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Posted by streetcarman1 on Sat Sep 11 16:53:56 2010, in response to 9/10/77, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Sep 10 16:10:53 2010. " In between, Jamaica went to hell, and has never fully recovered. Dumb, DUMB!"If you understand what was really happening at the time....you'd say.....oh..now I get it...... Jamaica was going through the same economic downturn as Hempstead, LI. But locations had major anchor stores for many years. Both were the place to be to shop for alot of different things. Then THEY CAME. As more and more shoppers had cars, they become MOBILE. Then the MALLS came and they were able to lure shoppers away from these "centers of shopping." The anchors stores could not complete. Parking was limited. Malls has alot of parking to offer shoppers. So down went Jamaica and down went Hempstead. In an effort to reverse course, the city deceided to chop down part of the Jamaica EL so that "new light" could be shed onto the declining business area. Now in 2010, everything has changed. Anchor stores are coming back into the Parson Blvd/Jamaica Ave area. I've seen more new apartment buildings being built in the area. If you go further down Jamaica Ave. you'll see new multi-family structures where there never was in the past. Times change and demographics change as well. |
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