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Shoveling Snow for Seniors
These photos of Englid and Daniel shoveling snow for a senior citizen
were taken at 3:11 am on 58th Avenue in Maspeth after we were hit by
the March 22nd snowstorm.
After each storm the volunteers waited until the snow stopped and
there were times they were out shoveling until the early morning hours.
We want to thank Assemblyman Brian Barnwell and all the young
volunteers for helping our seniors this past winter.
Now that the warm weather has arrived you may experience quality of On March 15, 2018, about three and a half years after his initial
life problems such as loud music, youth hanging out at our footbridges complaint, Dick was thrilled to see the Department of Environmental
or perhaps even illegal dumping. These officers are trained to deal with Protection finally taking action to address the problem.
many different problems involving various agencies. We cannot stress the importance of reporting a problem to 311 as soon
If you have a concern and wish to reach out to them, you can contact as you observe it. If nothing is done in a timely fashion, contact your
them by email: Donald.lee@nypd.org and Sebastian.arrubla@nypd.org community board and elected offical. Persistence does pay off!
and they will follow up on the complaint.
NOTE: Community Board 2Q held two public hearings. One was held
at their regularly scheduled meeting and one was held in Woodside at
St. Mary’s, which is located directly behind the development project.
Councilman Holden has come out against the proposal. As we go to
press, no final decision has been reached.
Residents attend CB2 meeting at St. Mary's to speak against the proposal Parking is a nightmare all over
our area and residents don’t
For the past 10 years, we, as a community, have witnessed a steady need to see the problem
increase in construction and development of tall buildings within our compounded by local residents
community. However, the two proposed buildings on 69th street would operating a car sales business
be the biggest and tallest in the Maspeth, Woodside, and Elmhurst area
on our city streets. A car sales
in recent years. At the current time, there are approximately 10 different
business, like other businesses,
high rise projects happening within the one mile radius from 69th Street
must operate from property
to Woodhaven Boulevard which combined with the 69th street project
zoned for that type of business.
would create over 1000 more apartments for our community. Truthfully,
our community’s infrastructure is not ready for this rapid expansion. We took this problem to our
110th Precinct NCO Officers Don
There are numerous issues that would impact the community if this
Lee and Sebastian Arrubla and asked them to see what could be done to
rezoning happens. First and most importantly is overcrowding of our
rectify the situation.
schools. The majority of the schools in District 24 are either extensively
overcrowded already or getting very close to maximum capacity. By UPDATE: Our officers spoke with a resident who was part of this
adding another 561 apartment units on 69th street, we are making “business” and asked that they cease and desist this activity. One of the
this overcrowding issue worse instead of solving it. Secondly, traffic “for sale” vehicles was towed for non-compliance. Hopefully the person
congestion. Traveling on Queen Boulevard is currently hard enough running this operation got the message.
without this project. Imagine what will happen if this project would
We urge folks to reach out to their precinct if they believe a business is
to take place. People will need to make extra time to get to work and
using city streets to conduct business.
spend more time on the road instead of more time with their loved ones
C.O.M.E.T. Meetings
Our meetings are held at St. Adalbert Parish Center, lower level, 52-40 84th Street. Please check our website in early September
to see a list of our scheduled meetings.
Newsletter Committee
Mike Fordunski, Tom Porembski, Richie Polgar, Christina Wilkinson, Geraldine Walsh, Howard Moskowitz, Teresa Marrero, Lucille
Winsko, Dick Gundlach, James Zhang, Roe Daraio & Maspeth Press.