Comments on: If you don’t know what time it is in LIC, the Murano Condos are for you

By: Idlenomore

Idlenomore — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:15:52 +0000

Please sign the petition to stop the idling trains. We as your neighbors thank you! And it will improve the air quality of the neighborhood. Thanks!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/idlenomore/signatures.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:13:35 +0000

FWIW, the “project map” of the East Side LIRR tunnels labels “mid day storage” in the Sunnyside Yards.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:03:54 +0000

That won’t help if LIRR still thinks the Long Island City station is a handy place to park trains. The 10 or so trains a day that actually stop at the platform for passengers are hardly the problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:35:19 +0000

Hey geniuses, anyone want to guess what will likely happen to the Hunters Point stations once the MTA opens up direct LIRR lines to Grand Central Station?

http://www.mta.info/capconstr/esas/planned_improvements.htm

Here’s a hint from the project goals: “Reducing crowding on the subway lines that use Penn Station and the No. 7 line ”

You just have to wait until 2015…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:49 +0000

Yes, we should shut down the HP stations and make those commuters some other neighborhood’s problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:37:48 +0000

In fact they should shut down that station entirely. It does not serve the needs of LIC residents. It exists only to ferry people from Long Island who work on the east side of Manhattan who do not want to take two subways to get into the city. These people in turn overload the #7 trains.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:32:55 +0000

I’n the meantime they should move the trains.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:55:23 +0000

They haven’t buried or built over the Penn Station yard in Manhattan, with property values that far exceed those in LIC. And the 2o7th street yard in Inwood is still open and uncovered, directly across the street from residential property.

Maybe one day the property value in LIC will increase to the point where it makes sense for the MTA to either sell the land and relocate the trains, or bury the trains and lease the land above them to residential buildings. But I wouldn’t expect any of that anytime soon…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:56:22 +0000

The tracks to Grand Central were buried (and electrified) because Park Avenue residents complained, way back when.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:24:28 +0000

“Objecting to it where it is, is like residents on 23rd street objecting to the elevated subway that passes by every 20 minutes all night long.”

Hey, that’s me! You get used to it… kind of like ocean waves. I like to think it keeps my rent reasonable, too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:09:45 +0000

Right, 46. And the conductor needs a waxed handlebar moustache. All part of the faux early 20th century branding.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:03:19 +0000

Only if it’s a coal powered steam engine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:44:19 +0000

Move the locomotive to outside Dutch Kills.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:42:30 +0000

Is there still a line out the door for $15 drinks?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:34:57 +0000

41 is clearly thicker than two planks. So we are to simply accept what could easily be remedied just because it pre-dated us? We should use the standards of 1861 as our guide? By your same logic, we’d still use dump untreated waste into the rivers, use lead paint and DDT, paint radioactive materials in our watches, smoke in restaurants, or do all the countless other things we have learned through experience are no good for us.

Again, dumbo, it is no major deal for the LIRR to simply park its locomotive a few dozen feet up the track. No one is proposing moving the train to outside your building, to the Upper East Side, or to the moon. Don’t be such a prat and support your goddamn neighbors!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:21:40 +0000

I don’t know. For me it would be cool to point out a running locomotive to my friends from my neon lit balcony. I can come out every our and show them how it changes colors.

The human race is f’n doomed!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:29:47 +0000

The LIRR has been running to Hunter’s Point LIC since 1861. It is older than 99% of the residential real estate in Hunter’s Point.

Objecting to it where it is, is like residents on 23rd street objecting to the elevated subway that passes by every 20 minutes all night long.

If you choose to live by a nuisance, don’t be surprised when it bothers you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:08:58 +0000

38, Actually, you don’t know what YOU’RE talking about. As I wrote above, for years the locomotive ran opposite the Midtown Tunnel entrance, where it didn’t really bother anyone. I see no logical reason, and no negative reasons, for moving the train. People all around the globe live happily near rail stations. But I’ll bet there are just a handful of places in the civilized world where the dingbats who run rail systems would place a noisy, polluting beast smack in the middle of where there people live. I don’t care how long the train has been there. It is just plain stupid. Why would you want to defend the practice, unless you are the genius who works for the LIRR?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:50:23 +0000

Well how about it? Will someone from OHP come forward and spearhead this effort? If you did it sounds like you would have the support of others in the community.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:42:07 +0000

You geniuses don’t really understand how train tracks work, do you? The line goes from one track to eight and there’s no place to stash a train further up. Beyond that, no one thought that developers would build residential buildings directly across the street from the train station (One Hunter’s Point), or backing up to the Sunnyside Yards (Arris), or tucked into a corner between the LIE, Pulaski Bridge and Jackson (L Haus). What makes you think that more residential development won’t take place on Borden?

Bad developer decisions about locations coupled with ill-informed buyers do not constitute a neighborhood emergency.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Actually, #35, moving the highly toxic and polluting idling diesel engine a few yards up Borden Ave puts it in an industrial zone where there is currently no boom in residential population. Moving industry out of where people live is not NIMBY it’s NORMAL. I agree with #33 in that more people complaining about this crap will actually make it go away. In the end, the system serves us that way because politicians need to get elected.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:52 +0000

Hey nitwit, 35. There are no residential uses up further on Borden.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:29:01 +0000

“There isn’t any logical reason to defend running filthy and noisy locomotives all night long when they could easily just moved the train a few yards up Borden Avenue.”

Wow. That’s textbook NIMBY-ism. Move it and make it someone else’s problem…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:40:29 +0000

I’ve never heard that expression ‘donkey’s years.’ Please elaborate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:46:36 +0000

27, have you lost your marbles? I’m an old-timer and still have most of mine. You can count me as one guy who is elated that the new folks in the neighborhood want to complain about environmental hazards we’ve been forced to endure for decades.

In my view, one of the main benefits of the changes we’re witnessing in LIC is a growing, active, and educated residential population who can raise a ruckus and get some long-overdue action on the horrendous noise, water, and air pollution in our neck of the woods. I don’t care what zoning designation some jackass at City Planning gave LIC. There isn’t any logical reason to defend running filthy and noisy locomotives all night long when they could easily just moved the train a few yards up Borden Avenue. Same goes for dumping millions of gallons of untreated biological and chemical waste in the Newtown Creek or any other environmental injustice perpertrated in LIC for donkey’s years.