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LaGuardia ready to take off Reconstruction project to bring maligned airport into 21st century By Bill Parry There will be a day when travelers enter LaGuardia Airports’s new Central Terminal, its 1.3 million square feet flooded with natural light and featuring world-class food, beverage and retail options. Then they will be able to walk across dual pedestrian bridges connecting to Concourses A and B spanning active aircraft taxi lanes. It will be the only airport in the world with this kind of pedestrian bridge, where you may stand above the aircraft you are about to fly in.
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That day is coming now that the $4.2 billion LaGuardia Airport reconstruction project got underway June 1. In just 39 months, significant portions of the brand new terminal are scheduled to be open to passengers. “If you look at the airports around the world, it is clear that New York has been left behind, that many of the great international airports are better, more sophisticated than New York’s airports,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “LaGuardia and Kennedy are the front door for New York to the world, LaGuardia especially. It has been unac-
ceptable for a very long period of time.” Cuomo was speaking as workers closed long-term parking at Lot P3. During the summer, the large parking garage in front of the current Central Terminal will be torn down to make way for the new 35-gate Central Terminal B to be built closer to the Grand Central Parkway, which will create more room for an additional two miles of taxiway space. All this, just two years after Vice President Joe Biden said the dilapidated airport was not worthy of New York City.
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“Vice President Biden, God bless him, has a way of speaking frankly and he made that point when he said if you were blindfolded and you landed at LaGuardia Airport, you would think that you landed in a third-world country,” Cuomo said. “Not the most tactful statement, but he made the point and he was right and anyone who has been using LaGuardia for the past 10 or 20 years knows that it is not what it needs to be and it is certainly not of New York quality. So the plan is let’s do it right. Let’s do it from the ground up and let’s build a whole new airport.” 2016
The new Central Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport will feature retail options for the 14.3 million passengers who pass through the airport each Courtesy LaGuardia Gateway Partners year.
Nearly 28.5 million travelers passed through LaGuardia Airport in 2015 and they were subjected to the worst flight delays compared with other major airports in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation In addition, LaGuardia consistently ranks among the worst in the country in terms of cleanliness, according to Conde Nast Traveler. “The redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport is long overdue and I’m thrilled we are finally moving forward on a comprehensive overhaul to bring it into the 21st century with world-class amenities for visitors and New Yorkers alike,” U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights), whose district includes LaGuardia, said. “Not only will it become a better-looking, betterequipped, and more efficient airport, but it will also enhance connectivity for countless travelers.” The first passenger con2016
course is scheduled to be constructed by 2018, followed by the main terminal building in early 2020. The second passenger concourse will be completed by the summer of 2020. The airport will continue to operate throughout the project. A consortium of developers, the LaGuardia Gateway Partnership, entered a 35-year
lease with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey June 1 to build and operate LaGuardia Central Terminal B. It is a public-private partnership that includes finance, design, construction, operation and maintenance with a lease term through 2050. The LGP deal involves six companies—including Skanska, Vantage Airport Group and Meridiam Infrastructure— that officially closed June 1 following a $2.5 billion tax-exempt bond through the Empire State Development Corporation. It is one of the largest bonds of its kind, according to Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority. “The new Terminal B will be a 21st-century facility offering a high level of customer service and amenities,” Foye said. Stewart Steeves, the CEO of LaGuardia Gateway Partners, called the lease a milestone for the project, the broader New York community and the nation. “We are committed to delivering this project on time and within budget, while keeping communities engaged and informed,” Steeves said. “Our focus on delivering a great customer experience is rooted in knowing that an airline terminal is the first and last experience a passenger may have when visiting a city and region.” State Sen. Jose Peralta (DEast Elmhurst) welcomed the project to his district. “I believe this multibillion-dollar project presented
by Gov. Cuomo will finally bring LaGuardia Airport into the 21st century,” Peralta said. “LaGuardia Airport is the first contact millions of tourists have with New York City, and we all know how important first impressions are. In addition to revamping LaGuardia Airport, this project will provide thousands of much-needed jobs for our hardworking families, increase the economic activity and boost tourism.” According to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the project will generate $1.3 billion in wages and $5.2 billion in regional economic activity. “We must ensure that businesses owned by women and minorities are represented, that they are able to receive their piece of the state contracts pie,” Peralta said. “It is important that women and minority business owners become certified as MWBE businesses and apply for New York State Contracts.” Meanwhile, Cuomo was celebrating “shovels in the ground” on another large-scale capital project. “It is exciting and it is a new day for New York,” Cuomo said. “As a Queens boy who was born and raised here, this gives me a special pleasure that Queens is going to get a new airport, but it is really New York’s airport and this is going to be state of the art and it is going to be better than anything out there and it is going to be the airport that New York State deserves.”
