Forgotten-Ny - Queens Crap
Hey All!!!
Forgotten-NY is a site that is basically dedicated to posting up random historical information about New York City's forgotten or neglected landmarks, and other miscellaneous standing bits of history. This site ranges from talking about cobblestone streets and how they came to be to commonly overlooked street lamps and their historical backgrounds. Well, as I was checking out this site which was rather trivially informative, I couldn't help but check out what they had to say in their section label "Queens Crap." One particular article, the one about rezoning North Flushing, caught my attention. The article was a letter written to the editor of the Times Ledger bringing to their attention the problem with the rush for land by developers. They claim that many families have actually decided to move out of the area due to the horrible overdeveloping going on. The bigger problem is that while North Flushing was scheduled to be Rezoned in order to protect the original structure of the neighborhood, in fact other area have been successfully rezoned while North Flushing residents are still waiting. This particular article caught my attention because I'm actually a resident of Flushing, and while I don't particularly reside in North Flushing, I have noticed around the area the problem which they were alluding too. Just two blocks from my house developers bought two properties and turned it into one big four family house. As I kept scrolling down the page, I kept seeing other articles about places here in Queens and I couldn't help but think "oOo... I know where that is" overall, I find this to be a very interesting site... Anyway, see you all in class
Hey All!!!
Forgotten-NY is a site that is basically dedicated to posting up random historical information about New York City's forgotten or neglected landmarks, and other miscellaneous standing bits of history. This site ranges from talking about cobblestone streets and how they came to be to commonly overlooked street lamps and their historical backgrounds. Well, as I was checking out this site which was rather trivially informative, I couldn't help but check out what they had to say in their section label "Queens Crap." One particular article, the one about rezoning North Flushing, caught my attention. The article was a letter written to the editor of the Times Ledger bringing to their attention the problem with the rush for land by developers. They claim that many families have actually decided to move out of the area due to the horrible overdeveloping going on. The bigger problem is that while North Flushing was scheduled to be Rezoned in order to protect the original structure of the neighborhood, in fact other area have been successfully rezoned while North Flushing residents are still waiting. This particular article caught my attention because I'm actually a resident of Flushing, and while I don't particularly reside in North Flushing, I have noticed around the area the problem which they were alluding too. Just two blocks from my house developers bought two properties and turned it into one big four family house. As I kept scrolling down the page, I kept seeing other articles about places here in Queens and I couldn't help but think "oOo... I know where that is" overall, I find this to be a very interesting site... Anyway, see you all in class
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