Safety
Rain Garden is nice in concept, but it becomes another place where trash accumulates.
The street at this section of Hawtree Creek Road between 126 and 127 Streets is not fully paved, but it has a newly installed rain garden that is filled with trash in the flower bed. City’s Department of Environmental Protection is suppose to maintain them. Hawtree Creek Road here also has even and odd street … Read more
Sewage backup problem along Juno Street
Several blocks along Juno Street starting at 71 Avenue westward has sewage a backup problem. When hurricane Ida hit on September 1, 2021, one house reported at least 2 feet of basement flooding due to sewage backup, not outside flooding in, but it was a different story at 95-05 71 Avenue where street flooded up … Read more
Traffic light request at 71 Avenue and Ingram Street denied
There are three traffic lights installed at Harrow, Juno and Kessel Streets on 71 Avenue on four blocks. What can a mother with young children do to protect her family from speeding cars?
Neighbors at 121 Street near Linden Boulevard want speed bumps, fire hydrants painted and a public park nearby for children to play
Southern Fields, Lefferts Playground, PO Edward Byrne Park, and Phil Rizzuto Park are all at least one mile away.
Overgrown trees and bush on Linden Boulevard at 117 Street
Petty thieves tend to hide behind excess shrubbery and low lying branches waiting for victims.
NJ Transit shut service earlier on Friday, June 17 – Happy Fathers Day weekend
The nations’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit ended its 11-rail-line service between 7:15 pm and 8:15 pm instead of the usual midnight. NJ Transit should have planned backup while union negotiation continues. Innocent customers should NEVER be treated this way. PERIOD.
Juneteenth – Abraham Lincoln was not the first!
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger informed the community of Galveston of President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation. Yes, it took over two years since the Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Did you know, the first emancipation proclamation was actually declared by John Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty’s Lieutenant and Governor-General of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia … Read more