Plan to Rezone LIC Will Cause ‘Mega Hyper-Gentrification,’ Residents Fear
The city wants to rezone part of Queens Plaza and Dutch Kills in Long Island City. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska QUEENS PLAZA — The city is eyeing a 50-block swath of Long Island City for possible rezoning, an effort to spur development of more office space and affordable housing — but some locals worry […]
Two LIC hotels offer residency programs to artists
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Queens Council on the Arts announced an open call to all borough-based artists to apply for a new residency program in partnership with two Long Island City hotels. The newly established QCA Art Hotel Residency will provide […]
Façade in Progress on 11-Story Hotel at 37-11 23rd Street in Ravenswood, Long Island City
The 39,579-square-foot hotel at 37-11 23rd Street is on track to join northern Long Island City’s mushrooming crop of lodgings. Construction permits categorize the 93-unit property as a “transient hotel,” a term generally used to describe shelters. The 11-story building towers over the industrial northwest corner of Long Island City. The project is designed by MS […]