Queens has been a county since 1683 (just as the USA originally had 13 states, the state of New York has 12 original counties: Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, Dutchess, Kings (ultimately Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Orange, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster and Westchester). Nassau County? In 1898, when four counties voted to become part of New York City, [...]
The tech giant’s new hub in New York will be close to a growing shelter zone - but can the city fight homelessness while cultivating the market forces that are pricing people out? Protesters opposing Amazon headquarters getting subsidies to locate in the New York neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP Juan [...]
New York City mega developer Sam Chang has filed plans with the Department of Buildings to build a 14-story, 283-room hotel at 52-02 Van Dam Street in Long Island City, at the site of a building currently being used as a homeless shelter. The new hotel will feature a restaurant, bar, rooftop terrace and 35 [...]
Photo by Walter Karling By Bill Parry First he called for a boycott against Amazon to protest the incentive package the company will receive as part of its deal with the state and city, and now state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) is planning to introduce new legislation that would ban state agencies and the government [...]
Google Street View By Mark Hallum / mhallum@cnglocal.com / Thursday, November 29, 2018 / 4:00 PM The Fairfield Inn in Long Island City, which was controversially converted into a homeless shelter by the city Department of Homeless Services (DHS) in May, has been sold to Brooklyn investor Shulem Herman. According to city records, at least [...]
By Mark Hallum The city Department of Homeless Services met its goal of converting Blissville’s City View Inn into a full service shelter by the start of the 2018-19 school year, bringing the five-block community in Long Island City one step closer to hosting three facilities as part of the mayor’s Turning the Tide on [...]
Touring Blissville and it’s three homeless shelters with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (in orange) are, from left, Director of Constituent Affairs Victor Montesinos, and Blissville residents Afsana Mostafa, Maria Davis, and Neghat Khan with Brent O’Leary from Hunters Point, Saturday June 2, 2018. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (in orange) who visited Blissville yesterday, Saturday, June 2, 2018 [...]
May 24, 20185:20 PM ET Samantha Raphelson / /www.npr.org/2018/05/24/614103115/queens-n-y-residents-fight-3rd-homeless-shelter-in-their-neighborhood The New York City Department of Homeless Services is moving forward with plans to convert a hotel into a shelter for homeless families in Blissville, Queens. The new shelter at the Fairfield Inn will be the third to open in the tiny Long Island City neighborhood [...]
by Michael Gannon, Editor | 0 comments Photo Credit Michal Gannon Akbar Rizvi, far right, president of the Blissville Civic Association, joined in a morning wakeup call for Mayor de Blasio across from Gracie Mansion. Residents are fighting a third homeless shelter about to open in their neighborhood. The Department of Homeless Services is showing no [...]
No more. The Mayor's plan to warehouse New York City's most vulnerable citizens in a neighborhood of warehouses, two blocks from the Newtown Creek Federal Superfund Site and one block from the Long Island Expressway - thereby creating a two to one ratio of actual residents to homeless shelter residents in the Blissville section of [...]
