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Northern I and II - Construction Completed
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38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction
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38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / 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
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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard
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.
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Further info Pete's Tavern
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Manhattan: Gramercy
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I've always loved this building, as it has such a classic look to it. And over the years along my walks to/fro my office I've taken to photographing it.
This building was recently sold
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
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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Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)
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Before & After Construction
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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard
Before & After Construction
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Life in the Big City. It's certainly not boring. Last July an electrical outlet in my living room randomly lost power. That outlet connects to a conduit which runs up the wall in a corner of my living room, across the edge of the ceiling in a zigzag formation and connects to an electrical box. So, in July I needed to inform my Super, as well as my Landlord, and ultimately request for any work to be held off until at least December, as I was at that time presently undergoing Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine (Chemo) treatments. And the last thing I needed was dust. I'm so grateful to have a professional Landlord, who agreed to hold off any work until I was feeling better. That was # 1
# 2 is how a few weeks ago I took notice of a large crack in my living room ceiling, and situated on the other side from the broken conduit. Yesterday, my amazing Super came by, cut open the ceiling and repaired it. This afternoon he returned and painted it. The electrical conduit repair will be scheduled for next week. Most of my living room is in boxes.
In my professional life I am an executive assistant*, and those skills come in quite handy in my personal life.
I am also a collector of objet d'art & bric-à-brac. and it was necessary for me to box them all up in prep for the various upcoming construction. A travesty in my world, as I take a lot of pride in my apartment and spend a tremendous amount of time decorating, organizing and cleaning it. So much so that one might wonder how I've time for anything else.
As I continue to heal from the Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) and return to some form of normalcy, so too, it would seem, how the rest of my life is collectively following along. 😄
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* An executive assistant (EA) provides high-level administrative support to senior executives to help them stay organized and productive. Their duties include managing calendars, scheduling meetings, booking travel, and handling correspondence. EAs often also manage special projects, handle sensitive information, and act as a point of contact for other staff or external partners, playing a crucial role in an executive's efficiency and daily operations.
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Newell's Run - Year of the City
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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
Part of the album 37-42 30th Street / Before & After 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.
licpost.com/eight-story-complex-including-big-asian-super...
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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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
www.caliendoarchitects.com/project-gallery/31-05-astoria-...
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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Queens: 31-05 Astoria Blvd North - Before & After Construction
This photo was taken just last Monday morning, August 4th, and what I took notice of is how the morning light has already begun to change, which is odd, as it typically wouldn't look like this until at least mid-late September. So, this tells me how we may have an early winter. I'm all for that. This NYC Summer heat has just been too much this year.
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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Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)
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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes
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While the name Zabar is synonymous with smoked fish and the quintessential New York brunch, Eli Zabar envisioned a different kind of food store from his family's West Side landmark delicatessen. Inspired by the food halls and markets of London and Paris, Eli's has become an institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side, directly across town from the store and home where he grew up.
In the year 2000, inspired by the flower shops he loves in Paris, a flower shop was added to Eli's Manhattan
Read the fascinating life of the fascinating Eli Zabar
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Architect: ODA (Really cool designs)
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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!!
newyorkyimby.com/2022/01/new-empire-corporation-reveals-r...
There's NO Parking on Sidewalks
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The lead owner of Wildflower Studios is actor Robert DeNiro. The studio features: 11 sound stages, a public promenade, solar panels, cafes, and lounges.
The studio was designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, whose company is titled Bjarke Ingels Group aka BIG. The two letter country code top-level domain extension for Denmark is dk. So his website address is BIG.dk. Coincidence? Doubtful
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Before & After Construction
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Before & After Construction