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AirTrain proposed from LGA Service would carry riders arriving at Willets Pt’s No. 7, LIRR stops By Bill Parry As the LaGuardia Airport reconstruction project got underway June 1, some groundwork was laid for the proposed AirTrain that would bring travelers to and from Willets Point. At the end of May, the MTA awarded a $7.5 million contract for preliminary engineering work at two stations, which is expected to be completed in a year, to pave the way for major enhancements at both and prepare the MTA to collaborate with the Port Authority as planning for the AirTrain moves forward. The first contract, valued at $4.6 million, is for work at the Long Island Rail Road’s Mets-Willets Point Station and was awarded to STV Inc. The second contract is valued at $2.9 million and deals with the Willets Point Station on the No. 7 subway line. It was awarded to HDR Architecture and Engineering PC. “The preliminary engineering work we’re doing at the two Willets Point stations is the first step in a plan to dramatically enhance both stations,” MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast said. “It will also enable us to be ready to work with the Port Authority as planning for the LaGuardia AirTrain moves forward, which we see as critically important.” The scope of the preliminary work will include plans for lengthening the LIRR station’s platform to accommodate 12-car-long trains for greater service capacity, as well as Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility. For the modernized No. 7 subway station, the prelimi-
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The proposed AirTrain would carry passengers from the Mets-Willets Point Station on the No. 7 to LaGuardia Airport along the Grand Central Parkway.
Andrew Cuomo nary engineering work will set the stage for newly designed mezzanines with state-of-theart electronics and communications, full ADA-compliant accessibility, and improved passenger flow for both events and normal service. In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the $450 million project, whichwould
build the 1.5-mile rail line to run alongside the Grand Central Parkway “so it wouldn’t create an undue burden on any of the neighboring structures.” He said the state had the cash to fund the project from sources, including a $5 billion windfall from settlements with big banks. “You can’t get to LaGuardia by train,” Cuomo said. “That is inexcusable and that is going to change.” It was not known when the construction of the AirTrain would begin, but a spokeswoman from the governor’s office suggested it would start towards the end of the $4.2 billion LaGuardia Airport reconstruction project. “The proposed AirTrain to
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LaGuardia Airport, similar to the existing one for JFK International Airport, will greatly improve access to the airport,” state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said. “The AirTrain will connect passengers and visitors directly with the 7 train line and the LIRR, and it would, hopefully, reduce traffic on the already congested roads and expressways.” A Port Authority survey in 2008 showed that 75 percent of travelers from Manhattan used a taxi or car service to reach LaGuardia Airport while only 16 percent rode buses or shared a van. “This is another step to bring our airport into the new century,” Peralta said.
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Flushing alive with building Major projects transform skyline as boom sweeps downtown area By Madina Toure When John Napolitano, HANAC’s director of community development and planning, was growing up just 2.5 miles from downtown Flushing, the area was going through a new age of growth and renewal spurred by the growth of the Asian community. He said some people feel the growth is happening too quickly. “People want to be clustered together, that’s the nature of cities: any opportunity where you can have interaction with other folks who want to spur new investment, new entrepreneurial opportunities,” Napolitano said. “I think that energy has really built upon the last 30 years of investment
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that really takes stock in the community and the people it seems are committed in the long term to make Flushing grow and continue to expand.” Downtown Flushing has gradually become one of the epicenters of the building boom in New York City. HANAC Inc. and Monadnock Development are working on a proposal to build affordable housing at Municipal Lot 3 at 133-45 41st Ave., which would consist of 231 affordable apartments and a superintendent’s unit, along with 66 units of low-income senior housing. The project would also provide up to 229 parking spaces, which would be 73 more than the current 156 spaces at the lot. Community Board 7 voted
Downtown Flushing has gradually become one of the epicenters of New York City’s building boom. against the proposal in March because a portion of the units would also be allocated to residents living in the coverage areas of Community Boards 3 and 4. But the project has since moved through the ULURP review process and will be voted on by the City Council no later than July 25, Napolitano said. He expects the Council to vote in favor of it as did the City Planning Commission and Borough President Melinda Katz. He said the project will bring much-needed jobs and housing, enhance the commercial corridor of the downtown Flushing marketplace and bring new retail opportunities for small and large merchants. He also said the developers ensured any runoff of water or discharge of systems from the building would not exacerbate ongoing environmental issues in the community, citing Flushing Creek. “We understand the community has a lot of concerns about the unfettered growth of the Flushing community and the community’s capacity to absorb the new growth in a sustainable manner, given all the environmental implica-
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tions with new development in terms of adding to population growth,” he said. Another major project underway in downtown is Flushing Commons, a 1.8-million-square-foot mixed-use development. It will include residential, office, retail, parking and community space. There will be five buildings surrounded by a 1.5-acre, open-air public plaza. The first phase, which includes a 14-story residential condominium building at 138-35 39th Ave. as well as an 11-story office condominium building at 38-18 Union St., was topped off in March. The development, which is 90 percent sold out, will receive its first temporary occupancy certificate for the underground garage this month and the second for the office tower by early November. Michael Meyer, president of F&T Group, one of the project developers, said Flushing Commons was a public-private partnership sponsored by the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg when he first entered office as a way to address longstanding infrastructure and development 2016
needs that had been ignored. “We enjoyed a great deal of industry, political and community support to generate jobs and that was the No. 1 prerogative back then,” Myer said, referring to the economic downturn. “But it’s logical that now when the tables turn and you’re going through an economic boom, then that’s less of an issue and quality-of-life issues rise to the top.” Other projects are also underway. The first phase of SkyView Parc, a condominium located at 40-22 College Point Blvd., which has retail units and 448 condominium units, was completely sold out by 2013. The second phase, known as The Grand, has 805 condominium units. The third and final building, the Grand Three, just topped off this quarter and roughly 5 acres of the 7-acre rooftop park will be complete.
