Comments on: Join the effort, sign a petition to protect the Queens Plaza millstones http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones A Blog About Life and Real Estate in Long Island City, Queens, NYC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Concerned in Dutch Kills http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19833 Concerned in Dutch Kills Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:54:56 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19833 Actually it doesn’t matter if it’s in a building (like Citicorp), a local institution (like the library) or a local museum (like Astoria Historical). The important thing is you step up to the plate and sign the petition to KEEP THEM IN THE COMMUNITY! EDC tells us everything is in fine - then hides them from view after they are pictured in the middle of a construction site. EDC tells us these 350 year old artifacts are too fragile to move a few blocks to a local museum (and getting them out of the pollution and winter weather) - but its ok to install them in the middle of the plaza (just inches from a bike path!) on small pedestals after securing with pins driven through their hearts. Local officials think nothing of spending $75 million in our hard earned taxes, while they can't muster a minute and a dime to call those of us in the community that wants to preserve them. With these facts you can understand why there is a lot of talk out there that they should be moved out of LIC. There is even more talk that the new people in LIC don't really connect with the neighborhood and care about stuff like this. Now is everyone's chance to rally around the flag, both old-timers and newbies, and show to the world that our community (and elected officials) that this IS something important to us all. It takes only a second to sign the petition. Go ahead, and do it today! Actually it doesn’t matter if it’s in a building (like Citicorp), a local institution (like the library) or a local museum (like Astoria Historical).

The important thing is you step up to the plate and sign the petition to KEEP THEM IN THE COMMUNITY!

EDC tells us everything is in fine – then hides them from view after they are pictured in the middle of a construction site. EDC tells us these 350 year old artifacts are too fragile to move a few blocks to a local museum (and getting them out of the pollution and winter weather) – but its ok to install them in the middle of the plaza (just inches from a bike path!) on small pedestals after securing with pins driven through their hearts.

Local officials think nothing of spending $75 million in our hard earned taxes, while they can’t muster a minute and a dime to call those of us in the community that wants to preserve them.

With these facts you can understand why there is a lot of talk out there that they should be moved out of LIC.

There is even more talk that the new people in LIC don’t really connect with the neighborhood and care about stuff like this.

Now is everyone’s chance to rally around the flag, both old-timers and newbies, and show to the world that our community (and elected officials) that this IS something important to us all.

It takes only a second to sign the petition.

Go ahead, and do it today!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19709 Anonymous Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:30 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19709 The library is a good suggestion....but we will be lucky to ever see the library in our lifetime. The library is a good suggestion….but we will be lucky to ever see the library in our lifetime.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19707 Anonymous Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:30:21 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19707 Problem is......there is no museum willing to take them, silly. That's the whole flak is that government isn't stepping to the plate, silly. Problem is……there is no museum willing to take them, silly. That’s the whole flak is that government isn’t stepping to the plate, silly.

]]> By: Jody http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19685 Jody Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:19:19 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19685 Please place these in a museum! My ancester John Parcell bought the Jorissen farm in 1671. If I could, I would move them myself! Please place these in a museum! My ancester John Parcell bought the Jorissen farm in 1671. If I could, I would move them myself!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19673 Anonymous Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:24:46 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19673 #1 What makes you think the developers will preserve the mill stones? Oh, right, a nice addition to some glass lobby. They belong in a museum, not in a shabbily built office building/condo, silly. #1 What makes you think the developers will preserve the mill stones? Oh, right, a nice addition to some glass lobby.

They belong in a museum, not in a shabbily built office building/condo, silly.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19663 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:34:55 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19663 Put them in the new library or some other cultural institution. Put them in the new library or some other cultural institution.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.liqcity.com/community/join-the-effort-sign-a-petition-to-protect-the-queens-plaza-millstones/comment-page-1#comment-19656 Anonymous Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:52:34 +0000 http://www.liqcity.com/?p=11823#comment-19656 Any idea where these millstones can be preserved in Hunter's Point? In the lobby of a new building perhaps? Developers step forward please. My understanding is that they require great care to be preserved. It would be a shame if they were placed into a corner of the borough. The are a great item to marry with the old and the new. Any ideas guys? Any idea where these millstones can be preserved in Hunter’s Point? In the lobby of a new building perhaps? Developers step forward please. My understanding is that they require great care to be preserved. It would be a shame if they were placed into a corner of the borough. The are a great item to marry with the old and the new. Any ideas guys?

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