Jackson Heights Life

We squabble about open streets and community centers.  However our weak leadership let’s a group of aggressive males hammer back  20 oz straw-beer-Rita’s a day long in front of the center of our community, the post office.  How does this happen? Are we allowed cops in JH anymore?  These Wasteoids are within the shadow of ps 69.  I’m fairly certain that is  very illegal. 

Just curious, has any local community council candidate made any mention about this? They certainly would get my vote. 

So when can we relax the mask rules for kids here in NYC?  2/3 of the health organizations (UNICEF & WHO) recommend no masks ever for kids 5 and younger, kids 6-11 shouldn't wear them either except if there are around someone at high risk.  So now that most adults are vaccinated, or have had the chance.  What are we waiting for?  When can the community start to relax the rules a bit? 

For whats its worth, i not even talking about inside, I just mean walking the streets and the playgrounds.  let see some faces again. 

If you leave the NYC metro area, its like a whole new smiling world...

Returned after a month away.  My god, JH is disgusting. What happened?
-Drunks seem to be everywhere, they are permanent fixtures around those new LINk NY kiosks
-Fuck covid  shark graffiti everywhere.
-Homeless encampments at the post office.
-Streets are repulsive with garbage and waste.
I would be embarrassed to have someone visit me here. 

How does this happen?  Do are elected officials do anything?  Or do they just care of national politics?

The governor talked yesterday about his daughters new boyfriend, then posted a picture of his lovely dinner party with his 3 daughters and the new boyfriend.  His rational is that everyone was quarantined for 2 weeks.

So, since we are all making up stuff as we go along.  Does that mean that we can hang out with other people as long as we all have been in 2 weeks of isolation? 

It’s a very mixed message. Or it just a case of do as I say, not as I do.

Here is what i would do if i could be Dromm for a day. Easy fixes, very little  money.  These should be standard of living for a tax paying citizen.  Anything else?

1) end open prostitution.  its so weird and creepy that this even happens in 2019.  Roosevelt will always be a dump until they clean this up
2) close the fentanyl lab behind kitchen 79.  its been talked on here before.  its so painfully obvious.  perhaps cops are involved. 
3) make the food trucks move.  allow the streets and sidewalks to be cleaned for once.  the repeating same taco truck along Roosevelt, the permanent grocery store outside 74th st station.  the never moving food trucks that block diversity plaza.
4) free up our sidewalks.  no more cheap cloths spilling onto 82nd st.  or the dollar stores along 37th.  or the weekly junk sale at ps69.  we have a ton of people in the neighborhood., its getting harder and harder to walk around with all the impediments. 
5) have the endless metermaid army enforce actual parking laws.  end double parking along 37th ave and bring back no parking on Roosevelt during business hours. 
6) bring back the cops.  We have over 100k tax payers, and about zero cop presence. Where are they?  where does our $ go? 

How in the world can they not get the permit to close one street for the farmers market every Sunday?  We have a dozen parades a year that must require massive $$$ to close all those streets & you barely have that many people that actually go and watch.  Yet the weekly farmers market is a vital cog of the neighborhood, enjoyed by a huge amount of local residents. It should be a no brainer.