The Century Development Group, founded and headed by George Xu, is looking to build a mixed-use development at 137-61 Northern Blvd. that contains 191 key hotel rooms, 43 condominiums serviced by the hotel, retail and two floors of community facility units. The project is currently in the first phase, which is centered on design, according to Lynn Wei, the company’s marketing director. Although the company’s website states that its expected completion date is 2019, Wei said the completion date is not yet known. Others are already open and operating. The One Fulton Square mixed-use development at 39-16 Prince St. is made up of a 168-room Hyatt Hotel, 22 office units, 19 commercial retail units, 43 luxury residential units as well as restaurants, a bar and lounge and a café.
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The Court Square Section of Long Island City is going vertical with Rockrose Development Corp. leading the way with four residential towers. Photo by Bill Parry
Court Square: New hot spot
Construction crews erect residential towers on nearly every block By Bill Parry Long Island City’s transformation from a gritty industrial neighborhood to a mixeduse community with sleek waterfront luxury residential high-rises is well into its second decade. On June 2, the city put out a call for developers to finish building Hunters Point South Park, which will contain 5,000 new apartments when completed. At the northern end of Center Boulevard, TF Cornerstone finished its sixth and final residential towers with 2,100 in 2014. Now the focus of the boom has shifted inland to Queens
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Plaza and more specifically the Court Square section, where nearly every block has construction crews at work on new towers. More than 12,000 new apartments will come on line in Court Square within the next five years. Rockrose Development Corp. alone is constructing 2,500 units as part of its $1 billion Court Square project. The 31-story 47-05 Center Boulevard opened in 2007 and in 2013 Rockrose completed and fully leased the 709-unit Linc LIC, at 43-10 Crescent St. And just last month, it topped off The Hayden, an amenities-packed, 50-story, 974-unit residential tower at 43-25 Hunter St., which
will be completed next year. “I used to walk around Court Square and I would see all of these buildings in my mind and now they’re actually going up,” Rockrose President Justin Eghanayan said. “It’s very exciting to see. More apartments will be constructed in Court Square in the next five years than in Downtown Brooklyn, Hudson Yards or any other emerging neighborhood in NYC.” Elghanayan is particularly looking forward to the Eagle Loft project with “superstructure starting soon” at 4322 Queens St. at the edge of the Sunnyside Yards. The former six-story Eagle Electric ware-
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house, built in 1920, will serve as the base of a 54-story tower that will have 790 rental units. “We’re preserving about 80 percent of the existing warehouse mixing the old and the new,” Elghanayan said. “We’re keeping part of the old neighborhood as we build the new neighborhood. We’re keeping the old water tower and we’ll turn the castle turret into a lounge amenities space for the tenants. That’s going to be sweet. It’s going to have loft apartments with 30-foot ceilings. It’s going to be very cool.” In another homage to the old neighborhood, Rockrose owns plenty of small industrial buildings along Jackson Av2016
enue between 43rd Avenue and 44th Drive. “We’re keeping those as retail,” Elghanayan said. “The area offers tremendous opportunities for retailers, especially restaurateurs, in a community that is currently underserved.” Toby’s Estate Coffee has recently signed a deal for 26-25 Jackson Ave. Levante will open a pizza restaurant and lounge with outdoor space at 26-21 Jackson Ave. and a Japanese restaurant will open at 27-24 Jackson Ave. “This area will be super hot for retail within the next decade because of all the subway options that come through here,” Elghanayan said. “But I want really interesting groups, not big chains. I’d like to be curatorial about the retail. My dream is having a bookstore — that would be awesome. That could be the real heart of the neighborhood.” Rockrose isn’t the only developer building towers in Court Square. United Construction filed
plans to build a 984-foot-tall City View Tower, which would be more than 300 feet taller than Citigroup’s One Court Square. City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) has been watching the rise of the towers on frequent trips to City Hall aboard the No. 7 subway line. He can see them looking west on Skillman Avenue near his home in Sunnyside Gardens. “I’m bullish on LIC. It’s become one of the hottest neighborhood in the city,” Van Bramer said. “It’s hot and vibrant. Good things are happening in our parks, our cultural institutions. LIC is booming and it’s successful. Does it create challenges? Well, obviously yes. Infrastructure is something we can’t delay, we need more schools and libraries and parks and we’re doing some great work in those areas.” He said Court Square is particularly attractive because it has additional subway lines as opposed to Hunters Point, which relies solely on the be-
leaguered No. 7 line. “The development in Court Square has put a strain on affordable arts space and performance areas,” Van Bramer said. “LIC is, was and always will be attractive to people because it is a place where artists have thrived and will continue to thrive. Going forward, the city is committed to building more work-live space for artists.” Another issue for Van Bramer is the displacement of small business in Court Square. Higher rents have forced many mom-and-pop operations to move from the neighborhood. Last month, the restaurant Sage Roadhouse closed after 18 years in Court Square. Owner Leslie Nilsson said she was unable to renew her lease. “Leslie is amazing, I love Leslie Nilsson, so I’m sad to see it go, but she will continue to live and work in LIC,” Van Bramer said. “Commercial rents continue to be a concern of mine. That’s why I support the Small Business Jobs Survival Act.”
