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Brooklyn, LIC Continue to Attract Investment
The overall office availability rate in Brooklyn at the end of second quarter was 14.5%. NEW YORK CITY—The Brooklyn and Long Island City commercial office markets are enjoying significant capital investment either through large lease transactions or new construction ventures aimed to attract companies in their respective high growth industries. For Brooklyn, the hot markets […]
Brooklyn, Long Island City Markets Continue to Attract Investment
The overall office availability rate in Brooklyn at the end of second quarter was 14.5%. NEW YORK CITY—The Brooklyn and Long Island City commercial office markets are enjoying significant capital investment either through large lease transactions or new construction ventures aimed to attract companies in their respective high growth industries. For Brooklyn, the hot markets […]
Results: Alicia Napoleon wins decision in main event of Long Island City card – ProBoxing
Ronson Frank’s Uprising Promotions put on another night of action-packed fights at the Five Star Banquet Hall in Long Island City on Friday night. Alicia “The Empress” Napoleon (7-0, 5 KOs) was in tough with gritty veteran Kita Watkins (7-14, 1 KO) in the main event, but the Long Islander displayed nice ring generalship and […]
Ten-Story Hotel Over Halfway Up at 29-12 40th Avenue in Northern Long Island City
A hospitality haven is rapidly rising at the northern fringe of Long Island City, in an area that overlaps into Dutch Kills to the east and Ravenswood to the west. Despite its convenient location just minutes away from Midtown via subway, the neighborhood north of Queens Plaza was largely ignored by the city and developers for […]
High-end Apartments above Marriott Courtyard start at $2570
July 20, By Christian Murray The latest crop of high-end Queens Plaza apartments is now available for lease, with prices starting at $2,570 for a one bedroom and $5,100 for a three bedroom. The apartments are located above the 160-room Marriott Courtyard hotel that opened at 29-11 Queens Plaza North in May. The units, 132 […]
Westbrook, Andrew Chung secure $136M loan to buy Long Island City warehouse
Westbrook, Andrew Chung secure $136M loan to buy Long Island City warehouse Investors paid $195M for the building July 21, 2016 12:18PM Andrew Chung, 24-02 49th Avenue in Long Island City and Sush Torgalkar Westbrook Partners and Andrew Chung’s Innovo Property Group scored a $136 million acquisition loan from ACORE Capital to buy a Long […]
Audience will select which ‘Seinfeld’ episodes will screen at Long Island City waterfront next week
As part of the “Hulu Summer Road Trip,” three episodes of “Seinfeld” will be screened at Hunters Point South Park on July 28. Jerry, George and Elaine will grace the screen once again during a screening of the show’s season 8 finale episode, “The Summer of George.” Two additional episodes will be chosen by fans on social media. […]
Audience will select which Seinfeld episodes will screen at Long Island City waterfront next week
As part of the “Hulu Summer Road Trip,” three episodes of “Seinfeld” will be screened at Hunters Point South Park on July 28. Jerry, George and Elaine will grace the screen once again during a screening of the show’s season 8 finale episode, “The Summer of George.” Two additional episodes will be chosen by fans on social media. […]
Lena Dunham and ‘Girls’ are filming in Long Island City today
Hannah Horvath and her crew will film scenes for the sixth and final season of “Girls” in Long Island City on Wednesday. According to the On Location Vacations website, the show will film at Jackson and 48th Avenues at some point today. Silvercup Studios announced earlier this month that it would be welcoming the show back at its main […]
Plumbers Union apprenticeship program draws hundreds to Long Island City in New York
Plumbers Union program handed out 1,000 applications on Monday Asked aspiring plumbers not to set up tents two days early like past years But more than 1,200 people camped outside the center in Long Island City Braved rain Saturday and boiling heat Sunday hoping to get an application Tests and interviews are still necessary to […]
Rentals Atop a Long Island City Marriott Ask From $2570
Starting August 1, tenants will be able to move into Aurora, a 132-unit luxury rental located atop the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Long Island City, and leasing is now underway on those apartments where rents start from $2,570 for a one-bedroom apartment. The 30-story tower that both the Marriott Hotel and the rentals are […]
Food pantry in Long Island City that served 9400 people this year needs donations
Hour Children, a nonprofit that aids incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children, is asking for food donations to restock their food pantry. The nonprofit, located at 36-11 12th St. in Long Island City, was created almost 30 years ago when Sister Tesa Fitzgerald opened the convent at St. Rita’s Church to eight children whose mothers […]
LIC Concerts Set For Another Big Year
July 13, By Michael Florio The fifth annual LIC Concerts will return this week for three months of free music. This year’s series will have feature a total of 51 musicians across nine concert events with 21 sponsoring local businesses. The concerts, which will be held at Gantry Plaza State Park, are free and open to the […]
Long Island City waterfront parks will host concerts, dance classes, exotic animal shows and more
Long Island City is celebrating the summer with more than a dozen music and dance performances and classes, an arts and crafts session, exotic animal shows and more. Gantry Plaza State Park and Hunters Point South Park will be more than just waterfront parks with a nice view, as several neighborhood organizations have curated 18 events […]
More towers to rise in Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. At the LIC Partnership’s annual LIC Summit last month, one of the more interesting panel discussions was entitled “The Next Wave of Development in LIC” and it included representatives of developer Tishman Speyer, the New York City Economic […]
City Council officially landmarks Long Island City Pepsi-Cola sign
Photo: Katrina Samuelson The Pepsi-Cola sign was built over the soda company’s LIC bottling plant, and remained after the factory was torn down. The New York City Council has officially landmarked the neon Pepsi-Cola sign that adorns the Long Island City waterfront. City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, whose district in Queens encompasses the […]
Long Island City Bomb Threat
Police are searching for a 26-year-old woman who threatened to blow up a Long Island City manufacturing firm on May 19. Police say Vernice Brown called the Propper Manufacturing Company on May 19, threatening to blow up the firm’s plant at 36-04 Skillman Avenue in Long Island City. The owners alerted police and evacuated the […]
Revealed: Long Island City Townhouse at 10-27 47th Road
By: Rebecca Baird-Remba 7:00 am on July 13, 2016 Most of the new construction in Long Island City dwarfs what it replaces, whether the new buildings are 50-story towers or mid-rise apartment buildings. However, every once in a while, someone tears down a wood frame house to build a slightly larger townhouse. The new three-story home at 10-27 47th Road […]
Massive 1.1M-square-foot Long Island City office development will begin construction next year
Two new office towers will add to the growing skyline in Long Island City. Tishman Speyer and Qatari Diar have purchased two lots on Jackson Avenue from Queens Boulevard to 42nd Road and will turn them into 27-story office spaces. Construction will begin next year and the towers are slated for completion in 2019. According to […]
Bloomingdale’s will join WeWork at Tishman Speyer’s Long Island City office tower
Photo: Bloomberg Bloomingdale’s will be taking space in Long Island City, Queens. Bloomingdale’s will anchor a $700 million office tower that Tishman Speyer is putting up in Long Island City. It will join co-working-space provider WeWork at the two-tower project. The high-end department store, owned by Macy’s Inc., has agreed to take about 550,000 square […]