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?
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CORNELL TECHNION OPENS – HEY DON’T FORGET THE BRIDGE!
So, Cornell Technion opened up this week. While the opening entailed press releases, ribbon-cutting, politicians and media attention, it should come as no surprise as it was completed right on schedule. Of course that fact may actually be the biggest surprise of all!
Amidst the news hoopla, and there was a lot of it from all angles (see links below), was the standard local one as to how this would affect the local community adjacent to the campus: Long Island City. All interviewees laud the potential of the proximity to the new campus, and the hyperbole is justified. Unfortunately what they don’t realize is the huge gulf between “as the crow flies” and reality. While a new ferry is nice, it is far from a game-changer. The fact is that the [Read more…] about CORNELL TECHNION OPENS – HEY DON’T FORGET THE BRIDGE!
MASSIVE DRUG RAID ON CENTER BLVD IN LONG ISLAND CITY -UPDATE
Various news outlets are reporting that there is a massive drug raid going on this morning at a tower on Center Boulevard. Federal agents, some wearing hazmat suits, [Read more…] about MASSIVE DRUG RAID ON CENTER BLVD IN LONG ISLAND CITY -UPDATE
TF CORNERSTONE NAMED DEVELOPER FOR WATER’S EDGE SITE
There will be no pedestrian bridge to Roosevelt Island, nor will there be a community center. TF Cornerstone was selected by NYC officials to develop the Water’s Edge site and their plan largely adheres to the bells and whistles in the RFP put out almost a year and a half ago by the city. In fact the only one who seems to be surprised that it will have a token industrial component is The New York Times reporter who broke the story. He obviously must not have bothered reading his colleague’s lengthy story from over a year ago which touted this novelty plan in the development site.
In fact the biggest thing that will differentiate the pair of towers on this plot from their brethren further south along the waterfront in LIC [Read more…] about TF CORNERSTONE NAMED DEVELOPER FOR WATER’S EDGE SITE
HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PHASE 2 BACK ON TRACK?
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?