A 26-story mixed-use hotel is coming to Long Island City.
The hotel, which will be located at 32-35 Queens Blvd., will have 150 rooms, New York YIMBY reported.
Raymond Chan Architect is designing the building.
The hotel will be just over 104,000 square feet, with a 44,400 square-foot community facility, according to filings owner Fongtar Realty made with the Department of Buildings.
Fantastic. Some day it will make a great homeless shelter! And this is in Sunnyside.
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Sunnyside doesn't start until 39th I thought?
The existing structure is a blight on the community. A nicer building will be great.
Sunnyside starts at the rail yard. And the existing building is in an industrial zone, which are increasingly forbidden in NYC. Why have buildings that provide good jobs when you can cater to tourists and provide minimum wage jobs?
I think Anon number one is correct as to the LIC/Sunnyside border. East of the railyards, the Falchi Building on 47th, the Taxi and Limousine Commission office on 32nd and Queens Blvd., even the McDonald's at 38th and QB all come up as LIC (11101) addresses when Googled. Pete's Diner, at 39-14 Queens Blvd., comes up as Sunnyside (11104).
That would be fine if we defined neighborhoods by zip codes. But we don't. The railyard doesn't have one. And it's called Sunnyside Railyard for a reason. It was formerly the site of the Sunnyside Hill Farm from which Sunnyside got its name.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyside_Yard
The Maspeth High School is in Elmhurst, if you were to go by zip code. I doubt anyone living in Elmhurst or Maspeth thinks of it that way. Also, the zip code line along Metropolitan Avenue has a handful of buildings on the north side of the street, considered to be Maspeth, with the Ridgewood zip code. Major roads, railroad tracks, highways, bodies of water, etc. tend to define neighborhood boundaries, not zip codes. Rikers Island is part of the Bronx but has a Queens zip code. Ridgewood had a Brooklyn zip code until the 1970s. And it now shares a zip code with Glendale.
But we do designate addresses by address, no? I understand these things are flexible, and change over time--LIC once meant Hunters Point, Sunnyside, Ravenswood and Astoria--but I think to say everything east of the railyards is Sunnyside is stretching it. The intersection of Skillman and Hunters Point Ave. would scarcely seem like Sunnyside to anyone.(and what would then be the cutoff on Borden?) Seems to me Van Dam Street is a more sensible modern border, and feels that way.
NEVER trust google maps for neighborhood boundaries. It's all user defined. Real estate scum think LIC is a better brand than sunnyside so they redefine parts of sunnyside to be part of LIC to sell their condos quicker.
I like VanDam as a boundary. Dutch Kills to the west.
YOU FOOLS! IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A HOTEL. IT IS GOING TO BE A HOMELESS SHELTER, THE BIGGEST ONE IN THE CITY. CHECK DOB,DCC PERMITS. ..."municipal public housing facility". What does that tell you?
It will be used to house the illegal "Children" and "migrants" streaming across the border thanks to Bathhouse Barry and Eric Holdem.
good news for homeless
Another homeless shelter for Queens: People in Mexico City, Mumbai, Guatemala City, and Lagos are packing their bags now and await their big Queens welcome package: housing, health care, food, education, etc.
They don't care if there's family or a job waiting for them here.
Taxpayers take care of it all.
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