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Budget Rooms Coming to Long Island City, Two Subway Stops from Midtown NYC
If you want to talk about one NYC neighborhood finally getting the development love it deserves, then it’s gotta be the north end of Long Island City. Fresh highrises have sprouted up in just the last year, including the Z Hotel, and there are other we’re eyeing daily for an answer on if they’ll be hotels or condos. Add to this the addition of JetBlue’s headquarters to the area (in a building with a history as an old Rolls Royce plant) and it’s plain that the area around both the Queensboro Plaza and Queens Plaza subway stops is hot stuff.
So, it really comes as no surprise that the 3-story former bank building at Queens Plaza Northnext to a newly completed pedestrian park plaza and bike path and just down from a site that once had plans for an Aloft Hotelis about to enter a new era as a budget hotel/hostel.
It doesn’t have a name quite yet, but we’ve spotted bunkbed frames in the rooms and small chandeliers on the ceilings. An online registry only gives the operation company as “2909 Queens Plaza North Hostel Management Inc,” but it shouldn’t be too much longer until the flashy color-changing exterior lights are paired with a sign. And don’t worrywe’ll keep you updated as to when that happens and how much opening rates will be.
[Photo: HotelChatter]
