The big green triangle is one of the largest contiguous undeveloped and unused areas of land in the entirety of #NYC. Even the commercial/industrial development surrounding the site is relatively new, dating to the 1980s and 1990s, because it is a swamp.

Anyone who has lived in the #CollegePoint #Queens area for a long time knows that you don't drive down Linden Place when there have been heavy rains, and the flooding is not getting less frequent, due to climate change.

It should go without saying the the land values of #NewYorkCity exceed those of anywhere else in the US, and #CollegePoint's proximity to the Whitestone Bridge, Van Wyck and Long Island Expressways, as well as the LIRR and subway in Flushing, not to mention #Flushing Meadow and Citi Field, make it an obvious choice for development.

So ask yourself, why hasn't this already been done? The answer is very simple, because making money at it is not feasible without several cubic miles of landfill.

A someone who would describe herself as a *very left wing* libertarian queer woman of color, it tickles me pink that my family's home, #CollegePoint #Queens, is part of the NY-14 congressional district, so it's represented in DC by #AOC, but it's also represented on the #NYC City Council by the wretched Vickie Paladino, who is exemplary of the kind of reactionary conservatism that currently rules College Point.

Paladino *hates* bicycles and bicyclists with a passion.