The building that houses Pete's was built in 1829, and was originally the Portman Hotel; liquor may have been sold there as early as 1851 or 1852 – when it was a "grocery & grog" store – and the first official drinking establishment founded by 1864. It was bought in 1899 by Tom and John Healy, and became Healy's. During prohibition, when selling alcohol was illegal, the bar continued to operate disguised as a flower shop.

The writer O. Henry lived down the street at 55 Irving Place from 1903 to 1907, and Healy's appears in his short story "The Lost Blend" under the name "Kenealy's". Local legend also has it that he wrote his well-known story "The Gift of the Magi" in Healy's second booth from the front, but this appears to be apocryphal.

Although the tavern claims to be "an official historical landmark", it is neither a designated New York City landmark nor is it on the National Register of Historic Places. It does, however, lie within the Gramercy Park Historic District designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. Gary Egan is proprietor of Pete's Tavern and has been General Manager of the restaurant for over 30 years.

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A New City Rises

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This one thing, this soon to open new Starbucks location is the catalyst and so significant to this little area of Long Island City, as it's setting the stage for the ongoing building boom that will soon expand into this region. Both exciting and frightening.

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The clock tower building looks great. It's been spruced up

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The Long Island City Clock Tower building had been constructed in 1927 by the Manhattan Company, a holding company that in 1955 merged with the Chase National Bank to create the Chase Manhattan Bank. For more than 60-years, the clock tower building had been the tallest commercial building in Queens at 14-stories. Until it was surpassed in 1990 by other structures, the building with the clock towered over the Queensborough Bridge and the elevated Flushing and Astoria subway lines running next to it.

In 2014, the Long Island City Clock Tower was purchased by developers and using land and air rights from the clock tower, as well as air rights from an adjacent lot owned by and purchased from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a 71-story residential tower, Sven, was constructed by the Durst Organization, and opened in March 2022.

Working with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Durst Organization hired a team of architects to restore the neo-Gothic clock tower building and its dilapidated glass and cast-iron clock faces. Those leading the project sought to swap the damaged frosted glass panels with a type of acrylic and replace the cast iron dials with aluminum—durable materials that can endure years in the elements.

The brown-brick landmark, with its castellated clocktower turret, will eventually be repurposed into a commercial and retail space.

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This was taken along my walk home this afternoon on the Honeywell Street bridge. Ginger ain't that yellow...Honeywell should be renamed as Honey Well, or Urine Well for that matter.

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The Sunnyside Train Yard at 180-acres is comprised of more than 6x the land area of Hudson Yards' 28-acres, and the vultures have been circling

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Birders gathering to board the "MV Fling" offshore diving boat chartered for a forty eight hour pelagic birding excursion out to 150± miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. There were 27 birders + 6 crew members.

September 27-29, 2023.

First evening (9/27)

Freeport, Brazoria County, Texas.

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Year built: 1959

Purchase date: 07/03/2025

Purchase price: $11,009,125

Here's the design for the upcoming new building. I really like it

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History of the site:

After 40 years in business the Neptune Diner located in Astoria, Queens, NYC served its last meal on Sunday, July 29. 2024. The owners claimed they were not given a chance to renew their lease, because the property will soon be turned into a residential building.

Since 1983, The Katsihtis brothers have owned the building on Astoria Boulevard but not the land, which was sold in 2018 for over $10 million.

The brothers also had a 35-year lease which expired in 2019. But since then, they were not able to come to a long-term agreement with the landlord.

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But that's what Long Island City/Astoria needs is another apartment building. It's already so overbuilt, it's ridiculous. Yet they keep tearing them down and building new ones, many of which are luxury rentals. The neighborhood is losing its character to steel and glass.

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This is a comparison of what presently is and what will soon be

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The green construction wall is going up, which signifies new construction is imminent

Purchase date: 12/31/2025

Purchase price: $9,150,000

Original Year built: 1927

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The North Face

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I needed to figure out some way for the Infusion Center nurses to have full access to my arms, while still maintaining warmth, as it's so cold in there.

And I wouldn't expect anything less from myself

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The flowers of many hydrangea act as natural pH indicators, sporting blue flowers when the soil is acidic and pink ones when the soil is alkaline.

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Hydrangea commonly named the hortensia, is a genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Korea, and Japan.

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Hydrangea is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’ (from ὕδωρ húdōr "water" + ἄγγος ángos or ἀγγεῖον angeîon "vessel"),in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.

The earlier name, Hortensia, is a Latinised version of the French given name Hortense, honoring French astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Hortense Lepaute. Philibert Commerson attempted to name the flower Lepautia or Peautia after Lepaute. However, the flower's accepted name later became Hortensia. This led to people believing Lepaute's name was Hortense, but the Larousse remarks that this is erroneous, and that the name probably came from hortus, garden.

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Those sneaky construction workers

Free NYC Parking

Where do the people living in this neighborhood find parking what with this silliness?

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My Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine treatments began in early June 2025, though in early May I had my hair buzzed down, then shaven weekly. This way I was ready. Then my head hair stopped growing, as did my facial hair. Yet my eyebrows and eyelashes remained, if not thinner. I've actually had my head shaven previously, so I was good with it. Then I began purchasing blue blocker glasses, so as to interrupt the visual. Many people commented on my variety of glasses, though never on the fact that I didn't have hair.

I don't need glasses, I can see 20/20. Had had cataract surgery last Summer

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Two floors, one unit, built 1915. As of late, developers have been snatching up many of these older buildings.

I don't know, though the second one notices "no smoking" signs posted on the exterior walls of a dwelling, it's mostly a telltale sign of upcoming construction.

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My neighborhood desperately needs additional supermarkets and for the past several years now there's been a huge influx of Asian citizens moving into the area. Whoever's responsible for constructing this Asian-centric supermarket is going to make a fortune

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Eight Story Complex Including Big Asian Supermarket Proposed for 38th Avenue in Dutch Kills

The development is expected to be eight stories tall and go up on 38th Avenue between 30th Street and Old Ridge Road. The top six floors would be for apartments, while the bottom two floors–totaling 12,000 square feet– to be set aside for an Asian supermarket.

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144 East 22nd Street-Gramercy Park is a prewar rental building which has 6 floors, 47 units, and was built in the year 1925.

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