Greetings, JH Lifers. Just in case you missed it, this website will be closing down on December 31st. It's been a great journey, but it is time for this site to walk off into the sunset (or whatever lies on the other side of the BQE). Please see our recent announcement for more information.
Hopefully this is just the beginning of a new chapter in efforts to build community online and in real life. Come join your neighbors at r/jacksonheights or r/queens on Reddit, Jackson Heights 11372 on Facebook, and the venerable JHfamilies group on Google.
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Guys are you enjoying seeing the plywood door at the train station. I finally see some big progress I think it's better than grand central doors...I'm enjoying the bird dropping from that beautiful glass canopy...I'm proud to be living in Jacko Heights.
According to this map, the vandal is most likely a Shih Tzu named Max:
http://project.wnyc.org/dog-map/embed.html
We know you are out there Max, why don't you just come clean. :police:
"JHBG -- Jackson Heights Beautification Group has been working for the last 25 years to make JH a better, safer and cleaner place to live."
Thank you JHBG, for all the work you have done and are currently doing in our community.
Yes, thanks JHBG. You're amazing!
I'm grateful to see this topic thread and it makes not feel so alone to know that others out there are having the exact same issues I am. I am somewhat glad I moved to JH 4 years ago, and I LOVE my apartment and its proximity to the train, but I have days where I DEEPLY wish I was somewhere else for the exact reasons people enumerated:
-No gyms
-No decent brunch spots
-No restaurants serving healthy food (I spent an hour on Seamless and Grubhub the other night trying to find something worth eating for someone on a restricted diet and came up zero)
-No place to go for drinks with friends
-Mediocre grocery stores (for the person looking for decent meat, FreshDirect is the only option, or shop in Manhattan)
I don't expect any of this to change, and I'm working to try to accept JH for what it is. And I do appreciate the farmer's market. And I don't want this to be Williamsburg, but I would still like something better.
I bought my apt at the height of the market, so I'm kind of stuck here.
What's sad is that when it finally makes financial sense for me to leave, I will.
And that sucks because there is so much good here, as well as potential. But I'm doubtful that I'll ever really be more than moderately happy here at best. That really bums me out.
Do you folks who are also ambivalent think you'll stay for 5+ years, or do you see yourselves moving on?
Thanks for letting me vent!
agreed, daisy, cleaner streets and less illegal activity are great things-- and our neighborhood has made great strides in both, as anyone who's lived here for any length of time can attest. not that we've achieved perfect scores, but it's a whole lot better than my first experiences around here in '82 or so.
and williamsburg? far, far, far dirtier than jackson heights as a rule, particularly when it comes to the public urination that my friends who live there say the patrons of those cool bars are responsible for. ditto the coke dealing, which is about the same there. yeah, i recognize i am honing in on that one neighborhood, but it seems to be the point of comparison for so many people seeking a new york ideal before moving to rockland county.
As has been pointed out on this thread and in others, the commercial rents in Jackson Heights, particularly on 37th Ave, are way too high. This may be the single biggest factor preventing small, locally owned businesses from starting up.
The real estate is privately owned and the owners have the right to charge (or try to charge) whatever the market will bear. Having said that, there has to be some creative solutions we could explore as a community to work with landlords to encourage a better mix of retail on 37th.
I don't pretend to have the answers, but I wish there were a way to start that dialogue. Who can provide leadership? Council Member Dromm?
I love that we have this forum on the web to discuss it, but how can we get the ball rolling in the "real world"?