Most suburban areas seem to have municipal garages located in and around their business district, so what’s the problem here? In recent visits to Boston, and Northampton, Mass, and Denver, Co. I found my shopping experience greatly enhanced by safe, free, and available parking. The same goes for the shopping areas of northern New Jersey, yah, even dullard New Jersey!

There is no question that our neighborhoods are becoming denser by the day, big one and two family houses are being converted to multiple housing. Both private and the city are building more residential units, and we have also experienced the enlarging of various shopping centers in and around Queens Blvd.

Unfortunately nobody has given any real thought to the growing traffic congestion in our neighborhood, overcrowded side streets, and the lack of inexpensive parking facilities for both residents and shoppers.

We need at least three (free or low cost) municipal garages, one each in Rego Park, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens. How long will it take the local politicos to “wake up and smell the coffee”?

Thanks for notifying us on how to further degrade our neighborhoods, disgraceful character AJ023! Campaign contributions, specifically large sums from developers are equivalent to bribes.

PS- Amici’s Pizza on Austin is for sale through ReMax. That location is cursed.

To those who might not know, they are tightening the abatements laws which they should. Developers these days do not need tax abatements to build. These are hold overs from the 70’s and 80’s and the city had to incentivize building. The abatements are supposed to go to those who agree to do a percentage to “affordable” housing. Instead it goes to buildings who sell for multiple millions of dollars and those folks who are buying certainly don’t need abatements. Instead, it robs the city coffers of millions, if not billions, of dollars that we could all use. This is corporate welfare at its most extreme.