Sunday, May 12, 2019
Overdeveloped Jackson Heights wants to convert street to a park
From CBS 2:
More than 100 people gathered at Travers Park in Jackson Heights calling on the city to keep promises they say were made about expanding a pedestrian plaza, reports CBS2’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas.
“We are here today yet again to demand that Howard Koeppel and his car dealership get this service road out of our park,” said one protestor.
Koeppel Mazda opened a location last fall along Northern Boulevard.
The $1 million construction project included creating a service entrance on 78th Street, an area the protestors say the city promised would become a pedestrian plaza.
Why demand an actual new park when the government has you begging for crumbs...
10 comments:
People are booing cars going into a building that sells cars. Mental.
Kids today too soft? In my salad days - iceberg not radicchio - we played street stickball and touch football and waited for the damn cars to go by! No helmets on the bikes either. Bring back ringolevio, johnny-rides-a-pony and skully!
Even if they get the car dealership to give up access on that road, there's a private, nonprofit school with a parking garage used by its executives on school days and by its board president (for personal vehicles) on non-school days. That school garage pulls cars much farther into the park than the dealership. Is anyone trying to get the school to give up its access? The politicians know all about this, because government and political people were involved in the deal that got the school to sell its land to the city and expand the park.
Yes we need another pedestrian plaza so dead beats and junkies have a place to hang out.
All this is is grand standing by a bunch of electeds looking for higher offices and a bunch of “activists” so desperate to be electeds they’ll jump on to any issue.
At the end of the day, Koeppel will get paid off and the “activists” will get their precious park. They will claim it as a major victory, especially for the children! Koeppel will laugh all the way to the bank while those precious children continue to get slaughtered on neighborhood streets that these “activists” don’t give a crap about!
Who's that bearded blowhard with that [legal?] bullhorn?
Those co OP owners need their park. They Int playing!
Pedestrian plazas work in Paris because the weather cooperates. Our weather is much more like TOkyo, which puts all of its pedestrian concourses underground. Most luncheonettes in Tokyo are underground
That service entrance was used for over forty years by Toyota. They moved and Mazda moved in and is using the same entrance. The street is open to be used by cars. It is not part of the park. These people are idiots.
Last anon. Thank you. If CBS did some research or maybe show people with other views this story would have made more sense. Instead they show some nimrod, probably that beardo, yelling boo at a car hoping to get a rally going.
I haven't been to Jackson Heights in a while, but that looks like a nice little yet spacious park. What difference does a friggin block make.
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