Forum-at-borough-hall

Yesterday the outgoing Borough President Helen Marshall celebrated the opening of a $23,000,000 event atrium at Borough Hall. The New York Daily News reports that the Forum, as it’s called, is 11,000 square feet and will be used for civic meetings and public events. According to the News, “The three-story space, featuring a large stage with floating canopy, can host 450 people for meetings, concerts and other events. New bathrooms are also in the works.” Construction should totally wrap early next year. Marshall received some flack for these plans over the rising price tag of the project, which started at $17,000,000. And since the city built the Forum over an open courtyard, the removal of cherry blossom trees for construction caused a little controversy.

Regardless, Marshall celebrated the space yesterday, stating, “For decades, public hearings and other public events were held in cramped and unimproved quarters upstairs. Now, for the first time, the people of Queens will have a fitting public space in our county seat of government.”

Outgoing Queens Borough President Helen Marshall Unveils $23M Borough Hall Event Space [NY Daily News]


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  1. Helen Marshall (and the rest of the Borough Hall henchmen), is the quintessential, class A narcissist: Arrogant, deceitful, manipulative, greedy, selfish, unrepentant, unapologetic, cowardly, corrupt, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, derelict, depraved, dysfunctional, mendacious, intensely incompetent, rapacious and predatory. Just imagine, because of one public servant’s knowingly false beliefs about a statue like ‘Triumph Of Civic Virtue,’ that could wield the power to demand and order the removal of a 16-ton statue (that was gifted to Queens by Fiorello LaGuardia, more than 70 years ago), simply because a minority of uneducated women (herself included), find the work to be offensive and sexist (which is knowingly false)! We, the Queens taxpayers’ were never informed about how much it would cost to evict a statue that all Queens residents never objected to in the first place! The arrogance and cowardice of this counterfeit impostor is colossal and unprecedented. Welcome to Queens—the home of the Neo-Bolsheviks, and Neo-Fascism! An outright disgrace beyond reason–and sanity!