Comments on: CB2 hearing on Hunters Point South, tomorrow morning, Borough Hall

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:10:08 +0000

9, The EIS for Hunters Pt South plainly says that there won’t be enough parking for the 15,000 new residents expected to move into that site and highlights how much more traffic will be on local streets. MTA also has a lousy record of being able to respond to increased service demands, and with the shape they are in, I doubt you can expect to see any improvements on the No. 7, just more and more people. Happy talk is for developers and speculators.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:43:41 +0000

#9 Thank goodness that higher density and overcrowding has you for a cheer leader. I think your idea is wonderful. If something sucks just roll over and get used to it. No reason to partake in any public process. Just give all the land away and let developers have free rein. The City will be great. Thank you. I finally see the light.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:54:23 +0000

Oh, stop.

This area will continue to grow and be a great place to live without all the ‘doom-and-gloom’ drowning-in-cars posts. Barely anyone in the greater NYC area even owns a car, much less in the HP area.

Any neighborhood near a subway stop near Manhattan will have parking problems during the week. It’s the weekends that really matter and there’s a decent amount of parking then. Not great, but decent.

Will it get worst? Yes, but so will Astoria, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. And Jersey City and Hoboken.

These areas are all becoming ‘part’ of NYC, whether people want to realize this or not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:49:17 +0000

7, perhaps. But I don’t think you can be so hopeful about enhanced mass transit service, which HP can really use to keep the area from drowning in cars. Apart from a vague promise to create a bus loop to the Newtown Creek area as part of HPS, no mass transit improvements are being proposed in HP.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:23:35 +0000

#6 what’s with the doom and gloom. People said the same thing 10 years ago and look where we are now. If you build it they will come.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:22:25 +0000

well they should be integrated. that whole area is going to be a transportion and logistical nightmare. There aren’t enough services here even for the current scattered population. imagine when that level of density arrives. scary. you old time LIC’ers think it’s bad now?… oh just wait. the worst is yet to come.

but thankfully it’s gov’t sponsored so it’ll happen nice and slow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56:30 +0000

Except that they’ll look different and were built from different government agencies. And financed differently.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:42:43 +0000

can’t wait

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:25:21 +0000

I’m not sure you can say so confidently that they have nothing to do with each other. The two sites will be very much integrated, and both emerged from a similar planning process. It will be hard for the casual observer to tell the two sites apart when they’re done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:33:05 +0000

It has nothing to do with Queens West.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:05 +0000

Queens West South - These are the projects that the city wants to build, no?