That bill in the City Council would help protect small businesses and artists in good standing. Meanwhile, Nilsson will continue to operate her Bartleby & Sage catering operation. “I wish them the best of luck. It was a longtime favorite of mine and it’s a shame they had to close up shop,” Court Square Civic Association President and Founder Amadeo Plaza said. “I looked into their catering business when I was planning my wedding.” Plaza started the organization last year to assist small businesses, artists and residents who are feeling the effects of the building boom. “There is some upside to the development because the neighborhood was devoid of life and it does bring serious amenities to the community,” he said. “There’s a lot of new buildings coming on line with a lot of new residents and people are concerned about the stress on the infrastructure and the rising commercial rents.”
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Mayor Bill de Blasio led a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Hallets Photo by Bill Parry Cove megaproject back in February.
Dead tax deal halts projects Expiration of 421-a leaves plans for affordable housing in limbo By Bill Parry Jay Valgora’s legacy is in limbo because of an expired tax abatement. The architect behind the mammoth Hallets Point megaproject thought his grand vision of the East River becoming New York City’s new Central Park was in motion as he stood off to the side at a ground-breaking ceremony in late February. Mayor Bill de Blasio joined a host of elected and community leaders in a warehouse across the street from where construction had already begun on the first phase of the development, a building that will contain 405 apartments, 81 of which are affordable units.
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The $1.5 billion Hallets Point complex, when completed, would consist of 2,400 units, 484 of them affordable, a supermarket, a school, a waterfront esplanade and 68,000 square feet of retail space, breathing economic life into a part of the borough that hadn’t seen any in decades. “I was just watching all of the residents of the Astoria Houses who I had worked with for nearly a decade,” Valgora said. “This community had tremendous support for the project because they had been underserved for so long, especially their great leader, Claudia Conger.” Conger, the president of the Astoria Houses Residents
Association, herself a resident for more than 50 years, told the crowd, “For decades there has been talk of revitalizing and reconnecting this community with the rest of our neighborhood, but those efforts have always fallen short.” As if on cue, the following day the Durst Organization and Lincoln Equities announced the next phase of development would be on hold for the time being: The 421-a tax abatement had expired and made the taxes too expensive to continue. The program provided vital tax abatements to residential developers by eliminating property taxes in exchange for a higher number of below-market-rate apartments. “Building One qualifies for 421-a and is under construction and on schedule,,” Durst Organization spokesman Jordan Barowitz said. “Without 421-a, the rest of the project cannot proceed.” The deal for the developer tax break collapsed after the Real Estate Board of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council failed to reach agreement on prevailing construction wages. The announcement was a crushing blow to the residents of Astoria Houses, the NYCHA campus
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that had so much to gain with jobs, retail options and a better place to live. Residents were to have rental preference for 50 percent of all the affordable housing units. It was also a crushing blow for the de Blasio administration. The four decade-old tax credit was key to the mayor’s ambitious Housing New York plan, which has already financed more than 40,000 affordable apartments — enough for more than 100,000 New Yorkers. “Until we have a smart, effective tax abatement program that incentivizes the construction of rental housing across market types, we’ll see luxury condos being built in the hottest neighborhoods instead of the mixed-income housing we so badly need,” de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan said. “We are making huge strides in building affordable housing for New York families, and we will continue to do so, but putting a program like 421-a back into our tool box will help us get there faster, and more efficiently. Watching this all unfold is Valgora, an urbanist and city planner who spent the last decade working on the Hallets Point project, as well three other Continued on Page 16 2016
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Affordable Continued from Page 14 projects nearby on the peninsula. “The shortage of affordable housing is the most pressing issue facing the city and I don’t know if the city understands the effect that 421-a’s expiration has had on housing,� Valgora said. “There’s no question that the failure to extend it has put a hindrance on that magnificent project and all other residential projects as well. It’s very disappointing and it is hard to see any end in sight.� Valgora’s vision was to create resilient and sustainable communities along the neglected former industrial waterfronts of New York City connected with ferries and water taxis. Hallets Point was to be the harbinger. “When you look across to Roosevelt Island and you see the buildings rising on the Cornell Tech campus, it’s painful to think that will be the first
The future of the Hallets Cove development remains in limbo. stop on the new Citywide Ferry service next year,� Valgora said. “Professors and students living at Hallets Point just a five-minute ferry ride to work. That’s the prefect world right there.� Valgora is also disappointed because the 100-year-old family-run Durst Organization was making Hallets Point a model for environmentally sustainable residential living. Hallets Point is “off the grid� with three of its own powergeneration facilities as well as a Blackwater reclamation system which recycles wastewater on site.
