Frightening (Possible) Coming Attraction
Has the Monolith from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey landed in Fresh Meadows?
No, even though this site has been known to make the ground shake (see this Times Ledger story), this is only one artist’s conception of the area that may be blocked out by a proposed hotel construction project that the FMTA considers very out-of-scale for our neighborhood.
(If you don’t recognize the scene, the building to the left is the Executive Office Center at 61-43 186th Street that currently looms over the west shopping center parking lot but which seems like a tiny object when compared to the “monolith.”)