Ozone Park

On 101st south of Rockaway Boulevard, the silent Martian tripod war machine surveyed the small town just before blasting it with a Heat-Ray. (It’s actually a water tower associated with the building shown just below, now festooned with cell phone relayers.) This was once the Nemo “Medicanical Science” Building, on Rockaway Boulevard between 100th and 101st…

Assemblymember Phillip Goldfeder has introduced new legislation that would take $30,000,000 generated by the Resorts World Casino to upgrade the neighboring Aqueduct Racetrack. As he told Queens Courier, “It’s unacceptable that this once national treasure has become an eyesore and serious danger to our families and neighbors in southern Queens.” Just this month a woman…

Capital New York just ran an in-depth piece regarding rezoning under the Bloomberg administration, and in particular looks at the second-largest rezoning of his tenure in Ozone Park. Under the zoning changes, most of the 530 blocks of the neighborhood were downsized, limiting development on neighborhood side streets. “Moderate density development” is permitted on main…

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