Family Entertainment Stays Put, Signs 5-year Lease

Weiner is up to his old shenanigans again with this property. Be advised!

This place is a dump.. im sad it will be there fo 5 moe years.. Try cleaning it up..

You did not mention me by name–that was O’shea–but since I am the only real estate broker on the board, your contention that real estate professionals should not serve on the board certainly is directed at me, if only by inference. My reference to lawyers and liquor licenses is that SLA applications come before the board.

The law is very clear–if an item comes before the board which presents a conflict of interest to a board member, he/she must recuse him/herself from voting.

I should also say that the board’s decisions are advisory and I am one of fifty board members. Although I like to feel my vote counts, I don’t have any illusions of it having a major impact on the various issues that come before the board. My influence, where it exists, has been on environmental issues due to my position as chair of the Environmental Committee and consequent participation on the various local environmental organizations, such as the Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board, Newtown Creek Alliance, Newtown Creek Brownfields Opportunity Area Advisory Board and others.

@Surreal estate agent You take much too tight a reading of your own words. Perhaps you did not mean to imply Dorothy Moorehead was crooked, but everyone else who read it as if your accusations were aimed at her.

So, the lady doth not protest too much, methinks. You backpedal to quickly, methinks.

And you seem to be in the business yourself, with the pseudonym you use. Perhaps you are trying to besmirch the reputation of a strong competitor. Not saying you are, but it would be a strong motive for such an attack.

@ Surreal estate agent. So there should not be a doctor or nurse on the board because the board deals with provision of health services? Or teachers because the board deals with requesting new schools and siting of schools? Or lawyers because the board deals with liquor licenses? Co-op and condo owners and homeowners? Board decisions could effect their properties. Who does that leave? Sorry but you are dead wrong on this issue. Please inform yourself on how the board works before posting further innuendos about me. Better yet, come to a board meeting. Except for September when the usual meeting date conflicts with the Jewish holidays, the board meets on the first Thursday of the month at 7 at Sunnyside Community Setvices. The fall meetings are particularly important because the board sets the capital and expense budgets then.

It’s not unreasonable to think that people in the real-estate business should not be on the community board. They are making decisions that affect the local real-estate market even if a particular property they deal with is not involved in any one particular decision. To say there is no conflict of interest is to ignore reality.

Even if a member is not taking advantage of their position, there is too much potential for corruption. Putting the foxes in charge of the hen house is not a good idea.

@ O’shea. I do not, in fact cannot, vote on issues where there is a conflict of interest–it is explicitly forbidden by law. In the ten years I have served on CB2, I have voted on exactly two issues related to real estate. They were the re-zoning of Sunnyside and Woodside which down-zoned the side streets and up-zoned Queens Boulevard and Greenpoint Avenue. With my colleagues on the board I was concerned about the preservation of those ocommunities. (Prior to the re-zoning, a 6-story building could be built anywhere, including mid-block, as of right and I had seen firsthand on 36th Street in Astoria where a single building had destroyed the entire block.) The other vote was last month when the board voted unanimously to decline the 5-Pointz development project. If you care to go to the community board to hear the tape of the meeting, you will hear me question the attorney for the developer if the developer would make a commitment to including affordable housing. (He wouldn’t, at least at that time. He has since met with the Land Use Committee and is more open to that and other community amenities. See LICpost.com for further info.)

@ Leave Dorothy alone. Thank you for your kind comments. I have to correct one thing. I lived in 3 different neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights, Flushing and Rego Park before finding Sunnyside. So I haven’t lived here all my life but will for the rest of it!

A sigh of relief can be heard all over Sunnyside and environs!

As the president of Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce, Swain Weiner was just too eager to get a commission and favours from the businesses he places. Van Bramer should hear of this conflict of interest. Here’s his number just in case you don’t have it on speed-dial: (718) 383-9566

The Chamber–in its entirety–should be run out of town immediately. We do not exist for their benefit. They are here to serve the community. People who think they have power often get that mixed up!

Just walked by there yesterday, someone should clean all of that mess down there! Garbage all over the place on the outside. Sunnydide Gardens Park on one side, all clean and tidy, and on the other side, quite the eyesore!

They should at least fix the outside of this place up a bit

What a mess.

Swain Weiner is not only a real estate broker and president of Greiner-Maltz but is also the president of Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce… http://sunnysidepost.com/2012/06/12/sunnyside-chamber-of-commerce-names-new-president/