Did You Know That:

• Queens West held the groundbreaking for the first of 19 buildings, neglecting to invite the neighborhood.

• 900 piles were driven into the ground for the first building at 5th Street and 48th Avenue. These piles will support the high-rise, since most of the Queens West property is unstable landfill!

  

• $2-million face lift. These Gantries were once used to load ferries transporting freight cars to and from Manhattan. Queens West plans to spend $2 million of taxpayers money to refurbish just one of the gantries.

• Almost 40% of the trees in the strip-park are dead.

• There is still no public access at the ferry landing evenings and weekends.

• Queens West contruction vehicles should not be using any residential street. They should be using Borden Avenue only!

• This past June, a local resident and union construction worker sought employment at the Queens West construction site and was told ³You will be called.² He is still waiting for the call. What ever happened to the Queens West community hiring office?

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