Ciampa rental building sidles up against View 59, Queensboro Plaza

ugh. the ciampa building is ugly.

Ugly ugly ugly.

I was pretty close to placing a bid on Crescent Club because it was just darn cheap compared to much of LIC… but my now wife wasn’t feeling it. Now that I think about it… it does have a long ways of becoming something worth calling home.

Hummm… right… Citylights. Nice building.

Its official. City Lights residents are the biggest asses on the internet.

#11, That is not a valid excuss for such an ugly exterior. They could have just changed the brick color and it would have looked much better. However, it also lacks any architectural character and that has to do more with a lack of taste than money.

Why is Citylights considered better than any other buildings in the neighborhood? As a non-tower person, I couldn’t even tell you which one is which. Why always such a high opinion of themselves? All of them seem pretty interchangeable to the layman.

#15 – Citylights folks are pretty desparte these days sending notes to Curbed trying to convince people that their maintenance costs are actually low and hijacking threads on Liqcity critisizing other buildings just as they went on an on with the viral attack on Arris starting rumors about hookers that don’t exist there for months on end. I have no desire to go to Queenswest.com aka Citylights.com. I just wish that these guys would stop with their antics and giving LIC such a bad image.

It’s probably like 4 people.

I think it’s weird there’s a feud between condo buildings. It’s like 8th grade. The preppies vs. the jocks vs. the nerds (if the CUNY grad housing is ever built). Meanwhile, the rest of us don’t even know the names of any of your buildings nor do we care to. Live like a star, kids.

Also I don’t understand how bashing other buildings in their neighborhood helps their property values (if that is their main concern in life)… doesn’t it just make LIC as a gain a worse reputation among real-estate dorks/investors/whatever and the general public (their own building included?). Most outsiders already think this neighborhood is lame as it is, they don’t need to help.

Come again? Eh? I live here.

Where is the user logon and comment moderation. I eagerly await it so that I can stop reading the same person responding to his own posts.

#22 You mean like on Queenswest.com where Jake calls people for task when they call out his neighbors for making dumbass comments like #7 but doesn’t do shit to moderate idiots like CSK. No thanks. LIC doesn’t need another website like that. Why do you think that noone goes there any more?

I was against registering for liqcity, but I’ve changed my mind. I can’t believe these a**hole CityLights lovers and haters, like 24 and 25, are spreading their obsessive rot here and ruining this site. Go away. You are extremely dull people with nothing worthwhile to say. Back in the days of old LIC — you know, that crappy neighborhood you love to hate and misrepresent so much? — you all would have had the sh*t roundly kicked out of you.

#26 While I agree that none of us want to hear any of this stuff, its kind of difficult to argue that there is anything that #24 has said that isn’t 100% accurate. As #10 said, its pretty well established now that CityLights folks have earned themselves the title of biggest asses on the internet. If you want to chide folks you’ve got to go to the heart of the problem.

Just went to Star Tower Condos across the train tracks and their sales office is probably the nicest office I have been too. I have been looking at a lot of developments in LIC for awhile and was going to buy at Crescent Club, but now I am leaning towards Star Tower.

I like city lights area, but I rather be closer to all the transportation. I am already late everyday to work and I need to be close the subways or cabs. I figure if I want to go to the park ill just walk over every once in awhile.

No offense #31, but being within 1 block of several trains is admittedly even more convenient than 5 blocks from 1 train (plus, it’s nice to be on trains that go downtown without transfers), hence the appeal of living somewhere like Court Square or Queens Plaza, despite the lack of waterfront or upscale foodie destinations or whatever. It’s a tradeoff of course. I’m within a block of the 7, E, V, and G (plus 10-15 minutes to the N,R,W and F) meaning I can get almost anywhere in the city without transferring, which is a nice perk, especially late nights when transfers can add a ton of time when all you want to do is sleep. Yeah, you are lazy if you think walking from “Queens West” to the Vernon-Jackson 7 is a hike, but it can get even better.

#30 sounds like a broker trying to sell us on his/ her project. If they are the same group that marketed the Fusion then they love to post as condo buyers.

There the City Lights ‘tards go bashing another development again. Let’s face it Queens Plaza’s best days are ahead of it wheras, Queenswests’ are behind it being designated as the future low income area of LIC. That and the Viking appliances make the Star tower a better investment than “ShittyLights”, its crappy finishes and amenities, its maintenance and tax abatement problems and worst of all its residents who post all this garbage on the net about any other building (all of which are much better than CityLights).

#37, You said it. No one was ever on a deathbed wishing they had a Viking stove or a granite countertop.

What is a viking stove?

The Citi building could beat up Citylights any day.

Citylights put LIC on the map and is the only luxury building in LIC. All other buildings are crap.

Actually the Hunters Point Historic District rowhouses could beat up Citylights any day.

Am I the only one that gets that number 47 is just stirring?

Methinks its Jake and his gang of rejects continuing to make fools of themselves

+1

#48 we get it, its just not funny or original. If you look at the time stamps you can see that its one person responding to his own posts. Its actually sad.

Queens Plaza is on the N, R, W, F, E, V, 7 and sometimes G, so accessibility options are definitely a plus. Plus, once you are off the actual Plaza/Northern Blvd the side streets are nice and quiet. Bar options are pretty limited to strip clubs, though, unfortunately, nor are there many restaurants or a grocery store. It’s nice if you like a isolated, industrial area, and there are a few art lofts/spaces still around there. North of there up in Dutch Kills has a really nice mixed industrial/residential neighborhood vibe… kinda a gradual transition into Astoria as industrial gives way to housing the further north you go.

LIC pwns Citylights.

#44 Citylights….Luxury??

I hope the next Al Qaeda attack involves planes flying directly into all the condos of those carrying on this moronic “nya, nya” thread over the past several days. What a bunch of overprivileged lame asses you are. Again, you all need an old-fashioned LIC thumping.

liqcity, what gives? No fresh content in 10 days.

yeah, they probably wouldn’t let #62′s comment sit there for two hours otherwise.

65, what kind of weapons would the QueensWest crowd bring to the rumble? Oxo Good Grip vegetable peelers?

67, are you also still bummed that Goldwater didn’t win? Give it up, man. I don’t think you realize how fantastically pathetic you sound. Go ruin another blog. LIQCITY — come home!

nerds

Shouldn’t LIQcity be back by now?

I live in Queensbridge and for the life of me
The comments here sound like someone
Who is extremely ungrateful for what they have
And a snot for looking down on those who
Are less fortunate.

I worked for 5 yrs and was recently laid off
So now it is a struggle to find another job
Plus take care of your kid.

It does not matter where you live
Citilights view or anywhere
Just be glad you have a home with a nice
View and you don’t have to worry about
Anything

If I were you I’d thank my stars everyday