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A 38-story tower featuring studio and one- and two-bedroom apartments for rent is the latest luxury tower to grow in Long Island City. The 272-unit building, dubbed The Forge, is located on a cul-de-sac at 44-28 Purves St. and features an “environmentally-conscious building design.” Materials used to build the structure were chosen to attain LEED® Silver certification. […]

Long Island City officials and residents are arguing that a Fire Department unit which previously served the area until it was closed in 2003 should be reopened. Engine Company 261, along with five other FDNY units, was shuttered in May 2003 under the Bloomberg administration as a cost-cutting measure. At the time, Bloomberg argued that the closings would […]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Queens community wants its neighborhood firehouse back. Residents are fighting to get it reopened after it closed 14 years ago, saying it will make them feel safer at night. “Time is now to reopen Engine Company 261, once and for all,” City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer said Thursday. Those words […]

Estate Garden Grill debuted June 14 on the third floor of the hotel’s newly constructed Estate Tower. View Full Caption Courtesy Ravel Hotel LONG ISLAND CITY — An outdoor “elevated beer garden” and restaurant opened its doors last week, located within the Ravel Hotel’s new 10-story tower expansion, which also includes a ballroom event space […]

The expansion of the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City also brings a new member to the neighborhood’s restaurant scene with the addition of Estate Garden Grill, a beer garden and restaurant. Located at 8-08 Queens Plaza South, the hotel recently opened a 10-story tower which includes amenities that hotel guests and residents can enjoy. In addition to a 17,000 […]

Estate Garden Grill debuted June 14 on the third floor of the hotel’s newly constructed Estate Tower. View Full Caption Courtesy Ravel Hotel LONG ISLAND CITY — An outdoor “elevated beer garden” and restaurant opened its doors last week, located within the Ravel Hotel’s new 10-story tower expansion, which also includes a ballroom event space […]

By REW •   June 22, 2017 Himmel + Meringoff has expanded its footprint into the Long Island City market with a $25 million purchase. The announced the acquisition of 21-07 41st Avenue, a 127,000 s/f warehouse and office building n at the F train subway station, two stops from midtown Manhattan and one stop […]

Not long ago, Long Island City was one of those places in New York where nobody but residents chose to hang out. As the westernmost section of Queens, connected to Manhattan by the Queensboro/59th Street Bridge, it resembled other industrialized urban neighborhoods—in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia—where the working class lived because of lower […]

Details Written by Hadassa Kalatizadeh Created: June 21, 2017 Altice USA, one of the largest broadband communications and video service providers in America, announced that it will be moving its headquarters to Long Island City in Queens. The company, which purchased Cablevision Systems just over a year ago, plans to consolidate its local New York […]

Not long ago, Long Island City was one of those places in New York where nobody but residents chose to hang out. As the westernmost section of Queens, connected to Manhattan by the Queensboro/59th Street Bridge, it resembled other industrialized urban neighborhoods—in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia—where the working class lived because of lower […]