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In Long Island City, Site Cleared at Jackson West, 27-01 Jackson Avenue; No Progress Yet at Jackson East At 26-32 …
Developer Lions Group NYC plans to erect two high-rises on either side of Jackson Avenue. The site of Jackson West at 27-01 Jackson Avenue is cleared and would be ready for excavation as soon as the material currently stored at the lot is moved out of the way. Its sibling, Jackson East across the street […]
Pulaski Bridge Bikeway finally opens connecting Long Island City with Brooklyn
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. It took the city’s Department of Transportation nearly four years but they completed the Pulaski Bridge Bikeway in time for the Five BoroBike Tour Sunday. More than 32,000 cyclists rode the dedicated and fully protected two-way bike path […]
Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Advocacy Group Names First Executive Director
A rendering of the proposed streetcar that would run along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts. View Full Caption Courtesy Office of the Mayor NEW YORK CITY — A nonprofit that developed the initial 2015 plan to build a streetcar system connecting Brooklyn and Queens has appointed its first executive director, the group announced Thursday. Ya-Ting […]
Revealed: 36-31 31st Street, Long Island City
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 […]
Strolling Long Island City’s Jackson Avenue, Where New Buildings Abound
In 2004, the New York Times published an article called ‘Outer Borough’ Finally Attracts the ‘In’ Crowd. They were talking about Queens where, at the time, the average price per square foot for a co-op was a mere $250 to $400. We all know how this story goes. In consequent years, the average price for […]
Curbcut Urban Partners to build office tower in Long Island City
A development partnership led by Curbcut Urban Partners will construct a new, nine-story, 146,000 s/f mixed-use office, retail and community facility property at 38-01 Queens Blvd. in Long Island City. Aaron Malinsky, president and CEO of Curbcut Urban Partners, said the new development, to be called QB38 Tower, is designed specifically for medical, community-based services […]
Queens’s first supertall skyscraper set to break ground in 2017
Queens looks to be in line for it’s first supertall skyscraper, situated on 23-15 44th Drive in Long Island City. Rising to 984 feet, the building will house 774 luxury apartment units inside 78 stories, as well as just under 20,000 square feet of retail and commercial space and 225 parking spots, located between the basement and second floor. New York […]
3 men wanted in possible hate crime attack in Astoria: police – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ASTORIA, Queens — Police are looking for three men wanted in a possible hate crime. On Wednesday at 1:20 p.m., a 19-year-old man was walking south on 10th street when three men started following him from behind. Outside 33-55 10th Street, the victim heard suspects quickly approaching. He turned […]
At Flux Factory Fundraiser, Rove Long Island City Streets Dressed as an Art Spectacle
Flux Factory is one of NYC’s oldest and most affordable collectively run art spaces. Flux Factory supports and promotes emerging artists through residencies, exhibitions, and collaborative opportunities. On Saturday, May 7, they’re holding the 1st Annual “Flux-a-Thon” — a spectacularly jubilant, semi-absurd twist on a traditional walk-a-thon — all to raise money for another year of Flux Factory’s […]
City View Tower in Long Island City Set to Become Queens’s First Supertall
By: Rebecca Baird-Remba 8:00 am on April 28, 2016 The 79-story tower headed for 23-15 44th Drive in Long Island City will likely become the first supertall building in Queens. The developer, United Construction and Development, has filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to erect a 984-foot-tall high-rise. Known as City View Tower, the residential project […]
Foundations Nearing Completion at 42-43 27th Street, Long Island City
The mid-rise interior of Long Island City’s skyscraper district at Queens Plaza/Court Square is about to get another addition in the form of a six-story, eight-unit building at 42-43 27th Street. The builder, New York Fast General Construction, lives up to their name as construction is moving at a rapid pace. When we last checked […]
Long Island City restaurant owners say lack of parking is hurting business
Two chefs who own restaurants on Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City claim that the insufficient amount of parking in the area is making it harder for customers and employees to dine and work. Gianna Cerbone-Teoli, owner of popular Italian restaurant Mandicatis Rustica on Vernon Boulevard and 46th Road, said that she tries to offer valet parking […]
Tishman seeks tax incentives for $700M LIC office project
Tishman seeks tax incentives for $700M LIC office project Developer looking for $65M worth of benefits for 1.1M sf development April 27, 2016 12:00PM A rendering of 28-10 Jackson Avenue and Rob Speyer Tishman Speyer is pursuing $65 million worth of tax benefits for its 1.1 million-square-foot office development in Long Island City, which will […]
Film studio in NYC located in Long Island City attracts A-listers and high-end brands alike
At age 29, Carrie White sold her home in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Brooklyn with no job to live in a “tiny bedroom with no closet.” Now, 11 years later, White is the founder of GUM Studios, a film studio in Long Island City which she says is the only woman-owned film studio in the New […]
Long Island City groper on E train sought by NYPD
Police are searching for a man who groped a 38-year-old woman on an E train in Long Island City. The man, described as in his 50s with glasses, approached her on the eastbound train as it pulled into the Queens Plaza station at about 4:40 p.m. on March 22. He then put his hand on […]
Permits Filed: 41-41 24th Street, Long Island City
By: Rebecca Baird-Remba 7:00 am on April 26, 2016 The blocks around the Queensboro Bridge have seen some of the most dramatic development in Long Island City. Last week, we spotted plans for yet another new project in the works there at 41-41 24th Street, between the bridge and 41st Avenue. Developer Louis Evangelista hopes […]
Fashion & Style|Proof & Gauge, a Long Island City Bar, Makes Its Own Gin
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Queens Week 2016: Meet Frank Carrado, The Mayor of Long Island City
Every neighborhood has one, and even many blocks. Some call them the real mayors of New York. All this week Borough Reporter Ruschell Boone is introducing us to the unique characters who seem to know everyone and everything going on in their sections of Queens. She kicks off our Queens Week coverage with the mayor […]
Yet Another Condo Coming to Long Island City’s Jackson Ave.
A single story building in Long Island City, just a block from the former 5Pointz building, will soon make way for a 10 or 11-story condo building with a retail component, The Real Deal reports. Development firm, Circle F Capital purchased the site, located at 22-43 Jackson Avenue, from an affiliate of the International Brotherhood […]
Residential Conversion Underway at 33-01 38th Avenue, Long Island City
Northern Long Island City is on its way to getting a new residential building, made out of an old commercial one. We have photos of the work underway at 33-01 38th Avenue, courtesy of an alert reader. The two-story, 22,280-square-foot commercial building, located between 33rd and 34th streets, was purchased by the Hakimian Organization for […]