Hunters Point Condos

Jan 24 2008

Name That Development: Old Star Building at 42-26 28th St

Long Island Star building

Star Building at 42-26 28th St

We’re running into some more unidentified conversions going on in LIC. How surprising. The latest one is the old Star building, which is located near the Fusion LIC site in Courthouse Square. It seems work has just recently begun. Anyone have any knowledge of what’s happening to the Star Building?

From Forgotten-NY: “Long Island Star building, 28th Street and 42nd Road, was home to the Long Island City Daily Star, founded in 1865 by Thomas Todd, memorialized in a plaque on the building’s exterior. The paper merged with Flushing’s North Shore Journal in the 1930s and soldiered on until 1968 as the Long Island Star-Journal. Developers have it in their gunsights.”

Photo courtesy of Forgotten NY

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That is the Roe Corp’s second LIC 25 story condo project (same developers from the Fusion).
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