A while back we confirmed that Bareburger is opening a new restaurant in the old Athens Cafe space. We’ve been in touch with folks at Bareburger and they were kind (…)
Real Estate
We first got wind of news of what’s up with the Uncle George’s building via Brownstoner Queens, which pointed to a very nice article by the Queens Gazette that wrote about four (…)
While walking along Newtown Avenue this weekend, I saw that a new 7-story mixed-use building is going to be built where a single family home, garage, and commercial space used (…)
Over on 6sqft they’ve revealed plans for a new residential building located just around the corner from Kaufman Astoria Studios and Museum of the Moving Image, at 34-32 35th Street. It (…)
That’s the outcome for Astoria Cove—the developers will have to provide 27% of the units as affordable—that’s 468 total. And 20% of that will be for low income folks. The (…)
Blame it on a map-reading error by planners Department of Housing Preservation and Development—looks like an adjustment to the number and kind of affordable units may be required by law at (…)
First this post is SPECULATIVE, but there’s enough brewing in my brain to get it out there. As you know from yesterday, we heard that Frankie’s Pizza closed after 50 (…)
Perusing the Department of Buildings site, we’ve learned that paperwork has been filed for a 6-story mixed use building for the lot on the corner of 24th Avenue and 32nd (…)
Astoria Cove, as you know, it the center of an affordable housing controversy. Still, it’s passed the various hurdles and is now in the hands of the City Council. According (…)
In the “that’s news to us” file, we’ve learned from the Queens Courier that the developers behind the mega project Astoria Cove finalized the sale of a handful of additional properties (…)
We’ve learned that the building at 31-01 21st Street may undergo some changes—paperwork has been filed with the city, proposing to extend it into a new 4-story mixed use building. (…)
We’ve learned from Crain’s that the development site at 11-12 30th Drive is on the market for a cool $60 million. This is very near the waterfront in between Socrates (…)
We’ve learned that a 6-story building is planned for 25-26 Broadway; currently there is a 3-story building there, so this will be twice the height. For reference, the structure at (…)
We caught this post by real estate site 6sqft who sourced their info from NY Yimby, which includes new renderings for what will replace 5 Pointz—two towers at 41 and 47 (…)
We noticed that a couple of buildings—26-15 4th Street and 26-01 4th Street—are slated to be demolished. These buildings are steps away from Phase 1 of the Astoria Cove development (…)
