Willets Point United, a group of landowners dedicated to eradicating eminent domain abuse, stopped by our last COMET meeting.  Their representative, Richard Lipsky, is familiar to Maspeth as he worked with small businesses there against the Grand Avenue shopping mall many years ago.  Lipsky explained that the City has applied to the NYS Department of Transportation for approval of highway ramps at the juncture of the Whitestone and Van Wyck Expressways, which will snarl traffic throughout Queens.  COMET unanimously (with one abstention) voted to support the group's efforts to get the eminent domain laws in NY changed to be more fair to land owners and to call for an independent review of the traffic caused by these ramps.

You may sign the group's petition and learn more about the traffic project by visiting trafficnightmare.org