Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City
Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City 1 Looking west from the LIRR Hunters Point station pedestrian bridge, with a subway train at the left, on April 9, 1948. Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:30 am Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City by Ron Marzlock, Chronicle Contributor Queens Chronicle | […]
25-21 43rd Avenue
A nine-story, 86-condo building is on the rise at the corner of 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street in Long Island City. Developer Ekstein tapped architecture and design firm GF55 Partners to create a building for the site that sits on top of a subway tunnel. Because of the site’s limitations, GF55 developed an exterior brace […]
LIC’s Silvercup Studios expanding to the Bronx
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Long Island City-based Silvercup Studios is so successful that a $1 billion expansion project, approved by Community Board 1 in 2014, still does not give it enough space. The Northeast’s leading independent film and production facility announced plans […]
ODA’s Stack of Boxes in Long Island City Almost Done
Friday, July 10, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Left: rendering; Right: reality, via The Court Square Blog] 22-22 Jackson Avenue, ODA’s boxy building next to the 5Pointz site, has risen, and is now over 95 percent glassed, according to an update from The Court Square Blog. It looks like the building will be completed by the […]
All the housing value in Queens = $300 billion
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Nine-Story, 86-Unit Condo Building Heads to LIC
CO-OP/CONDO BUYERS July 9, 2015 — While it would be nice to score a luxury condo on Billionaires’ Row, not everyone can afford it. The Upper East Side is more expensive than all of The Bronx. Tribeca has some of the priciest zip codes in Manhattan. And Brooklyn is getting so expensive that people are […]