Long Island City’s Queens West waterfront to get seriously schooled

Wow, the outside of PS 312 looks horrible. Is that stucco? Looks like it’s part of the Powerhouse with the copper color. Yuck.

More boxy, plain wall boring crap.

Lobby picture looks like A LOT of wasted space to me!

I know this is NYC, but kids need to be outside and it doesn’t look like the school planned for much outdoor space. Does this mean that Phys Ed is going to be taking place in all the parks in the area? I don’t mind seeing 20-25 8 year old kids running around the park on 48th st. But if we have 1,000′s of more students does that mean that the streets of LIC are going to turn into the track/football/baseball field of the schools?

Also, let’s see who can give the longest, boring tirade of their point of view that could’ve been summed up in three sentences. Ready….go!

After attending the meeting this week, it’s a little scary how disjointed the construction is from the programming. These guys are just building ‘state-of-the-art’ boxes. There’s no integrated school vision.

While it’s nice to have schools, there was supposed to be an open vista to the waterfront in the plan that was sold to the community.

open vista? according to who? you believed that?

Holy cow #14, and many of you, neighborhoods have schools, and kids, and they can hang out where they want and can take the subway. If you moved to LIC because there were no kids you might need to find another neighborhood eventually anyway. Let’s not get in the business of talking about stuffing schools in the most undesirable parts of the neighborhood. Btw, there are hundreds of schools throughout Manhattan, you barely ever see or hear anyone complaining or even noticing. If you are on the subway every day at 3:30pm or whenever the kids get out, and if you are frequently hanging out in the park by the waterfront for long stretches during weekdays and the kids are overwhelming, maybe get a job.

This whole Queens West area has turned into a culture of greed if you really look at these comments and read between the lines. This was an excellent neighborhood to grow up in when I was a child. Now it disgusts me to see so many uncaring, self-serving, transient people who all they think about is money and what THEY can get. How about the people who were born and raised here? Is this how you were raised, to not respect people?

You have destroyed our neighborhood. Unbelievable.