Some LIC Residents Fear Parking Nightmare with Street Sweeping Plan
One of the city’s street sweepers. (DNAinfo/Jill Colvin) HUNTERS POINT — A proposal to bring street sweepers to Long Island City has some residents panicked over alternate side parking, which they say would make finding a spot a nightmare in a neighborhood where it’s already difficult to park. Last year, hundreds of residents in Hunters […]
LIC crane collapse prompts investigation
The investigation continues into the 300-foot crane collapse last Wednesday at the TF Cornerstone construction site in Hunters Point where seven workers were harmed with non-life-threatening injuries. According to the Fire Department, of the seven involved, three had to be freed from under the crane itself. “I just ran; I was calling my son’s mother […]
Hampshire Properties Sells 450 KSF LIC Office Building for $85M
January 17, 2013 By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor A venture composed of affiliates of Madison Marquette, of Washington, D.C., and certain funds within the Perella Weinberg Partners’ Asset-Based Value strategy has purchased the Center Building, an eight-story, 450,000-square-foot office building in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York, for $84.5 million. The sale […]
LIC crane picked up too large load: DOB
AP Photo/John Minchillo The city Department of Buildings said the crane that collapsed in Long Island City was trying to pick up twice the amount of weight for which it was intended. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers The crane on a construction site in Long Island City that collapsed and hurt seven workers last week […]