I went to elementary school in a town (Valley Stream), which bordered this area, and where many of the inhabitants “fled” the region in question. BTW: Negrophobia played a part, but so did the constant flooding. Whoever builds in SE Queens does so at their own risk.
>The prosperous downtown of the 1960s — the one that drew families from Harlem and Brooklyn and South Carolina — will return to southeast Queens.
And I will be elected president after being swept into office by a 50 state sweep.
Its dead, jim.
Nonsense. By the '60s the area was past its prime as a shopping hub.