Is Queens West / Long Island City becoming a real neighborhood ?
From Vernon Avenue west to the waterfront, maybe.
Also, an Amish Market is coming to East Coast Phase 2 rental
building at Center Boulevard and 47th Avenue.
Continue reading "Queens West / Long Island City grows up" »
LongIslandCityNYC local boosterism by Eric Benaim.
I considered taking the Long Island Rail Road,
but I can’t afford it, and I don’t have a car.
-- Sheryl McKenzie, who lives in Manhattan and commutes
to a nonprofit company in Hempstead.
Signs Indicate Queens, NY Street Numbers and House Numbers.
In order that a house number may be of greatest value in indicating
the location of its premises, the number is divided into two parts,
separated by a dash, in which the first part of the number is the
same as that of the nearest cross street or avenue, intersecting
the avenue or street to the west or north, and the second part of
the number represents the distance, as expressed in lot intervals,
between such corner and the house, a number being assigned
for each 20-foot space.
Long Island City Alliance on LIC development
and LIC and Astoria life.
Queens' Crap:
Curbed on over development,
Infill slums vs Broadway Flushing Auburndale area
(the "privileged" community far to the east of downtown).
Immigrant storage (57th Avenue, east of Van Horn Street in Elmhurst).
Flushing is starting to to look worse than a scene from Blade Runner.
StreetEasy monitors real estate markets; example: Long Island City, Queens.
Arris Lofts (Eagle Electric Company hq) 865 sf studio listed for $515K -- Queenswest.
Riverview in Astoria (Eagle Electric Company factory on 21st Street ) is cheaper ?
Arris Lofts reports they have 100 contracts currently out for review,
16 of which were issued today alone. A waiting list of 4,200 potential
buyers was amassed in the months before the sales office opened.
-- RealGotham.
The Coruscation New York channel:
NY, Queens", CT, NJ, VT.
old NY Wiki 2003 January - 2005 October
old old NY Wiki 2003 January - 2004 January.
Echelon LIC; hype at the developers group. Subway adverts.
Update: picture gallery from LICNYC.
nywatertaxi connects lower Manhattan across the East River
* Queens Hunters' Point to Midtown
* Brooklyn Williamsburg, Fulton Ferry, Red Hook to Battery Park
and
across the Hudson to NJ.
* World Finacial Center to Jersey City, NJ.
Long Island City has two Long Island Railroad stations.
Manhattan --- LIC --- Hunter's Point --- Jamaica ---
Hunters' Point Station: AirFoto
on 49 Ave between 21st Street and Skillman Ave,
Long Island City, NY 11101
Long Island City station: AirFoto
on Borden Ave, between 2nd Street and 5th Street.
Long Island City, NY 11101
StaphHangers weigh in.