“Building in New York is very hard for developers, so complex and the risk so high,� Valgora said. “And here you have the Durst Organization, a multi-generational, family-run, long-term New York City developer committed to the highest quality projects like One World Trade. If they can’t go forward with this project without the tax abatement, who can?� 2030 Astoria Developers is in a similar situation with Astoria Cove, another megaproject that Valgora worked on for another underutilzed area on the peninsula. That development would have 1,723
apartments, 27 percent of them affordable. “The Astoria Cove project will bring to this community much-needed infrastructure, housing, retail, jobs, economic development, along with a world-class waterfront esplanade and much-discussed public ferry service to connect this previously isolated neighborhood to the rest of the city,� said John Mavroudis, developer of the Astoria Cove project. “It is an excellent project for the city and the surrounding community. Projects like this were conceived with the 421-a in mind and we rely on its reauthorization in order to move ahead.� Valgora believes politics, like real estate, is cyclical and a solution to the city’s affordable housing crisis must be found. “I’m confident that the whole peninsula will be developed with multiple projects,� he said. “But the delay in extending 421-a is creating a significant drag on development and hindering this from happening anytime soon.�
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Streetcar would link boros Mayor proposes route between tech centers in Queens, Brooklyn By mark hallum Public transit for New York City’s outer boroughs is designed to move commuters to and from Manhattan. The huband-spoke design of the subway system, however, no longer reflects the transportation needs of many New Yorkers, according to Executive Director for Transportation Alternatives Paul Steely-White. Serving on the board of directors for Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, Steely-White works with a variety of advocates to make Mayor Bill de Blasio’s streetcar proposal a reality. The BQX is a plan to create a right of way for an aboveground street car to connect the growing tech centers of Long Island City and downtown Brooklyn. But both boroughs could benefit from the public transportation plan in the coming years in more ways than one. The streetcar proposal links Astoria in the north with Sunset Park in the south, a roughly 16-mile route with a stop every half mile. According to the BQX website, connections with to up to 10 ferry landings, 30 bus routes, 15 subway lines, 116 Citi Bike stations and six LIRR lines would open up. Fares would be the same the same as for a ride on the subway. Some 40,000 public housing residents are currently situated along the prospective corridor, according to SteelyWhite. A north/south streetcar would enable people to seek jobs in places they normally would not consider due to long commutes. The BQX will modernize a concept that ruled the streets
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and public transportation advocates are pushing for the Brooklyn Queens Connector to link commuters between the two boroughs by a north/south route. of New York prior to the construction of the subway and the birth of car culture. Steely-White said streetcar lines throughout the city were torn up in the first half of the 20th century in order to prioritize the use of automobiles. Some critics of the BQX proposal contend the streetcar died for good reason, citing interference from double-parked cars, weather and power outages. But the Transportation Alternative leader said a protected right of way with battery power originating from within the cars themselves makes the detractions obsolete. The main advantage of adding the Brooklyn Queens Connector for Steely-White is that it promotes the idea of a city free of automobiles, which is central to the goals of Transportation Alternatives. The nonprofit advocacy group promotes walking, bicycling and public transportation in the
city. Vision Zero is what the group refers to as the ultimate achievement of eliminating automobile deaths from the streets. “We want the BQX to enhance the bike-ability, walkability along the overall corridor itself,” Steely-White said. The streetcar program is projected to be a $2.5 billion project, and once it is up and running would cost $26 million for maintenance and overhead. Although the BQX is still in the proposal stage, the earliest construction could be expected to break ground would be 2019. At a May public visioning session in Astoria, residents voiced why they were for and against the very expensive project. One former construction worker, Pete Trivias, said buses should be sufficient for a north-south route along the waterfront while shedding the cost and time for construction. “The MTA can be a pain
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Project stalls Mayor halts Flushing West plan By Madina Toure The city’s abrupt decision to withdraw its plans to rezone Flushing West, which would have brought 1,600 units of housing to the downtown area, has drawn mixed reactions from the community. Some say it was a good move due to key infrastructural problems for which the city did not have concrete solutions, while others say it was a missed opportunity for the community. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal sought to clean up and rezone 60 acres on the Flushing waterfront and form a planned community with waterfront access for housing and commercial space. Although State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) was the first elected official to oppose the plan and was joined by state Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing), the project fell apart when Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) asked for it to be withdrawn in a May 27 letter to City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod. Koo cited the ongoing problems with airplane noise from LaGuardia Airport and the need for remediation in Flushing Creek as the key factors motivating his shift in opinion. He alsmo mentioned other issues, such as the proposed development’s proximity to the overcrowded No. 7 train. He said the city could decide to pursue the proposal again in a year or two if tangible solutions are made to fix the problems. “The residents would be very unhappy if they lived there, all these airplanes coming in the morning — it would drive them crazy,” he said. “Flushing Creek is so dirty. I wouldn’t want to stay there for
