Thursday, June 15, 2017
Parker Towers demolishing fountain
From Forest Hills Post:
Parker Towers, the large 1960s development sandwiched between Queens Blvd and Yellowstone Boulevard, has long been known for the giant fountain in the middle of the courtyard.
The fountain has traditionally been a focal point since it is surrounded by the three 22-story high-rises that make up the complex.
The fountain, however, is now being demolished. According to a spokesman for the Parker Towers, the demolition began yesterday and will be complete in two weeks.
The plan is to replace it with greenspace. Construction will begin in a few weeks and is estimated to be finished in a few months.
However, according to local historian and Forest Hills resident Michael Perlman, residents are not pleased with this decision and neither is he.
13 comments:
Perlman is hardly the right spokesperson for the residents of Parker Towers.
Speaking of highrises: with that skyscraper apartment fire in England in mind - why would you even want to live at the top floor of such a building? Ever think how'd you get out of there when the flames are shooting up? The Ralph Kramden bedsheet route?
Silence, peasants and obey your depraved, monarchy rulers! Now, wasn't it the late Helen Marshall who destroyed another formerly working fountain, namely 'Triumph Of Civic Virtue,' on December 15, 2012, when she SO ORDERED the 16-ton statue's eviction (by crane, armature and flatbed truck, no less, to the tune of $200,000 taxpayer dollars that no one wanted, much less was ever asked!), to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where it remains on 'temporary' loan?
And, then the current Czarina, Melinda 'Alley' Katz recklessly ordered another $920,000 in profligate, wanton waste to ostensibly beautify the blighted Kew Gardens Plaza (after Civic Virtue was hijacked to keep vigilance over a Brooklyn graveyard amongst the dead), that Marshall herself blighted?
Worse, the real reason for the statue's eviction (instead repairing the existing fountain base, turning on the waterworks and bring back a gifted statue that shouldn't have been evicted in the first place!), was for Marshall and her monarchy pal Melinda to pay tribute to the women of Queens politics (all of whom were nothing more than vacant, sycophantic shills who destroyed Queens altogether, compliments of Donald Manes), and the public be damned!
At this juncture in time, it's appropriate to revive Queens County as the borough of cemeteries, because after every single, filthy Queens politician (not public servant), ravaged and tonsured this borough so completely——that all that is left is a cultural vat and wasteland of destruction, death and endless corruption, graft and greed for which everyone else continues to pay a soul-crushing price——to present day effect!
❝I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think that we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think that they are all insane. But, I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what is insane about it. Don't you agree?❞ —John Lennon
Suddenly "green space" is not acceptable?
Let us rename this as a memorial "Bioswale" and all will dance with joy...
Silence, peasants and obey your depraved, monarchy rulers! Now, wasn't it the late Helen Marshall who destroyed another formerly working fountain, namely 'Triumph Of Civic Virtue,' on December 15, 2012, when she SO ORDERED the 16-ton statue's eviction (by crane, armature and flatbed truck, no less, to the tune of $200,000 taxpayer dollars that no one wanted, much less was ever asked!), to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where it remains on 'temporary' loan?
And, then the current Czarina, Melinda 'Alley' Katz recklessly ordered another $920,000 in profligate, wanton waste to ostensibly beautify the blighted Kew Gardens Plaza (after Civic Virtue was hijacked to keep vigilance over a Brooklyn graveyard amongst the dead), that Marshall herself blighted?
Worse, the real reason for the statue's eviction (instead repairing the existing fountain base, turning on the waterworks and bring back a gifted statue that shouldn't have been evicted in the first place!), was for Marshall and her monarchy pal Melinda to pay tribute to the women of Queens politics (all of whom were nothing more than vacant, sycophantic shills who destroyed Queens altogether, compliments of Donald Manes), and the public be damned!
At this juncture in time, it's appropriate to revive the original Queens County identity as the borough of cemeteries, because after every single, filthy Queens politician (not public servant), ravaged and tonsured this borough so completely——that all that is left is a cultural vat and wasteland of destruction, death and endless corruption, graft and greed for which everyone else continues to pay a soul-crushing price——to present day effect!
❝I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think that we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think that they are all insane. But, I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what is insane about it. Don't you agree?❞ —John Lennon
Greenspace? Forest Park is nearby
Perlman and Mr Civic Virture illustrate both why Queens is backward, and even more, why no one in the other boroughs wants to work with us.
Sorry, Mike, you are a nice meaning fellow, but we need something more than a Jr High Civics project in Queens and yet another silly 'committee'
Naturally suspicious. With the fountain gone and the land cleared, room is there to put up a building in the middle of the others. NYCHA wants to do this with "unused" open space at housing projects.
I assume a lot of residents voted for De Blasio. So there they have it.
Looks like there's plenty of green there already. Why remove something so nice? The article doesn't say.
Looks like there's plenty of green there already. Why remove something so nice? The article doesn't say.
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To save a few dollars on maintenance, aka, cheap owners.
Suddenly "green space" is not acceptable?
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no, but water features are better. The offer both cooling the ambient air, and provide white noise to help drown out street sounds.
Once again, we can have nothing nice in Queens. An ugly, backward place filled with depressed beat down people.
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