Yesterday, the City Council’s Land Use Committee approved the Astoria Cove high-rise mega-development on the Queens waterfront. The general sketch of the deal is that in exchange for tax breaks and building on land that was previously…
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to come up with original ledes for posts about new hotels in Ravenswood, as the little-known industrial neighborhood wedged between Long Island City and Astoria bursts at the seams with new budget lodgings. Today,…
The hotelification of Ravenswood continues apace, as the increasingly less industrial neighborhood on the Queens waterfront gets yet another planned budget hotel. This morning, a new building application was filed for a 33-unit hotel at 38-60…
Manhattan: 250 South Street: Extell has filed a slew of new building applications focusing on foundational and structural plans in conjunction with a 68-story residential tower at 250 South Street, in the Lower East Side. With…
While Court Square and Hunters Point are undergoing a building boom due to their residential rezoning during the 2000s, the area north of the Queensboro Bridge — formerly called Ravenswood, now considered southern Astoria — is also seeing…
