Losing Sight of the Steinway Mansion. (Update Photos of 8/16/20)

   As predicted nine months ago - HERE, the view of the Steinway Mansion is slowly being obliterated for warehouse construction along 41st Street.   Looking north.  Catch it while you can.

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Steinway Mansion Update (March 21, 2020)

   We drove by a few days ago and found warehouse construction at the lot just south of the Mansion proceeding as planned.  A few more months and the view of the Mansion will most probably no longer be visible due to the height of the planned warehouses.  (Our previous blog coverage HERE and HERE.)

The Son Of Queens, DJT, is too nice to say it so we will:

The truth shall set you free.

EXCLUSIVE: Source of the Red Communist Flags Displayed at the Flushing Lunar Parade.

      Last year, our site highlighted the appearance of dozens of flags of the People's Republic of China (communist China) along the route of the annual Asian lunar year parade in downtown Flushing - HERE.   This year's parade, January 25, 2020,  saw a repeat appearance of these dozens of flags.   Parade organizers last year claimed they did not know who was responsible for this.   So we decided to investigate this year's parade.   See photos and captions below for the results.

IMAGE 1.  Despite the pouring rain, a sea of 

communist Chinese flags appears again in

 downtown Flushing during the annual

 Asian lunar parade.

IMAGE 2.  At parade conclusion,  the many flag

displays are hurriedly dismantled.   Where is the man in red
 going with the bunched flags ?

IMAGE 3.   He's going here:  the ramshackle

 entrance to 41-46 Main Street where ...

IMAGE 4.  ... a phalanx of flag flunkies
 follow him depositing their furled banners there to

receive cash payment from ...

IMAGE 5.   … this woman, HuaHong Li 

(Chinese: Li HuaHong) who was seen checking off

the flag carriers' names on a clipboard and then

making cash payments to them.

IMAGE 6.   HuaHong Li is seen here 

wearing the emblemed garment of the

Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance.  Extensive
 information and press reports on Li's and 
the CACWA's actvities can readily be 
researched and found on the internet.
[Readers, go to it!]  According to these sources,
 both have been and are rumored to be in the pay
 of the communist People's Republic.

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IMAGE 7.  Views of the parade reviewing stand
over the past 3 years: no American flags visible
in 2018.  Only 3 American flags visible in 2019.
Parade organizers were queried then about the
vast preponderance of Chinese communist flags
along the parade route.  Shamed?  Embarassed?
Playing catch-up? The 2020 photo shows now
 10 American flags festooning the reviewing stand.

IMAGE 8.   Joined flags of the Republic of China (free 
Taiwan) and the USA seen for the first time in the immediate
 vicinity of the parade reviewing stand.

The Strange Case of the Missing Korean Flag (Flushing Asian Lunar Parade, January 25, 2020)

The NYPD Ceremonial Unit usually leads New York City's various ethnic parades.  Photos below show that in the 2017 and 2018 Flushing Asian Lunar Parade only 3 flags were carried by this police contingent:  the American flag, the flag of the City of New York, and the NYPD flag.  Last year, 2019, 2 additional flags were included:  that of the People's Republic of China (communist China) and that of the Republic of Korea (free South Korea).

This year, 2020, the flag of the Republic of Korea was not carried by the marching police contingent although the communist Chinese flag was.

Why?

Image 1.  No country's flag 

carried in the 2017 parade.

Image 2.  Also no country's flag carried

in the 2018 parade.

Image 3.  Two country's flags included at the head of the

2019 parade:  second from left, The People's Republic of

 China (communist China) and third from left, 

The Republic of Korea (free South Korea).

Image 4.  WHY WAS THE KOREAN FLAG

MISSING FROM THE 2020 PARADE?

Off-Duty Cops Get To Park On Sidewalk Next To Bicycle Lane.

Who:  The Columbia Association of the NYPD.
Where:  In Elmhurst on the Queens Boulevard south service road between the new Georgia Diner and Grand Avenue.
When:  Tuesday evening, November 26, 2019.
What:  Columbia Association police membership needs convenient and difficult to find on-street parking.
Why:  It seems that this membership has parking privileges that the rest of the citizenry does not.  

If the Queens Boulevard bike lanes are kept clear, as seen in these photos, why can't all drivers then park on the sidewalk like these off-duty cops?

Photo 1.   Regular street parking cannot be found, so we
 drive up onto the sidewalk.  Nice.

Photo 2.  As far as the eye can see, along the service road:
 dozens of bumper-to-bumper private cop-owned cars
 parked to the right of the bike lane up on the sidewalk.
  The Grand Avenue cross street is just below photo at the
 bottom.  The Georgia Diner is situated way off in the
 distance in the upper left behind the stopped bus.

Photo 3.  No standing . . . unless you're privileged.

Photo 4.  The Italian Charities of America building at

the corner of Queens Boulevard and Van Loon Street at

the right - the site of the monthly NYPD Columbia Association

meeting.

Photo 5.  Illegally parked vehicles "respect" the bike lane by

not intruding on it although the drivers' sides of these vehicles

are on the sidewalk.   Why can't non- police owned vehicles 

do the same in light of the recent loss of parking spaces
caused by bicycle lane construction?

Photo 6.  All that's needed is an official placard?

Photo 7.  A police officer's privately-owned vehicle exits the

illegal parking area into rush hour congested single-lane

traffic.

EXCLUSIVE: Steinway Mansion Update.

We asked 14 months ago - HERE - what was to become of the parcel of land immediately adjacent south of the Steinway Mansion.

 Answer:

Photo 1. Schematic of  a 2-story manufacturing building

 with cellar designed by Gerald Caliendo and owned by 

Philip Loria (1839LorLLC) and Sal Lucchese (1839 LuccLLC).

Photo 2.  Looking east across the extremely narrow 41st Street

at 18-39, the former property of the late owner Armin Urban.

Photo 3.  All's quiet at night as bulldozer "sleeps" for

the next day's foundation excavation work.

Photo 4.  Steinway Mansion to be further hemmed in by

additional proximate development.

  

Photo 5.  It's official.  Who's who.  What's what.

 And where and when.

Photo 6.  In the meantime, major traffic headaches have already

begun on the summit and approaches of the extremely
 dangerous and narrow 41st street immediately
 adjacent west of the Steinway Mansion.

Photo 7.  Constant truck traffic enters and exits the property for

the excavation soil removal.