The horses are in the starting gate and it’s a full field. 92,000 people have applied for the Hunters Point South lottery, and with 924 apartments available, that makes each one a 100-1 shot. It’s exactly the response one would expect when giving away million-dollar bills for $500,000, no money down.
The lucky winners will be named in mid-February. As for everyone else, especially those who don’t qualify for affordable housing, maybe the local powers can keep us in mind in 2015? Say, with something that benefits all residents, like a new rec center.
//HPS winner or not, none of these towers would be livable if it weren’t for an essential …umm, amenity: the elevator. With that in mind, a reader pointed out to us that there is a whole museum dedicated the elevator, and it’s right here in LIC! So if you’re looking for something local to do on a cold winter day, check out the link below.
More Than 92,000 Applications Pile in for Queens Affordable Housing Development – $2,600 for a 2-bdrm on the water = insatiable demand, D’uh!
The Elevator Historical Society – find out exactly why your elevators always break down
8 Ways to Save on Travel in 2015 – from the NYT’s Frugal Traveler Seth Kugel: “Stay in Long Island City, Queens, just across the East River. When I checked what a week’s stay would cost in March at hotels one or two subway stops from Midtown, I was shocked to find that 18 of 20 hotels were $151 a night or less. (With taxes it’s $180 or less.) Do you know what Manhattan hotels cost?”
5Pointz Joins National Trust List of Lost Preservations – “the National Trust for Historic Preservation put the destroyed graffiti mecca on its list of “Five Important Places We Lost Forever This Year,” joining the likes of the F.W. Woolworth store in New Orleans, a landmark of the civil rights movement; and a sacred native American place that is being turned into a two-mile wide crater by mining.”
Innovative Wine Bar Opens on Center Blvd – by the Blue Streak Wine guys next door
LIC Arts Open Scores First Ever Grant
Unique Cooking School Opens in LIC – CookSingleNYC
Queens Industrial Property Values Jump Significantly in Past Year – “What’s happened is that some longtime factory owners, such as auto repair shops or craftsman-related businesses have decided to take the money now and leave,”
Zinger says
January 1, 2015 at 8:58 pmIf we can’t get a library, despite having a designated location, the odds on getting a rec center are also about 100 to1.