Non-descript apartment buildings replace homes. In the background is Shore Towers.
OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Over 1300 people visit this web site each month, double from three months ago.
- Our protest blog on a local site attracted 600 viewers and resulted in the City Lights Piers being open to the public for the Fourth of July fireworks. Last year they weren’t
- Our meeting attendance has grown to expand a diverse range of residents from difference communities in western Queens. At our last meeting, for example, we have formed an alliance with Woodside residents protesting an unwanted development.
- In support of SAFE (Secure Astoria for Everyone), a grassroots reaction to a recent hate crime here, we posted a front-page alert here that was read by 1000 visitors.
- We allied with protestors of the impending demolition of St. Saviors, one of the last remaining pieces of mid-19th century Maspeth, who halted its development. We are actively looking at our historic sites in western Queens.
- LICA has influenced the office of Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission, to reportedly hasten the assignment of a downzoning study of Astoria to halt unwanted oversized buildings, which add to crime and garbage here…as well as massive electrical outages.
to educate the LIC community of residents on issues threatening their quality of life
to provide LIC residents with a united voice protesting unwanted development and current sources of blight
to serve as community activist by informing, gathering and building a widespread and influential consensus representing we, the people
We serve the neighborhoods of:
Old Astoria
Blissville
Dutch Kills
Hunters Point
Ravenswood
Steinway
Sunnyside
We support reducing: noise, trash, graffiti and all the things that lessen the quality of life in Long Island City.
We demand thoughtful planning in our community. We do not want the burgeoning development of Manhattan. We do not want a canyon of high-rises. We live here because of light, trees, fresh air and a high quality of life.
All of these causes lead to our foremost current issue: demanding down zoning on Long Island City’s low-rise residential streets; a legal moratorium on the Presbyterian Church of Astoria’s proposed development until such down zoning is passed, as well as on all other similar proposed demolition and developments of sites in Long Island City.
