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WOODSIDE
AT A GLANCE |
W O O D S I D E
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Having known a development boom after the completion of Queensboro Bridge and the subway tracks (intersecting Long Island Rail Road at Roosevelt Ave and 61st St) Woodside has grown as a mixed, residential, commercial, and manufacturing suburb of Manhattan. Traditionally, the wealthy get off the subway and switch to L.I.R.R., heading the Long Island towns, whether working class keeps straight ahead, following the stairs down to 61st St (I apologize for the inexact data; the numerous taxi and truck drivers living there do not come back home by train). A brief urban-architectural analysis tells us right away that the original (at least claimed) purpose of Woodside was an ideological excuse for making profits. The pretext of building the family unity in a private house has partially failed, if it ever existed. Whenever the chance is out there, investors buy land and build apartment buildings (see attached pictures regarding development tendencies.) 97 Orchard St.* has moved away from Manhattan, and its tenants, although frustrated, seem to accept their status. A nice weekend evening spent in one of the fine Irish pubs, or a weekend trip to see relatives are sufficient valves of stress release for the regular Woodsider.
*97 Orchard St, New York, NY - The address of a tenement building built in the seventh decade of the 19th century, today The Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Don't forget to take the virtual tour of this tenement. See also http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html for more information. |