Death of Parking in Queens Plaza, Long Island City

Oh Gotham Center, you’ve made our headlines twice this week! First it’s because the NY Public Health Dept is moving into the bottom 11 floors of your building, and now it’s because there seems to be an issue creating those pesky public parking spots Queens Plaza was supposed to get because of you…

Hot off the presses from our favorite local community board, CB2, is the public hearing notice (tomorrow) for Gotham Center’s developer’s request to create just a few less public parking spaces than they had agreed to when granted approval to build their looming tower in Queens Plaza. (One of three towers, mind you.) Ok, we’ll give you the numbers now… Tishman-Speyer (developers) agreed to create 1,150 public parking spots when they acquired the then city-owned property, a municipal parking garage dubbed the ‘white elephant’, to create their mega-complex Gotham Center. They are back now in front of CB2 asking if they could amend that number to »

Parking on Borden Ave, LIC

Well, well, well. It seems the neighborhood activists over at One Hunters Point condos at the corner of Borden Ave & Vernon Blvd are very busy these days making noise about problems in their immediate environment. First, a successful letter writing campaign to the MTA to decrease the drone from the nearby LIRR train engines (more successful than our politicians with the shuttle bus) and now this »

5th Street, Hunters Point, LIC

Spring is finally officially here in Long Island City (nowhere else, just here), and the City (as in NYC) is giving the waterfront some more green to add to the ongoing expansion of Gantry Park. 5th Street is getting tree-d along the curbside from 46th Ave to 47th Ave.

And, in honor of that, the City (NYC again) placed temporary No Parking MF 7a-6p signs on a few curbs early this morning. And then shortly thereafter, a NY traffic cop showed up and issued violations to a handful of the now illegally parked cars. And shortly thereafter that »

5th Street parking to vanish like this view? -Long Island City

Ok Hunters Pointers, here’s your chance to get involved some good ol’ fashioned community politics (if you dare). On the table, the very controversial issue of neighborhood parking, specifically in the Vernon Jackson zone on Vernon, and also 11th Street. One possibility is increased metered parking on side streets near Vernon. (Hopefully also the DOT will address the dangerous intersection at Pulaski & Jackson Ave.) And parking also might be temporarily (permanently?) removed along the entire stretch of 5th street.

According to many but confirmed by none »

A piece that no longer exists at 5pointz studios – photo by Barrybar

Queenswest has a $20M library in the works? The price tag seems a bit steep.

• Queens West May Soon Be Hitting the Books [Curbed]

• Residential parking permits in LIC? Well that’s one option. [Queens Chronicle]

• If you’re moving in to the Rockrose buildings, bring your goggles. [Queens Courier]

• Music events in LIC this weekend [licpop]

Courtesy of outerB

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is holding their second round of workshops to address Queens parking issues, especially fallout on ‘commuter’ neighborhoods in lieu of the pending congestion pricing plan.

If you care about parking in the hood, here’s the deets:

Tuesday, 1/29, 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00. Citicorp Building, 1 Court Square Long Island City