LIC Bar Owner to Open Gastropub on Vernon Boulevard
The Gantry LIC will open at 47-02 Vernon Blvd., the space formerly occupied by Communitea. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly HUNTERS POINT — The owner behind popular neighborhood watering hole LIC Bar will open a second space on Vernon Boulevard this spring — a gastropub that will serve dishes like house made pot pies. Brian […]
Yet Another New Rental Building Headed to Long Island City
Monday, March 9, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Rendering by Fogarty Finger, via NY YIMBY] If the 1,789 (all market rate) apartments that Tishman Speyer is bringing to Long Island City aren’t enough, developer Ranger Properties is contributing another 55 of its own with its new building at 37-10 Crescent Street. The six-story project is being […]
Rockrose’s Long Island City Tower Sure Will Be Glassy
Thursday, March 12, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin Demolition began at the former Eagle Electric warehouse at 43-22 Queens Street in Long Island City last year, making way for a 54-story apartment tower from developer Rockrose. Now, NY YIMBY has gotten ahold of a couple renderings of the planned tower, designed by SLCE Architects, revealing that […]
PMG files plans for 70-story Long Island City tower
PMG files plans for 70-story Long Island City tower Mixed-use building will hold more than 900 apartments March 11, 2015 11:30AM By Rich Bockmann 29-37 41st Avenue and Kevin Maloney Kevin Maloney’s Property Markets Group is planning to build a 70-story mixed-use tower at the edge of Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, according to […]
Don Tapas opens at the Falchi Building in Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. A young couple from Maspeth has created a new buzz with “grab-and-go” tapas at the Food Box, the Falchi Building’s hip culinary spot for vendors. Berta Emilia Vivas, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, and her fiance […]
Food and drink in Long Island City
Food and drink in Long Island City Food and drink in Long Island City Updated: Monday, March 9 2015 10:36 PM EDT2015-03-10 02:36:39 GMT Real estate prices continue to climb in long island city and for good reason: you can’t beat the city views from here, there is plenty of modern high-rise housing for everyone, […]
Manufacturers in Williamsburg, LIC get hemmed in by hotels
The 56.4 million visitors to New York City last year had their choice of hotel rooms—102,000, in fact, with thousands more on the way. The city’s manufacturing businesses only wish they had so many places to hang their hats. As hotels gravitate to über-trendy areas like Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Long Island City, they’re pushing out […]
Ambitious LIC condo development goes rental
Ambitious LIC condo development goes rental It appears that none of the condos sold March 08, 2015 04:00PM 42-77 Hunter Street in Long Island CIty Initial reports suggested that units at the Madison in Long Island City, a new condominium development, were selling like hotcakes. But that seems to have not been the case. Sales […]
Longtime Advocate for Hunters Point Parks Dies
Hunters Point Park Conservancy vice president Mark Christie, left, with Bill Bylewski, right. View Full Caption Courtesy Mark Christie LONG ISLAND CITY — Bill Bylewski, a neighborhood parks advocate who spent years planting, weeding and beautifying the Hunters Point waterfront, died last month after a bout with cancer, friends said. His death was previously reported […]
Ekstein’s New Long Island City Condos Get Renderings
Sunday, March 1, 2015, by Rowley Amato Ekstein Development’s 86-unit, nine-story project in Long Island City was approved last May, but now it’s finally on the move. The Court Square Blog spotted renderings on the site with construction looming. Demolition on the project wrapped up in 2014, and it will entail 68,145 square feet of […]
Queens Night Market
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