skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
The official mascot of Queens Crap
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." - John Adams, 1765
Spotted a piece of Queens Crap in your community?
Write to us at QueensCrapper@gmail.com
Please note
Italicized passages and many of the photos come from other websites. The links to these websites are provided within the posts.
Why your neighborhood is full of Queens Crap
"The difference between dishonest and honest graft: for dishonest graft one worked solely for one's own interests, while for honest graft one pursued the interests of one's party, one's state, and one's personal interests all together." - George Washington Plunkitt
Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
Become a fan of Queens Crap on Facebook.
Sites that kick ass:
The above organizations are recognized by Queens Crap as being beneficial to the city as a whole, by fighting to preserve the history and character of our neighborhoods. They are not connected to this website and the opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the positions of these organizations.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2018
(684)
-
▼
July
(63)
- Hunters Point library besieged with delays
- LIRR platforms to be widened
- Whitestone sidewalk & car damage resolved
- Cooper Avenue shelter, take 2
- Liu not very adept at fundraising
- Silver gets 7 years
- "The People's Beach" has gone to the hipsters
- Now we're getting e-bikes
- Dutch Kills wants firehouse reopened now that it's...
- Rego Park tower to be pretty tall
- Another too tall tower for LIC
- 311 call turns into 2-year saga
- Is this the way to stop rampant K2 use?
- Rats abound at Jamaica site
- March 2021 is new end date for Van Wyck project
- Charter changes up for discussion
- Flagship Diner forced to close to make way for apa...
- Posting a property on AirBnB will have consequences
- Bars almost always get away with being loud
- Liz Crowley considers losing boroughwide
- Pedestrian plazas are homeless havens
- Cathy Nolan calls for moratorium on building throu...
- No one ran a background check?
- Bowne Park is a disaster
- Real estate money flows into Cuomo's political pocket
- Dockless bike program hasn't gone as planned
- Jury still didn't buy the excuses of Skelos and son
- Community beats back overdevelopment project
- Freight rail to be expanded
- We should do this here!
- Crappifying Ridgewood by hook or by crook
- Hope for the Lefferts Ave bridge
- Illegal demo leads to garage collapse
- Homeless people are causing mayhem
- Damaged sidewalks remain after 4 months
- 670 "affordable" apartments to be constructed in F...
- A glimpse of Queens in the 1960s
- Kew Gardens house dating back to 1899 is teardown-...
- Barriers proposed for NY Harbor
- Queens now outpacing Manhattan in building permits
- Slick Silverstein
- Another community fed up with illegally parked trucks
- Tweeding routine backfired big time
- King of the hill, top of the heap!
- Dopey DOT program is hurting small businesses
- Developers love flood zones
- Jetsetting Bill!
- Yet another turd that won't stay flushed
- They're always cited after it's too late
- Composting program not progressing as planned
- Truck parking legislation sounds nice, but there's...
- Close call in Bay Ridge
- The new Astoria stations are spiffy
- 54 years later, city seeks contractor to fix "temp...
- Overdevelopment leads to shitty beaches
- "With liberty and freedom to build crap"
- It's all so convenient
- 28,000 kids poisoned by lead - and no one seems to...
- Disgraceful field conditions at FMCP
- Ridgewood's new demographics reduce school enrollment
- Cuomo decision allows Claire to rezone Flushing wa...
- East New York to be a basement conversion "guinea ...
- Glendale RV extravaganza!
-
▼
July
(63)
Send submissions to:
queenscrapper@gmail.com
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
14 comments:
With the influx of Chinese into my Queens neighborhood, we now have a problem we never had before. I am seeing a proliferation of mini buses, ambulettes, and shuttle vans being parked on my street, starting at about 5 p.m. and going until the morning. Each of these takes up 2 parking spaces in an area where parking is very difficult to find, effectively halving the number of available spaces. They are ALL Chinese owned, with Chinese writing on them. Furthermore, it ruins the look of the block with all these lettered commercial vehicles. I complained to Councilman Rory Lancman, whose staff member on the phone told me there were a lot of complaints about this from my street and other residential street residents. I have not heard back from Councilman Lancman about any action being planned. So far, there is a growing number of these eyesores all around the neighborhood. No one knows how to take over and ruin neighorhoods like these voracious Chinese, and no one knows how they are able to afford buying homes and co-ops in CASH.
