Real Estate Ads in the Queens Chronicle

Hey, maybe I'll move to southern Queens. There seem to be an awful lot of generous landlords there who offer free utilities & cable. One of the pads even comes with all the furnishings!

Dim bulbs at City Hall

A simple suggestion for greening the city comes from the Daily News:


Here's a bright idea: Turn off the lights!

Photo from Daily News

Bringing affordable housing to the Brig

Isn't it great that the city is creating new "affordable housing?"

City to build housing

To the Brig With You! Affordable-Housing Plans Progress Near Navy Yard

It's too bad that they are allowing the existing stock to disappear. One step forward - two steps back.

Drawing from NY Magazine's Daily Intelligencer

A 2nd Walk Through the Meadows, part 1

The Heads of State monument has been previously mentioned on Queens Crap, but since it's in Crappy's neck of the woods, he took a stroll down to the other end of the park for a closer look.
For anyone who doesn't know the story, a bus heading to the tennis center hit this monument last summer and knocked it over. After leaving it lying on the ground for months, the geniuses at the Parks Dept. decided to try to upright the monument. Well, when they did, a huge piece fell off. Good move, guys. Better yet, instead of taking the monument off to be repaired, they simple left it standing there with the huge chunk missing, a disgrace to the leaders it was meant to honor. Now it is one item on a long, long list of things that need to be repaired in Flushing Meadows Park.
Right on the other side of the tracks next to the tennis center, Crappy found a little gappy. This path leads right up to the high-speed, electrified LIRR tracks. Crappy doesn't want children or vandals finding their way onto the tracks, so he called 311. He hasn't been back to check on the status yet. At least the Parks Dept. is consistent in its neglect of Flushing Meadows Park. Their own offices are a disgrace just like the rest of the park.First stop on the Queens Crap Trolley: the rusty underside of the promenade. Is this the kind of image we want people to associate with the culture of Queens? Crappy thinks we can do a little better.

QC's 1st Walk Through the Meadows series:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
2nd Walk, part 2
2nd Walk, part 3

Is Pinky promoting park vandalism?

"Thank you so much for your website, I think you are doing a great job. I am writing to let you know that Councilman Dennis Gallagher becomes more unhinged by the day. I compained to him that my kids could use a place to play ball and it wasn't fair that the nicer fields at Juniper Valley Park are sitting there unoccupied and locked a good portion of the time. Councilman Gallagher blamed the two men who fix up the park for locking the fields without permission. I called the Parks Department and they said that the fields are locked to keep them well maintained and that permits were required for play. I went back to Gallagher to tell him what I was told, and then he blamed a baseball team that he used to fund up until last year.

He then told me, "Just cut the locks."

I couldn't believe that my own councilman would encourage people to break the law and vandalize park property, but I heard it with my own ears! I told some people about this and my friend notified the Parks and Police Departments."