We’ve had a lot of snowy weather this winter and this rare winter aerial photo, from December 1947, reveals that there was a lot of the white stuff on the ground, too, during the winter of 1947-48! (Story continues after … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Please consider attending our next General Meeting of the Fresh Meadows Tenants Association, on Thursday, November 6, 7:30 P.M., in the P.S. 26Q auditorium, 195-02 69th Avenue. We have important issues to discuss and surprise guest speakers.
Continue reading →On the Federal level, we will be voting for our representative to the House. On the State level the election is for governor, attorney general, comptroller, state senate, and state assembly member. Of the two State Senators that serve Fresh … Continue reading →
Queens Fresh Meadows management has posted notices of its intent to repave 71st Crescent, starting on Monday, September 8th. The repaving, similar to an earlier repaving of 186th Lane, is expected to last two weeks.Residents should expect the repaving to … Continue reading →
As many tenants have noticed, and as The Queens Courier notes in its September 4th issue, foundation work has been progressing on a planned 12-story hotel at 61-27 186th Street. The FMTA has no further information at this time.
Continue reading →UPDATE: Apparently, the “authorities” investigated and discovered that some permits were not in order for the proposed hotel site. Construction was also halted, the FMTA is told, because of fears the the west shopping center parking lot would “cave in” … Continue reading →
For those of you who thought we were exaggerating the threat of the red car hitting the white truck (see previous post), here is a picture of the real 186th Street as it was after a recent snowstorm. If you … Continue reading →
Pictured below is a rendering of the hotel for 186th Street that a Great Neck company proposes to build on 186th Street. This is same company whose plan for an even larger hotel was turned down by the Department of … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →