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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 photo is part of the overall album titled

Queens: 31-05 Astoria Blvd North - Before & After Construction

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Architect: ODA (Really cool designs)

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Part of the album:

24-01 Queens Plaza North - Before/After Construction

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Just what Long Island City needs, another apartment building

What about some supermarkets!!

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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Today I was the epitome of laziness and instead of walking 24-minutes to my office, I opted to take the train roundtrip. Sometimes it's good to see what's going on above ground

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Further info on 23-10 Queens Plaza South aka Opus Point

Part of the album titled

23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street

Before & After Construction

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Nothing yet on this one, the Janovic Paint building, though the blue and white Pinnacle Realty signs are a telltale indication something's coming down the pike. Those signs are plastered everywhere around Long Island City/Astoria

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Part of the album titled Queens: 30-35 Thomson Avenue

This photo is part of the overall album titled

Thomson Avenue, Long Island City

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Android App Development

Included in the album titled:

Crosswalks (USA) / Zebra Crossing (UK)

Part of the album

38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)

Part of the album titled:

23-01-23-07 31st St, Astoria - Before/After Construction

Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Part of the album titled 23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street - Before & After Construction

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.

~ Wikipedia

Further info Pete's Tavern

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This photo is part of the album titled:

Manhattan: Gramercy

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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.

Included in my Flickr album titled:

The Packard Motor Building, 32-02 Queens Blvd

The Packard Motor Building website

Part of the album titled

37-12 31st Street / Before & After Construction

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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

Included in the album titled: Queens: 35-10 Skillman Avenue - Before & After Construction

Included in the album titled:

Crosswalks (USA) / Zebra Crossing (UK)

This will be a multi-site project within this small area of Astoria

The development team acquired the site, which includes 35-18 Steinway Street, for approximately $53 million. The planned project will contain 560 mixed-income apartments and new ground-floor space for P.C. Richard & Son.

This one is:

35-18 Steinway Street

This is the parking lot area to P.C. Richards

Sale date & Sale price

07/27/2026 $20,297,545

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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 photo is part of the overall album titled

Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)

Former location of Astoria's renowned Pizza Palace

Coming Soon - Wells Fargo

Included in the albums titled:

Queens: 29-21 and 29-29 Ditmars Blvd / Before & After Construction

Crosswalks (USA) / Zebra Crossing (UK)

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.

included in the album titled:

Manhattan: Kips Bay

Northern I and II - Construction Completed

Part of the album

38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction

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Galaxy Note II, Snapseed

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Included in the album titled:

Queens: 29-21 and 29-29 Ditmars Blvd / Before & After Construction

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This one's going up pretty quickly

Part of the album titled

23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street

Before & After Construction

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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.

~ Wikipedia

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This photo is part of the album titled: FLORA

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