Jackson Heights Life

Quote from: worldwidedeb on August 28, 2021, 11:39:58 PM

@abcdefghijk, following your logic, I'd say the controversy is between "excessive-noise haters" and "excessive-noise lovers."

My logic is to listen to what those who live on 34th Ave are saying. And not to those with their own agendas... but who don't live on 34th Ave yet are speaking loudly for those who do.

So far it's very interesting.

Jackson Heights desperately needs open space—and I’m happy to see people make the best of 34th ave—but wouldn’t 37th ave be the smarter street to close down (to non commercial traffic)? The sidewalks there are horribly overcrowded, and double parking is a mess that brings traffic to a halt anyway. Why not open it up, give the restaurants more outdoor breathing room, allow for more room to roam, and more space to play and hang out?

I am firmly against an Open Street which is 1 mile or more long and runs through a residential neighborhood, rapidly being turned into a commercial strip. This is the longest Open Street in NYC and the only one in an only residential neighborhood. This street is empty during the week when people should be working. The Supporters of this initiative seem to be primarily in garden apartment coops or at the East end of 34th Ave and determined to drive people into the 70s and Travers Park. The whole project is a power play by a few, and ill conceived at best! Could the building on 89th Street have been saved if there weren't barriers for fire-fighters to move? I don't know but it's something to think about. The thought that this is going to increase the real estate value of Jackson Heights is nonsense, it is my opinion it will have exactly the opposite affect.

It would be wise to select what is read about this more carefully, the NYC blog is one sided, not journalism at all, and an obvious plant. Frankly I think the New York Times article was as well, shame on them, might cancel my subscription.

There should be compromise, greatly reduced hours. And there needs to be patrolling of activities. The overall noise level is out of control!! It's nice that families can use it at night and weekends when there is light. Soon there will be no light in the evenings and it will be cold.

I like how people are suddenly caring about noise when those of us that live on 37th have been dealing with the sound based torture of talentless buskers playing the same 5 songs over, and over, and over again (it's a military torture tactic...), 10 different garbage truck outfits making noise all night, the beeping trucks at the post office all night, I can swear it just sits there sometimes not moving just beeping for an hour or so.. but no one seems to care about stuff like that until their NIMBYism kicks in when it's about to hit you personally..

I definitely can empathize with those people that live on 34th who are staring down a potential noise source, especially on a 100% residential street. Usually these open streets are lined with cafes etc..