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Neighborhood Chat / Fireworks
« on: October 06, 2019, 07:37:36 PM »
What were all the damn fireworks last night (Saturday)? They kept waking us and our neighbors up.
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Restaurants & Food / Where is my kebab truck?
« on: August 10, 2019, 02:10:05 PM »
Okay. So for months, I relied for my cheap dinners on my passionate love of the Main Bakhtar kebab truck at 37th and 73rd. Seven goddamn dollars, and the rice was amazing. You could make a meal just out of the rice and sauce, but there was also salad! And meat! Truly a joy.
Now (sob) it's gone, replaced by multiple redundant repeating fuschka trucks which are not to my taste and thus irritate me. Is there anywhere nearby I can get a similar sub-$10 kebab platter? Afghan #4 does not count, because all of their plates cost, like, $20, which may be why I never see anyone in there.
Now (sob) it's gone, replaced by multiple redundant repeating fuschka trucks which are not to my taste and thus irritate me. Is there anywhere nearby I can get a similar sub-$10 kebab platter? Afghan #4 does not count, because all of their plates cost, like, $20, which may be why I never see anyone in there.
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Neighborhood Chat / Leverich Cemetery
« on: July 04, 2018, 10:54:49 AM »
Does anyone know who actually owns this? JHBG does some work there, and it's lovely, but I'd love to see it open wider hours.
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Real Estate & Home Improvement / Good AC installer?
« on: May 02, 2018, 05:01:13 PM »
I want my window AC, which is right now sitting in the window with cardboard around it, installed well, with plexi on either side so we can get some light in. Who's up to the task?
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Neighborhood Chat / Regional Plan Association puts "H Train" along Northern
« on: November 30, 2017, 08:46:10 AM »
... with a stop at 80th and Northern, as well as a new commuter rail line at 74th/Roosevelt!
Sigh. If only.
https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/936227032371007489
http://fourthplan.org/action/new-subways
Sigh. If only.
https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/936227032371007489
http://fourthplan.org/action/new-subways
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Neighborhood Chat / DNAInfo shuts down - we lose local news!
« on: November 02, 2017, 05:31:29 PM »
This is big and bad. The billionaire who runs DNAInfo and Gothamist decided to shut down all of his Web sites today and delete their archives from the Internet. That means not only is Katie out of work and we lose a chronicler of JH life, we lose the whole chronicle. Big loss for our town. Ugh.
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Neighborhood Chat / Senator Peralta and the IDC
« on: January 26, 2017, 08:36:44 AM »
[Moderator's Note: Thread renamed for factual accuracy. Original thread name, "Peralta joins the Republican Party," remains a widely held interpretation of his action.]
Our state Senator, Jose Peralta, has just joined a group of former Democrats who caucus and vote as part of the Republican Party in the Senate.
http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/01/sources-jose-peralta-defects-to-idc-109028
Our state Senator, Jose Peralta, has just joined a group of former Democrats who caucus and vote as part of the Republican Party in the Senate.
http://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/01/sources-jose-peralta-defects-to-idc-109028
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Real Estate & Home Improvement / Are 1BRs really cheap?
« on: January 23, 2017, 10:40:48 AM »
I was having a discussion with a friend today about real estate values in JH, and looking at Zillow, 1BRs in the low 70s look to be really cheap - like, around $259k. They don't seem to have appreciated at all in the past ten years. But I've also heard about skyrocketing prices for larger apartments, and people being unable to afford them. Are 1BRs just an undesirable eddy? Are these apartments going to resist appreciation indefinitely?
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Neighborhood Chat / Need a refrigerator repair-person
« on: September 22, 2016, 08:21:40 PM »
Our fridge is knocking - the freezer fan is loose and needs to be tightened. Can anyone recommend a no-nonsense, non-ripoff fridge repairman? I called official GE service and they refused to offer a price quote even within an order of magnitude - they agreed that it "could be thousands" (it's a $500 fridge and it's just a fan.)
