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This morning Bisnow held it’s first-ever commercial real estate event focused on Queens, and it was a real eye-opener, literally. It took place at The Factory workspace, and upon entering the building one could feel that a whole new Long Island City was forming. [Read more…] about COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE NIRVANA IN LONG ISLAND CITY
In a follow-up to last week’s Berlin playground snippet on selbstständigkeit, the need to inculcate self-sufficiency in kids, I laughed very hard at a recent Simpson’s episode transcribed in Lenore Skenazy’s website Free Range Kids. Especially because it’s probably funnier and more biting in the reading of it: [Read more…] about OVERREACTIONS & CONCESSIONS IN LIC
The city has requested bids from developers for the two southern-most sites in Hunters Point South. According to an article in Crain’s New York, it will contain “at least 750 apartments—with 450 or more (+60%) being permanently affordable.” and that “it prefers proposals that skew toward serving lower-income households.”
In addition, the proposal mentions [Read more…] about MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMING TO HUNTERS POINT SOUTH
Memorial Day weekend is a funny one for the typical local summer getaway scene. The weather this time of year ranges from cool, rainy, and windy to delightful, so beaching it can be a high-risk/high-reward proposition. Thus for those not taking the sea plane to their oceanfront manse in East Hampton, we offer you an alternative in our third biennial ((which means it’s our fifth year of publication)) Road Trip series. This one is special because it completes the trio of LIC’s adjoining towns, given our previous expeditions to Greenpoint and Astoria.
Sunnyside is like a barrier island, the borders are constantly shifting. At any given point in one’s trip, it would not be uncommon to ask one’s self [Read more…] about ROADTRIP: SUNNYSIDE
Or is it ‘shoppe?’ Either way, an ice cream themed venue is coming to the space previously occupied by Delta Force Army & Navy according to one of the workers onsite today. Just this week construction began and the windows were [Read more…] about NEW ICE CREAM SHOP TO OPEN ON VERNON BOULEVARD