Three articles over the last few days, summarize what the LICtalk juggernaut has been saying for the last two years. The first, in The New York Times ((a little name dropping)) talks about the compression in the discount that Queens typically receives in residential real estate pricing. The second, also in The New York Times1, acts proactively2 in pitching a street car along the East River waterfront that runs from Red Hook to Astoria. The third, talks about what current apartment buyers and renters are looking for in LIC. It’s a little weaker than the first two articles, and doesn’t have the same journalistic pedigree, but does contain this nugget, which justifies it’s inclusion:
“There are over 10,000 rental units planned for the neighborhood, compared to about 500 condo units in the pipeline.”
Three articles encapsulate Long Island City today, a troika. Then, when you throw LICtalk into the middle of it, you get something that is one better than a menage-a-trois. I don’t know where I’m going with this, other than that I really miss the nineties.
Read it all here, then as a bonus, or maybe a reality check, a reminder that the PTA Spring Dinner and Auction is May 7. Buy tickets here.
The King Can No Longer Afford Queens – “So if you haven’t been paying attention, Queens is over before you even knew it got going.”
Brooklyn to Queens, but Not by Subway – “In New York, Manhattan was once the destination for nearly all such paths, expressed by subway tracks that linked Midtown with what Manhattanites liked to call the outer boroughs. But there is a new desire line, which avoids Manhattan altogether.”
Modern Condos Popular in LIC – I already told you the punchline
Q LIC Coming to 24th Street – pics and name of new 421 unit rental at Queensboro Plaza
Number of Waitlisted Kindergarteners in NYC Dropped by Half This Year – except in LIC: “Waitlists have become a problem in many neighborhoods with growing numbers of young families, and remained an issue this year at schools like …and LIC’s PS78, which is in Queens’ District 30. That overcrowded district, which also covers Astoria, Jackson Heights, Woodside and Sunnyside, had eight schools with waitlists, the city’s largest number.
High School in LIC Ranked 5th in the Northeast – The Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Long Island City has been ranked as the fifth best high school in the Northeast, according to The Washington Post
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