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  • The truth is, Babs is no longer running Corcoran these days and it seems like she may have become out of touch with reality. How about cutting the curb in front of her townhouse and turning that into a driveway?

    Posted by dudely
    on November 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pm

  • Too bad the city council is passing new legislation regulating lawn paving. As it stands, you cannot pave over your lawn to create parking, ever. That is already on the books, however as usual enforcement is an issue. The new regulations will tighten the already no more than 200 sq. ft. paving rule and force greenspace. Too bad to those who don’t want to pave over everything. Obviously Ms. Corcoran doesn’t understand how her attitude is not only destroying neighborhoods, it is destroying the environment by forcing effluent directly into maxed out sewers and into fragile Jamaica Bay.

    Frankly, whether or not she is still actively selling real estate, her license should be revoked as she is advocating illegal activity.

    Posted by kgresident
    on November 12th, 2007 at 10:57 am

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Corcoran: Your lawn must go

Posted by Steve on Sunday, November 11th, 2007

A Queens resident recently wrote to real-estate doyenne Barbara Corcoran asking her if he should rip out his lawn to build a driveway, like all the cool kids are doing. Quoth Corcoran in her Daily News column:

Hey, a flower garden might look pretty and keep your wife happy, but the space in front of your house is worth a hell of a lot more as a driveway.

Lovely! I feel kind of ridiculous claiming I know more about real estate than Barbara Corcoran, who has become very very very rich selling it, but ripping out lawns to create driveways makes the neighborhood hideous, which, in the long run, decreases the value of the property. Corcoran implores the writer to hurry up and kill the lawn right quick, because the “city council of Queens” — we have a city council now? — is enacting legislation to ban exactly this sort of thing for exactly the reason I just described.

But! I do have one question. When Corcoran moves into a neighborhood, it’s a sign that the neighborhood is about to become hot. Corcoran has no operations in Central Queens. If she loves paved-over lawns so much, why not? She’ll find them here in spades.