Before COVID, token booth clerks could take cash purchases, transfer card values, and be of service helping straphangers. My mother got a new MTA Reduced-Fare MetroCard. The expiring one has money in it, so I asked my token booth clerk to help. No luck. I could mail it in for a refund or visit a … Read more
Flour up 75%; Coconut oil, 140%; Chicken, 130%. Polystyrene foam is banned statewide as of January 1, 2022. The cost to buy paper for on- and off-premise consumption went from $13 per 500 units to $43 per 250 units, a hit of 550%! Adding in DEP tickets, taxes, electricity… how can one stay in business … Read more
Most store owners do clean the streets in front of their storefront when opening in the morning. DEP would come around noon and issue fines irregardless of how the piece of trash got to the store. (1) Tickets should be dismissed should there be a video of cleaning done the same day before ticket was … Read more
New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) so far paid 178,855 residential tenants a total of $2.9 billion federal fund as of July 28, 2022 to help their landlord. ERAP does not cover commercial landlords, and owners use the same New York State court process for eviction. One reason for high rent is bad … Read more
Pastor Dan Shafer does his best to serve the Woodhaven community. Food Pantry is running low. He also faces personally crime in the neighborhood. Can we give him a hand?
Gas Sale station at 68-29 Woodhaven Blvd. Normally, the lowest priced station in the area.
How to control inflation? (1) watch the price of crude oil/energy; (2) cut down criminal theft and property damages; and (3) reduce government’s need for more money from honest taxpayers. CPI June 2020.
