Astoria Cove

Is the western Queens waterfront “lost” and does it really need to be “discovered”? The NY Times thinks so.

An update on the effort to find a replacement for the 421-a tax abatement program in NYC.

The demise of the 421-A tax break does not bode well for the Astoria Cove development on the Astoria waterfront.

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 (…)

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 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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

We heard about the results of yesterday’s CB1 vote on Astoria Cove—a resounding NO, at least as it stands. The Real Deal has the details on the question of affordable (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Looks like there’s yet another development site on Astoria’s waterfront. We already know about Hallets Point and Astoria Cove—two large scale developments that could bring about 4,000 units of housing (…)

This edition of Monday Linkage features Astoria Cove, brownie and cake pop sale from Chocolate Swirl, photographer Jean-Marie Guyaux, Thanksgiving in Astoria/LIC, low-income housing for seniors, Vallone’s tires smashed, and The Cliffs in LIC.