Long Island City Bomb Threat
Police are searching for a 26-year-old woman who threatened to blow up a Long Island City manufacturing firm on May 19. Police say Vernice Brown called the Propper Manufacturing Company on May 19, threatening to blow up the firm’s plant at 36-04 Skillman Avenue in Long Island City. The owners alerted police and evacuated the […]
Revealed: Long Island City Townhouse at 10-27 47th Road
By: Rebecca Baird-Remba 7:00 am on July 13, 2016 Most of the new construction in Long Island City dwarfs what it replaces, whether the new buildings are 50-story towers or mid-rise apartment buildings. However, every once in a while, someone tears down a wood frame house to build a slightly larger townhouse. The new three-story home at 10-27 47th Road […]
Massive 1.1M-square-foot Long Island City office development will begin construction next year
Two new office towers will add to the growing skyline in Long Island City. Tishman Speyer and Qatari Diar have purchased two lots on Jackson Avenue from Queens Boulevard to 42nd Road and will turn them into 27-story office spaces. Construction will begin next year and the towers are slated for completion in 2019. According to […]
Bloomingdale’s will join WeWork at Tishman Speyer’s Long Island City office tower
Photo: Bloomberg Bloomingdale’s will be taking space in Long Island City, Queens. Bloomingdale’s will anchor a $700 million office tower that Tishman Speyer is putting up in Long Island City. It will join co-working-space provider WeWork at the two-tower project. The high-end department store, owned by Macy’s Inc., has agreed to take about 550,000 square […]