Lancman is too busy decriminalizing turnstile jumping and potsmoking. He needs the votes. He needs a paycheck.
Drivers of big rigs can only drive a certain amount of time in a 24 hr period. The government is very strict and logs are kept electronically, no fudging. Trucking companies will now have to find legal parking( impossible) or add more drivers. Don’t bitch when almost everything you purchase goes up in price....
And to add to the above, no one knows how they are then able to get on Food Stamps, WIC and Medicaid--flash the card at Walgreen's while I (born here, worked here all my life, still paying taxes all my life) wait to get ripped off by Medicare Part D to pay for prescriptions I must take to maintain health in my "later years". DISGRACE!
The problem has nothing to do with Chinese - we have the same hassles - but our ambulette company is Russian, our vans are Mexican, etc. Point is: we need ENFORCEMENT!!! Ambulettes are "for hire" vehicles. As such, they require base livery licenses (which are reviewed by local Community Board!!!!) - that is TLC, not NYC DMV livery plates alone. None of the Agencies concerned give a damn - and none seem to have any awareness of the NYCRRs they are supposedly working with. Kinda like those 53' trucks - Dot does give permits for delivery of a SINGLE load to a SINGLE drop point (yeah, right) but they have NO IDEA how many they've given out.
MOVE!
It ain't gonna change.
Lancman is a powerless Democratic Clubhouse putz! AND...everybody knows we are not to offend the Chinese. They filled up the area , thereby preventing the "darker troublesome minorities" out.
It's ALL about protecting real estate interests in the area.
Blacks or Latinos would downgrade the real estate prices. Barely hidden racism!
I see the Chinese commercially-used vehicles I described above bearing different types of license plates: livery, bus, and passenger. Passenger plates for a mini bus with clear commercial writing on the side! As written presently, the law states vehicles with COMMERCIAL plates cannot park overnight on a residential street. How about these vehicles, clearly used for commercial purposes, having anything BUT commercial plates and thus taking up precious parking spaces on blocks where parking is already hard to find? Why do these oversized shuttle vans and ambulettes get livery licenses and not commercial licenses? Why doesn't the law prohibit the oversized livery licensed vehicles from parking overnight on residential streets?
>and no one knows how they are able to afford buying homes and co-ops in CASH.
We do know - the cash comes from the Chinese government.
Goods for us ?
People in Queens are ordering 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster's these days ?
Survey: NYC Queens and Detroit are top three worst-Run Cities In the country.
And of course nobody dare put this on the news and upset the Mayors office
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/survey-washington-worst-run-cities/
Remember the citizens of this city don’t want any type of enforcement. Keep voting for Deblasio and stuff like this will never get resolved. Remember Asians are just another poor minority getting harassed by NYPD, TLC, etc. welcome to 2018, Enjoy!
"I have not heard back from Councilman Lancman"
Sadly, you probably won't hear back until he's running for election. City Council staff are notoriously young, immature and underpaid, so they have no motivation to pursue this. The neighborhoods are on their own.
I hear that in 2020 it's gonna be DiBlasio/Lanceman for President/V.P. Then all NYC's and America's problems are solved. Keep electing Democrats NYC.
You can thank Mayor Bloomberg and the Port Authority for this mess. Bloomberg gave away prime real estate on Rockaway Blvd between Guy Brewer and Farmers Blvd. Instead of a Truck Stop he put up a car impound lot. The Port Authority has the land - but instead rents a good size parcel to a School Bus Company - because that's a perfect fit for the Cargo Section of the Airport. Cuomo needs to get involved because he can move the Port to do something.
Last time I checked the current asshole in charge (for the past 4 years) is Deblasio, not Bloomberg. He is clearly not interested in helping New York City with anything, much less truck parking. Don't worry though, only 8 more years to go, right?
Post a Comment