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NEW YORK -- Around 10 million American households -- or one in every four families that rent their homes -- could have to choose between paying rent, buying groceries or keeping current with bills, according to a report released Tuesday. The number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent and bills jumped by 2.6 million over the last decade, according to a Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies report. Economists generally consider "affordable" rent to cost about 30 percent of a tenant's income. (When will the Mayor and City Council realize the damage they've caused and reduce property taxes... when we go homeless?).

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Understanding NYC Street Parking Signs

How to read NYC Street Parking Signs

NEW YORK (WABC) -- An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas, read the full story here: ABC

Monserrate’s Ex-Chief of Staff Is Arrested
By FERNANDA SANTOS NYTimes
It looks as if former State Senator Hiram Monserrate may not be the only one with a temper problem. Hours before Mr. Monserrate began boxing practice (more on that later), his former chief of staff, Wayne Mahlke, 48, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court for possessing a forged police placard and for failing to obey a police officer — after hurling an insult at the officer. The city has been cracking down on the use – some people say abuse — of parking placards since 2008, when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg forced agencies to cut their number of placards by 20 percent and the New York Police Department created a unit to reduce their misuse. article

Alberto Martinez/Austin-American Statesman, via Associated Press

Espada’s Son Gets $120,000 Senate Staff Job

Hiram Monserrate Articles Hiram Monserrate Compares Himself To Jesus?

Ex-Councilman Admits Fraud and Money Laundering

Our NYC politicians seem to find the time to play the bongos?
WHERE IS OUR 4.4 BILLION Dollar SURPLUS?

Bailing out these Lending Institutions in NOT the answer!
Our government has failed us & is about to fail us again. They are about to make us pay once again for their errors. This system has many underlying problems and there is no quick fix! Instead of our government bailing out these mega companies with billions or our dollars, there are 2 simple solutions to avoid this which will keep homeowners from losing their homes and stabilize this failed real estate lending disaster:
1- Reduce all loans to a very low, or no interest rate.
2- Eliminate or reduce property taxes.
The government, as well as all these financial experts, are totally ignoring these 2 simple solutions (which will keep the economy stimulated) and they are also ignoring how property taxes are directly effecting this disaster and other underlying economic disasters! Our gov needs to step back and reform this system and finally make some intelligent decisions! FLB

The Qeens 1/2 Marathon passes through Whitestone!
The Queens half Marthon 2008 runners passed through Whitestone Queens on Sunday Sept 14, 2008. Dedicated Runners of all ages, like the one shown above with his 2 children in a stroller participated. Read about the one stay at home Mom's blog, who does it to show her children if you try, you can accomplish anything! Blog. - More info NYRR info and here More info

The Exotic sport of TRACK Bike Racing here in Queens!
Yes the rare sport of Bicycle Track Racing is right here in our own back yard, Kissena Park in Queens and it is becoming more popular each year, now with 2 nights of racing Monday's & Wed. at 6pm & special events throughout the season! They also have a training program for kids every Friday, a Saturday training program and a womens program... (they may even supply you with a bike if you are very serious), go watch or compete. For more info go to Kissena.info/track/ - check out the

NYC has a $4.4 billion surplus at the expense of the NYC tax payers. It's no secret how difficult is has become for the working class to pay rent in the NYC 5 boroughs, what most are not aware of, is NYC is to blame. Why, because NYC increases the Real Estate Taxes every year at a far greater rate than the working class wage increase! Tenants blame the owners, BUT THEY NEED TO GO AFTER NYC! Owners are forced to increase rents in order to pay these astronomical R/E taxes, insurance bills, gas, electric, maintenance etc. Many apartment owners are indeed working class, who have saved up for many years to own a piece of income producing property, only to find themselves giving not only all the profit to NYC instead of making a profit, but also having to use their personaly savings before NYC confiscates it from them. Sadly, many have lost thier homes & have ended up in homeless shelters because they lose their properties to NYC! They increase r/e taxes until the owners are paying more than the income & then they take it away from them... something is clearly wrong here! All they say to them is, "this is the law". Well that is wrong, we are all suffering for their mistakes (or corruption)! Here is the problem: NYC increases R/E taxes = owners must increase rents = working class can not afford = Working class struggles or becomes Homeless = NYC needs "more" money for shelters, programs etc.= NYC increases R/E taxes... it's an endless downward spiral and we will all suffer until the system colapses (and we understand that the NYC Council sets the property tax rates)! Well it's finally time for this to change! None of us should be paying these high rents but we are! And to add more insult to injury, with such a high surplus, we still find so many of our streets in hainous conditions & trying to get anything repaired is like pulling teeth & when do make any repairs, they are done poorly!

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MAKE A CHANGE! If we don't speak out, nothing will ever change. Contact our NYC Council who sets and votes for property tax rates increases go to NYC.gov call & email all NYC Council until something is done! One call will never change anything, repeated calls. letters & emails will!

NYC, the "Greatest" city on the planet, should have the best roads, well why doesn't it? One example of why it doesn't & how DOT is wasting MILLIONS of OUR tax dollars is because instead of reparing, they are destroying perfect streets, see for yourself! Witness DOT ripping up a perfect street (with not even one defect), only to repave it with a worst street & leaving thousands of NYC streets which are in DESPERATE need of repair, unrepaired! Who pays for this, WE DO, our TAX DOLLARS, through higher taxes, higher rents & list goes on & on! The street we are reporting should have never been touched, several residents made an effort to prevent this from occuring by contacting the Councilman & the Cummunity board, but they did nothing! Is the Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan aware of the corruption, or is she a part of it? Too many good streets are being ripped up & replaced with worst ones, why and why are newly paved streets done so poorly, with all sorts of irregularities & seams? This will never end, unless "WE"do something to stop it! NYC tax payers will no longer tolerate this, a total REFORMATION is needed & "WE" all must fight to get it... if we wait around for NYC to correct this or any other issue, it will never happen! SPEAK OUT! Send a message to the Commissioner today, or call her directly (212) 676-0868! Then file a complaint with Dept of Investigation (212) 825.5900 -"Our government is a government of the people, for the people , and by the people. Thus, if you do not challenge or hold the government accountable, you endorse them".


This photo shows the New Paving Quality of DOT, the previous road was perfectly flat, smooth & did not have all these defects! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS and NYC Tax Payers should no longer tolerate this!

MAKE A CHANGE! If you witness this, contact our NYC Comptroller & follow up. This is our city, if we don't speak out, nothing will ever change. In addition contact our NYC & State officials, go to NYC.gov call & email all of NYC agencies & officials until something is done, unfortunately once will never change anything in NYC, repeated calls, letters & emails will! It's up to us to make a change!
Our government is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Thus, if you do not challenge or hold the government accountable, you endorse it.

Bloomberg's Congestion Pricing Plan

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