Update on Long Island City’s CUNY graduate housing development

I hate it when people have no idea what they are talking about. #1, that tower will not make CUNY any money. It will make the developer OCA money. CUNY is just an occupant of the low-rise component. They are NOT the developers. And that condo tower is only 12/13 stories tall. It will hardly be worth the effort.

I think LIQcity is profiting from this post.

Well those luxury developer ads are all over the site, obviously. Live like a star! You deserve it! You’ve arrived!

Have they stopped running those Law & Order re-runs leaving the conspiracy theorists in LIC with nothing better to do? There is no propaganda anywhere in this posting that would serve the developers. I’ve seen LIQCITY do a hundred real estate updates and that is the whole reason I read this blog in the first place.

#9 yes they change the zoning whenever someone has a project and will grease pockets, then they change it back again…..

I like that they’re presering that wall-looks cool, if done right.

What is so historically significant about a brick wall? There are thousands of brick walls all over LIC.

So who or what are Toch Brothers? And if no one knows, it shouldn’t be preserved.

#15, there are a couple brownstones in the area, but predominantly other varieties of row/townhouse.

#10, the zoning around Court Square that allows big towers has been that way for several years.

Yes, #19, let me guess you are a member of the shadowy “LICC.” Well “not to dredge this up and get into the furious debate”, but the BSA hearings proved there was a hardship and that the development provided a community benefit. Therefore as a matter of law this building does not violate zoning regulations regarless of how many time you say it does. Also please save your innuendo and conspiracy theories for the next devlopment project you plan to oppose.

20, you are the first to leap to the defense of the mega development industry but you have always been unwilling to explain who you are, what you do, and what your stake in this is. And then while you accuse me of innuendo it’s exactly what you go on to do.

“shadowy LICC”. First I don’t belong to the organization. Second, it is certainly not shadowy. It’s been on the scene and has had a public presence in Hunters Point going back some 20+ years. It is certainly not “anonymous” like you. Thses folks had the courage (right or wrong) to appear in public and state who they are and what their opinions were.

“Therefore as a matter of law this building does not violate zoning regulations regarless of how many time you say it does” The technical term is a variance. A variance is legal but it is an allowable violation of zoning. I never said or implied otherwise. What I did point out was that despite the BSA ruling mostly in their favor, many feel that the criteria were not met.

Where I will acknowledge you (something experience tells me you will never do for me or anyone else) is my question regarding Iris Weinshall. Fact is I’m merely repeating what I have been told by a highly placed person who should know. So I will admit that this is unverified and thus does not belong here.

I’m still waiting for you to state a constructive opinion about anything. It seems #20 you are only interested in attack and it is without fail anytime any person or group in the community questions height and bulk. The whole country is reeling from excess. Do you have any constructive ideas other than blasting people who think differently from you?

Like it says-”anonymous comments are welcome.”
All opinions, no matter how imperious and aggressively desensitizing, ought to be honored. Meanwhile, one should in no way characterize others as “schmucks” or “ass-hat models,” or bestow any other label of that sort, you know, because that’s rude. It’s important to maintain some replica of decorum, and I’m sure no one considers it rude that developers and their sponsors tear apart a neighborhood and engineer their little Variances alongside pre-existing Zoning Laws to keep everything all nice and legal. No conspiracy there; Cons and piracy, maybe, but never any conspiracy–in fact, they’ve been practically transparent. They’ll be lucky to break even, after all the trouble they’ve gone to. And they’re creating jobs…What’s so wrong about that? LICC needs to become more community-oriented and less elitist, but that’s only my opinion.

How can you say that the LICC is not shadowy? Who are its members? When and where do they meet? What is their mission statement? Who funds them? These are questions that have not been answered even after asking them for months. As far as I’m concerned they are anonymous.

Ok so first 22 says it exists and then 28 says it doesn’t… Which is it? Or is this just a ploy to throw more darkness over its operations. The plot thickens…

Who are you people?

Dutch Kills rocks. And they’re only $9.

Dutch Kills is the best thing to happen to this hood since…well, ever. Not only are the cocktails $9, they’re top shelf, and they do BUY BACKS. Get Guiseppe (spelling?) to make you a Gordon’s Cup. Sweet Blessed Baby Jeebus! I’m in love! Much to the detriment of my liver.

No, they were not. Separate parties, total coincidence.

Also seen that night was a friend who’s the proprietor of a lovely little place in Greenpoint, and the previous Saturday saw the local proprietors of a bistro and wine bar. DK: It’s truly the place to be in the LIC.