Forgotten NY: Developers Destroying Astoria

Kevin over at Forgotten NY, who typically goes out of his way to avoid the kind of sensationalism we traffic in here at Brownstoner, finally loses his cool and serves up a well-deserved kick in the ass to the “hateful, despicable” developers who are destroying Astoria as they have much of historic Queens already:

Developers are tearing down perfectly good one-family homes built in an era, the 1860s and prior, when craft and style were still treasured, and replacing them with blond-bricked junk. Flushing’s gone. It died in the 50s and 60s, when its Victorian-era housing stock was razed in favor of block after block of multi-unit apartment housing. And now, Astoria Village is going.

Astoria Under Seige [Forgotten NY]