In 2009, a handful of blocks in Forest Hills – between Queens Boulevard and Austin Street, Yellowstone Boulevard and 72nd Road – were upzoned, to allow higher residential densities in the commercial core of one of…
During the 1930s and ’40s, Rego Park and other central Queens neighborhoods were the site of frenzied speculative residential construction, as private, market-rate builders sought to meet some of the massive demand for new apartments in…
Yesterday, a new building permit application was filed for a small residential project in the Court Square section of Long Island City. A developer is seeking to erect an eight-story, eight-unit building at 42-43 27th Street,…
Normally, when YIMBY comes across a building with only a few units, it doesn’t rise to the level of its own blog post. But string eight of them together and we’ll bite. Yesterday, architects filed for new…
In 2005, old timers in the neighborhood and the Department of City Planning, led by Amanda Burden, tried desperately to stamp out development in Bay Ridge. Virtually the entire neighborhood was downzoned, arresting the natural…