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Notify NYC
Notify NYC is New York City’s official source for important information
about emergency events and important city services. The program House Trailers and Motorhomes
operates out of NYC Emergency Management’s Watch Command Unit
Some folks have seen trailers and motorhomes parking in our area,
where a team of dedicated professionals monitors emergency activity
especially adjacent to manufacturing areas, and have been reporting
in NYC and the surrounding metropolitan area 24 hours a day, seven
them to 311. In some instances, people are living in the house trailers
days a week. Download the free app for your Apple or Android device.
or motorhomes and in cases such as this there’s a certain protocol that
You can also receive notifications by signing up online at www.NYC.gov/
the NYPD needs to follow before the vehicle can be removed. This is
notifynyc and/or by calling 311.
the same procedure used when someone is living in a tent. There were
instances when the police contacted the occupants to do homeless
outreach and the occupants just moved the house trailer or motorhome
Wait! You Can Be a Hero! to another location.
Why wait? Whenever we do laundry, shower, wash dishes, or flush You should continue to report this type of problem to 311, but be aware
the toilet, the water we use goes down the drain and into the sewer. that this is not condition will not be resolved overnight.
But when there’s a heavy rain storm that wastewater has to share the
sewer with LOTS of rain water. On those days, our sewers can fill to
capacity and a mix of wastewater and rain water can end up going into
our waterways. Waiting to use water during a heavy rain storm helps to
84-52 Grand Avenue
keep our waterways clean for our community and wildlife! 84-52 Grand Avenue is located
along Elmhurst’s bustling
Ways to Wait:
commercial strip. Sadly, it has
Doing laundry later; taking a shorter shower, delaying dishwashing, and
been vacant for years and
if you’re really brave wait to flush the toilet.
residents have been keeping a
watchful eye on it to make sure
it was sealed and whenever
Think Before You Flush - Let’s there is an update we pass it
Manhole Covers After about two years, Con Ed and Verizon are finally taking action to
Ever vigilant Block Captain Lucille Winsko remove their poles from the yards of residents on Calamus Avenue
is always noticing quality of life problems in Woodside! The poles were temporarily “planted” in the yards of
as she walks around the neighborhood. residents during the massive four-year long combined sewer installation
She spotted this manhole cover 57-34 61st along Calamus Avenue between approximately 71st Street to 74th
Street in Maspeth. She called the problem Street. We want to thank the staff of Assemblyman Barnwell and
into 311. Councilman Holden for following up on this problem.
Bioswales
How often have you seen something but it didn’t register in your brain
that it didn’t belong there? This was the case for many of us who attend
our COMET meetings at St. Adalbert Parish Center.
If you look around you’ll see that more and more bioswales are being
installed in our communities to help with water runoff. Some residents As we were leaving the meeting one night, a gentleman approached
have “adopted” their bioswale and keep it free from weeds and even us and asked if we could get rid of the boulder. We turned around
plant some flowers or shrubs. Other bioswales are just left barren or full and stared as we realized where it was and how big it was! Some folks
of weeds. believe the boulder has been here for about a year and a half, but others
say it couldn’t be there that long because the street was paved this past
Elmhurst resident Ed Misiura, who has been doing an outstanding job
summer. This is an annoyance for motorists who are looking for parking
cleaning up trash being dumped along 85th Street in Elmhurst, noticed
and can be a danger if a child were to climb on it and tumble off into
the bioswale that was installed on this strip. As you can see from the
the street.
photo, there are no plantings in it and water doesn’t seem to be draining.
He said he would reach out to Council Member Dromm’s office to find When we reached out to Queens Department of Transportation Deputy
out what can be done to improve it. Commissioner Jason Banrey, he sent us a photo from Google and said it
wasn’t there in July. Could it be that a different boulder was there prior
to that and it was removed when the paving was done?
The Department of Transportation said they will work to remove it.
Flushing Avenue Many of us have been contending with the gas company installing new
lines. With the construction comes materials that need to be stored while
Underpass Flooding they’re working in the area. We noticed the gas work was completed on
70th Street and 53rd Avenue in Maspeth but parking spaces were taken
We want to thank Assembly Member up with their material.
