Queens. You'll take it and you'll like it.

Get a towel as the Queens Borough President spits in your face.  From the official website of Melinda Katz:

  http://queensbp.org/landmarks50/

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"Commemorating History" - Melinda Katz

Steinway Mansion: Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Another month of devastation ends: June 30, 2015

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An Appeal to John Paulson, benefactor and philanthropist: An Open Letter...Time is of the Essence.

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Virginia AND . . .

. . . the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage Site and Arts District are for Lovers.

Berrian Boulevard and 42nd Street: a stone's throw from the Mansion.

Neither power plants nor sewage treatment facilities can deter these lovebirds and their smooching. Join the cutting edge of travel today.   Plan your next romantic vacation where it's all happening: the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage Site and Arts District.  

"Making Your Project a Success!"

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Wednesday, June 24

June 22, 2015 Excavation at the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage Site

Piledriver Positioned to Pummel Patrimonic Property: the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage Site.

The destruction of Queens' legacy continues.

God Save the Steinway Mansion!

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The Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage site awaits its fate.

Piledriver to pound precious property.

The IMT AF80 situated at the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage site.

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Check out the standard drill rig IMT AF 80 in this 4:00 minute You Tube video.   THIS pounding will be occurring right next to the Mansion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCcNQMswDg

You break it; you bought it. Or fix it up really good.

The Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage site's destructive backhoe damage to adjacent property now partially repaired.

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June 16.  Mason repairing the damage to the building's corner.

June 16.  Masons covering partially completed work to protect from the rainy downpour on Tuesday.

June 17.   The next day, Wednesday, external corner and extensive wall repairs seemingly completed at the top.

June 17.  Appears that work is still needed however on the glass block window at left and bottom of wall at right..  

Careless backhoe operation can indeed do a lot of damage, no?  And the site's excavation future has yet to be written.

The Lay of the Land; the Slap in Your Face: Steinway Mansion Update (Sunday June 14, 2015)

For your consideration, Dear Queens Reader:  the wilfully callous destruction of the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage Site - your Queens historical heritage - continues unabated one month after commencement of activity.

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EXCLUSIVE. Evidence of property destruction by Steinway Mansion backhoe.

Adjacent property to the northwest corner of the Steinway Mansion Historical Heritage site (41st Street) clearly shows extensive destruction to that corner's masonry. 

God Save the Steinway Mansion!

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May 28

May 28

June 7

June 8

June 14

June 14

June 14  
Masonry materials to repair the adjacent property's destruction?

June 14
Scaffolding inside the blue tarp.

Thank you Queens Tribune.

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Now that's the way it should have appeared.