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The large-sized so-called McMansion homes in many of the city's residential neighborhoods apparently are not the only blight on residential neighborhoods.
Developers are also razing small homes and shoe-horning three or four homes onto lots where one home once stood.
One of the most controversial of these developments is on a site overlooking Little Neck Bay in Bayside, where four new homes are being jammed sideways into a single lot.
Area residents are angry at the project, angry at city officials for not stopping it, and angry that the developer is Tommy Huang, who was blamed for a variety of bad real estate related acts in Flushing for more than a decade.
City Councilman Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has been writing back and forth with city agencies for almost a year as the developer violated building rules and even caused the collapse of a retaining wall on an adjoining property while excavating.
Avella demanded in June that the city deny further construction permits to Huang, his son, Henry, who is part owner of the development company, their family and anyone representing them.
"The reasons for my request can be characterized as resulting from the repeated history of flagrant violations perpetrated by Mr. Huang on numerous properties owned and/or operated by...