Permits have been filed for a 15-story hotel at 144-02 94th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Located between Liverpool Street and Sutphin Boulevard, the corner lot is near the Jamaica LIRR train station and the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue subway station, serviced by the E train. Nehalkumar Gandhi under the Liverpool Realty LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The official groundbreaking ceremony for TF Cornerstone‘s two-towered Hunters Point South project in Long Island City will be held today. In addition to over 1,000 new apartments, the site will give rise to what will temporarily become the tallest skyscraper on Queens’ East River waterfront. Fresh renderings have also been released, revealing additional exterior details of the buildings as well as the landscaped greenery and waterfront esplanade. The buildings’ addresses are 52-03 and 52-41 Center Boulevard.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 87-67 170th Street in Jamaica, Queens. Located between Hillside Avenue and 88th Avenue, the interior lot is two blocks east of the 169th Street subway station, serviced by the F train. Mirza Rahman under the Kingston Property LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Twelve years after its initial proposal, Star Tower at 27-17 42nd Road in Long Island City is finally approaching completion. In 2007, the 26-story, 184-unit tower was slated to star as the tallest and largest apartment development in the Court Square District. Today, the building gets lost amid the newly emerged constellation of high-rises, yet a series of design transformations have produced a final product far superior to the original. The finely crafted façade, designed by JDS Architects, projects a refined modernism and balances contextual reference to its glass-walled neighbors with subtle stylistic expression.
YIMBY recently went on a hard hat tour of Skyline Tower, aka 23-15 44th Drive. The residential skyscraper will eventually rise 778 feet over Long Island City and become the tallest building in Queens, as well as the tallest building in New York City outside of Manhattan. Work has progressed to the 26th floor of the future 67-story tower, and construction crews have been pouring the reinforced slabs at a rapid rate of two floors per week.
