Is it me or is Long Island starting to lose its luster? (fit in, loans)

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by SilverBulletZ06

Hmm.. I never knew that 231 was supposed to be an expressway. I'm still waiting for an overpass over the 347/Nichols road intersection.

I think 112 is far more dire.

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by Crookhaven

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I think 112 is far more dire.

I beg to differ


Actually looking forward to a brief respite in traffic as the SUNY kids head home for the summer.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

I beg to differ


Actually looking forward to a brief respite in traffic as the SUNY kids head home for the summer.

Nicolls is the issue

They need to open up Stony Brook Rd.


112 is a trainwreck east and west

[OhBeeHave]

I don't believe we'll ever see SB Rd opened up by virtue of the homes lining it. There's really not much they can take for the project. Also, it would need to be widened S of 347 where it heads into Lake Grove; same issues with even smaller setbacks for those homes.

Once the new SUNY bldg on SB Rr (the eminent domain Flowerfield/Gyrodyne seizure) is fully operating, SB Rd will be a nightmare.

I am waiting to hear the SBU is going to ED some of the houses on SB Rd which back the forest land between the South Loop Rd on Campus and Mills Rd in Long Hill. Somehow I have a feeling they are going to build something to move people from Campus to the tech bldg.

[Crookhaven]

Originally Posted by OhBeeHave

I don't believe we'll ever see SB Rd opened up by virtue of the homes lining it. There's really not much they can take for the project. Also, it would need to be widened S of 347 where it heads into Lake Grove; same issues with even smaller setbacks for those homes.

Once the new SUNY bldg on SB Rr (the eminent domain Flowerfield/Gyrodyne seizure) is fully operating, SB Rd will be a nightmare.

I am waiting to hear the SBU is going to ED some of the houses on SB Rd which back the forest land between the South Loop Rd on Campus and Mills Rd in Long Hill. Somehow I have a feeling they are going to build something to move people from Campus to the tech bldg.

Somethings gotta give to the West of Nicolls.

[mongoose65]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

I wonder if they will cross that NYC border en masse. Should be interesting. I know some apartment buildings and coops are seriously upgrading the interiors, etc., and trying to attract them to Valley Stream with the lower cost modern apartment and "close commute." (And I know a few young city transplants who have taken them up on it too and say they are happy here.)

But, for what it's worth, hipsters have reached the St. George area of Staten Island and Staten Island has a worse "republican bourgeois" reputation than LI does. So, could be.

The only problem is LI's powers of assimiliating a boheme hipster into a bald, fat, barbequing, Tball daddying crank are legendary (I speak from personal experience). No free ferry to the slick city from here. Just isolation, lacrosse, lawnmowing and snowblowing. Boan is right, televised sports are too entertaining. OK, off to soccer practice.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by mongoose65

The only problem is LI's powers of assimiliating a boheme hipster into a bald, fat, barbequing, Tball daddying crank are legendary (I speak from personal experience). No free ferry to the slick city from here. Just isolation, lacrosse, lawnmowing and snowblowing. Boan is right, televised sports are too entertaining. OK, off to soccer practice.

I will watch carefully for signs of that ...

[Dregg]

Originally Posted by jak0lantern01

Over-developed and over-taxed, that's what Long Island is these days. It used to be a great place, but it's incomprehensible that we pay top notch tax rates and it's going to the gutter.

Nearly a year later and nothing has changed.....except for higher taxes!
I'm disgusted with L.I. to be honest with you.

[Yzette]

Originally Posted by Dregg

Nearly a year later and nothing has changed.....except for higher taxes!
I'm disgusted with L.I. to be honest with you.

You're grousing about A year? Just one?

These grumbles have been rumbling since before Grumman left. Long Island is pretty stagnant politically. The faces change, but the game hasn't.

[Dregg]

Originally Posted by Avienne

You're grousing about A year? Just one?

These grumbles have been rumbling since before Grumman left. Long Island is pretty stagnant politically. The faces change, but the game hasn't.

Not, i'm not grousing over a single year...just making a reference to when this thread was made. For me, it's been going down hill since the 70's.