From the New York SunCouncil Weighs Historic District DisputeBY ELIOT BROWN – Special to the SunJuly 13, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/58408 A protracted dispute between a Queens couple and the city is nearing a terminus, as the City Council is mulling over the historic status of a Douglaston home. The micro-battle, which could come to an end […]
Sports of The TimesWith the Dolans Involved, Expect More UglinessBy GEORGE VECSEYJuly 15, 2007 Just wonderful. Now it turns out that the friendly folks from Madison Square Garden, who have enough trouble qualifying the Knicks and the Rangers among the top 16 teams in their leagues, are glomming in on the dream for a new […]
Over 40 people showed up to an emergency press conference held at Saint Saviour’s Church in Maspeth to protest the destruction of dozens of mature and stately trees. Queens Crap has it all in living color – http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/07/residents-protest-rape-of-st-saviours.html, including a video of one of the tree-killers being confronted by protestors, followed by the police coming […]
We are appalled at this attack on a citizen preservationist for merely reading previously submitted testimony from a public official into the public record. We were there at the hearing and Ms. Parkhouse, who is a longtime preservation volunteer and member of the Boards of HDC, was clear in her statement, which was recorded as […]
07/08/2007Many in Canarsie fear ‘We’re under attack’ By Helen Klein During a late June meeting convened by State Senator John Sampson at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, 77 Conklin Avenue, civic leaders enumerated a variety of problems that the community is dealing with. A major issue, contended Mary Ann Sallustro, the president of the South […]
Large, mature trees more than a hundred years old are being cut down at Saint Saviour’s.See http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/07/parkside-pinky-urge-violation-of.html for horrifying photos of this massacre.The whole situation has gone over-the-top. The local Council member, Dennis Gallagher, who is currently being investigated by the police on charges of sexual assault, allegedly gave the developer permission to cut down […]
City Advances Widescale RezoningBY Special to the SunJuly 12, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/58299 The City Planning Commission passed two sweeping rezoning plans yesterday in an effort to curb out of scale development on residential streets of three neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens. Plans for the a 368-block section of Jamaica, Queens and a 99-block section of Brooklyn’s […]
The GIPEC Initiative for Public Space: a Tour of Governors IslandTuesday, 07/24/2007, 3:00–5:00pm (Register) Tour Governors Island and view the the exhibit of the five landscape proposals with GIPEC President Leslie Koch and Vice President, Planning, Design, & Preservation, Betty Chen. The Green Tram will take you to see spectacular views and sites across the […]
From Curbed (winner of HDC’s 2007 Friend from the Media Award) comes reports of an interesting new mapping tool from the New York Times – which shows building and demolition permits by neighborhood. A little clunky but it’s still in beta phase. http://realestate.nytimes.com/permits/search/index.asp
From the Daily News Forest Hills readies for rowConservationists want to save oldest housesBY NICHOLAS HIRSHON Posted Tuesday, July 10th 2007, 7:39 PM Fearing a developer will knock down the oldest houses in Forest Hills, some ardent preservationists want the city to save the century-old structures before time runs out. Lining 72nd Ave. between Austin […]
