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Comment on Three Stabbed in Woodside by Melly

Melly — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:13:39 +0000

These kids are lucky to be alive. If you dont know what really went down
Then you critics should not be wishing incarcerTion on Anyone!

Comment on Officials, Advocates Push to Revamp Abandoned LIRR Line by Peter

Peter — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Branch has been turned down time and time again. It would be a massively expensive project and no proponent of it has shown that there is a real need — that there is REAL ridership that can be counted on. That line ws closed because of lack of ridership and it was passed over for reactivation when the Air Train was built for that and cost issues. Few of those living in the Rockaways commute to Manhatten, let alone midtown. If their comute was an issue they would be living elseware and have plenty of options to move to a more convenient locale. There is a fetish of focusing on a midtown commute that simply does not jive with reality or the real needs of the communities along its length. Meanwhile, The QueensWay is not being proposed just for “pleasure” or by officionados. Bikes are transportation, not toys. Parks are essential to quality of life not luxuries. This has been proven a thousand times over all over the world. A bikeway, particulalry once NYC Bikeshare reaches Queens, would provide a real, affordable and safe means of transportation for the over 54% of New Yorkers whose daily trips are less than 3 miles in length and who are NOT commutting to midtown Manhattan. The neighborhoods along the line need LOCAL transportation. Those streets are not clogged with people going to Midtown. To suggest that a train carrying a small minority of people to Midtown and back during the few hours of rush hour would alleviate the almost constant traffic problems on Crossbay and Woodhaven Boulevards is absurd. We need good local transportation and that includes biking. Moreover with the addition of the Casino and eventually a Convention Center we need to build a means of keeping the money of those visitors here in Central and Southern Queens rather than building a qiuck way for those Convention goers to carry their money off to midtown. With a bike way and linear park, Convention business can be channeled into local tourism with local economic benefits. A train doesn’t do that. A train provides a qiuck escape without making our neighborhoods better to live in, without helping our businesses, without actually taking more cars off the street.

Comment on Three Stabbed in Woodside by ...

... — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:18:08 +0000

I heard the people who comment here are a bunch of wingnuts.

Comment on Middle Village Wakes Up to Graffiti by george

george — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:03:50 +0000

you didnt catch the right guy its not adam

Comment on Dozens of Laptops Stolen from St. Helen’s School by ComputerMan

ComputerMan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:36:16 +0000

Wow, $20,000, that’s so sad after all that fundraising!

Comment on Cop Hits Pedestrian While Speeding Between Robberies by victoria

victoria — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:37:23 +0000

I was there when it happened. You are incorrect in the statement that there were no lights – i went to cross the street and because I looked before crossing – I SAW THE LIGHTS on the cop car and stepped back because I knew I wasnt making it across….as i stepped back the man ran into the middle of the street at the same time the cop car was passing.

Comment on Cop Hits Pedestrian While Speeding Between Robberies by ANNE

ANNE — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:17:47 +0000

THIS IS CRAZY…THIS AREA IS CHANGING. BANKS HERE ARE ALWAYS GETTING ROBBED. BRING BACK THE ARMED GUARDS AND THIS WILL STOP!!!!!!!

Comment on Coney Island Operators May Bid for Forest Park Carousel by Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:06:29 +0000

Central Amusement would be the perfect operators for this. I, along with many other young families, would love to make this a destination for our kids. With the playground there, the skatepark, tons of parking, the bandshell – kiddie rides and a preserved carousel would complete the area. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll finally see this reopened.

Comment on Maspeth Has Trouble Rallying Support Letter for St Saviour’s by Ei

Ei — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:36:44 +0000

Elizabeth Crowley (D-Maspeth) and Borough President Helen Marshall are lairs, they are not leaders ..but followers, they do what is best for them and not the Community! They knew what was needed and wanted here in west Maspeth. Crowley has way with delaying ..she sure delayed in answer any emails… the two of them need to be replaced with people who actually CARE about WEST MASPETH!!!!!

Comment on Woodhaven Residents Tell CB9 Proposed Street Changes Unacceptable by Rosemarie

Rosemarie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:47:59 +0000

Hate to point out all the mistakes in this article. Woodhaven Avenue? Don’t you mean Woodhaven Blvd? Also, it would reduce the three roads into Woodhaven to two, not one, but that would still greatly inconvenience many residents returning home from Ozone Park and cause worse traffic on the two remaining thru roads.

Comment on Good Samaritans Tackle Upkeep of Neglected Jewish Cemetery by Florence Marmor

Florence Marmor — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:22:05 +0000

I have been researching Bayside and its neighboring cemeteries, Mokom Sholom and Acacia for more than 25 years. I have a database of thousands of burials there. I know Anthony Pisciotta and his work. We are in touch regularly. He heard of me and contacted me years ago. I can no longer go through the cemeteries as I did when I was younger and Anthony has become my legs in this job. I know Bayside and its nieghbors for many more years as I have relatives in all 3 cemeteries. The conditions have been going on for many more years than I know about myself. I met people over the years who grew up in the area and who knew of the history of the cemeteries. They mostly thought it was 1 cemetery not 3. Bayside and Mokom Sholom have been neglected for more than 50 years. Acacia began its descent when the synagogue that owned it was sold by its president. Something has to be done. Our history is in those cemeteries. These were people, human beings, who should be treated with dignity and respect. Open caskets, pieces of bone lying around and skulls staring at you should not be normal. I found a jawbone at Bayside myself many years ago. Bayside is a condition waiting to happen. The huge overgrowth and undergrowth begs for undesirables and vandals. This should be remov ed. It got there because of Shaare Tsedek’s irrepsonsibility not because of vandals. The conditions encouraged vandalism. Shaare Tsedek MUST take responsibility for what it has done. They used money meant for the care of the graves. They should be forced to take care of them. They sold the plots, yes, that was what every cemetery did. This was the way to make money. Selling the plots contracted them to take care of the cemetery. The cemetery is a whole. They don’t even take care of the plots that belong to them. The congregants at Shaare Tsedek are not connected to Bayside and don’t care about it. It has been for sale for years but no one wants to buy it as there is no money in it. Jewish law says sgraves can be used once. Bayside has reached itss end. There are almost no empty graves available. Every cemetery operating under Jewish law comes to this point. Something must be done to preserve these cemeteries.

Florenced Marmor

Comment on Woman Accidentally Shot By Friend In Maspeth by Christina Wilkinson

Christina Wilkinson — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:09:12 +0000

This happened in the Wynwood Gardens section of Woodside, not in Maspeth.

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Comment on City Outlines Plan to Alleviate Overcrowding at PS 49 by Joan

Joan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:44:08 +0000

The statement that non- zoned stduents with siblings in the school will be given preference provides a false sense of security to many parents. They would only be given preference above non- zoned children without siblings in the school. The priority orderis

1) zones with a sibling in the school
2) zoned without a sibling in he school
3) non- zoned with a sibling in the school.

Common sense tells you if the school is being rezoned because there is no capacity to handle the zoned students- #3 on the list will never be reached. Parents with children in the school and a younger childe at home will likely have to decide between moving the older child or facing the inpossible task of having children in separate schools.

Comment on Aqueduct Casino on the Fast Track by Arlene Torres

Arlene Torres — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:21:59 +0000

Will they be providing bus service to Aqueduct Casino like they do to the Casinos in Atlantic City?

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