EXCLUSIVE. Vest-Pocket Park or Immense Bioswale? Getting Its Rocks "On": Area Between the Warehouses and Steinway Mansion Gets Landscaped. (November 1, 2016)

Photo 1.  Mysterious space between the warehouses and the Mansion indicated by the arrow.

Photo 2.   For over fourteen months, this short wall confounded blog readers as to its purpose.

Photo 3.   The beginning of the construction of the short wall.

Photo 4.   Landscaping boulders begin their appearance on the incline.

Photo 5.  Additional boulders await their turn to appear on the incline held back by the short wall..

Photo 6.  In addition to the boulders, perhaps seasonal plantings?   Perhaps a running water fountain?

Photo 7.   Meanwhile the lawn in front of the main entrance seems to have been grassed over completely.

Photo 8.   Former owner Mike Halberian's book collection still on the shelves - as he left it when he died almost 6 years ago this December.

First Xmas Street Lighting Seen! (Astoria: 23rd Avenue and 33rd Street) The Day Before Halloween: October 30, 2016.

  

EXCLUSIVE. Onward and Upward (?) at the Steinway Mansion. Further Landscaping Development. (October 25, 2016)

Photo 1.  Mansion still hidden behind large group of trees in upper right quadrant.  View from 19th Avenue looking north up the two-way (!) 41st Street.   Note the bottle-necked roadway at the top of the hill.   Site for future accidents when the "Steinway Park" [sic] warehouses are occupied and put into use?

Photo 2.  The main entrance gate viewed from the extremely narrow 41st Street.

Photo 3.  View from the gate to the bottle-necked 41st Street.  Driveway broken up for possible surfacing with stacked-up blocks seen at far right in Photo 2?

Photo 4.  View over the gate with the three new warehouses in the distance.   Gravel surface in foreground for vehicle parking?

Photo 5.  Newly-planted grass surrounds the pathway pavers.

Photo 6.   View from Berrian Boulevard looking south along 41st Street.

Photo 7.  1858 (top) vs. 2016 (bottom).

Photo 8.  The construction of the warehouses continues.

EXCLUSIVE. After 18 Months of Demolition, Excavation, and Construction Impressive Landscaping Beautification Underway on the Front Lawn of the Steinway Mansion. (October 20, 2016)

Developers even plant trees, flowers, and lay down paving stones.

To what ultimate end the Mansion?   Owners Sal Lucchese, Phil Loria:  c'mon and spill the beans.

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EXCLUSIVE. Fancy-Schmanzy Brand New Fencing and Fragrant Pine Plantings Now Surround the Front Yard of the Steinway Mansion. (October 18, 2016)

Time and again the GtheA investigative team reports breaking news where other news organizations are too lazy, incompetent, indifferent, or catatonic to do so.

It's official.  The Steinway Mansion is being developed for future occupation.  Exclusive photos below show the current ongoing landscaping of the Mansion's once expansive lawn.  Our reporters have confirmed the abundance of so many new arboreal plantings that the immediate vicinity has the fragrance of a Christmas tree farm.

Bets are on that the Mansion will be turned into a catering facility, a homeless shelter, a religious temple, an art museum, or a mental hospital.   Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs.

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Then and Now: Steinway Mansion (41st Street)

EXCLUSIVE. NYC Park Rangers Search For Coyotes At Astoria Mountain (9/2/16).

Still from YouTube video linked below.   This is what is up there:
           

NYC Park Rangers arrive on Berrian Boulevard to investigate reports of coyote pack on Astoria Mountain:

Inquiring at the Port Authority guard house for information of the pack's recent appearance:

  

Skull session as to how to procede:

      

Park rangers warily approaching the mountain slope:

    

Man vs. Mountain vs. Coyotes:

Searching:

Looking for traces of the pack:

Nothing found during daylight hours:

Anyone hear this in the immediate neighborhood?   Hide your pet dogs and cats and young children.  Danger lurks.  Click:

Hellish Howling.

Advice to the NYC Parks Department as to how to attract coyotes for possible capture. Then possible shooting or trapping?  (For those pressed for time, start viewing at 07:45.) Click:

Calling the coyotes.