Nolan’s staff for having the sewers
under the underpass at Rust Street We placed a call to Assemblyman Barnwell’s office and in no time the
cleaned to relieve the flooding. In a asphalt was removed and a parking space restored. They also took away
letter to the Assembly Member dated some of the material from 53rd Avenue to open up additional parking.
January 17th, the NYC Department of All it took was a quick phone call!
Environmental Protection said,
“Last month, a DEP crew vactored the drainage infrastructure at this
location. The catch basins are now all free of debris and draining storm Elmhurst Resident
water as designed.”
Awarded
Council Member Dromm's representative,
Councilman Dromm Offers Free inspected as soon as possible. As most of know by now, projects like this
take time. The agency must evaluate the problem, come up with a plan
Community Legal Services and get funding for the project.
The project was an inconvenience for some of the residents, but we
Clinics are held twice per month until June 2019.
didn’t receive any complaints about lack of parking and the agency
To make an appointment call 718-803-5373 worked in a professional manner. Folks were pleased the project was
37-32 75th Street, Jackson Heights 11372 underway.
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70th Street Sewer Project
Folks are probably wondering what’s going on with the 70th Street
Elmhurst “Valley" sewer project which was slated to begin this month. The Department of
Design & Construction is finalizing the project with the contractor. Once
Gets New Sewers! everything is finalized we believe another public meeting will be held in
IS73. Most likely the meeting will be held sometime in April.
The initial meeting held to alert residents to the upcoming project was
poorly attended. Some folks believe they don’t need to attend these
meetings and can easily get an update from a neighbor. Second-hand
information isn’t necessarily accurate. The upcoming meeting to give us
specific details and timeline of the project is our opportunity to bring
up concerns such as parking issues, potential property damage and
access in and out of the affected streets. We all need to participate in
this dialogue!
2019 started off on the right foot for residents who live in the vicinity of
Kneeland Avenue, Hillyer and Ireland Streets thanks to funding provided
by Council Member Daniel Dromm. Signs were posted and work began
to address the multifarious water issues affecting the community. Some
of the issues included sinkholes, exploding manholes, brown water and
water bubbling up from the ground.
The seriousness of the issue jumped out when a local resident did
some research and forwarded us a list of 311 calls placed by residents
throughout the area. There were dozens and dozens of calls placed
within a short
Electronics time frame. Councilman contacted the Department of
Recycling
Say Goodbye to
Atlas Floral Decorators
Atlas Floral Decorators, which is located at the corner of 47th Avenue at
70th Street, has been standing at this location for decades. The building
will now be demolished to make way for a mega-development project
We were thrilled to hear the massage parlor at 66-47 Grand Avenue was recently approved by Councilman Robert Holden. The project will
finally closed. Our complaints to the NYPD went back as far as 2015 but consist of buildings that are 12 and 15 stories high, 431 units of housing,
didn’t see a resolution until early 2019. 5,000 sq. ft. of retail, and a 476-seat K-5 school, and 202 parking spaces.
Residents fear that parking, which is already limited, will become worse
If anyone has information regarding illegal activity such as this, pass it
with the overflow of cars from the new tenants and school personnel.
along to your Neighborhood Coordination Officers.
Neighborhood Coordination
Officers are here to help
104th Precinct
PO Deighton Shoy – Deighton.shoy@nypd.org
PO Ebonie Nisbett – Ebonie.nisbett@nypd.org
108th Precinct
PO Richard Kaplan – Richard.kaplan@nypd.org
PO Juan Moscoso – Juan.moscoso@nypd.org
110th Precinct
PO Donald Lee – Donald.lee@nypd.org
PO Kelsey Cunningham – Kelsey.cunningham@nypd.org
C.O.M.E.T. Meetings
Meetings are held at St. Adalbert Parish Center, 52-40 84th Street, lower level
Monday, April 1st; Monday May 13th; Monday, June 3rd
Newsletter Committee
Mike Fordunski, Richie Polgar, Christina Wilkinson, Tom Porembski, Lucille Winsko, Geraldine Walsh, Howard Moskowitz,
Theresa Marrero, Dick Gundlach, Roe Daraio & Maspeth Press
May 20th
April 27 th
Memorial Day Candlelight Vigil
Earth Day-Shred & Recycle & Animal Adoption,
104th & 108th Precincts will VIN Etch vehicles
May 22nd
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