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Did Amazon change Long Island City real estate? Short answer: not really. – When Amazon announced its plans to bring part of its second North American headquarters to Long Island City, there was much hand-wringing about what the tech giant would do ... |
Amazon has inked a lease in midtown Manhattan less than a year after abruptly withdrawing from plans to bring half of its second North American headquarters to Queens, according to the the Seattle-based company.
The e-commerce giant has signed a lease for 335,000 square feet in the Hudson Yards where it will have more than 1,500 employees.
The arrangement is Amazon’s largest expansion in New York City since the company abandoned plans to situate half of its second headquarters in ...
It may seem like New York City is in the midst of a building boom, with new developments continuing to go up in areas including Long Island City and Downtown Brooklyn. But a new report prepared by the Department of City Planning refutes that, and makes the case that New York City needs to build more housing to keep up with its “explosive” job growth.
The report, titled “The Geography of Jobs,” delves into the city’s and ...
Continue Reading →Many people in the industry predicted it: the number of transactions went down quite a bit – 14.2% YoY actually to 2,560 homes sold. As you may remember, many sales were pulled into the previous quarter in order to avoid the, well known and much discussed, Mansion Tax hikes. That generated a sense of “fake” recovery and we now know for a fact it was a “fake”!
Located at 23-15 44th Drive (Long Island City), the residential skyscraper will soon stand 778 feet tall, making it the tallest building in New York outside of Manhattan.
Once completed, the building will be clad in 358,538 square feet of glass, equivalent to a span of over six football fields.
After two decades of planning and years of delays, the Hunters Point Library is finally opening in Long Island City.
This new branch of the Queens Public Library was first proposed for the neighborhood in 1999, but it took more than 10 years for concrete plans to materialize.
The road here was bumpy, to put it lightly—and when all was said and done, the total cost of the library was more than $40 million.
Dennis ...
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