Down goes the the old LIC bank at Queens Plaza. To make way for a hotel. There is a hotel building boom in LIC -- 3 new economy hotels around Queens Plaza and East, plus a couple that have been talked about over the last year closer to the waterfront. Background from LICNYC.

Have you had a walk around there lately?

Man!

There is View59 and Crescent Club LIC and QueensPlaza...and of course the big MetLife building that anchored the whole "North LIC" movement.

And south of the boulevard, there is Fusion LIC and katty-corner is the old Times-Ledger (?) building that is becoming a condo makeover itself.

One or two more blocks and there is the big parking garage on Jackson that is slowing shutting down and making way for a big office project. And not too far again to Court Square/Purves Street/Arris/Citibank/etc etc.

Watch out for the east end of LIC.