Trash at warehouse along LIRR invites rats.
There is trash and dumping at 88th Avenue and 131st Street. Rats are everywhere. Wise potato chips food company rents a section of the warehouse. Neighbors sometimes pitch in to clean up.
Month: September 2022
Even a dead end street has speeding drivers, piles of trash and upticking crime.
133 Street off Metropolitan Avenue is about a 900 feet dead-end residential street. During alternate side street cleaning hours, parked cars do not move and are not ticketed. Trash piles up. Rats abound. For those cars that do move, residents’ driveway if often blocked. Previously, crime has been low, but now… theft and break-in are … Read more
Dead end section of 132nd Street has not been milled for at least 50 years according to one resident.
132nd Street southbound off Jamaica Avenue ends two blocks down by a commercial building, 132-02 89th Avenue. Neighbors complained about the trash dumping and pot holes at this 75′ x 200′ patch of road. Perhaps the City could work with the commercial property owners, 7 Fruits LLC and WFBH LLC, to get it done?
Pitching a tent over sidewalk at 132nd Street and Jamaica Avenue is not permitted. But…
There are laws, and there is enforcement. In addition to rising crime due to decriminalization ordered by New York State’s Bail Reform law, a tenant is able to pitch a tent, do sidewalk BBQ, hold music parties that even the landlord and police could not stop.
Having asylum seekers to wait 150 days for right to work is too long. Mayor Eric Adams said they should not wait that long!
Local Law 11 says anyone with permanent residency or work permit can vote in municipal elections. Republicans have had it ruled illegal, and Mayor Adams’ office is appealing the decision. If successful, voter registration starts January 3, 2023! Mayor Adams’s statement on YouTube 44:00.
Consumer Price Index for August 2022 at 8.3%
Trading Economics. Inflation hurts consumers and businesses. Track your household inflation rate. Compare food purchased and utilities paid month-over-month. Compare your rent/mortgage/insurance/tax payments year-over-year. List unexpected bills. Take control over inflation. Expect the government (your elected officials) to control taxes.
COVID Emergency not renewed, but there are still Monkeypox until September 27 and Polio until October 9!
The media got it wrong. Executive Order Number 21 is keeping her emergency powers alive! Be it polio, monkeypox (until September 27) or COVID, it’s politics as usual, not scientific reasoning. Governor’s own Executive Order 11.9 declares that the Emergency continues because the rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions is above 100 per day. According … Read more
92 Avenue dead end is a hot spot for Richmond Hill HS students to smoke pot and loiter.
Now that students are back in school, so are many of their annoying social behaviors. At the dead end pictured with the School in the background, a crowd of at least a dozen congregate there during and after school. Never mind the fact that no license has been issued to sell marijuana (access to buy … Read more
Turn 91st Avenue into a one way street.
The two-way street from 111 Street to Richmond Hill High School at 113 Street is too narrow for cars to pass safely. If made one-way, it may solve a quality-of-life evening noise problem in the area.
Street milling request at 112 Street, Speeding
This stretch of 112 Street between Jamaica and Atlantic Avenues needs milling given the amount of potholes. Also, car speeding to avoid traffic and speed camera on Liberty Avenue is a constant concern among seniors and children at play. Some residents have suggested leasing street parking space for convenience and safety.