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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Community Board 7
We apologize for any inconvenience regarding this piece. In order to understand it you must read from the bottom up. The first in the sequence of emails is dated 10/20/2010. This is what we are facing with Community Board 7.
Thank you,
Thu 10/21/10 10:45 PM
To:
charlesapelian@gmail.com; Community Board 7 (qn07@cb.nyc.gov)
We appreciate Community Board 7's assistance with the 109th . We do not however, appreciate your dictatorial stance regarding the survey. There are several issues regarding the survey beginning with the method in which it was conducted, along with several residents/homeowners voting more than once, some claiming two family homes when legally they are one family homes (according to the Buildings Department). These along with several other issues must be addressed in order to insure future surveys are conducted in a proper, transparent, and fair method. Our goal is to secure the safety of the residents in our community especially those on 5th avenue, not the convenience of some over the safety of others. We hope to work closely with the Advisory Community Board, in order to secure the safety of our families.
Alfredo Centola
President
Malba Gardens Civic Association
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:40:21 -0400Subject: Re: Your response to our FOIL dated Sept 30, 2010From: "mailto:charlesapelian@gmail.com" charlesapelian@gmail.com
malbagardenscivicassociation@hotmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your response, However, our last FOIL request did not include the information we requested. At this point it is irrelevant, let us move forward and open a new dialogue that will bring a remedy to this extremely dangerous situation that has been ignored for far too long. We will need to discuss with the 109th about the 33% of 107 speeding cars on the block as well as the commercial vehicles. Regarding the surveys and the "input from the community at large" we reviewed the surveys and there are several inconsistencies that we would like to discuss with you at a mutually convenient time. Malba Gardens Civic Association
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:30:30 -Dear Malba Civic Association,
Your group has made numerous FOIL requests to CB#7 for various documents.
All requests have been submitted to you, with the exception of your last request which has been ready for pick-up for more than three (3) months.
We responded to your last request on July 19, 2010 and informed you that the materials you requested were ready for pick-up for a nominal reproduction cost of $56.50. No one has responded to us, and these documents are still sitting in our Office. Please have someone retrieve your FOIL request.
The request to have 5th Avenue converted to a One-Way Street from 147th Street westbound to the Whitestone Bridge Service Road has been comprehensively reviewed by our Community Board with extensive input from the entire Community-at-Large, and a decision was made and there is nothing further to discuss at this time.
As you know, the Third Avenue Exit on the Whitestone Expressway will be closed shortly during the Whitestone Bridge Reconstruction, and this will certainly help your concerns. Our Committee reassured you that we will assist you with 109th PCT regarding enforcement of commercial vehicles illegally traveling on 4th and 5th Avenues, and we will once again have dialogue with the entire Community-at-Large once the Third Avenue Exit is re-opened after Reconstruction.
We all need to move ahead.
Sincerely,
Chuck Apelian
Vice Chairman
Community Baord #7 Queens
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, <
From: Malba Gardens Civic AssociationSent: Wed 10/20/2010 6:33
Your response to our FOIL dated Sept 30, 2010
Dear A.J. and C.B. 7, I have been in receipt of your letter dated September 30th and have been discussing how to respond. There are several points that we have issue with, beginning with the fact that the survey would be make available at the next scheduled Transportation Committee Meeting. However, the last paragraph in particular is very disturbing to us in which you state that you had the Community Board office print up a draft copy of the survey and asked them to send it out to each civic group to review. I refer you to our emails which state that the survey was shown to me by Mrs. Bitterman in the rear of the room at the end of a C.B. 7 meeting at which she snatched it from my hand and said she would send me a copy to review. You are directed to our repeated emails requesting said copy of survey immediately after this incident, they were all forwarded to you , C.B. 7, and Mr. Apelian. You also state that "IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING " that all civic groups agreed to the wording of the survey except for our civic. Your understanding? it either is or is not, you are after all the chair, do you not know for certain? We have several other points that we will be addressing shortly with regards to your letter. Also, please Once Again review our FOIL REQUEST and provide us with the information. If you like I will resend you the request and cc Mr. Robert Freeman from The Committee on Open Government and therefore strictly follow legal time frames.
