54-46, that's my number: the Queens thread

Standing here by the LaGuardia Landing Lights, waiting for the Q69.

RIP, La Paisa/Ms. Colombia:
http://gothamist.com/2018/10/04/ms_colombia_dead_riis_beach.php#photo-1

Hey just heard the title song of this thread at Espresso 77.

They just renamed a street near me after Walter Becker today.

Oh yeah, heard about that on WBGO this morning

Is this in forest hills or ?

Yeah

Local hero

Just you wait until they name a street in my neighborhood after Waddy Watchel.

Paulinho Da Costa Way

so... Amazon...

At last LIC will get the fast casual restaurants it needs.

My kid is telling me there is some kind of incident at The Academy of American Studies but I can find any mention of it

haven't heard but there was a giant fire early this morning on Queens Blvd. Destroyed Sidetracks, a noodle shop, a romantic depot a hardware store and a UPS store. No fatalaties but some injured firemen. Harrowing video of a backdraft explosion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66z7YVwE7n8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3eVaF9XL2EkC1ttD-Sm9ZxNr_XZYq0TsMxMYgaTEjLCNEqf_TupVw5jUQ&app=desktop

boom

Not around but heard about it

Shit looks nuts

just saw a slight glow in the sky from where I am, which isn't very far, but obscured I guess. Friend in Jackson Heights had a better view.

Queens has never looked more beautiful

Hella crowded at E77 for some dad rock power pop.

Oh snap. They are playing Eddie Floyd’s “Big Bird.”

More like nuggets/garage rock. Really good actually

They just got a new drummer. Maybe this was man alive’s band

A bartender called the transformer fire last week the Astoria borealis, I thought that was perfect

We are so cool we bought tickets to the DJ thing at the Knockdown Center and didn’t even go.

Mostly bc tired as fuck.

^^^my kind of new yorkers

We are going to smoke a joint though. Maybe. We still get down.

Had to take a detour shortly after the big production on Northern.

BREAKING: Amazon will not build HQ2 in New York City - Reuters, citing company statement https://t.co/jn8limUSe7

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) February 14, 2019

hell yeah

holy shit. awesome.

serious question and as someone that works on NYC often but lives across the Hudson in Jersey, what were the positives and negatives in the first place of them going there.

I mean, if they weren't little bitches they could still open their office here and go through normal, non-coddled processes.

positives: some jobs

negatives: shit jobs, huge tax giveaway, further strain on infrastructure, further homogenization of nyc, etc etc

I'm sure there are numerous articles outlining the pros and cons but the first things for me were that i) they shouldn't get any kind of "deal" to entice them to come to nyc ii) infrastructure that has been neglected will be under more pressure iii) tech douchebros /seattle 2.0

yeah xpost ^^^

tech douchebros /seattle 2.0

say no more

for reals though , i hadn't really bothered to read anything about it but what the fuck with the extra incentives for the biggest company in the world? fuck them

Like how dare deblasio and cuomo promise them so much corporate welfare when amazon probably would've picked nyc anyway. Toronto was the only one who had a normal proposal.

People outside of nyc seem more upset than those in nyc.

well the people that would work at a lot of those jobs would not be able to afford to live anywhere near NYC

There are still places in Queens that would certainly be affordable to the people in those jobs. I wasn't ultimately against Amazon coming but hated the way they did the deal. I will not miss them, notwithstanding that my apartment value would have risen slightly as it is within 20 mins commuting distance of the site.

The subway lines that run there are bursting at the seams and constantly delayed.

I own in Astoria and absolutely do not want them here with the way that shadyass deal was done.

LIC is really on a collision course with reality even without Amazon, but I'm glad they punked out.

Will never understand how Bezos blew this Queens move so badly. If he had (a) asked for far fewer tax breaks and (b) pledged $50 million (or whatever) to help fix the subway system, he would've owned New York forever. Robert Moses rose to power by doing *nice* things for people!

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 14, 2019

good luck being hot dog vendors at Citi Field y'all

the trains are a fucking nightmare

there's some debate about how many cheap shitty jobs they were going to bring and how many high-level fancy pants jobs.

the cheap jobs they say would be opened up to the local housing projects and communities, which sounds nice, but there wasn't going to be that many of those jobs.

the fancy jobs? New York has plenty. Are there a lot of 6 figure coder dudes with skillz who can't find jobs in New York? I work on the same floor as Spotify. My dr's office is the same building as Tumblr. They're all over the fucking place.

Queens doesn't need to attract tech bros to move across country or hemispheres to move into a neighborhood that's already too expensive.

But yeah there are cheap places in queens people can move to.

What would I do with 3 billion dollars in western queens? I'd open up numerous small business incubators to help maintain and keep small industrial start-ups. Which already exist but are having trouble maintaining. Wouldn't that be good for the city?

When Bloomberg started moving the entire city to residential zoning we lost a lot of light industry jobs and people were like whoah, I still live here and now I can't work here, and they moved towards preserving the industrial business zones, like parts of east williamsburg and greenpoint.

Industry City is a success. I think the Navy Yard is finally a happening place. Are they just gentrifying to fancier businesses? The Falchi Building and the Pfizer Building exist. New York wants more of that and cheaper. There's a huge need for certain kinds of specialized light industry/manufacturing emerging in this post-contemporary conformist artisanal world we live in. No they won't create as many jobs as the old factories, but they hire people for manual labor and handicrafts, not just coder bros.

Because so much is based in NY, we'll always have a good amount of those types of companies, but I see more exciting things happening elsewhere, solely because they have the SPACE.

I dunno just thinking.