this, but for some reason never made it. Is OK.
You can do your research, they do want to keep the money local.
Apparently their own vibrant population says to their own government fuck you!
So here they come with the mansions, Lamborghini's, money for pretty much everything. NYC politicians call it a boom.
Since China is the biggest buyer of gold in the world, their slump is not much compared to what is waiting for us here.
If the British are tied in you can bet that the Chinese have equal footing in HSBC.
YOU need to read between the lines, fella. Been in banking. Know the real drill.
AN SHEN MA - ARCHITECT
Well, no wonder.
Bonus: You know you are dealing with quality when your Architect uses a hotmail address!!!
All other concerns aside, isn't money being moved from the Chinese economy to the American economy a good thing for our economy, and a bad thing for theirs?
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