The old Van Sicklen house that was demolished for new housing went from one house to four houses in three months.
This looks like two family homes with potential basement studio apartments. Which will probably be legal with the "City Of Yes" doctrine that's about to be implemented to fast track new development.
What's all this bullshit being said lately that building new housing in New York City is illegal?
Goodnight YIMBY.
It was only a year ago when a skull was found on the lawn of the Van Sicklen house, but now something new has arisen on the dilapidated blighted property.
It's a lot thinner (and cheaper) than the old house plus it's way behind schedule (or maybe it meant it would be done by Christmas). Hope it holds up against the violent climate or the big bad wolf.
Human remains that were discovered in a Queens back yard have been identified as a 53-year-old Brooklyn woman — and authorities say she was murdered.
The NYPD said Thursday that the skeletal remains belonged to Gloria Lee, who was last seen alive at her home in Flatbush in May 2021.
The medical examiner has ruled Lee’s death a homicide, although the cause has not been released yet.
Around 6:40 a.m. July 26, 2021, a person walking by an abandoned home on Pine Grove Street in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens spotted a human skull in the yard and called 911.
Investigators do not know how Lee’s remains ended up at that location, nor how long they had been there before being found.
The woman had no known ties to the home on Pine Grove Street.
A human skull was found outside a Queens home Monday morning, police said.
The remains were located in front of 108-16 Pine Grove St. in Jamaica around 9:30 a.m., police said.
The city’s medical examiner responded and determined that the remains were human and had no sign of trauma, police sources said.
There were no further details immediately available.
It’s not everyday the NYPD reports a skull lying on the sidewalk in a residential area. But in the obviously click bait generating article (which is not even truncated here and the Post used a google map crop for the lede photo), the home the NY Post is referring is an abandoned zombie house that was cited for a full vacate order by the D.O.B. following a fire and from the looks of it, it might have been abandoned even longer before that incident.
So might as well provide some further details the NYPD couldn’t provide (or wouldn’t).
Let’s enhance…
Perusing the D.O.B. files, not much is known about the prior or even current owner of this blighted property, but this home is steeped in Queens history. It was built and owned nearly a century ago by Abraham Van Sicklen, whose father was a New York supreme court justice who also owned a famous mansion in Jamaica and grandson of a renowned farmer in Brooklyn.