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Real Estate & Home Improvement / Is $829k too much for a JH apartment?
« on: August 20, 2015, 06:56:41 AM »
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/18/for_829000_a_renovated_classic_six_in_jackson_heights.php
$829k means probably $276 down and a board-approval income level around $250,000. Does our neighborhood have the shopping and dining amenities to support those kinds of prices and incomes? I think not.
$829k means probably $276 down and a board-approval income level around $250,000. Does our neighborhood have the shopping and dining amenities to support those kinds of prices and incomes? I think not.
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Neighborhood Chat / We are not a wealthy neighborhood
« on: January 31, 2015, 11:57:40 AM »
Someone in one of the other threads wanted some more details on the income trends which lead upscale retail to not consider Jackson Heights, and pointed out that perhaps the historic district has different income trends than 11372 as a whole.
There is a GREAT mapping tool on the Census Web site with 2012 community survey data (http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html) Choose "median household income" and "census tract," and then zoom in on Jackson Heights, and you can get the area really tightly segmented.
What you find is that there is one tiny little census tract, from 78th-81st Streets between 37th Avenue and Northern Boulevard, with a much higher median income than the rest of the surrounding tracts. And much of the surrounding area is actually the lightest, low-income color. We appear to have a *lower* median income than Woodside or Sunnyside or other surrounding areas. You can go tract by tract and compare it to, say, Astoria, Long Island City and Forest Hills - well, especially Forest Hills, where wow.
I know in my historic building, a lot of the people living here are older and living on Social Security or pensions. I remember a few years ago when I tried to do something as simple as get better Internet access into the building - very few people were actually interested.
I know I keep harping on this. And I would love to be contradicted. But the people around here who claim JH is able to support magically far more upscale retail than it has supported for the past 10 years should pony up and show some statistics rather than anecdata. I haven't seen any actual hard data beyond "oooh, well, me and my six friends would totally shop here."
There is a GREAT mapping tool on the Census Web site with 2012 community survey data (http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html) Choose "median household income" and "census tract," and then zoom in on Jackson Heights, and you can get the area really tightly segmented.
What you find is that there is one tiny little census tract, from 78th-81st Streets between 37th Avenue and Northern Boulevard, with a much higher median income than the rest of the surrounding tracts. And much of the surrounding area is actually the lightest, low-income color. We appear to have a *lower* median income than Woodside or Sunnyside or other surrounding areas. You can go tract by tract and compare it to, say, Astoria, Long Island City and Forest Hills - well, especially Forest Hills, where wow.
I know in my historic building, a lot of the people living here are older and living on Social Security or pensions. I remember a few years ago when I tried to do something as simple as get better Internet access into the building - very few people were actually interested.
I know I keep harping on this. And I would love to be contradicted. But the people around here who claim JH is able to support magically far more upscale retail than it has supported for the past 10 years should pony up and show some statistics rather than anecdata. I haven't seen any actual hard data beyond "oooh, well, me and my six friends would totally shop here."
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Neighborhood Chat / Dora the Explorer lives in Jackson Heights?
« on: December 12, 2014, 09:38:44 AM »
Of course she does. And she's half-Ecuadorian and went to PS150, which is pretty JH.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/nyregion/the-voice-of-dora-the-explorer-fatima-ptacek-is-a-busy-teenager.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/nyregion/the-voice-of-dora-the-explorer-fatima-ptacek-is-a-busy-teenager.html?_r=0
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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Anti-Jewish demonstrations in Jackson Heights
« on: September 26, 2014, 10:28:15 AM »
"This was in the late summer of 1939, when anti-Jewish street demonstrations - however provoked were going on in Brooklyn, Jackson Heights, the Bronx, and Yorkville at the rate of fifty or sixty a week."
Anyone know about this?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/06/the-jewish-problem-in-america/306268/2/
Anyone know about this?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/06/the-jewish-problem-in-america/306268/2/