Two houses sitting side by side in Astoria will be demolished to make way for a five-story building with 23 apartments, YIMBY reports. The developer, George Elliott, recently filed plans with the Department of Buildings for the project at 30-70 38th Street. But first, it has to clear the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) hurdle.
It presents an interesting case in that the two houses that are to be replaced for this project fall under different zoning districts, even though they sit side by side.
The developers wants both sites to be under a higher density allowance, which would let him build up to 50 feet.
If everything goes according to plan, this T.F. Cusanelli and Filletti Architects-designed building will include amenities like bike storage, a parking garage, and a recreational room on the ground floor.
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The rendering photo looks nice...
Disgusting. In multiple ways. Where's the "parking garage" entrance in that mockup?
I suspect they will do away with plans for a garage so they can shove as many ppl as possible into the building. Rest assured that tenants will still be able to park on the sidewalk in front. Those quaint hedges in the drawing?- ha!, not in Queens.
Quaint? C'mon. Run of the mill. The sad part is the big boxes that will replace them.
we call them mini ghettos, heavily subsidized from City/government building funds and Section 8 or what ever they're calling it now. high turn over of tenants, mental health programs, cheap building materials guarantees it quickly becomes run down and decrepit. The slum of the future.
Don't worry about parking - they've allowed a whopping 4 spots! That's awesome. Who gives a darn that parking in the neighborhood is a nightmare - esp. since there's alternate side 4 DAYS A WEEK. You think these people are going to forgo their cars? I think not.
And, it's damn ugly. The building is ugly. Period.
While the developer is greedy so is the city. They need to pay for all the pensions they have promised and the ridiculous size of government in NYC.
It's not just happening in NYC though, it's happening in the small town in MA that I live in. Town need to grow in order to pay for pensions. And even with all this growth unfunded pensions add up to nearly 3 TRILLION dollars.
Where's the "parking garage" entrance in that mockup?
On the left front of the building.
These looks slightly above average for these sorts of things. And it looks pretty contextual given the neighboring buildings. People gotta live somewhere.
Grr... right front.
if these don't have PTAC grilles or fedder's sleeves or chrome railings i don't think they're the worst offenders given the context of the area.
-somethingstructural
Looks like they're actually taking infrastructure into account by including the parking garage.
>there's alternate side 4 DAYS A WEEK
Wat? Why? How do the people living there stand it?
"Looks like they're actually taking infrastructure into account by including the parking garage."
Yes. Sewers, schools, sanitation...who cares about those?
Someone that likes this probably ...
bikes through 5 inches of snow to work and sees nothing stupid in it because developer subsidized blogs tells him its 'cool' and 'hip' so it must be so...
takes pictures of food porn and sends it to the 2000 losers on We Heart Astoria foodieblog ...
disrespects the dignity of animals by dressing his cat up in a tu-tu ...
has college debt in the five figures ....
is a single 40 year old ...
and is ready to leave Astoria at a moment's notice when his sugar daddy retires to Miami ...
Folks is the UN mandated Agenda 21.
Coming soon to your neighborhood.
Here is what they did in Austin:
"AGENDA 21: DEVELOPERS PLAN ‘CAR-FREE’ 30-STORY CONDO IN AUSTIN
Luxury condo residents expected to ride city buses"
http://www.infowars.com/agenda-21-developers-plan-car-free-30-story-condo-in-austin/
Great, more shitboxes with no lower floor parking. This should be illegal !!!
They're not going to waste space on parking when they can profit so much on living space. This is an area where you can survive without a car and there are so many people who will pay handsomely just to have a meager existence here. As long as you can shower, sleep, cook a little, watch TV and still get to work, a lot of people are fine with that. Believe me, in 5 years or less that's all you'll be doing while hoping you're not made homeless because of the demand.
Make way for more stupid shitsters to move in. They really know how go make a neighborhood shit
Down with government! Only then shall these entrepreneurial, red blooded american developers self regulate themselves. And don't you liberals start with your nonsense. Nobody cares that an unregulated commercial industry decimated our east coast fisheries, never to return. Or any other examples of capitalism's destructive flaws. Move to Russia!
Yes, regulations (aka: laws) are the problem. Swat the regulations away like a good Republican! (Or an NYC democratic councilman).
Then we'll get our Astoria back.
he United States is a signatory country to Agenda 21, but because Agenda 21 is a legally non-binding statement of intent and not a treaty, the United States Senate was not required to hold a formal debate or vote on it. It is therefore not considered to be law under Article Six of the United States Constitution. President George H. W. Bush was one of the 178 heads of government who signed the final text of the agreement at the Earth Summit in 1992,[14][15] and in the same year Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Eliot Engel and William Broomfield spoke in support of United States House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 353, supporting implementation of Agenda 21 in the United States.[13][16] Created by a 1993 Executive Order, the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) is explicitly charged with recommending a national action plan for sustainable development to the President. The PCSD is composed of leaders from government and industry, as well as from environmental, labor and civil rights organizations. The PCSD submitted its report, "Sustainable America: A New Consensus", to the President in early 1996. In the absence of a multi-sectoral consensus on how to achieve sustainable development in the United States, the PCSD was conceived to formulate recommendations for the implementation of Agenda 21.
In the United States, over 528 cities are members of ICLEI, an international sustainability organization that helps to implement the Agenda 21 and Local Agenda 21 concepts across the world. The United States has nearly half of the ICLEI's global membership of 1,200 cities promoting sustainable development at a local level.[9] The United States also has one of the most comprehensively documented Agenda 21 status reports.[17] In response to the opposition, Don Knapp, U.S. spokesman for the ICLEI, has said "Sustainable development is not a top-down conspiracy from the U.N., but a bottom-up push from local governments".[13]
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry successfully lobbied against an anti-sustainable development bill in 2012, arguing "It would be bad for business" as it could drive away corporations that have embraced sustainable development.[13]
Community Board from hell, CB1 will go for this. Now its starting to get hipsters to replace the 80 yr old Greeks that live in Malba, and guess what?
No change!!!!
We all care about sewers, schools and sanitation. They're not the builders' responsibility. That's on the government.
EXACTLY! The government creates the zoning! And for some projects, sewers, schools and sanitation are taken into account and the developer must agree to address them or he doesnt build. But that tends to only be enforced in Manhattan, and this is Queens....
The owners are getting $1.5million each for their crap boxes. Imagine that. Holding out for a better price just paid off!!
AGENDA 21: LESS IS MORE, DRIVERLESS CARS, TRANSITIONING TO TRANSIT, SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/agenda-21-less-is-more-driverless-cars-transitioning-to-transit-shipping-container-homes/
Just like global warming.
Is becoming a cult and no challenges to the dogmas are tolerated.
Corrupt, despicable animals.
As the Citizen United decision ratified into law that person can be a corporation and money is expression, Agenda 21 is the confirmation of that a person as commodity. as much as the homes and cars they rent buy and the services they use.
In Bayside Asians are offering 2 million cash plus legal help if you have a house with a detached garage that can be made into 2 square houses.
Business men from China been knocking on doors with English translators, I think it about peak time to say take the $$ and run like hell !!
One more democrat president in office and we are doomed.
You can buy the same home and a brand new Cadillac in Georgia, Tennessee or Mississippi for $60,000. Retire and like a king, low taxes, short winters and platinum private heath insurance plan. Go fishing, shoot all the guns all you want
Everybody should face up to the fact their children are not interested and should consider this option.
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