April 30, 2003
LIRR Station portal
This MTA page has (see right column) good station info pages;
this one has much poorer info.
April 25, 2003
Bicycling groups
Bicycling groups:
Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists (CLIMB),
East End Cycling Team,
Five Borough Bicycle Club,
G.B.S.C. Bicycle Racking Team,
Huntington Bicycle Club, Huntington
Kissena Cycling Club,
Long Island Bicycle Club,
Massapequa Park Bicycle Club, Massapequa
Paumanok Bicycling Advocacy,
Suffolk Bicycle Riders Association.
April 24, 2003
April 23, 2003
Vision Long Island/Smart Growth
Vision Long Island, campaign for smart growth.
Parking at LGA: avistar
Parking at LGA? Yes, though they do not have a
covered lot there, but never had a problem with them.
avistar parking at LaGuardia, or telephone at 1-800-621-park.
You will probably need to make reservations, they fill up sometimes
and only take reservations or their membership people.
There is also on site parking in a parking garage, depending on which
airline it may be convenient for you, or it may be a bit of a hike.
There are also several other off site parking lots around, some in garages,
some just park and lock places, etc, but I've always used Avistar.
Print out a discount coupon to use, and they give AAA members a
10 or 15% discount.
April 22, 2003
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April 17, 2003
Newsday Transportation news
NY Newsday's Transportation section.
April 16, 2003
April 15, 2003
AutoX, Solo2, local
AutoX NYC locations, NYR SCCA Solo2, NYC SCCA.
North East SCCA club directory.
April 14, 2003
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April 10, 2003
NY Roads
NYC Roads's Long Island roads, LI Expressways and LI Parkways.
April 09, 2003
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April 06, 2003
Queens: Little Neck, Douglastown
Two Affluent Areas of Queens Adjust to a New Ethnic Mix
By JOSEPH BERGER
In the prosperous Queens neighborhoods of Douglaston and Little Neck,
where the number of Asian immigrants has more than doubled in 12
years, there are many tales of how the American mill of assimilation
works its special grace.
A champion ballroom dancer from Seoul is giving tango and rumba
lessons to the neighborhood's longtime residents. A Fujianese
immigrant has opened a Chinese restaurant that is not only vegetarian
but also kosher, availing himself of the help of Jewish neighbors in
getting a rabbinical certificate. And on Sunday afternoons, the area's
leading Episcopal church rents its sanctuary to a small Korean
congregation.
Yet it would be wrong to conclude that the melting pot in Douglaston
and Little Neck is without its lumps.
There are, for example, persistent murmurs of displeasure from
established residents who say they do not feel welcome in many of the
Korean-owned shops along Northern Boulevard that were once owned by
Irish, Italian, German and Jewish merchants. What particularly chafes
are the proliferation of large signs in Korean, some with no English
explanation of what is sold.
''The perception is that these businesses are serving their own
people,'' Paula Gerber, office manager of a real estate agency on the
boulevard, said. ''They're not realizing that when you're on the
street you're supposed to be serving everyone.''
There has also been discomfort with the growth of Korean churches, one
of which, Eun Hae Presbyterian, is being built to hold 494 worshipers
but will have just 32 parking spaces.
Neighborhoods like Little Neck and Douglaston are worth watching
because they are laboratories for the second stage in the cycle of
Asian immigration. Asians who started out in crowded Chinatown in
dawn-to-midnight jobs in restaurants, garment factories and groceries,
and may have moved up to the more decorous apartments of Flushing, are
now thriving enough to penetrate the city's leafiest precincts.
Little Neck and Douglaston are right across a small cove from Great
Neck, on Long Island. Houses range from $450,000 to $3
million. Douglas Manor, an enclave of 600 graceful houses in
Douglaston, was known as late as the 1950's as a white Protestant
neighborhood where Jews were discouraged from buying houses, local
leaders say.
In the past decade, Asians have been drawn to Douglaston and Little
Neck by the area's suburban tidiness and low taxes and by the
top-rated public schools of Community School District 26. In 1990,
11.6 percent of the two neighborhoods' 23,000 residents were Asian. By
2000, 23 percent were Asian, mostly Korean and Chinese. Even the
population of Douglas Manor is 8 to 10 percent Asian, said Bernard
Haber, a former president of Community Board 11.
NYT 2003: Queens: Little Neck, Douglastown
2003 March 25 New York Region -- link.
April 04, 2003
April 03, 2003
Weather and Traffic
Weather: 1 2; metro commute conditionsNew York and Long Island.
April 02, 2003
Melville history
a href="http://www.lihistory.com/spectown/hist006n.htm">Melville history .
