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TF CORNERSTONE GREATLY SLASHES HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PLANS

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CORRECTION: The Real Deal has just amended their story and forgot to include that the 2nd tower, of 56-stories, had previously been filed in October.  Thus the plan is basically in its original form of 1000+ units, plus school, and maybe a Shake Shack.  Never mind.

TF Cornerstone has taken a big knife to their plans for Parcel C in Hunters Point South according to The Real Deal.  The latest iteration contains only ~400 units in a single 46-story tower versus 1,200 units in a pair of 55 & 44-story towers [Read more…] about TF CORNERSTONE GREATLY SLASHES HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PLANS

SHAKE SHACK COMING TO HUNTERS POINT SOUTH?

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Future home of Shake Shack ...oh and 2,000 new residents
Future home of Shake Shack …oh and 2,000 new residents

Well maybe, but that’s not the real story.  Instead, the LIC Post is reporting that a complete redesign of Hunters Point South’s Parcel C was unveiled last night at a Community Board 2 Land Use meeting.  Most significantly, the towers will now rise to 55 and 44 stories from a previous 41 and 35 stories in the original plan shared in 2013.  The other significant design change from that plan, is that the structure will no longer run uninterrupted along Center Boulevard, which effectively made it one mammoth building with two peaks.  Instead it will be broken up with a Center Boulevard (and Oval and Manhattan) facing open area filled with greenery, art installations, and a food pavilion.  It’s in that pavilion that one of the presenters last night threw out the name Shake Shack [Read more…] about SHAKE SHACK COMING TO HUNTERS POINT SOUTH?

HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PHASE 2 BACK ON TRACK?

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Adios view of the Chrysler Building?

What’s going on at the residential lots of Hunters Point South Phase 2?  For the last year absolutely nothing as the anointed developer TF Cornerstone wrangled with Amtrak and the New York Power Authority over underground rail and electrical lines – admittedly no simple feat.  Yet according to a story in Crain’s, the issues seem to have been worked out and the building plans might be back on track and starting soon.

Which brings us (once again) to the more important issue of [Read more…] about HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PHASE 2 BACK ON TRACK?

JULY 4 DONE, COME AND GONE, MY OH MY

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'Transformation' courtesy of Dan the Man
‘Transformation’ courtesy of Dan the Man

There’s nothing more underwhelming than cellphone pictures of fireworks.  Except cellphone video of fireworks.  Instead, it’s the out of body experience of being in LIC during the lockdown period in the morning and early afternoon of the Fourth, followed by the massive invasion of outsiders – and the actual people themselves coming to attend the Macy’s fireworks shows, who transform our everyday locales into packed staging grounds.

Excluding a half-hour of moderate rainfall prior to the fireworks, this year’s show [Read more…] about JULY 4 DONE, COME AND GONE, MY OH MY