LIC’s Z-Hotel sleeks it up; supposed Rolex headquarters going up nearby

Is the rolex facility office or manufacturing?

do people actually stay at all these hotels in the area? anyone know how business is doing?

Ugh.. not the context discussion again…

#4. I actually had the same question until I was asked to suggest hotels right out of Manhattan for some business partners that were looking to save money. I suggested the the new Holiday Inn, The Ravel and the Days Inn in Queensboro Plaza. I was surprised that none of them had vacancy for the days they were looking. This was probably two months ago and it did not fall in any special holiday or event, plus they were not even that cheap.

6, read the first sentence of the City Zoning. It’s all about context. Like it or not, it’s law.

Yes, and I would further submit in regard to the contextual controversy that the builders have so far managed to keep the building off the sidewalk, that is, it appears that it will fit into the pre-existing cultural context of spatial agreement. Also, if I may be forgiven for stating the obvious–and I might not be the first to do so–but this structure, by virtue of the reflective quality of its (mostly) glass exterior, literally, “reflects” the neighborhood, and thereby, by extension, the character of the neighborhood itself. Is there more that anyone could require/request of such an out-of-scale and unwelcome structure? I think not, or at least any protest (particularly here) would probably be a total waste of time. As Fred F. French said, in NYC “there’s no such thing as overdevelopment.”
Let that be a lesson to us all.
Happy New Year! :-)