Jackson Heights Life

Workers have been active every day since July & that’s all that’s been done?  Come on ...

Too bad that 4.5 million was rolled into the travers renovation instead.

Hopefully, the local trash problem will be addressed before it is finished.

Local trash problem is a direct result of the food carts who spit out food all day. The people then fill up the sanitation baskets. Sometimes the customers throw the half eaten food anywhere. Then rats come at night to feast. The cart people don't pay for garbage pickup and don't have to pay sanitation fines or property taxes. Later people on this forum blame the property owners or businesses for not cleaning up after these tax free slobs.

I haven't noticed a lot of garbage around the food trucks, but I guess what you see depends on where you walk. I see a lot of garbage and trash on the east side of 73rd between the plaza and 37th, along the sidewalk near the businesses. It gets really gross there. (It's especially lovely a day or two after it snows!) And I think the businesses there are responsible for cleaning that up, even if they didn't create it.

The carts cause all the garbage and pour their oil down the catch basin. The worst part is they illegally park their supply vans all day in metered spots. They take away three or four spots daily. I don't see the restaurants that pay for their garbage to be removed as trying to fill the trash bins. It makes no sense.

Those big cargo vans that are there all day and have the side doors open and that the workers are pulling meat and other supplies all day long belong to the adjacent carts. You would have to blind not to have seen them. Also they use the white styrofoam containers that are seen all over 73rd Street and Broadway as their customers leave the mess behind only to have the bank employees clean up the mess. The manager of the bank told me that they constantly get tickets based on the mess from the night before, and before they even open for business.

You seem to be confused.  I am referring to the white vans that are parked all day everyday behind the food carts. They are parked in metered spots and have regular passenger license plates (even though they have all the seats removed and are being used for commercial purposes). These three white vans are owned by the cart owners and illegally hog four parking spots from the general public. These carts are too close to the entrance to the bank. The reason Subzi Mandi closed was that there was parking for customers and high rent. Even the bank has to employ tow trucks to move illegally parked cars from its lot. The bank pays $250k in property taxes a year, the carts pay $0 and throw all the sanitation tickets on the bank. They don't pay rent, and yet collect $1500 a day in profit for each cart. Why run a legal business when NYC and its police don't enforce the law.

As others have mentioned, there was substantial work that needed to take place below the surface before they can get to the things that all of us will see. I'm really happy to see that this project and now Travers Park are under way. Hopefully within a year or two we can enjoy them both!

What masssive infrastructure work had to be done to support some paving stones and 6 street lights?  As others have said, they have seen guys working daily since July.  That’s 8 months of work!