Articles by Stephen Smith

90-31 171st Street, image from Google Street View

Permits Filed: 90-31 171st Street, Jamaica

In Jamaica, once Queens’s pre-eminent downtown, the highest demand for housing is just north and east of downtown Jamaica. Rezonings in the 2000s failed to recognize this, instead downzoning these residential neighborhoods on the periphery…

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Gateway Elton Street, phase III, rendering by Dattner

Revealed: Gateway Elton Street, Phase III

The Hudson Companies will break ground soon on the third phase of their Gateway Elton Street affordable housing development, which will bring 659 apartments and 70,000 square feet of ground floor retail to the Spring Creek…

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