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  • All the more reason to form our own Civic Association - especially those of us in the co-ops and condos surrounding Austin Street - from Yellowstone to Union. I’m working on a post which will be up tomorrow morning that will underscore why.

    Stuchinski only cares about south Forest Hills (she lives in a Bunkerland house). She hates Austin Street, which makes sense since it’s such a tiny part of Forest Hills’ character. I mean, when people think of Forest Hills, who thinks of Austin Street? It’s all about Manse!

    Katz lives down there too. My guess is that they want to dollars that Austin Street brings in, but want nothing to do with the people those dollars attract. I’ve said it before, I admire Stuchinski’s power as a community leader, but she obviously has washed her hands of anything north of Ingram. I think it’s up to us.

    Posted by Foresthills72
    on May 13th, 2007 at 7:21 am

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More of the same in South Forest Hills

Posted by Steve on Saturday, May 12th, 2007

In a borough where rules are constantly changing to allow for high-density development, part of Forest Hills might be getting rezoned — but, unusually enough, to restrict development, not to encourage it. That area is South Forest Hills, the freestanding-house-dominated neighborhood surrounding the quaint, suburbish Metropolitan Avenue shopping strip — not to be confused with Forest Hills South, the adorable co-op development a few blocks from where I live and nowhere near the neighborhood in question. Says FH Community and Civic Association prez Barbara Stuchinski:

The zoning is to correct that [the current] zoning allows for community facilities, such as the monstrosities on Austin Street, of private homes being turned into large medical clinics.

The politician behind the rezoning is City Councilwoman and Zoning chair Melinda Katz, loathed by Queens Crap for generally doing exactly the opposite of this. So what’s different about this case? Well, far be it from me to come up with wild conspiracy theories, but I will note that Katz’s office is right smack in the middle of the neighborhood. Whatever the motivation for this move, if you live down in Bunkerland, it looks like you won’t be seeing any “community facilities,” whatever that means, anytime soon.