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 […]