Closing Bell: "Fight the Blight" Initiative Started by Flushing Group

The Queensboro Hill/Flushing Civic Association just started a “Fight the Blight” campaign to speak out against large-scale development in residential neighborhoods. The group is asking neighbors in the area to submit addresses of out-of-context construction, which will then be submitted to the City Planning Commission. Queens Courier reports that the civic association, in particular, is eyeing this Flushing McMansion going up at 146-15 56th Road (also pictured above). Ideally the group would like the city to rezone the area to limit row house occupancies to single families.

Know of a hulking construction site going up on your block? Residents can e-mail submissions to FightTheBlightQueens@gmail.com.

Queens Civics Band Together in ‘Fight the Blight’ Initiative [Queens Courier]
Flushing Residents Blast McMansion Going up on the Block [Q’Stoner]

Photo by Alex Robinson for Times Ledger