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Kingston Work Riles Merchants

Store owners and Crown Heights residents are feeling the pinch as road work begins on Kingston. But Jacob Goldstein of Community Board 9 tells COLlive: "No pain, no gain." Full Story, Photos

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to all you idiots
February 21, 2010 8:20 am

colonell g. knows what he is doing –if anything thank him for his services!!!(to number 27:sb”h who do you think gets the safty??–thats right colonell goldstein!!!)

let alone chof beis shvat...
February 18, 2010 5:47 pm

where on earth will simchas beis hashuavah take place? what will crown heights look like without A kingston avenue??? what will the rebbes shchuna lokk like?

not so
February 7, 2010 5:46 am

the fact as stated by a family member of goldstein is that there was NO vote for empire blvd they just decided it was important and did it on their own

A Mommy
February 6, 2010 8:09 pm

I actually walked over to the workers when my kids wanted to see the man inside the street, and said hi. I took advantage, and asked if my kids could take pics with them, and they said they will be here for months and months.. my kids are thrilled TWO TRACTORS!!!

Chani
February 6, 2010 8:06 pm

uhhh,, newsflash,, who wants to shop on kingston with the merchants having the attitude and the prices being inflated the way they are,, its Empire Kosher for me, and clothing I can get elsewhere,, OK OK so Dovid Teich is nice, and I can walk to his cleaners.

Meetings?
February 6, 2010 3:00 pm

has Goldstien even once called residents to attend meetings?? or informed the residents of the agenda?? of course not he takes great pleasure in causing “pain” particularly to the jewish residents of crown heights! time to get rid of him and get someone that is actually there to help the shchunah not busy it!

Be active
February 6, 2010 2:10 pm

Instead of complaining – get active – get approved to be part of the community board and then you can vote. The BOARD is who decides what happens, not you and I.

A defender of Goldstein
February 6, 2010 2:08 pm

To all the comments, The Empire Blvd vote was passed by all the board members not by Goldstein alone. If u want to b part of the board, you have to apply to the Boro Presidents office, and once a vacancy is open you will get the job. Parking regulations are decide by the DOT not the community board. IF you want to know what is going , attened the monthly meeting that r sponsered by the CHJCC. Please check you data before you post a comment.

Goldstein has to go
February 5, 2010 8:15 am

Time for new blood on the community Board. this isn’t a dictatorship where he can tell us peons what will happen to us. We pay taxes, we should have a say.

I see from the photos we are losing parking spaces. We already don’t have enough! And with this 2 year construction (why 2 years? Empire Blvd was massacred in 3 weeks!) + snow it’s going to be impossisble.

as someone else said: Goldstein has a car & probably city plates. HE doesn’t have a problem. You & I have a problem, but he don’t care.

Thanks but NO Thanks Colonel..........
February 5, 2010 4:34 am

Is Empire Blvd your doing, please tell me ‘NO’, because it’s a mess a total and UNNECESSARY mess. Where’s the ‘saichel’ ??????

BIG A!!!!
February 5, 2010 4:22 am

Go get ’em big A!

Buildings
February 5, 2010 3:24 am

Buildings on Kingston received notices from the city that they are going to fix their sidewalks (which cablevision messed up once) and…CHARGE THE OWNERS FOR THE WORK!!!
What utter Chutzpa!!

Hopeful
February 5, 2010 2:15 am

I am hopeful that at the end kingston will look like a main ave in the rebbes shchuna

To number 6
February 5, 2010 2:15 am

What you see now is only what keyspan is doing, there will be many other companies doing their work, and this will probably go on for a long time. So it wont only be chof bais shvat.

Eastern Pkwy
February 5, 2010 2:13 am

I wonder if someone on the board will take away the no parking on shabbos that is on Eastern Pkwy

I agree with 11
February 5, 2010 2:11 am

Thank you Rabbi Goldstein… without you CH would be stuck in the 19th century….

what about all the stray cats in c.h. when are people going to deal with them?
February 5, 2010 2:00 am
THANK GOD FOR GOLDSTEIN
February 5, 2010 1:17 am

without people like him, to make decisioins that NEED to be made, we would still be livving in the ghetto crown heights used to be.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! Be Adults!!!
THANK YOU JACOB GOLDSTEIN!

Bellyaching
February 5, 2010 1:17 am

Surgery is not painful …. So long as it’s being performed on someone else!

just say no
February 5, 2010 1:03 am

We dont need ‘curves’ on kingston.
we dont want more trees.

To bellyaching
February 4, 2010 8:09 pm

He has a garage. No parking on his block will not affect him in the slightest.

a little seichel would have gone a long way
February 4, 2010 6:04 pm

It would only have taken a little bit of intelligent thinking to have planned this construction for the SUMMER when so many people are away and construction wouldn’t have to consider delays because of SNOW and the added effects of snow on complicating traffic.

chof beis shvat?!
February 4, 2010 5:43 pm

i understand you want to fix up the street. but on the very weekend of chof beis shvat?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

resident
February 4, 2010 5:39 pm

Just make sure there are no bike lanes!!

parking
February 4, 2010 5:28 pm

how about reducing the parking regulations while construction is in effect.

Title
February 4, 2010 4:32 pm

of course… the good colonel is right.

But does he have to enjoy the “pain” part so much?

its a real pain in the neck
February 4, 2010 3:53 pm

there is no parking on the avenue since their truck take up so much space, stores cant get deliveries and neither can the kingston residence unload shopping from their car, as well as today i saw an ambulance trying to get to an emergency and was waiting a good three minutes for the tractor to move out of the way

bellyaching
February 4, 2010 3:46 pm

the only thing to belly ache about is goldstein. he messed up brooklyn ave residents with stupid no parking regulations on a residential block the trucks stop on empire illegally anyway so why cant we have our parking back? as far as attending meetings, we have no say community board 9 redid empire without votes from people. let his block be a no parking residential block then he’ll see what it feels like

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