The more effective method not to block the box is for Department of Transportation to paint a white box on Myrtle Avenue allowing distance for cars to exit and enter 89 Street. It was painted before until the road was milled two years ago. When exiting 89 Street, residents sometimes need to wait up to … Read more
Quality of work by DoT and Parks & Recreation is subpar. Where sewer drain is right before Woodhaven Boulevard, the road dips scratching car bottoms and road. Even a ConEd manhole was asphalted over. Entire rows of healthy trees planted two years ago were uprooted and replanted. Now that some replaced ones have died… Do … Read more
This dead end facing the Forest Park Shops on 88th Place has “NO PARKING ANYTIME” sign constantly ignored. Weeds and plants have covered the “yellow” fire hydrant. A few houses down, overgrown trees are towering over homes. Fallen limbs have damaged cars and homes yet homeowners are not allowed to take pre-emptive steps to trim … Read more
Since the street dead ends, parking and driving requires extra attention. If a car parks at the grassy “No Parking Anytime” spot right outside of the “hand made” STOP sign, sanitation trucks cannot enter the end of the street to pick up trash. A neighbor has suggested marking parking lines or a law that sets … Read more
Medisys (a/k/a Jamaica Hospital) has bought several homes in the area. Some are also vacant. Along this stretch, there are a non-working police camera, trash concerns and cars blocking driveway, and theft incidents.
Can something be done about this?
Residents are afraid for their safety where Kew Gardens Road, Metropolitan and Jamaica Avenue intersect. The bench area attracts drug users, homeless and unwelcomed activities. With the number of mentally illed growing, certified phych beds have been reduced. Report.
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.
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
