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From
Curbed:
At first glance, this four-bedroom, four-bathroom home in Jamaica Estates is all harsh angles and clashing colors and dissonant window sizes. But open the door. Take a good, hard look at its incredibly shiny interiors, which tell another story. A more aggressive story. Probably a story from a decade that has passed. Fancy a grand piano and a sunken dance floor? A pool table and fully stocked bar in a basement den of debauchery? A black- and red-tiled hot tub, sauna, and steam room set-up? Mirrored walls galore? All of the above can be yours—for a mere $1.69 million.
From the
Queens Gazette:
Residents and pianists of Astoria were greeted with a disturbing sight on Saturday, June 26 at Athens Square Park upon the discovery that one of the pianos placed last week by the organization Sing For Hope had been completely destroyed.
“It’s an unfortunate event,” Sing For Hope’s Chris Herbert said. “The piano was removed, however, we hope to be able to bring a replacement to Athens Square Park soon.”
On June 21, the pianos were installed in sixty locations across the five boroughs of New York City. Presented by the nonprofit organization Sing For Hope, the program called, “Play Me, I’m Yours” allows New Yorkers from all walks of life and visitors from around the globe to engage in making music right on the city’s streets. In Western and Central Queens, six pianos were placed in neighborhoods with large and multi-cultural populations. The locations include Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Athens Square Park in Astoria, Rufus King Park in Jamaica, Hoffman Playground in Elmhurst and on 37th Avenue in front of the Jackson Heights Post Office.
The badly vandalized piano at Athens Square Park, 30th Street and 30th Avenue, had all of its keys and part of its inner gears removed.
