In Queens and Staten Island, two competing visions for New York’s …
If you walk along New York City’s waterfront for long enough, different possible futures begin to wash over you like waves. Will the coastline become a hypergentrified playground for billionaires? A toxic stew left behind by the government? A flooded dystopia lashed together by bridges and docks? A haven for horseshoe crabs and other survivors […]
The Insider: $10000 Stylishly Furnishes a Long Island City Rental From Scratch
In need of help pulling together his one-bedroom rental in a new-construction building in Long Island City, Queens, a single guy consulted Noble Abode, a service that teams clients with selected interior designers. That’s how Bushwick-based designer Luna Grey of Luna Grey Interiors came to be presented with a new client and a slender budget, one […]
Inside Queens’ Lost Elks Lodge, Long Island City’s Newest Demolished Historic Building
Earlier this year, Long Island City lost another one of its centenarian treasures. The old Elks Lodge, with its famed terracotta facade, was demolished. It started last year when developers illegally jackhammered one of the terracotta Elks, it ended in a pile of rubble that fills the cellar walls. Built in 1907 and originally housing […]