Jackson Heights Life

Please read about the BID and consider sisgning a petition in support at :

http://jhcoronabid.org/

Thank you.

what's your solution?

sorry, but I won't "just be silent."

you sound very childish when you stamp your feet and say 'just ignore her, she's saying things I don't like.'

Just a pointer on debate.

xo
deb

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"Posted by: dssjh
« on: Yesterday at 09:48:11 PM »Insert Quote


on the surface, a BID seems like a great idea. I don't think anyone in their right mind could oppose cleaning up streets, adding lighting, and so on. I wonder, though, why some neighborhoods get these services for free -- without an extra fee for the merchants -- and others, like ours, are considered second class. I know that's something to take up with City Hall, but does it strike you as odd that the west village and Brooklyn heights don't have BIDs or need them?"

Not true, these places all have BIDs.

Brooklyn Heights BID:

http://montaguebid.com/

Village Alliance:

http://villagealliance.org/

sorry this link:

http://jhcoronabid.org/

the other is an article about how BIDs operate in different neighborhoods throughout the city, fyi.

thanks very much.

I was wrong.

boom away, dude.

I think the reason I reverted to the anarcho-Disney princess thing was a few weeks of being told "be silent" and "if you don't agree, keep your opinions to yourself." some people toss out four-letter words in response to that treatment, I use a more effective method.

I guess that while I go along with just about everybody on things we need to work on -- traffic patterns, street noise, petty crime on Roosevelt, serious crime like sex trafficking, illegal housing -- I draw the line elsewhere. I have lived 47 years in urban settings with homeless people around. I have spent 42 or 43 of those actively speaking to and getting to know these people. my grandma would feed them around holidays when they came to the door asking.

in terms of shopping, I don't really see many holes. yes, a few. a good Jewish deli, a good fish store, but I guess I think about my first 40 or so years of life. when neighborhoods were unique, and not every shopping strip had everything in the world. you'd go get Chinese food one place, there were a dozen or more cheap French places on eighth ave in the 50s up until '83 or so. egg creams all over the lower east side, great cheap steaks in the midst of the west side hooker district.

but you didn't have people saying I want one from column a through column j all lined up nicely within 200 yards of my door or else I will be very unhappy. I don't want Jackson heights to become just another cipher.

and in terms of the shopping, yeah, it could be nicer. for sure. but look around you when you're on the streets of JH. there are a LOT more people excited about mac and cheese going on sale 5 for a buck at foodtown than there are people getting excited about finding artisanal honey from new Zealand. and a lot more people looking for 'hoochie clothes' than anne klein. perhaps 10 to one on each front.

am I wrong on that? this board is not segregated racially or religiously, but it most certainly is, in terms of socioeconomics. does any of that seem reasonable?

The Petition has jumped up 10 134 signatures!!!

If you support it, please share with your friends, neighbors and other interested parties. If people don't know baout the petition, they can't sign it.

Resident support is important!!!

http://jhcoronabid.org/

Thanks for posting the petition link I Live Here Too. Not that many people know about this petition.  I will share this with my neighbors who I know would want to sign it. You would think there would also be some sort of mailing to the residents who live here on this matter.