The Queens Chronicle sent a reporter here to do a story about the fire hydrant that is covered by a mound of snow on my block. We rang the bell of the day care center where the fire hydrant is in front of. A woman answered from a first floor window. She said she is tired of shoveling because she has a corner house. She said the fire hydrant is city property. The reporter tried to tell her it is the home owner’s responsibility to clean out the fire hydrant. She said if it bothers the other neighbors they should shovel it out themselves. She doesn’t care that she has a day care of children who are at risk if a fire breaks out & the fire fighters can’t get to the fire hydrant to fight the fire.

We did a tour of the neighborhood. I showed him the lot next door to me that has not been shoveled since December 26TH.

I showed him The Andrews Avenue Bridge which finally got shoveled today thanks to Eileen Boland from Margaret Markey’s office. She had to contact the mayor’s office to get this bridge shoveled.

We look at other fire hydrants around 56TH Street & 62ND Avenue & 60TH Street. Some home owners cleared them & others did not. We spoke to one resident of 56TH Street who said the fire hydrant next door to him was cleared by the fire house on Metropolitan Avenue because he walked over there. He said his neighbor would not clean it out.

We walked over the 60TH Street Bridge & left hand side by The Metropolitan Oval Soccer Field had a path shoveled. We stopped in NE & WS Wood Working Company. The owner said he plowed the path up the bridge because he said it would never get done otherwise. He also cleaned out his fire hydrant because he said it is part of his property.

That’s why I have a feeling if I want that fire hydrant shoveled out on my block I will probably have to do it. Unbelievable that I have to not only clean off my property I have to worry about others’ properties.

That’s the new attitude if you don’t like how I keep my property do it yourself. What do you think about this? Where is people’s community spirit? Where is pride in your own property?

There are 10 times more cars than years ago.

Someone needs to do a story on home owners who have driveways so they put all the snow in the parking spot in front of their houses taking away a much needed spot in Brooklyn.

melt the snow?… so we can have dangerous ice all over the streets at night?..ur silly.

the street belongs to NYC. those who are lucky enough to own property in NYC should not complain about their so called “spot ” being taken.

i never heard of such a rule, born and bred in NYC. sounds like upper middle class BS. try that nonsense in the hood.

Actually BS Meter, I lived in NYC for over 30 years and there really IS an unwritten rule about parking in a sport that was dug out by someone else. It was a respect factor. If someone spent 30 – 40 minutes digging out their car, and a neighbor saw them do it then they would like the other neighbors know who’s spot it was. Or the would ask the neighbor if they could have the spot once they left. Now if the spot that was dug out belonged to someone who was just visiting or not coming back, then that spot was free for anyone to take. Now you could have someone (and I suspect you are that type of person) who would just come out of nowhere and try to park in a spot that someone else dug out, but they would be politely asked to park somewhere else. I”ve dug my car out many times before so I know how much work it takes to do so, especially when it is surrounded by 15+ inches of snow. It is wrong for someone to come reap the benefits off of someone else’s hard work. I know it happens in corporate America all the time, but parking on the street isn’t corporate America. I’m glad that I grew up in such a neighborhood where we respected each other as such.

i agree i love the snow mor more more !

And speaking of bloated and flatulent ….. you stink Marcky Marcky!

Hey Einstein, parked cars do NOT get in the way of street cleaning. They plow the TRAFFIC lanes, not the edges of the sidewalk. That’s why cars parked on the street get buried by the plow when it goes by. I have a garage and I STILL get plowed in when the plow goes by. That’s just life in the city. No matter who you are or where you live, eventually you gotta plow your way out. Why don’t you move out of New York if it’s so distressing to you. Your idiotic solutions might work in Hicktown, USA

we need to get rid of this rich mayor and liberal policy that favor the rich in NYC or it will turn out like San Fransisco

You’re an idiot. That was just about one of the most moronic comments I have ever seen on the net.

wow, ur are ignorant, where the hell do we put all the cars? LOL, u obviously are envious of car owners. i guess i need my shovel again, this time not for snow.

Maybe you should change your name to Dumb Dumb.

Where on earth would all the city residents put their cars you genius? Do you seriously have any idea how idiotic a statement you are making? Street parking is a LUXURY??? Guess you don’t read what all the surcharges are for NYC residents registering their cars…

Do us a favor. Find Bloomberg, crawl under his desk, unzip his fly, take his shriveled up peepee stick in your hand, open your drooling trap and shove it in, and shuddup.

Perhaps the snow should be dumped on “the Good Samaritian’s” door step. That’s just the sort of comment that one would expect from an ingnorant person. So perhaps the name should be The Ignorant Samaritan!!!

Forgot to mention the projects too.

The Good Samaritan has spoken

…better suggestion would be to dump it all on Coney Island beach.

Well if ur trying 2 get ur car out and have 2 be going in and out of the car 2 shovel outside Cus the city is not doing there job than u have 2 be in the middle of the street shoveling doing the city’s job! I pay lots of taxes and so does the majority of us but I’m not gonna sit in my house while they decide 2 plow my street!

Last time I saw the streets in Elmont, a packof gang bangers jumped me. A little pack of monkeys. They all had their underwear, you know the little tag was hanging out the back of their pants and their pants were so loose, they were falling down and their shoes fell off. They beat me unmerciful. Then they left me for the dogs to nip at me in front of the Key Food. Ugh, It was horrible. HORRIBLE I tell ya.

Evelyn, you should call a news station!

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