Contact us at Malbagardenscivic@hotmail.com

This is our neighborhood and our community, your input is welcome and requested.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Meet the Congressional Candidates

TOWN HALL OBAMACARE – RETOOL OR REPLACE?
DR. JAMES MILANO vs. GARY ACKERMAN (invited)

CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

With Special Guest Speaker: Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D.
Patient Advocate, Former Lt. Governor of New York StateFounder/Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths

SUNDAY OCTOBER 24, 2010
4:00-6:00 pm
VFW HALL
242-37 BRADDOCK AVE
BELLEROSE, NY
(NEAR INTERSECTION OF CROSS ISLAND PKWY AND BRADDOCK)
PARKING LOT AVAILABLE

What will happen to your health plan? Your premiums? Your Medicare?
Your choices? Your taxes? What changes to the current law is Congress considering, to reduce the increased cost to the taxpayer that it will impose?

Come and hear the candidates address these questions and others, so that you can make an informed choice on November 2.

For more information, please contact organizer:
Jim Trent: 718-343-8830 JTrent8830@aol.com

Co-sponsors include: Parkside Civic Assoc., Malba Garden Civic Assoc., Greater Whitestone Taxpayers Assoc., Bellerose Hillside Civic Assoc. and other community Civic Associations.

Monday, October 11, 2010

MEET THE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES

OCTOBER 24TH AT THE BELLEROSE VFW, DR. JAMES MILANO AND CONGRESSMAN GARY ACKERMAN (INVITED) WILL BE ON HAND TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND DISCUSS HEALTHCARE.

MORE INFORMATION FORTHCOMING.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

CONGRESSIONAL MEET THE CANDIDATES NIGHT

OCTOBER 18TH, 7:30 PM, AT HOLY TRINITY RECTORY BASEMENT



DR, JAMES MILANO REPUBLICAN TEA PARTY CANDIDATE(CONFIRMED), AND CONGRESSMAN GARY ACKERMAN (TENTATIVE) WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR A MEET THE CANDIDATE NIGHT.



SPACE IS LIMITED AND YOUR RSVP ON THIS BLOGS COMMENT

Thursday, September 23, 2010

5th avenue traffic worsens


7:28 AM... For the past fourteen years residents of 5th avenue in our neighborhood have had to endure an onslaught of Commercial and Vehicular Traffic. As you can see from this photo things have deteriorated. For the past month between the hours of 6:00 AM and 10:00 AM, Tractor Trailers such as this one have been using our RESIDENTIAL, 27 foot wide, minus 7 - 8 feet for parked cars as a Conduit into surrounding area.
These 18 Wheelers shake foundations, set off car alarms, set off some home alarms. and most of all put our families in harms way. Yet Maura McCarthy, Commissioner of Queens Department of Transportation, along with Gene Kelty, Chairman of Community Board 7 feel that these Trucks, along with the other Commercial Vehicles and the 107 cars per hour (33% of which are speeding, as per DOT counts) are not a DANGER, JUST A MERE "INCONVENIENCE". ?????

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Community Activism

So I met a Woman the other day complaining about the amount of traffic on 5th avenue and the insane amount of speeding trucks. She went on to tell me about how she has been trying for years to do something about it , writing letters, calling people, all to no avail. When I asked her if she was a member of the Malba Gardens Civic Association , Silence. When I asked her if she recieved the notice about the CB 7 meeting on the issue she responded "Oh yes that was an important meeting " I hear alot of people showed up, my neighbor was there. When I asked "Where were you?, Silence....???????????????????????

We need to make a united effort...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Vandals Torch 4 Vehicles In Whitestone, Queens « CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY

The following link shows a very disturbing trend that is escalating in what once was our quiet enclave. A couple of weeks back someone in a Toyota Rav 4 banged on my front door with such force that I feared it would break in(at the same time all my perimeter security lighs as well as my neighbors went on). I ran outside as my family dialed 911, I saw a hooded person run into a Silver Rav 4. They then proceeded to race up the block make a uturn and come barreling back toward me screaming out the window. Two nights later at 2AM someone in a small white car was parked in front of my neighbors house screaming "oh yeah , oh yeah", Around the same time one of my other neighbors had his car keyed in his driveway.

Several other neighbors have had their cars keyed, mirrors broken, bikes stolen out of their backyards.

Now they are torching cars in Driveways almost setting homes Ablaze as families sleep.

Thank God no one was injured this time around. We request once again that our neighborhood get the police attention it deserves. Wheter it be via more patrols, or what should have happened and has been repeatedly requested a long time ago, a new Police Precint. Something must be done before a tragedy occurs.

THESE CRIMINALS WILL BE CAUGHT, FORTUNATELY SEVERAL HOMES IN THE AREA HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS. PLEASE BE VIGILANT AND KEEP OUR EYES OPEN FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL OUR FAMILIES.





Vandals Torch 4 Vehicles In Whitestone, Queens « CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY

Monday, August 30, 2010

Forcina and Milano

I have had the fortune to meet two local candidates that are on opposite sides of the "Party" politics. Yes one a Democrat and the other "Oh My" a Republican,both men seem genuine and seem to be going into politics for the right reasons. Elio is a local Whitestone Attorney and Dr. Milano an Emergency room Doctor who seem to want what is best for Our Country and our Neighborhoods.

It was a pleasure meeting both men and discussing the issues concerning our neighborhood. We welcome dialogue with any other candidates and feel good about these two.

Alfredo

Monday, August 9, 2010

VOTE OR SHUT UP AND TAKE IT

IF YOU ARE TIRED OF BEING IGNORED, THAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, GET OUT THERE AND VOTE. LESS THAN 90 DAYS TO GO, IF YOU DON'T THEN JUST SHUT UP AND TAKE IT.

WE CAN ALL AFFECT CHANGE , PULL YOUR LEVERS, CLICK, VOTE.

Monday, August 2, 2010

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

IN LESS THAN 100 DAYS TO THE POLLS WE WILL GO. GO WITH PRIDE, AND VOTE, FOR IF YOU DO NOT EXCERSISE YOUR MOST TAKEN FOR GRANTED RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN, YOU WILL BE DOOMED TO THE STATUS QUO. STAND UP AND BE HEARD, LET THEM KNOW THEY WORK FOR US, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

VOTE OR SHUT UP, DO NOT COMPLAIN BY THE WATER COOLER, OR AT THE COFFEE SPOT, OR IN THE FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS. VOTE AND TALK WITH YOUR VOTE, LET THEM KNOW THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, OUR TOWN, OUR CITY, OUR COUNTRY.