Weekend Hot Links
Once again, some in Fresh Meadows, Queens look backwards and away concerning pedestrian and bicycle safety. [Streetsblog]
Save the Elmhust Public Library! [Historic Districts Council Newsstand]
Storm damage in Queens is overlooked. [City Room]
There are ice sculptors in Long Island City. [LICNYC]
Sunnyside Gardens is getting a facelift; too bad the Queens Tribune can’t get some of their facts right. [Historic Districts Council Newsstand]
The 11434 gets new green buses. [The Progressive Southside]
It’s move-in day at 2 Court Square [Long Island City]
Jamaica rezoning - development foes Weprin, Genaro and Avella wish really hard that it wouldn’t happen, but admit it’s inevitable. [Queens Chronicle]
Kevin Walsh took some snaps in LIC, found a lot of old buildings to indicate that LIC isn’t going to hell in a handbasket after all. [Forgotten NY via LICNYC]
Photo credit: Meg Cotner
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Preservationists in Queens are up in arms about the planned demolition of the current building that houses the Elmhurst branch of the Queensborough Public Library, as well as some rare trees in Kissena Grove. As far as the library goes, it was built by funds from Andrew Carnegie in 1906, and it is one of the borough’s most used. The library officials want to demolish all that is there and build a larger complex, in order to meet the needs of the surrounding community. Preservationists are not happy with this decision, and library director Thomas Galante said it was an agonizing decision as to whether to keep the old structure and keep adding to it, or tearing the existing structure down and start anew. At this point, he is putting the needs of the community over that of the preservationists, a library’s mission of education and knowledge-sharing being paramount.
