Comments on: FedEx to Bring Trucks to Astoria's "Asthma Alley"?

By: Fed Axed: No Sale for Distribution Center in Astoria « Mobilizing the Region

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:36:13 +0000

[...] have unleashed hundreds of trucks on the residential streets, in an area already called “Asthma Alley” for its poor air quality and crowded streets. Councilman Vallone spoke at a rally in Astoria [...]

By: Con Ed Backs Out of Astoria Land Sale - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Con Ed Backs Out of Astoria Land Sale - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:17:04 +0000

[...] Community groups and local politicians opposed the sale to Steel Equities, a developer from Long Island, because they said the extra truck traffic would exacerbate the already poor air quality in the neighborhood known as “Asthma Alley.” [...]

By: Astorians to FedEx: No Truckin’ Way! « Mobilizing the Region

Astorians to FedEx: No Truckin’ Way! « Mobilizing the Region — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:33:34 +0000

[...] foot facility that will inundate the neighborhood with truck traffic (MTR covered the proposal in June). Speakers highlighted the safety risks posed by vastly increased truck traffic on the neighborhood [...]

By: Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Blog Wrap

Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Blog Wrap — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:53:09 +0000

[...] An update on a proposal to bring a Fed Ex plant to a part of Queens already suffering from high asthma rates. (Tri-State Transportation Campaign) [...]

By: kmo

kmo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:54:26 +0000

A presentation to Queens Community Board 1 was made by Steel Equities and Fed Ex in the Fall 2007, which stated 290 truck trips were planned. This number was quoted at various meetings, and suddenly changed at last week’s public meeting. My guess is that this new and smaller number was misleading and differentiated between the 18 wheelers and the smaller distribution owner/operator vans.

A survey taken by the Coalition for a Better Astoria, residents overwhelmingly support the rezoning of this 21 acre site into a waterfront park. Asthma Alley residents prefer and deserve cleaner air .

By: G J

G J — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:14:38 +0000

Have you seen the FedEx facility in Maspeth this one in Astoria will replace? It’s a barren industrial wasteland, with a huge building and parking lot with junk and garbage all around it, ripped down fences all bombed out looking. Astoria doesn’t need blue collar jobs like this if it’s going to be a huge eyesore, it will need jobs and residents when people move out from the across the Avenue, where it is all residential due to all the noise from the FedEx trucks and trailers. On that same side of the Avenue of the FedEx proposed site roughly 6 streets down they’re building exclusive luxury apartments, how exclusive will these apartments be when they have a nice view of FedEx trucks going up and down 19th avenue? Yea we have a great view of FedEx trucks and trailers, 24/7! It’s great man …

By: mfs

mfs — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:05:43 +0000

The parcel is in an area reserved for industrial development. We desperately need land for well-paying blue-collar jobs. Maybe FedEx isn’t the right tenant, but the land needs to be used for some sort of job-intensive use- Astoria already has a pretty big waterfront park and a fair amount of waterfront access compared to neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It could be a renewable energy generation station (wind, solar and tidal power all could work on that site), a biotech research facility, or a food manufacturing and distribution site.

Maybe a solution could be to incorporate both manufacturing and industrial use on the majority of the parcel while allowing public access to the waterfront part of the site.

By: John L.

John L. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:02:56 +0000

ConEd and Bloomberg are out to get revenge after they were humiliated on a National level during the power failure. Bloomberg didn’t even want to visit Astoria during the blackout and kept saying wait for the official report to see what went wrong and who to blame. Bloomberg never once faulted ConEd and the report came out 4months later and fully found ConEd negligent on everything and anything. The whole time during this fiasco Bloomberg was praising ConEd, meanwhile it’s their fault on all fronts why the blackout happened. Bravo Bloomberg for showing us what a small little man you are inside and outside.