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The unit is located at 99-14 59 Ave, #2L, Corona, NY 11368.

It was closed in December, 2009. Sold for $73,000.

The building was built 1961, with laundry room, sitting area, garage & parking lot (space is not available right away of course). It was managed by Andrea Bunis Management.

The unit is about 550 square feet. Maintenance is $492 including utilities.

View the virtual tour here .

Few weeks ago I had 2.5 millions chips in the Facebook Zygna Texas Hold'em Poker game, it was stolen. I could not log into my Facebook account and my email account. I didn't pay much attention to it. But anyway I set an alert to notify through my cell phone.

Last week I received an alert on my cell phone notify me my email account password was changed. I reset my email's password immediately. Then I checked my Facebook, also hacked and another 300 grands chips was stolen.

I don't really know what is the purpose of those hackers, it seems going after my Chips. But why, can they sell the Chips?

While Facebook is so popular nowadays, I am afraid Facebook will go down as fast as they moved up if they don't tighten the security/privacy issue.

The unit is located at 139-15 28 Rd, #5F, Flushing, NY 11354.

It was closed in May 2010. Asking $145,000. Sold for $139,000.

The building was built in 1952. The unit is about 650 square feet. Maintenance is $617 including utilities.

View the virtual tour.

Watch the video on YouTube.

Inventory level of 2-family houses is higher than single-family, condo and co-op indicating the lack of demand of investment properties or the more strict requirement by lenders than before.

Inventory as at 05/20/10:

25 units of 2-family - median asking price $789,000 (25 months supply)*

6 units of 1-family - median asking price $684,000 (9 months supply)*

19 units of condo - median asking price $335,000 (10 months supply)*

171 units of co-op - median asking price $229,000 (13 months supply)*

*Based on the closings in the previous 12-months.

Units closed in previous 12-months period 5/1/09 to 4/30/10:

12 units of 2-family - median selling price $703,500

8 units of 1 family - median selling price $457,500

21 units of condo - median selling price $290,000

147 units of co-op - median selling price $198,000

Units under contract in April 2010:

2 units of 2-family.

2 units of 1-family.

1 unit of condo.

36 units of co-op.

Date source: MLS of Long Island

Disclaimer: Data represented transactions reported to MLS only, it didn't reflect all transactions in the area.

It was a quiet residential street in Kew Garden Hills/Flushing, there would not be many walking traffic normally.

If you saw more than 20 people gathering on the street, yelling, pushing each other, would you call 911?

After one or two minutes, cars stopped and they still didn't move. I didn't want bad thing happened before it was too late, so I called 911.

After few minutes they left liked nothing happened.

But that is not the end of my story. The worst thing happened was no police ever showed up. After the Crowd left, I was still waiting for the police for more than half an hour. I thought may be I need to brief the police what happened. That made me think of the Central Park Sexual Assault in 2000 that the police didn't stop the crime right in front of them.