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Courtyard Hotel To Open In Long Island City, New York
Innovative design and flexible space tailors to the needs of today’s travelers Long Island City, NY — Courtyard by Marriott Long Island City/New York Manhattan View is scheduled to open its doors in Long Island City, New York today. Featuring an innovative lobby space as well as Courtyard’s latest contemporary room design, the new hotel provides flexibility […]
Rockrose’s Long Island City Tower at 43-25 Hunter Street Tops Out, Gets New Renderings
Rockrose Development is taking over Long Island City, and today, YIMBY has fresh renderings for the firm’s newly topped-out 50-story tower at 43-25 Hunter Street, which has been named The Hayden. When we last checked in with the project in March, it had hit 35 stories. By mid-April, it had gained another 10 floors. Now, the building […]
700-Foot Residential Tower Coming To Long Island City
David Nagel — Decron Properties Clyde Holland — Holland Partner Group Rob Rosania — Maximus Real Estate Partners Wikimedia Commons Long Island City’s high-rise boom just keeps going. Plans for the latest tall tower in the neighborhood call for a 700-foot tower with 921 residential units at 43-30 24th St in the area’s Court Square sub-district. […]
Stawski files plans for 66-story LIC resi tower
Stawski files plans for 66-story LIC resi tower Building at 43-30 24th Street to house 921 units May 13, 2016 04:25PM By Konrad Putzier 43-30 24th Street in Long Island City Stawksi Partners filed plans Friday for a 66-story residential tower in Long Island City. The 838,000-square-foot building at 43-30 24th Street will include 921 rental apartments, […]
33-Story 44-26 Purves Street in Long Island City is Two-Thirds of the Way Up
The 33-story residential building at 44-26 Purves Street has risen past the 20th floor on its way to its 374-foot-high pinnacle. The luxury rental apartment building is being jointly developed by Brause Realty and the Gotham Organization. Completion is expected in late 2017, when its glass-and-copper design will stand as one of the most distinguished in […]
Long Island City arts charity closes following acid attack on director: Report
Photo by Bill Parry Healing Arts Initiative in Long Island City shut down this week. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. A Long Island City-based non-profit whose executive director was attacked with acid and later fired suddenly closed Wednesday. Healing Arts Initiative, a charitable […]
Newmark Holdings Grabs Long Island City Office Asset
A joint venture between Newmark Holdings and Olmstead Properties paid $60 million for an office tower in Queens. 43-01 22nd St., Long Island City, N.Y. New York—Newmark Holdings has joined forces with Olmstead Properties on a transaction that will leave the partners with equal ownership of 43-01 22nd St., a 225,000-square-foot office tower in Long […]
Revealed: 36-31 31st Street, Long Island City – New York YIMBY
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 […]
Newmark and Olmstead Close To $60M+ LIC Office Building Buy
Image: Google Street View Newmark Holdings and Olmstead Properties are under contract to pick up 43-01 22nd St in Long Island City. It’s a 225k SF office building with a reported price tag of more than $60M. The two entities will split their ownership stakes down the middle. Roger Kaufman is the seller, along with two siblings, according to Commercial Observer. No brokers worked […]
Superhero TV show reboot of ‘The Tick’ films in Long Island City today
The Tick, a fictional comic book character turned ’90s FOX television show, is filming in Long Island City today for its revival on Amazon. According to On Location Vacations, the series will film on Greenpoint Avenue and Railroad Avenue. Cartoonist Ben Edlund created the character in 1986 to include in a newsletter for New England Comics. The character […]
Major Streetscape Improvements Proposed for Long Island City
The ongoing transformation of Long Island City is astounding. In the decade between 2006 and 2015, more than 8,600 housing units have been completed in the area, with well over 22,000 more on the way. Between 2012 and 2015, prices for prime development sites have jumped by 269 percent. As the neighborhood rapidly transitions from commercial/industrial […]
Watch this stunning video of Long Island City from a drone’s perspective
Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looks like from a drone’s point of view? Above New York, a series of videos produced by Viewing NYC, explored the waterfront neighborhood by drone. The video takes viewers on a tour through Silvercup Studios, the Citi Building and the surrounding developments popping up in Court Square, the […]
In Long Island City, Site Cleared at Jackson West, 27-01 Jackson Avenue; No Progress Yet at Jackson East At 26-32 …
Developer Lions Group NYC plans to erect two high-rises on either side of Jackson Avenue. The site of Jackson West at 27-01 Jackson Avenue is cleared and would be ready for excavation as soon as the material currently stored at the lot is moved out of the way. Its sibling, Jackson East across the street […]
Pulaski Bridge Bikeway finally opens connecting Long Island City with Brooklyn
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. It took the city’s Department of Transportation nearly four years but they completed the Pulaski Bridge Bikeway in time for the Five BoroBike Tour Sunday. More than 32,000 cyclists rode the dedicated and fully protected two-way bike path […]
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 […]
Curbcut Urban Partners to build office tower in Long Island City
A development partnership led by Curbcut Urban Partners will construct a new, nine-story, 146,000 s/f mixed-use office, retail and community facility property at 38-01 Queens Blvd. in Long Island City. Aaron Malinsky, president and CEO of Curbcut Urban Partners, said the new development, to be called QB38 Tower, is designed specifically for medical, community-based services […]
Queens’s first supertall skyscraper set to break ground in 2017
Queens looks to be in line for it’s first supertall skyscraper, situated on 23-15 44th Drive in Long Island City. Rising to 984 feet, the building will house 774 luxury apartment units inside 78 stories, as well as just under 20,000 square feet of retail and commercial space and 225 parking spots, located between the basement and second floor. New York […]
3 men wanted in possible hate crime attack in Astoria: police – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ASTORIA, Queens — Police are looking for three men wanted in a possible hate crime. On Wednesday at 1:20 p.m., a 19-year-old man was walking south on 10th street when three men started following him from behind. Outside 33-55 10th Street, the victim heard suspects quickly approaching. He turned […]