Real Estate

I’ve been watching this property for a while now, and thought it was time to talk about it. I remember the buildings that were there before, the signs plastered up (…)

Not much in the way of major construction happens on mellow 23rd Avenue, but the property at 26-18 23rd Ave is going through a major change. The building that was there, a (…)

Earlier this year we heard about the sad state of affairs regarding Teddy’s Florist, the family-owned business pushed out by their landlord, Botsaris Morris Realty Group. We’ve naturally been curious (…)

This weekend we ran across a very provocative article in the New York Observer: Anti-Walmart Coalition Battling Big Box Store at Astoria Cove Well, that certainly got my attention (and (…)

Seems that the area around 31st Street and Astoria Blvd is pretty hot right now—first with the Starbucks moving into the old funeral home space, and now papers were filed (…)

Over the weekend we came across an article by the Queens Chronicle about the issue of the toxicity of the land Astoria Cove is to be built on. The environmental (…)

It probably seems obvious, but before you can build a new building on a piece of property, the old building must fall. So goes the fate of the little one-story (…)

We learned that the owners of the Steinway Mansion are planning to demolish a little one-story house on the property with the address of 18-38 42nd Street. We think it’s (…)

By now you have likely heard of Astoria Cove, one of the mega-developments on the Halletts Point peninsula. The development was certified by the City Council last month and is now (…)

This just in- Enigma Bookstore is closing their doors sometime this June.  More from their FB page: The first of Astoria’s new wave of book shops opened just 10 months (…)

You may have walked by Mike’s Diner on 31st Street and seen the big plywood fence around the front (matches, to some extent, the gigantic blue plywood fence around the (…)

We’ve learned that a new eating and drinking establishment of a little over 6,000 square feet is opening up in the northerly reaches of Astoria, in a property owned by (…)

We learned yesterday that the Steinway Mansion, on the market for a number of years, was sold to Steinway Mansion L.L.C. for $2.6 million, according to the Times Ledger. Last year (…)

You may be aware that two—and later three—mega developments are planned for the Astoria waterfront on that little peninsula that sticks out south of Astoria Park. The two developments are (…)

Earlier this week we learned that the Steinway Mansion, which has been on the market for years, has a buyer. According to Bob Singleton of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, (…)