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10 minutes, let alone 24 hours and every day.” City Planning said it could revisit Flushing West if those issues are resolved. “We agree that it would not be prudent to move forward with a neighborhood planning strategy that cannot adequately achieve these goals,” Weisbrod wrote in a letter to Koo dated May 27. Austin Finan, a City Hall spokesman, echoed similar sentiments. “We are continuing to work with the community to address the important qualityof-life and planning issues that are unique to Flushing,” Finan said. Joe Sweeney, chairman of Community Board 7’s land use committee for Flushing West, said it was a combination of numerous problems that led to the city’s decision. “He (Koo) listened and he listened and listened,” Sweeney said. “This wasn’t just a decision that he made overnight.” Flushing resident Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant, said the project will not see the light of day, at least under the current mayoral administration. “Rather than be embarrassed during the entire ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) process, they withdrew it because they knew it was going to be shot down at the Council and that was going to be the end of it,” Graziano said. He also noted that only 300 apartments would have been affordable. In 2011, the Flushing Willets Point Corona Local Development Corporation received a $1.5 million New York State Brownfield Opportunity Grant
The city put its plan to rezone Flushing West on hold after pushback over quality of life issues. to fund a project seeking to redevelop the Flushing waterfront. City Planning decided to combine the LDC’s project into its housing study of Flushing West. Former Borough President Claire Shulman, the LDC’s head, has been working under the Department of State and with City Planning for several years. She said she hopes Koo’s concerns will be addressed. “Although we are disappointed, the LDC will continue to fulfill its work for the New York State Department of State over the next 10 months to contribute to a roadmap that will include recommendations to improve public access to the waterfront and set the stage for sustainable development along it,” Shulman said in a statement. John Choe, executive director of the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce, said the city has spent more than a year educating and engaging the community and has spent “enormous sums of money” preparing for the proposal. He also noted that the area is slated to become a megablock like the Sky View Parc mall at 40-22 College Point Blvd. as Two Fulton Square, a block away from One Fulton Square at 39-16 Prince St., is currently being constructed. The rezoning would have prevented the megablock structure as well as give the community public access to the Flushing waterfront, he said. “Anyone who says they op-
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pose Flushing West is ignorant about the city development process because it’s these major development projects that provide opportunities to the city for community people to have input into how developments are built and how they interact with the surrounding community,” Choe said. “So right now without a plan, developers are going to be building in Flushing West without any guidelines or framework that the community has negotiated. They’re already building.” Carol McLoughlin of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, a member of the Flushing West Rezoning Community Alliance, said the alliance has mixed feeling about it. She believes the proposal is dead and that there is more to the story than the public knows. The alliance is particularly concerned about affordable housing. Last week, the alliance met with Koo, who suggested sites for affordable housing such as the Bland Houses and Latimer Gardens, two NYCHA developments, and the Flushing Airport. The group will be meeting with City Planning and the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development at the end of the month. “We still want to work on the affordable housing crisis in Flushing without rezoning because there will be no mandatory inclusionary housing if there’s not rezoning,” McLoughlin said. 2016
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Crowded 7 train at capacity New housing proposals pose challenges for vital transit corridor By Larry Penner Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to rezone Flushing West was put on hold for very good reasons. Everyone is aware that the Flushing No. 7 subway has been running at full capacity during rush hour for years. There is no space to accommodate the thousands of new riders that would have been generated by new housing as a result of Flushing West. There are 525,000 weekday passengers, of whom 68,000 are daily riders who enter at the Main Street Flushing Station. Most Main Street-Flushing riders are transferring from the bus to subway. How could New York City Transit accommodate any additional riders without expanding the service? Flushing Main Street is the 12th busiest station citywide with the greatest number of riders of any station outside of Manhattan. With three tracks merging into two tracks between the 33rd Street and Queensboro Plaza stations, there is no space to run any additional rush hour trains. It could easily cost $5 to $10 billion to construct a third track plus a new East River tunnel west of Queensboro Plaza. This is necessary to extend express service into Manhattan. The concept is not feasible either technically or financially. In addition, the existing Corona subway yard, which is already operating at capacity, is adjacent to wetlands and has little space for expansion. Additional trains to provide service for the new Hudson Yards Station have to be stored on layup tracks south of the station. Completion of Communication Based Train Control, followed
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Passengers wait to board an increasingly full train on the No. 7 line.
