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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As that thread reads you were troll baiting my previous post by asking me what Gladys says.
The response was she can’t be bothered. And then a cut and paste from urban dictionary as to your names meaning.
Please quote accurately and within context.
God bless
Starting in AGAIN?
I didn’t disrespect you.
YOU named yourself or didn’t you know what they name means?
Maybe for some having the last word is important.
Maybe that means they think they are right or have won.
It's none of that at all...
But there is a word I'd like to contribute as the forum shuts down and we move into a new year...
RESPECT
You can't get it if you don't give it.
Everyone needs it, especially if we expect to get anywhere.
BLESSINGS to all in the New Year!
I think ‘Violence Plagued’ is hyperbolic.
But when I am out and about, there is a palpable undercurrent of tension, and controlled chaos.
We love Tacos Morelos on 37th Ave, but we always eat inside, away from the street.
In the past I would read these crime stories about JH, and say to myself ‘why are they in that area at 3:30am. Or why were they hanging around Roosevelt Ave at 2:45am’.
I felt like the crime was separate and removed from my immediate (historic district) -now the crime is happening during ‘normal’ hours and it seems to be happening everywhere.
I get a lot of "real news" - the local kind, the neighborhood news here. And it seems that Shehkar prefers tweeting which is something a lot of us managed to avoid. Maybe a tweet interpreter would run interference and post on another site so that we could keep informed without the treaded tw...
Opinions are great too if, and only if, they are substantiated and not just pablum spoken again and again in the same tone with the same language. A good debate sharpens the mind and clears the brain. I have heard talk of reinvesting in local newspapers and of someone starting a new one in Brooklyn. Maybe we will have a similar good fortune here in Queens? With hyper local news segments and posting for those not device driven. Dare to dream.
is there a single neighborhood chat board anywhere in North America that's focused on real news?
Yeah. We have so many bored tweens here in JH. Some on this board and they'll like it. Meanwhile Heather Cox Richardson on Substack is a thought provoking read. Nice to be outside the traditional machinery of news and commentary which is something I appreciated from this soon to be gone site.
change for the sake of change is always good. who questions any change to anything is automatically suspect. to that end, we should probably hold national elections monthly. don't dismiss the idea out of hand due to curmudgeonly tendencies.
It would be a beautiful Christmas present to have all parties involved recognize the plusses and the problematic regarding the 34th Ave Open Streets project.
