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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Dec 27 21:58:13 2009, in response to Re: Future expansion wish list?, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Dec 27 16:49:21 2009. I've hung around with developers too long but that was more or less what I was thinking. I'm not expecting it to turn in Flushing or LIC, mind you, but there's room for progress and quite a bit of dead wood there.Out of sheer curiosity, has Queens Village been rezoned? IIRC, my old neighbourhood, Cambria Heights, was rezoned to considerably more restrictive zoning preventing any hopes of being anything more dense than one and two family homes. There's always the potential to yank down some of the older homes and place the so-called "Fedders Specials", but I suspect the community board is unlikely to tolerate such development. As I stated earlier, the best spots are the industrial area south of the LIRR station and potentially some upzoning on Jamaica Avenue. I'm not demographics expert, but Queens Village seems to lie on a belt that extends from roughly Jamaica to maybe East Meadow where there is a sizeable black population but also many other demographic minorities too. Mostly single-family homes, retail strips at major road crossings. Mass transit is almost exclusively bus, whether NYCT, MTAB, or LIB. It depends on the corridor that one travels. Following Hillside eastward leads into Glen Oaks and New Hyde Park which have sizable Asian and South Asian populations with no blacks, while Hempstead leads into Elmont and Valley Stream which seem to be spillovers of Cambria Heights and Laurelton. Otherwise, the belt doesn't really pick up until Lakeview and Hempstead or Westbury. I'm waiting to see in the 2010 Census if the "non-white" population grows in traditionally white neighbourhoods like Carle Place or Wantagh, or if there's further spillover into neighbouring areas like Lynbrook, Malverne, or Franklin Square. Also the other trick where the train leaves Jamaica late after the cross-platform meet, doesn't overspeed, and ends up at FBA on time. On the flipside, the Hempstead was always late to the eastbound meets, and we'd still end up at Queens Village on time... I think that's a mostly useless alignment, though Actually, I was thinking of the Clearview alignment as a spur off the LIE line to Hillside Avenue. Heading northward is a bit of a bear since it doesn't really serve anybody, and I don't think the apartments and condos near Bay Terrace are so deserving... |
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