Questions of Size and Taste for Queens Houses
5th July 2008
Of course, one person’s taste is another person’s crap. The world is full of people who think that their taste is exquisite while yours is vulgar. When such people gather together in a pack, it makes a lynch mob look sedate.
“There is a lot of history in the Cord Meyer area and a lot of historical houses that have a specific aesthetic character in that community,” said Melinda R. Katz, a city councilwoman whose district includes Forest Hills. “A lot of the houses that are going up there are just simply too big relative to the other houses that are there and have been there for generations. They are out of character.”
New York, for example, is just full of such people.