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Fantastic tour!
Come to think of it, it will benefit everyone if those graffiti filth were eliminated from this increasingly wealthy neighborhood. Can't be stuck in the 70's, right? Anyway the more buildings, the better! Also you can get a good view of 432 Park Avenue from the upper subway platform at Queensboro Plaza. :slob: |
this is an area I know pretty well living in nearby Astoria. It's amazing how quickly it is changing, I just wish the architecture of a lot of these hotels sprouting up was better. It's like Gene Kauffman threw up over Queens. I remember, however, when towers started sprouting up in Williamsburg, they were pretty hideous as well. The great architecture came later. Hopefully that will happen in LIC.
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^ yep. in the meantime, tourists and visitors take note - you can take advantage of the new/cheap hotels. i saw that many already are.
*** i even found a handful of green/leed bldgs around queens plaza. kind of an unexpected selling point in a neighborhood of so many big industrial bldgs: http://queens.brownstoner.com/2012/0...g-island-city/ one of them is jetblue hq, so i guess they were going to want a nice conversion. its just very interesting to see the redevelopment of a gritty neighborhood like this. |
I'm looking at maybe going to NY for a week in September, so I've looked into these hotels. I wouldn't say they're cheap. They're just cheap compared to Manhattan. They still seem to be around $160/night when booked well in advance on average though.
I might try airBNB. No way I'm paying $200+ a night for a hotel room in Manhattan. |
^ ha yeah for sure, but cheap for manhattan is cheap - its all relative - just dont do airbnb in my bldg haha - i hope a look around the neighborhood helped a little - good luck!
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It's unreal how widespread NYC's building boom is. Had this growth spilled into depressed neighborhoods like Brownsville and East New York?
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not bville, but its on the way for east ny as di blasio has big plans for high density housing towers, calming atlantic ave, etc:
http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/06/wha...sfp=2078212086 i notice the $whitey$ hipster crew is just tepidly edging from bushwick into east ny near cypress hills & bway junction, but i think they may spend more time ruining ethnic ridgewood before too much of that gentrification thing happens in eny itself. ha. i dk what havoc or good di blasio's building spree is going to cause, we'll see. |
Interesting thread! LIC continues to change.
Yes, I've already seen a few hipsters-transplants in Cypress Hills (which is my area in NYC), particularly around Alabama station, Norwood station and the Crescent station. Still very minimal though but sometimes obvious. Some very recent articles - http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york...york-1.8902128 http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...on_is_real.php |
^ oh good im glad to hear you are over there too. i work in brownsville /eny sometimes, so lets both keep an eye on the hipster migration and di blasio's redevelopment plans. lic too of course :)
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Good girders!
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