Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 30-33 29th Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between 30th Avenue and 30th Drive, the interior lot is two blocks west of the 30th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Neel Dvivedi under the 30-33 29th Street Realty LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 70-foot-tall development will yield 22,410 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 33 residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 679 square feet. The concrete-based structure will also have a cellar, a 30-foot-long rear yard, and 17 open and 17 enclosed parking spaces.
Z Architecture is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits were filed in October 2022 for the two-story residential structure on the site. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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Its nice to see a parking lot replaced by housing, but this site is so close to transit, it should really be higher density.
its not a PARKING LOT !
its a quaint beautiful home with a porch that is the last house left on the block from a long time ago.
So the greedy developers can knock this down to build a piece of crap is so sad.
and it’s clearly a 3 story, not 2.
Its primary use is parking, hence it is a parking lot that happens to include a house.
wrong the zoning isn’t commercial but residential so it’s NOT A PARKING LOT.
and that house is someone’s home that has been there a long long time and is a snapshot of what the whole block used to look like, a piece of nyc history torn down for a piece of crap
Guesser, is there any other possible word in the dictionary you could possibly use aside from the word “crap?” Seriously if you want people to take you seriously you’re going to have to grow up and stop sounding so angry and riled up all the time like Tucker Carlson
The attractive apartment house from the 1920s is also from a long time ago and if it wasnt for the Great Depression the whole neighborhood would have already been made of them. I guess that would have been “greed” to you back then too? It seems what you suffer from most is misplaced nostalgia paired with misunderstanding how real estate has and does work.
Hurray!
More Buildings!
More People!
More Density!
More Traffic on our streets, subways and busses, etc.,
While our fragile infrastructure
continues to crumble.
This is the Evil of Rezoning:
One less Family Home.
The is No Planning for our true needs.
Who profits?
Ruthless Real Estate Opportunists.
Who loses?
We The Community.
Shame on all the talentless architects for knocking out another hideous building.
Is this your best work?
Do you have any concept of style?
Urban development should be the only residential development.. beecaussse… urban sprawl always ,always supplants nature and farms with concrete,asphalt,steel,plastic ,glass, toxic chemicals and mega trucks….. live in cities. Especially NYC
I agree but the car is out of the garage on that one.
Unfortunately, you are correct. After many decades, knowledge has not cured the sickness, nor really addressed the problem. Many developers and architects pay lip service to these problems and little more than that. Very few developers seem to live in areas where they’ve created density that’s too great for city services and transit, or where development has overwhelmed beauty, charm and, most importantly, logic.
This is old news now, but there are remarks that puzzled me.
Matthew, this is a home surrounded by parking, not ‘ a parking lot that happens to include a house.’ That’s semantics to justify the outcome you favor. Those cars are wedged into space that was once a garden, drive, etc.
In addition, this building, erected as a single family home, sports a Mansard with arched dormers, common to buildings constructed in the years 1850s to 1880s. The guesstimated date of 1920 is probably incorrect. Incorrect dates for existing construction are common. The fact is mistakes are easily overlooked, particularly when a house such as this has suffered remodeling’s, and no one cares.
The biggest clue this is an older home is the aluminum that has been draped over the cornice. That was expensive, and only done when an owner did not want to pay to maintain or remove an ornate cornice. It was much easier to cover it entirely. There is no other justification. It certainly was not installed to improve the home’s appearance.
Whether this home had real age, was historic, or worth preserving is arguable because it was altered, although that is often, easily undone. It is just as easily argued that the new building will only bring more people, not more affordable housing.
‘this site is so close to transit, it should really be higher density.’
Really? Whether greater density on this site in this neighborhood is a good idea is entirely dependent on how great the density of riders using the transit system. Simply because transit exists does not justify greater density. That’s ‘developer speak,’ used to justify all development, no matter what transit is available, or if a relatively low-density neighborhood is wedged along transit lines already crowded by adjacent neighborhoods. The total ridership through stations or ‘stops’ is important, not simply the local commuting population, or the existence of the stop. A given location may accommodate hundreds of riders an hour, but if the local system is already crowded, then access is meaningless.