Thank you,
Thu 10/21/10 10:45 PM
To:
charlesapelian@gmail.com; Community Board 7 (qn07@cb.nyc.gov)
We appreciate Community Board 7's assistance with the 109th . We do not however, appreciate your dictatorial stance regarding the survey. There are several issues regarding the survey beginning with the method in which it was conducted, along with several residents/homeowners voting more than once, some claiming two family homes when legally they are one family homes (according to the Buildings Department). These along with several other issues must be addressed in order to insure future surveys are conducted in a proper, transparent, and fair method. Our goal is to secure the safety of the residents in our community especially those on 5th avenue, not the convenience of some over the safety of others. We hope to work closely with the Advisory Community Board, in order to secure the safety of our families.
Alfredo Centola
President
Malba Gardens Civic Association
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:40:21 -0400Subject: Re: Your response to our FOIL dated Sept 30, 2010From: "mailto:charlesapelian@gmail.com" charlesapelian@gmail.com
malbagardenscivicassociation@hotmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your response, However, our last FOIL request did not include the information we requested. At this point it is irrelevant, let us move forward and open a new dialogue that will bring a remedy to this extremely dangerous situation that has been ignored for far too long. We will need to discuss with the 109th about the 33% of 107 speeding cars on the block as well as the commercial vehicles. Regarding the surveys and the "input from the community at large" we reviewed the surveys and there are several inconsistencies that we would like to discuss with you at a mutually convenient time. Malba Gardens Civic Association
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:30:30 -Dear Malba Civic Association,
Your group has made numerous FOIL requests to CB#7 for various documents.
All requests have been submitted to you, with the exception of your last request which has been ready for pick-up for more than three (3) months.
We responded to your last request on July 19, 2010 and informed you that the materials you requested were ready for pick-up for a nominal reproduction cost of $56.50. No one has responded to us, and these documents are still sitting in our Office. Please have someone retrieve your FOIL request.
The request to have 5th Avenue converted to a One-Way Street from 147th Street westbound to the Whitestone Bridge Service Road has been comprehensively reviewed by our Community Board with extensive input from the entire Community-at-Large, and a decision was made and there is nothing further to discuss at this time.
As you know, the Third Avenue Exit on the Whitestone Expressway will be closed shortly during the Whitestone Bridge Reconstruction, and this will certainly help your concerns. Our Committee reassured you that we will assist you with 109th PCT regarding enforcement of commercial vehicles illegally traveling on 4th and 5th Avenues, and we will once again have dialogue with the entire Community-at-Large once the Third Avenue Exit is re-opened after Reconstruction.
We all need to move ahead.
Sincerely,
Chuck Apelian
Vice Chairman
Community Baord #7 Queens
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, <
From: Malba Gardens Civic AssociationSent: Wed 10/20/2010 6:33
Your response to our FOIL dated Sept 30, 2010
Dear A.J. and C.B. 7, I have been in receipt of your letter dated September 30th and have been discussing how to respond. There are several points that we have issue with, beginning with the fact that the survey would be make available at the next scheduled Transportation Committee Meeting. However, the last paragraph in particular is very disturbing to us in which you state that you had the Community Board office print up a draft copy of the survey and asked them to send it out to each civic group to review. I refer you to our emails which state that the survey was shown to me by Mrs. Bitterman in the rear of the room at the end of a C.B. 7 meeting at which she snatched it from my hand and said she would send me a copy to review. You are directed to our repeated emails requesting said copy of survey immediately after this incident, they were all forwarded to you , C.B. 7, and Mr. Apelian. You also state that "IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING " that all civic groups agreed to the wording of the survey except for our civic. Your understanding? it either is or is not, you are after all the chair, do you not know for certain? We have several other points that we will be addressing shortly with regards to your letter. Also, please Once Again review our FOIL REQUEST and provide us with the information. If you like I will resend you the request and cc Mr. Robert Freeman from The Committee on Open Government and therefore strictly follow legal time frames.
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.
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.
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
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
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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...
We need to make a united effort...
Friday, September 3, 2010
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
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
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
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