No. 7 trains rest in the Corona Rail Yard between trips. by implementation in 2017 may only result in increasing the number of trains per hour from 30 to 32 in each direction during rush hour. After that, the cold hard truth is that the MTA no longer has any other opportunity to increase rush hour capacity. The reintroduction this fall of the old W subway line, which ran from Astoria to Whitehall Street in Manhat-
tan, may be good news for some. Perhaps more riders heading for Lower Manhattan may transfer at Queensboro Plaza from the 7 to the W. This might open up standing room for Hunters Point and Long Island City residents attempting to board already packed trains. Ferries serving Hunters Point and Long Island City will provide other transportation options for the thousands of new
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Hunters Point and Long Island City residents. There are other alternatives to explore which could provide options for No. 7 riders. NYCT could reinstate the old Q51 Flushing Express Bus. This route ran along Sanford Avenue starting at Northern Boulevard. Additional express bus service on existing or new routes serving two-fare-zone (bus to subway) communities east and north of Flushing could be created. A new fleet of 100 buses could move 5,000 rush hour riders. Many are not aware of the tremendous capital investments made by the MTA since the 1980s on the No. 7 line, just to maintain existing service. This includes over $8.1 billion by NYCT and $2.5 billion by MTA Capital Construction. Numerous subway stations have been upgraded to a state of good repair, including Flushing Main Street, 74th Street Roosevelt Avenue and Court Square. Several hundred new subway cars have also been 2016
purchased. In the recently approved MTA 2015-2019 Capital Program, funding is provided to upgrade the stations at MetsWillets Point ($48 million), 111th Street ($16 million), 103rd Street ($18 million) and 82nd Street ($22 million) in 2018. Additional stations including 69th Street ($17 million), 61st Street-Woodside ($17 million) and 52nd Street ($18 million) are programmed for 2019. Unfortunately the amount of funding identified to upgrade the Mets-Willets Point station may be insufficient. This improvement requires significant coordination with the future new LaGuardia Air Train and existing Long Island Rail Road Mets-Willets stations. The cost for improvements could easily grow to several hundred million dollars. This is due to Gov. Cuomo’s desire for a seamless transfer for airport riders between the LaGuardia Air Train, No. 7 and LIRR. There is also seed money to look into the possibility of the long-forgotten Flushing Bus Terminal. Construction of a Flushing intermodal bus terminal could facilitate a smoother transfer between bus and subway. A short-term improvement could be construction of bus holding lights at bus stops. This would assist riders transferring from subway to bus when a train arrives several minutes after scheduled bus departures. Missing a bus by a minute or two during off-peak hours is frustrating. In January, all 14 members of the City Council’s Queens Delegation announced their support for the “Commuter Rail Fare Equalization Proposal.� This would allow city residents to pay the same $2.75 fare on the LIRR or Metro North Rail Road as they do on the subway. It could have a significant impact on Queens residents who are already daily LIRR commuters. This holds true for offering the same riders a free transfer from either the LIRR or Metro North to the subway system. Neither the MTA or NYC has identified a source for $100 to $200 million in funding that would be necessary to
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implement this proposal. As a result, this will probably never see the light of day as an option for the 7. Another alternative to the 7 is the LIRR Port Washington branch. Unfortunately, there is little current capacity available to add new rush hour service on this line. This branch provides service in Queens from Little Neck to Woodside. The new Elmhurst Station should be open to the public by 2019. Any significant number of new riders would most likely have to stand. Virtually all existing seats on the current eight Port Washington LIRR Penn Station-bound morning rush hour trains which stop in Queens are full. There will be significant conflicts when the LaGuardia Airtrain is open for service with connections to the MetsWillets Point subway and LIRR stations. Imagine hundreds to several thousand airport travelers with luggage attempting to squeeze in on already packed rush hour trains. Cuomo apparently never considered how this issue will be resolved when contemplating this project. While Cuomo promised that the LaGuardia Airtrain would be up and running within five years or by 2019, this probably will not occur until several years later. Opening the Eastside Access to Grand Central Terminal in 2023 will offer the LIRR ample opportunity to increase the number of rush hour trains. New services on the Port Washington branch could offer thousands of current 7 riders another way to reach Grand Central Terminal, 42nd Street corridor and adjacent neighborhoods. LIRR trains upon arrival at Grand Central Terminal will be able to make a return trip to Great Neck in approximately 30 minutes. Clearly more additional trains will be required to increase the frequency of rush hour service. Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the USDOT Federal Transit Administration.
