LIC 5Pointz detail as shot by NYS
Since there is a world outside of Long Island City (really?), here’s another local blog to throw on your radar: New York Shitty, a blog about Greenpoint, which if anyone hadn’t noticed is LIC’s southern neighbor.
The sidewalk does not end at Jackson Ave, it keeps going over the Pulaski Bridge, into a mixed residential and industrial Brooklyn neighborhood, much like our own, but not entirely.
Greenpoint is like LIC but with a more concentrated townhouse community embedded. It’s been a great neighbor in years passed… an abundance of retail, bars, restaurants and fantastic grocery stores »
Cars getting smarter in Long Island City.
Long Island City linkage galore. Highlighted is a very long but extremely thorough analysis of NYC’s current condo glut:
“In recent years, ordinary New Yorkers saw new condo construction transform their neighborhoods. This is especially true in hotspots like Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Long Island City, where large rezonings by the Bloomberg administration have spurred the rise of sleek luxury residential towers seemingly overnight. But as New York City’s economy rapidly worsens, people wonder how many of these new condo apartments will languish vacant. Precise numbers are difficult to come by, but government leaders and housing industry experts agree: The condo market is in serious distress. It is not just the vacant units that are worrisome. In many neighborhoods, half-built projects sit stalled and land cleared for development shows no signs of activity, creating a nuisance for residents who now must live indefinitely with deserted construction sites.”
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