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- Served up on a silver platter
- 1% keeping the city afloat
- Is DOT ignoring graffiti due to Vision Zero?
- Silver disbarred
- Flushing police scandal gets bigger
- The Frankenhouse of Maspeth
- CB7 wants affordable housing dedicated to its cons...
- A lot of Sandy damaged homes are still not repaired
- Why didn't DOT inspect Ciafone's canopies?
- Fund to keep businesses here
- Attendance not important to council members
- Happy Easter from Queens Crap!
- Middle Village project looking much better
- St. Michael's Cementery?
- Bye bye Bayside service station
- An end to developer loophole?
- NY1's dumb population analysis
- One man's trash is another man's treasure
- Kim & Koo want filthy Flushing LIRR station cleaned
- Interesting house to meet the wrecking ball
- Here's who voted no
- Will Toby finally get sunk?
- DOT's strange response to sign request
- Glassy project will kick Buks to the curb
- Ozone Park half house
- NYPD recruits hogging up College Point parking
- M train riders to get screwed next year
- Too many kids in Francis Lewis zone
- College Point blockbusting?
- F'ed up on Fitchett
- Public toilets sit unused in warehouse for 10 years
- How brainwashed is the Queens press?
- Malcolm Smith probe may not yet be over
- Blessed Sacrament may pave over a lot of green
- Let's celebrate a 30-unit building on the site of ...
- Destruction of Judge Garaufis' house proves need f...
- Vallone punting problems over to Avella
- NJ town doesn't want to be like Queens
- Sanders drops out of congressional race
- A lot fewer vacate orders
- Brand new subway station already falling apart
- DOB may lift ban on crawler cranes
- Council about to sign off on de Blasio's royal scr...
- Van Wyck project taking a really long time
- Raises for all!
- An idea whose time has come?
- Ethics reform bills proposed
- Kim & Avella oppose Flushing West plan
- What closing Rikers is really about
- Are we ready for "granny pods"?
- That's a lot of crap!
- Police don't want to tow abandoned car
- Jamaica Bay movie about to premiere
- Phony preservation rally held by phony elected
- An update from Forest Hills
- Developer destroys facade of Elks club in response...
- Brooklyn hotel seized by sheriffs
- 2 more classy Ciafone canopies
- Astoria con artist still at it
- Landmarked areas are as dense as non-landmarked areas
- More, smaller jails mean one near you
- The many canopies of John Ciafone
- It's not safe to go into the water
- The Sunday funnies
- LIC Elks Club in danger
- Here's why de Blasio's affordable housing scheme w...
- Former Elmhurst Community Garden turned into huge ...
- About the landmark backlog
- Katz and Ferreras freeze WPU out of important meeting
- Astoria pols beg to get bridge painted
- BRT budget doubles, broken into phases
- Pol wants better voter participation
- Curbed features interesting Kew Gardens house
- Help Me Howard enters house the Baileys left
- Walcott is new Queens Library CEO
- Spa Castle closes
- Overcrowding leads to bad outcomes
- Jamaica department store not happening soon
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8 comments:
Funny how the usa is so quick to send aid to other countries who hate our guts but has no problem leaving our own country waiting years and years for aid. This country is very backwards!
Ever see who works at the DOB? Recently immigrated Indians, Chinese, Bhangladeshis, Guyanese...
Now you know why Queens housing looks the way it does.
Apply for welfare and see how fast those houses get rebuilt,
NYC has no use for blue collar workers who use roads,bridges,and schools
It is better to pay you to stay home than invest in crumbling infrastructure
Opperatation Workday Freedom will not be denied to the Dependent Class
#2, the DOB has turned a blind eye towards crappy housing and code violations for decades. It doesn't matter what color or race the workers are. By the way, the Commissioner (who sets the tone for the agency) is a white man, and DOB has been run by white men for years. So let's just call it what it is--- a bureaucratic nightmare--- and stop trying to blame it on race.
If we want change at that agency, we have to stop getting these mayors who are in bed with the real estate industry. We also need one who will tell the truth: the City is overcrowded and building more "affordable" housing is not the answer. Letting people convert their basements and rent them out is not the answer. Tearing down every single family house and replacing it with multi-family housing is not the answer. It's time to end incentives that encourage people to move to NYC and live 8 in a room and think that's OK. We need actual enforcement of existing building codes. Not accommodations that make it more crowded and destroy quality of life.
DOB ENFORCEMENT IS NEARLY NONE EXISTENT.
IT REALLY IS SCARY. Think about it. Illegal plumbing work when it comes to gas lines CAN BLOW YOU UP.
Unfortunately, too many people in the houses surrounding these illegal jobs turn a blind eye.
Many times, their thinking is LET THEM GET FINISHED AND GET OUT OF HERE.
Ignorance.
The homeowner in the end gets rewarded with a certificate of occupancy.
We have to go after the architects. They many times are the enablers. They sign-off on TRs that are so important to our safety.
The real scandal of rebuilding homes is Build it Back. How many signed up and got nada toward repairs or reimbursement just got paper-worked until they gave up and dropped out.
I been riding through Broad Channel all my natural life going to Rockaway. In the past 4 years since Sandy, it's unfathomable that some houses in the town are still being denied what's due to them. I especially like that house/protest sign that remains as a reminder of the civic neglect of city, state and federal government.
It's funny, well not funny, that the DOB seems to have no problem with home owners and property pimps that want to build hideous extensions or an extra story to their houses or want to build blade runner towers that will lead to rerouting of airline flight patterns, but seem to be wary about allocating funding to people that are due to them and use arbitrary bullshit to deny them (baseball field?).
And in a conspiratorial sense, maybe a reason why there is still such futility to rebuild in Broad Channel as well as the other towns Assemblyman Goldfeder mentioned, is because of political or ideological leanings of the resident demographics. I risk being wrong by assuming but I recall the majority of the people living there lean Republican.
And maybe another reason may be De Faustio's recently ratified law for forced gentrification. The last few years as seen a lot of development and market speculation across the veterans bridge in addition to the selective rebuilding of the boardwalk and lot of hipshit and tourist interest. As with the obvious willful neglect of NYCHA projects in Brooklyn and rampant blight in Jamaica, the refusal to leave these houses in disrepair could be a tactic to undervalue the land in Broad Channel so their developer overseers and vulture funders can swoop in and take advantage of it.
Hopefully the movie about Jamaica Bay and it's preservation (long overdue) will get the city to build those houses back. Frankly, I doubt it. But I hope I'm wrong.
Maybe the residents of Broad Channel can crowdfund and make a short film and hire Susan Sarandon and use her sultry voice to persuade the DOB.
Great job Forgotten.
Is anyone living there? check out the gang graffiti disrespecting the homeowners sign.
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