Stimulus money raining down on Queens Plaza; MTA cuts us again
Well hallelujah and praise…Obama? Long Island City is going to see some Stimulus action:
“Queens Plaza, with its serpentine traffic patterns and dangerous pedestrian crossings, is receiving the lion’s share – $39.4 million – of the direct federal funding to the borough. The Queens Plaza project, to be completed by spring 2011, includes new landscaping, a bike path, new sidewalks and lighting.”Bikers, pedestrians and motorists are all being accommodated,” said Gayle Baron of the Long Island City Business Improvement District. “There will be an acre-and-a-half park at the plaza, and the medians will be planted.”
The Greenpoint Ave. Bridge, which connects Long Island City and Brooklyn, will get $6 million in upgrades to extend the life of the bridge by 10 years. “Every time there’s a problem on BQE, that bridge becomes an alternate route,” said Joe Conley, chairman of Community Board 2. “It is money well spent, because that bridge is used by the Fire Department that covers Brooklyn and Queens.”"
Queens Plaza getting $40M facelift [NY Daily]
MTA to cause NYC more pain [PolitickerNYC]
LIC’s small town/village side captured [NY Daily]
Queensboro Bridge centennial [Queens Gazette]
National Wholesale Liquidators opening in LIC [Yonkers Tribune]
Brownfields – LIC’s wild wild south [CityNoise]
Flux Factory rebuilding their new LIC home. Volunteers? [FluxFactory]
Review of Chocolate Factory’s dance theater [NY Times]
Enamored with Tournesol [Queens Courier]
So you would rather live in the midst of Lincoln Tunnel traffic and noise in what is still a pretty desolate area of Manhattan than the peace and quiet of the LIC waterfront? That’s the areaof Manhattan with the lesser rents –not 2 Gold St.
#2 you make a great point. People assume that just because it is in the Island of Manhattan than it should cost more than the best parts of Queens &Brooklyn. I would not live next to the Lincoln Tunnel even if they paid me. I like my view of the river and skyline over the west yards.
Rockrose’s Battery Park City prices are the same as LIC. Explain that one away?
I’m 50/50 on whether living in the toxic waste dump of LIC is actually worse than living next to the Lincoln Tunnel. Anyone really worried about toxicity would get the hell out of this city altogether.
If you work in the Financial District/ Wall Street then Battery Park City makes a lot of sense. However, with all the pain Wall St. is going through I am not surprised they had to lower their rents. However, if you like living closer to transportation and work in Midtown, UES, UWS or downtown than LIC is better. I also prefer to look at NYC skyline than the NJ skyline but that might just be me.
I am not even worried about the Lincoln Tunnel’s toxic fumes but the area only has car dealers and traffic. #4, from your post I gather that you do not live in the neighborhood so it is hard for you to understand why people pay to live here.
I love that everyone is so worried about toxicity in LIC…no matter where you go in NYC, it’s a filthy mess for your lungs.
Yes but some area are definitely more concentrated than others. And if you are going to dig them up, then no doubt toxicity is released into the immediate environment. As is the case in LIC. If it’s lying dormant underneath the concrete in the soil, it poses less immediate threat to the hyper-local population.
well, I guess people that are that overly concerned with these things should live somewhere else.
Where is Flux Factory movng to?
Whatever became of the Jackson Ave Beautification project?
#10. It’s completed. Don’t you like it?
They really need to fix the intersection there, by LHaus, I swear the cars turning off of the Pulaski speed up when they see someone crossing!!
12. well, maybe the next time some bright light has the idea of sticking a residential tower at the foot of a major traffic artery, they’ll think again. It pisses me off that it is now the taxpayer’s responsibility to sort out this problem.
uummm, well I don’t live in any of those hideous buildings, but I still have to cross that intersection everyday!!! I’m just saying it’s going to be even more of a problem when more people move here. Building there or not, it’s a dangerous intersection that should’ve been dealt with a long time ago!
The DOT is indeed making the intersection safe as we speak. There is ongoing work to change some of the islands, redierct some traffic patterns, and make longer pedestrian signal times.
Jackson Avenue street upgrade project is proceeding nicely. In a few or two they’ll have the first planter/median completed. Can’t wait to see the whole thing complete.
You can’t wait for planters filled with cigarette butts, empty bottles of Pavlov vodka and used johnnies?
what?
Jackson will become the ‘spine’ of LIC, just not anytime soon. Patience young grasshopper!
Ah but master….how many will sacrifice their lives before the DOT gets to it? Lets face it the Feng Shui just doesn’t cut it here.
The “Bar” sign is out in front of Dutch Kills now. One step closer to $15 drinks…
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Hilarious. I didn’t realize that Rockrose’s Manhattan residential buildings rent for the SAME PRICE (or less) than their LIC rental properties. In whose sick, twisted world does *that* make sense?