Central Queens hot-topic roundup

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Sure seems like a lot has been going on around these parts lately, but what can I cover that hasn’t already been done so well by Forest Hills 72? In no particular order, let’s take a look at a few, bullet-point style. Discuss!

• You can say goodbye to the trees along the Long Island Rail Road tracks. They’re pretty but cause service interruptions for reasons that are so arcane you’ll just have to read the article to find out. The damage to the neighborhood’s character will be severe, assuming you live on Burns Street — otherwise you never really go down that way anyway, now, do you?
• Queens renters say they’re not staying. Heh, good luck renting that swank Chelsea pad at Kew Gardens prices, buckaroos.
• “Via Veneto” is coming soon to Austin Street. Mike of Mike’s Notes is dead on with his National Lampoon’s European Vacation analogy.
• In Forest Hills Gardens, even the sex offenders are upper-crusty. (I should probably point out here that nothing has been proven, though the Post does do something I was taught never, ever to do in journalism school when it writes that the guy was arrested “for child sex” (emphasis mine). The Post also disappoints by not branding the alleged offender a “perv,” as it usually does.

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