Queens Crap

From the Times Ledger:Jamaica Hospital has been making progress in its efforts to expand its services to not only handle the void left after Queens lost two major hospitals, but also to serve the influx of patients, the medical center’s administrator said last week.The hospital completed part of t...

From the Daily News:Dozens of irate workers rallied outside a city contractor's office building in Long Island City Wednesday, demanding that management fumigate their workplace after a year-long bedbug infestation.The bugs have been found in the offices for Access-A-Ride dispatchers on Northern...

From the Queens Courier:Thanks to a 42 to 7 vote by the City Council – and a construction contract that has already been awarded – it seems that the new police academy in College Point is on track.In fact, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday, November 17 that, “the city [can] move forward on co...

From the NY Times:Last week the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6 to 3 to give landmark protection to the 100-year-old B. F...

From the NY Post:A controversial imam who authorities have called an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is scheduled to speak tonight to a Muslim student group at Queens College on the subject "How Islam Perfected Thanksgiving."The appearance by Brooklyn mosque imam...

From the Daily News:First, the good news for Astoria: The city is close to unveiling a zoning plan that will prevent tall buildings from sprouting on streets lined with one- and two-family homes.Now the bad news: That zoning may not be approved in time to prevent the construction of a 10-story...

From HDC Newsstand:Although the Fair buildings were intended as temporary, 1965 plans for creating Flushing Meadows-Corona Park identified the Pavilion for preservation and reuse...

From Fox 5:The New York City comptroller's office says the city has lost nearly 60,000 communications jobs since 2000, including in publishing and broadcasting.New York City accounts for about 19 percent of national employment in the communications sector.The city lost 44,500 communications jobs...

Korean Americans Reflective After Election Upset in NJNOVEMBER 13, 2009, DongaKorean Americans in New Jersey are reflecting on their relations (or lack thereof) with other ethnicities in the wake of a shocking election defeat.Democrat Kevin Kim, who ran for the New York City Council, lost Nov...

From the Queens Tribune:Barry Plonski said at his polling place on Election Day that he’d vote for any Council candidate who would get rid of the stinky Ginkgo Biloba trees near his home on 210th Street and 43rd Avenue in Bayside. ...

From the NY Post: The cost of renovating City Hall has zoomed to an eye-popping $90 million -- nearly 50 percent more than the original estimate, The Post has learned.Matthew Monahan, a spokesman for the Department of Design and Construction, the city agency overseeing the project, confirmed last...

From the Daily News:More than 200 properties across the city have 10 or more illegal-conversion complaints since 2005.If inspectors fail to gain access on the first try, they must go back on a different day...

From the Daily News:The long-awaited expansion of the Rego Center is expected to open as early as February, but it might take some more time for it to fill up with retailers.Costco and T.J. Maxx are the latest stores to sign on with the expanded mall...

So the DOB has a guy in a clown costume teaching kids about elevator safety. Which is appropriate because the DOB seems to be full of real clowns who many times fail to see anything wrong when an elevator isn't functional...