South Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Eric Adams enthusiastically announced plans for the city to build 100,000 affordable apartments in the next 5 years in his "City Of Yes" program. The City Of Yes program/doctrine will make it easier for the NYC housing and building departments to expedite building permits faster with … Continue reading The Habitat For Humanity Horror
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New Bad Days 101: This Is Also Hochulstopia
2022 in New York Fucking City turned out to be another banner year of high felony crimes and misdemeanors. While murders and shootings went down slightly from getting thousands of guns off the streets, every other major index crime skyrocketed. The biggest gains were opportunity crimes like petty and grand larceny, burglary and auto theft … Continue reading New Bad Days 101: This Is Also Hochulstopia
YIMBY Density Housing Development Site Switcheroo
South Richmond Hill, Queens, New York While Southside Queens in the 1141 zip code areas is notorious for it's McMansions and other ostentatiously tack developments, I never would have thought that one of these things would be coming to South Richmond Hill, an aesthetically ugly and density based apartment building that's out of scale with … Continue reading YIMBY Density Housing Development Site Switcheroo
Scenes Of Queens: Emergency At The Umbrella Hotel
This scene happened in Kew Gardens. This is the Umbrella Hotel, where the first homicide of departing mayor and lying lowlife Bill de Blasio last year in office took place, after a fight broke out from a hotel room where another raucous party was being held and spilled outside in front of the building's entrance … Continue reading Scenes Of Queens: Emergency At The Umbrella Hotel
The Corona And Rego Park Horrors
With rents going up yet again despite the omnipresence of COVID, there are still not many alternatives for working poor and even middle class citizens of New York City. This concern is even more illuminated after I received a tweet from long-time ally and arbiter on all shithole houses and buildings Queens Crapper about a … Continue reading The Corona And Rego Park Horrors