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Birch Coffee’s Long Island City roastery is full of beans, brews and more
From the outside, it looks like your standard trendy coffeeshop, but a visit into Birch’s only Queens location reveals a lot more. The coffee mini-chain — which currently operates six stores in Manhattan in addition to the Long Island City roastery — is all about good coffee, conversation, and of course, caffeine. Jeremy Lyman and […]
Courtyard Hotel to open in Long Island City, New York
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY – Courtyard by Marriott Long Island City/New York Manhattan View opened its doors in Long Island City, New York. Featuring an innovative lobby space as well as Courtyard’s latest contemporary room design, the new hotel provides flexibility and choices that allow guests to optimize and elevate their travel experience. Located at […]
Long Island City is home to new high-rises and a thriving art scene
Young professionals are moving to Long Island City in droves to reside in the western Queens neighborhood’s new residential high-rises and to take advantage of its close proximity to midtown. They are joining the artists and other creative types who have found refuge in the waterfront area for decades. And while the nabe is known […]
Rockrose Tops Out 974-Unit Apartment Tower in Long Island City
The Hayden will feature 348 studio units, 458 one-bedroom rentals, 167-two bedroom apartments and 19,400 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. NEW YORK CITY — Rockrose Development Corp. has topped out The Hayden, a 974-unit residential tower located at 43-25 Hunter St. in Court Square in Queens’ Long Island City. As New York […]
Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City launches rooftop music series with 18-piece Ed Palermo Big Band
The roof is on fire! The Ed Palmero Big Band will kick off the 2016 Rooftop Music Series at Melrose Ballroom in Long Island City on Thursday, May 19, at 6 p.m. Admission is free, but there is a $20 minimum cover charge per table and reservations are required. For the first hour, women drink for […]
Shooting at Long Island City ‘omnious’ gentlemen’s club spurs residents to call for a shutdown
Residents who live near ACES New York, a gentlemen’s club in Long Island City, said the club poses a great danger and needs to be shut down immediately. About a dozen residents who live near the club, located at 32-10 37th Ave., attended the monthly Community Board 1 (CB 1) meeting at Astoria World Manor on Tuesday […]
Only One Unit Remains at Long Island City’s Baker House, Now Offering Two Months Free Rent
one moment please… 41-07 Crescent Street, Long Island City, NY, United States Not all of Long Island City’s new developments are gargantuan or fully encased in glass. One such anomaly is Ranger Properties’ recently opened rental building known as the Baker House. Rising a modest nine floors within the human-scaled confines of the Dutch Kills […]
Long Island City artists use decades-old thermoforming process to create artwork
As part of Queens’ largest art festival, seven artists will explore making art with plastic. The LIC Arts Open will take over more than 60 venues in Long Island City including Plaxall, a plastics manufacturing building where real-estate developer Louis Pfohl created the thermoforming process. Seven artists will use this process – where a plastic sheet is heated to become […]
Courtyard Hotel To Open In Long Island City, New York
Innovative design and flexible space tailors to the needs of today’s travelers Long Island City, NY — Courtyard by Marriott Long Island City/New York Manhattan View is scheduled to open its doors in Long Island City, New York today. Featuring an innovative lobby space as well as Courtyard’s latest contemporary room design, the new hotel provides flexibility […]
Rockrose’s Long Island City Tower at 43-25 Hunter Street Tops Out, Gets New Renderings
Rockrose Development is taking over Long Island City, and today, YIMBY has fresh renderings for the firm’s newly topped-out 50-story tower at 43-25 Hunter Street, which has been named The Hayden. When we last checked in with the project in March, it had hit 35 stories. By mid-April, it had gained another 10 floors. Now, the building […]
700-Foot Residential Tower Coming To Long Island City
David Nagel — Decron Properties Clyde Holland — Holland Partner Group Rob Rosania — Maximus Real Estate Partners Wikimedia Commons Long Island City’s high-rise boom just keeps going. Plans for the latest tall tower in the neighborhood call for a 700-foot tower with 921 residential units at 43-30 24th St in the area’s Court Square sub-district. […]
Stawski files plans for 66-story LIC resi tower
Stawski files plans for 66-story LIC resi tower Building at 43-30 24th Street to house 921 units May 13, 2016 04:25PM By Konrad Putzier 43-30 24th Street in Long Island City Stawksi Partners filed plans Friday for a 66-story residential tower in Long Island City. The 838,000-square-foot building at 43-30 24th Street will include 921 rental apartments, […]
33-Story 44-26 Purves Street in Long Island City is Two-Thirds of the Way Up
The 33-story residential building at 44-26 Purves Street has risen past the 20th floor on its way to its 374-foot-high pinnacle. The luxury rental apartment building is being jointly developed by Brause Realty and the Gotham Organization. Completion is expected in late 2017, when its glass-and-copper design will stand as one of the most distinguished in […]
Long Island City arts charity closes following acid attack on director: Report
Photo by Bill Parry Healing Arts Initiative in Long Island City shut down this week. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. A Long Island City-based non-profit whose executive director was attacked with acid and later fired suddenly closed Wednesday. Healing Arts Initiative, a charitable […]
Newmark Holdings Grabs Long Island City Office Asset
A joint venture between Newmark Holdings and Olmstead Properties paid $60 million for an office tower in Queens. 43-01 22nd St., Long Island City, N.Y. New York—Newmark Holdings has joined forces with Olmstead Properties on a transaction that will leave the partners with equal ownership of 43-01 22nd St., a 225,000-square-foot office tower in Long […]
Revealed: 36-31 31st Street, Long Island City – New York YIMBY
By: Rebecca Baird-Remba 7:30 am on May 5, 2016 Development is booming in the borderlands between Long Island City and Astoria, and today, YIMBY has a rendering for a mixed-use apartment building planned beneath the elevated subway tracks on 31st Street, not far from Kaufman Astoria Studios and the Museum of the Moving Image. The seven-story […]
Newmark and Olmstead Close To $60M+ LIC Office Building Buy
Image: Google Street View Newmark Holdings and Olmstead Properties are under contract to pick up 43-01 22nd St in Long Island City. It’s a 225k SF office building with a reported price tag of more than $60M. The two entities will split their ownership stakes down the middle. Roger Kaufman is the seller, along with two siblings, according to Commercial Observer. No brokers worked […]
Superhero TV show reboot of ‘The Tick’ films in Long Island City today
The Tick, a fictional comic book character turned ’90s FOX television show, is filming in Long Island City today for its revival on Amazon. According to On Location Vacations, the series will film on Greenpoint Avenue and Railroad Avenue. Cartoonist Ben Edlund created the character in 1986 to include in a newsletter for New England Comics. The character […]
Major Streetscape Improvements Proposed for Long Island City
The ongoing transformation of Long Island City is astounding. In the decade between 2006 and 2015, more than 8,600 housing units have been completed in the area, with well over 22,000 more on the way. Between 2012 and 2015, prices for prime development sites have jumped by 269 percent. As the neighborhood rapidly transitions from commercial/industrial […]
Watch this stunning video of Long Island City from a drone’s perspective
Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looks like from a drone’s point of view? Above New York, a series of videos produced by Viewing NYC, explored the waterfront neighborhood by drone. The video takes viewers on a tour through Silvercup Studios, the Citi Building and the surrounding developments popping up in Court Square, the […]