Competing Long Island City Climbing Gyms Try to Claim the Title of New York’s …
When Brooklyn Boulders co-founder Lance Pinn began scouting locations in 2012 for a massive indoor climbing gym in Long Island City, it was unrelated, he says, to plans his biggest competitor, the Cliffs, had to do the same. On Thursday, Pinn announced that his facility, which he says is New York’s largest, will open by […]
One Design, Two Buildings For Same Street in Long Island City
Friday, April 3, 2015, by Zoe Rosenberg [At left, 38-11 31st Street. Right, 36-27 31st Street. Renderings courtesy of Morali Architects via New York YIMBY] Although marginally, not everything going up in Long Island City these days is a glossy, sky-grazing tower. Case in point, these twoyes two, that’s not the same building from different […]