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28-08 38th Ave / Before & After Construction

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35-01 36th Avenue / Before & After Construction

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This photo was taken on July 30, 2022. I had just past my 1-year anniversary off cigarettes, in addition it was also my 6th month alcohol free. Beginning of great stuff.

I had quit each of those vices as a gift to myself for my 60th Birthday, which had been on August 16, 2022. After I had taken this photo, I proceeded to take this amazingly long walk through Long Island City into Sunnyside. I remember the day exactly, as I'd taken so many amazing photos

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Part of the album titled: Self-Portraiture

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

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Out My Windows

Part of the album titled: Self-Portraiture

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This Wendy's must be making a fortune, what with all of the surrounding construction taking place

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Part of the album 45-07 45th St / Before & After Construction

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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

Further info on 42-19 24th Street

Part of the album titled

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

Before & After Construction

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This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another

Part of the larger photo album titled: Random

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Part of the album

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

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Part of the album Queens: Skillman Ave Greenstreets

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The Greenstreets program converts paved, vacant traffic islands, and medians into green spaces filled with trees, shrubs, and groundcover in an effort to capture stormwater.

The program is a part of the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan. All funding for Greenstreet construction under this plan is administered by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Green Infrastructure

www.nycgovparks.org/greening/green-infrastructure

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29-15 40th Road, LIC / Before & After Construction

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New Rendering Revealed For 29-15 40th Road in Long Island City, Queens

newyorkyimby.com/2024/04/new-rendering-revealed-for-29-15...

A new rendering has been revealed for 29-15 40th Road, an upcoming 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Few details have been made public about the project, which is being designed by Fogarty Finger Architects and developed by SB Development, which also acquired the adjacent lot at 29-13 40th Road for $8.7 million last fall.

Over the past year I have been taking this one same shot almost every weekday, mostly in the morning.

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

Thomson Avenue, Long Island City

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Part of the album titled:

32-35 Queens Boulevard / Before & After Construction

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This plot was to have been a 17 story hotel, though as with many sites there was either a stop work order, or the deal fell through completely.

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I feel how this section of Long Island City is on the brink of blasting off on the super sonic gentrification rocket, as the LIC BID expanded into this area, and the building pace will increase significantly in 2026.

Part of the album 45-07 45th St / Before & After Construction

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A black cat in the neighborhood

Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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This corner Apex building will be torn down and replaced by a 40-story building. To the right of the Apex building will soon be the upcoming construction for Opus Point, yet another new building. Long Island City is just non-stop construction.

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

Further info on 42-19 24th Street

Part of the album titled

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

Before & After Construction

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This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another

Part of the album:

31-28 Northern Blvd / Before & After Construction

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They're constructing yet another public storage building on Northern Blvd. As for the other two, I have never seen anyone, ever, go inside either one. And I walk past this area twice per day.

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31-28 Northern Blvd / Before & After Construction

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They're constructing yet another public storage building on Northern Blvd. As for the other two, I have never seen anyone, ever, go inside either one. And I walk past this area twice per day.

Part of the album

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

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Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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Part of the album titled

37-12 31st Street / Before & After Construction

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Part of the album:

23-15 44th Rd / Before & After Construction

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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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This photo is part of the album titled

Queens: Dutch Kills

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This video is included in the album titled Cinemagraphs & Videos (click to view that entire album)

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Lumin, LIC / 23-15 44th Rd / Before & After Construction

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This is 1 of 3 photos I'd taken in August 2022 of this large empty lot in Long Island City, Queens, NYC. I saved these photos for when something would eventually happen reference a major real estate deal. Welp, something considerable has indeed happened (see below)

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.

Welp, this Toyota Camry 16" hubcap has certainly gone places, though not recently, as over this past month it has lived on the Honeywell Street bridge, along with all of the other litter. Every couple of months this bridge is cleaned, and it's long overdue

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

A New City Rises

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Former location of Astoria's renowned Pizza Palace

Coming Soon - Wells Fargo

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31-28 Northern Blvd / Before & After Construction

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They're constructing yet another public storage building on Northern Blvd. As for the other two, I have never seen anyone, ever, go inside either one. And I walk past this area twice per day.

Tired of Summer. Waiting on chilling temps, biting wind, sharp morning sunlight, silence...

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Belongs on a Hollywood backlot

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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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This corner Apex building will be torn down and replaced by a 40-story building. To the right of the Apex building will soon be the upcoming construction for Opus Point, yet another new building. Long Island City is just non-stop construction.

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

Further info on 42-19 24th Street

Part of the album titled

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

Before & After Construction

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This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another

This photo is included in the album titled:

Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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This corner Apex building will be torn down and replaced by a 40-story building. To the right of the Apex building will soon be the upcoming construction for Opus Point, yet another new building. Long Island City is just non-stop construction.

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

Further info on 42-19 24th Street

Part of the album titled

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

Before & After Construction

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This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another

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Part of the album:

Lumen, LIC / 23-15 44th Rd / Before & After Construction

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Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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Part of the album

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

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Center Building

Part of the album

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

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Part of the album titled

Queens: Sunnyside Gardens

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Included in the album title: Quiet City

Part of the album

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

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Part of the album

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

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