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China: Road Built Around Couple’s Home
Sky News ^
| 6:25pm UK, Thursday 22 November 2012
Posted on 11/22/2012 10:49:10 PM PST by Olog-hai
A Chinese couple have found themselves living in the fast lane after refusing to move out for a new road.
Construction workers in the countrys Zhejiang province surrounded their five-story building with asphalt, leaving motorists to navigate an unlikely obstacle.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: centralplanning; china; eminentdomain; napl; redchina
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To: Navy Patriot
Not successfully, though. You can bet Red China would laugh their heads off at them if they tried.
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posted on
11/23/2012 10:19:32 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: RetSignman
You can see why this is a big problem for the two people in China who own cars.
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posted on
11/23/2012 10:26:05 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: Olog-hai
Source:
gothamist.comIn The 1960s, One Queens Resident Refused To Sell Land To Macy's
Here's a story about how one Queens resident held out from selling her plot of land to Macy's when they wanted to build a store in the borough in the mid-1960s.
Places No More tells Mary Sendek's story pretty comprehensively, noting that she was the only resident who refused the company's offer, and lived in her home on Queens Boulevard until her death.
"The story of Mrs. Sendek and her refusal to sell may have made her a local hero at the time, but up until 1965 there was really nothing unusual about her and her family. Mary and her husband Joseph were Hungarian immigrants, both families having come over around 1898. The Sendeks bought the small house on Queens Boulevard in 1922 for $4,000. Macys set its sights on the Elmhust plot between 55th and 56th avenues for a new store in the early 1960′s. It was large, open, and had fairly few houses on it. It was centrally located, just a couple blocks west of Woodhaven Boulevard."
While Macy's moved forward with their planning, they ran into an obstacle when Sendek refused to sell, despite their offer of $200,000. They made adjustments to their circular design to work around her plot, and when Sendek died in 1980, "her children then
sold the house to Diplomat Enterprises who elected to destroy it and put a strip mall in its place." Those ungrateful little...!
In 1996 Macys ended up moving over to a new spot down the street, and their old building is now Queens Place, while an HSBC Bank was built on Sendek's landForgotten-NY visited the area a few years ago.
I went to high school nearby this location back in the late 60's. I remember seeing her house. She had to surround it with high chain-link fencing to keep the teenagers away.
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posted on
11/23/2012 10:31:44 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(The GOP-e said "Beat a Marxist with a Liberal!" What a colossal blunder.)
To: Olog-hai
But San Francisco progressives would never be ignored, they are so important, just ask ‘em, they’ll tell you so.
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posted on
11/23/2012 11:48:35 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Olog-hai; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
11/24/2012 9:45:47 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Olog-hai; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
11/24/2012 9:46:42 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Olog-hai
Must be a trend.
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posted on
11/24/2012 12:46:35 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
To: Slings and Arrows
I like their appreciation for private property rights at least. This seems odd to me being a Communist country and all.
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posted on
11/24/2012 4:53:45 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Olog-hai
All I can say is Lol and Ungh. Wouldn’t want to be living in that house and have some crazy drunk come crashing in....
To: Olog-hai
Hey, it worked for Bugs Bunny....
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posted on
11/26/2012 3:50:42 AM PST
by
fredhead
(It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/01/2012 8:46:51 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Daffynition
Where’s Ford Prefect when you need him?
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posted on
12/01/2012 8:48:30 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
He’s off looking for Zaphod Beeblebrox and one of his mothers for advice.
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posted on
12/01/2012 8:55:13 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Daffynition
Figured that would eventually happen. The state does not brook dissent over there.
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posted on
12/01/2012 9:53:37 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
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