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New York Yimby, March 13, 2026
Construction is about to go vertical at 24-19 Jackson Avenue, a 55-story residential skyscraper in the Court Square section of Long Island City, Queens. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital in partnership with Incoco Capital, the 676-foot-tall structure will yield 600 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space. The 18,000-square-foot property is bounded by 45th Avenue to the north, Jackson Avenue to the southeast, and 23rd Street to the west.
Full article: 55-Story Skyscraper Readies for Vertical Construction at 24-19 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens
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Notice those shadows on the building. They're actually reflections. Gone are the days of beautifully designed and constructed buildings that compliment their surrounding and offer shaded areas. Instead, these days, it's all glass. And wherever you go, you see these reflections.
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This morning along my walk to work I happened upon this 5 toothed iron bucket for a backhoe sitting by its lonesome along the walkway on the Honeywell Street bridge, and with no work crew, or anyone for that matter, in sight. It hadn't been there yesterday afternoon so probably a night crew. Still kinda strange. I noticed it from a distance and just couldn't figure out what it could possibly be. Being constructed of iron is no doubt why it was still there as it probably weighs a ton.
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The best part of my job is my ability to work to/fro my place of employment, and I certainly see a lot of strange people and things along my walks. The "regular commuters" are apparently the one's in the cars, on the buses and subways, though us walkers, we are certainly having much more fun
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Walking home from work
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Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)
Opening Here Soon
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36-19 30th Street
Between 36th/37th Avenues, Astoria, Queens, NYC
1/2 block from my apt
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25-01 Queens Plaza North / Before-After Construction
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From hideous balconies to strange entrance steps
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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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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
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Lucent 33, 37-24 33rd St - Before & After Construction
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After almost an entire year, this project is starting up again thanks to new funding
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8:00 am on June 30, 2025
Updated Design Revealed for 561-Unit Skyscraper at 30-25 Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens
newyorkyimby.com/2025/06/updated-design-revealed-for-561-...
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Balconies going up, black netting coming down
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38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction
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They dismantled all of the sidewalk sheds, yet the green wall remains. Loving those black framed windows. Have always wanted an apartment with those types of windows. The ones where you need to wind a lever and they open sideways. In my fantasy it needs to be a red bricked building second floor apartment, and the building is situated on a tree lined street. Make that a cobblestone street. No, not a street. A lane. And it's raining. It's springtime...
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No clue what this building is supposed to be though it most certainly is not going not going to be another apartment building. Those steel rollup doors speak shops, though we shall see.
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37-12 31st Street / Before & After Construction
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
~ Maya Angelou
(American memoirist, poet, singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist)
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Over the past year I have been taking this one same shot almost every weekday, mostly in the morning.
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Thomson Avenue, Long Island City
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I hadn't seen any abandoned shoes for well over a month, and now twice in two days, and both sightings located very close to one another
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38-15 Queens Boulevard / Before & After Construction
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Crain's New York Business, March 7, 2024
Midtown-based Fisher Bros. has parted ways with a Long Island City site where it once hoped to build a 240-unit project.
The real estate firm has sold 42-50 24th St. to developer Chris Xu's United Construction & Development for $57.5 million, property records show. The deal will add to Xu's already substantial portfolio of Queens projects.
The Hakim Organization and Property Markets Group bought the site in 2015 for $69 million, and the real estate website New York YIMBY published renderings of a 74-story tower planned for the address in 2018. However, in 2019 Fisher Bros. prefiled plans for a 35-story project at the site that would span about 255,000 square feet with 240 residential units, 40,000 square feet of commercial space and a hotel.
Read up on Willie Cole's 3,000 Buddha Chandelier project
Artist Willie Cole's website
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This is the beauty of street photography, as you never know what you'll stumble upon
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38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction
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Mostly I prefer taking photos that are devoid of people, unless I need them to set scale or play off of lines & shapes in the image.
A tricky preference/maneuver in a city such as New York, though obviously not impossible.
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Manhattan: Midtown Northeast
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