Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-12), center, speaks in support at a protest in front of Gracie Mansion today, with residents of Blissville, an isolated corner in southwestern Long Island City, against the imposition by DHS of a third shelter in the tiny community — raising the homeless population to one greater than the residential population, May [...]
May 10, 2018 By Nathaly Pesantez Blissville, the small, remote neighborhood recently in the spotlight for an ongoing homeless shelter controversy, has formed a new civic group to take on the neighborhood’s challenges, with a protest at Gracie Mansion already planned next week. The Blissville Civic Association, the name of the new group, formed about [...]
As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan; and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji. The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker [...]
Blissville braces for homeless shelter Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:30 am by Michael Gannon, Editor | 0 comments Residents of the Blissville Civic Association have been told that the Fairfield Inn & Suites Hotel at 52-34 Van Dam St. will officially close on May 16, and begin its new incarnation as one of 90 permanent [...]
The Department of Homeless Services is set to open a third shelter in the Fairfield Inn. Blissvillians Protest - Not NIMBY, but Above and Beyond Fair Share. With Shelters in the former City View Hotel and the Best Western (now called Sweet Home), This isolated and remote corner of Queens is overwhelmed and feels it [...]
A resident from Blissville calls in to The Brian Lehrer Show March 2, 2018, to "Ask the Mayor" about the Homeless Shelters in Blissville. Click Here to Hear Ask The Mayor
October 6, By Christian Murray The Department of Homeless Services has been housing homeless families at the City View Inn in Long Island City since late July, residents learned at a community meeting last night. The revelation was made during a heated Community Board 2 meeting on Oct. 6 while board members were questioning DHS [...]
If you go to sunnysidestories.website, you'll see my three articles, including the historic one. I learned about Blissville for the first time when researching Sunnyside, and realize that it developed earlier, because it was situated on Newtown Creek. It is a website dedicated to those who grew up there in the 40's and 50's. Some [...]
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Here is a time lapse over about 8 hours of the lowering of the Kosciuszcko Bridge truss on July 25th and 26th, 2017 to a barge. The bridge was opened in 1939. They originally were supposed to blow it up, but that didn't happen. The infamous roadway is being replaced with a new bridge right [...]
