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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