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Downtown Jamaica on a roll New hotels, retail in planning stage for bustling urban neighborhood By Patrick Donachie After years of protracted conversations about development in downtown Jamaica, many of the players who have been pushing for more robust investment in the neighborhood say change is in the air. “You just plug along, project by project,” City Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest), said. “And five years later, it’s a whole new neighborhood.” About 86,000 pedestrians travel through downtown Jamaica on any given day, while more than 200,000 pass through via the Long Island Railroad and 49,000 people use the subways each day. There are 49 different bus lines. The area connects New York transit riders to John F. Kennedy International Airport via the AirTrain, which 16,000 people use every day. Despite this traffic, business leaders, community members and elected officials contend the downtown often loses revenue to other neighborhoods for a variety of reasons, including a lack of amenities and services. “We’ve been seen as an outer ring or an afterthought, and it’s nice to see that the city has done a few things to start innovation in this space and build out,” Rhonda Binda, the executive director of the Jamaica Center Business Improvement District, said. “We already have the foundation. We already have the bones.” Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has been a proponent of downtown Jamaica development during her tenure. Last year she formed the Jamaica NOW Action Plan. The plan proposes 26 actions to be completed in the next five
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The Crossing at Jamaica Station is one of several new developments planned for downtown Jamaica. years that will spur Jamaica development. One proposed action is to install free Wi-Fi service along the Jamaica corridor, which Katz said would be available this summer. “I think that Jamaica has the infrastructure for expansion and investment,” she said. “Jamaica, Queens, is a hub of culture and tourism and job creation. We want to make sure it was given the tools to provide for the future.” Proposed residential devel-
opments have been announced at an accelerated rate in recent years. The Crossing at Jamaica Station, to be located at the intersection of Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, across the street from the AirTrain/ LIRR station, will contain 580 proposed residential units and three floors of retail space. BRP Companies filed a permit with the city in June 2015 to develop the property. U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica) said the The Crossing was a vital part
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to area development. “It sends the message that Jamaica is building and the opportunities are there,” he said. “I’ve always said we were a transportation hub, but you can’t be a transportation hub without the retail and the development.” There is also increased hotel development in the area. Able Management, a New Jersey-based developer, intends to build a 26-story Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and 94th Avenue, 2016
with completion of construction scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017. A Flushing developer also plans to put up a two Marriott Hotels at the corner of Archer Avenue and 149th Street. The Hilton would contain 210 rooms. while the two Marriotts would contain more than 330 rooms. A residential/retail development originally intended for 168th Street and 90th Avenue was delayed earlier this year. Greater Jamaica Development Corp., an organization created to encourage public and private investment in the neighborhood, owned the land and partnered with Blumenfeld Development Group in 2013 to construct a 160,000-square-foot retail store with a parking garage. In February, Hope Knight, Greater Jamaica Development Corp’s president, announced it was issuing a general request for proposals for the location and that Blumenfeld was no longer the property’s developer. Knight said a number of newly announced residential and retail developments, including a new Burlington Coat Factory at Jamaica Avenue and 160th Street, changed the perspective on what was needed at the 168th Street location. “I still believe we would like to have some retail anchor on that corridor on 168th Street,” she said. “But the urgency is not the same given that other retailers have come.” Meeks said he liked the idea of having a large anchor tenant occupy the space, but
also said there was also an opportunity for mid-size box retail in downtown Jamaica, saying that smaller stores might be more appropriate along Jamaica Avenue. Binda likened the downtown area to a “sleeping giant” of massive untapped potential, despite a dearth of amenities that was being addressed with increased public and private investment. Binda said it would be vital to improve the infrastructure of Jamaica Avenue and ensure that Jamaica’s transportation options benefit residents living and working within the surrounding area, in addition to commuters from Long Island or JFK Airport. “We are four separate transportation hubs that don’t necessarily serve the downtown community to get around the downtown community as we’re expanding,” she said, referring to the corner of 179th Street and Hillside Avenue, the bus station on Merrick Boulevard, the Jamaica Center subway and bus station, and the LIRR station with additional taxis, buses and subways. “We need those amenities from the city that are finally coming here and, in some cases, coming here first.” Katz said the infrastructure inherent to the community made the renewed focus on Jamaica particularly primed for success. “It all fits,” she said. “It’s the right time, the right plan and the right place.”
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Jamaica Bay habitat revived Federal, state and city efforts help to restore dying wetlands By Patrick Donachie New Yorkers who enjoy Jamaica Bay have seen many potential threats to the area’s marshes in decades past, but Dan Mundy, Jr., the head of the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers, said the future was bright despite the challenges of protecting it. “Right now, we feel like the marsh is on an upswing,” he said. Jamaica Bay separates the Rockaways from Brooklyn and Queens and extends for about 20,000 acres. It is a vibrant environmental habitat, and more than 330 bird species have been seen at the bay’s wildlife refuge within the past 25 years, according to the conservancy for the National Parks of New York Harbor. Jamaica Bay’s marsh islands have undergone significant environmental degradation despite federal protection enacted in 1972. Since 1924, the bay has lost approximately 1,400 acres of tidal salt marsh, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps targeted the marshes for restoration, committing $19 million in 2012 to restore some of the endangered islands. The corps also announced last year that it was exploring how to best mitigate potential damage from a future Sandy-like superstorm. The Ecowatchers have also been concerned the effect that John F. Kennedy International Airport has on the marshes, including unsuccessful proposals to construct additional runways on the bay. Until 2012, more than 54,000 pounds of nitrogen per day were being dumped into the bay from the Jamaica Waste-
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Supporters of Jamaica Bay forsee a bright future for the once beleaguered basin. water Treatment Plant, as well as from three other city-owned treatment plants. Mundy said the plants were initially unable to remove nitrogen from wastewater to the detriment of the bay. In 2010, the Ecowatchers, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council and other organizations, filed a federal lawsuit against the city, and the city’s Department of Environmental Protection eventually pledged to commit $187 million to improving the treatment plants. In December 2014, the city announced the DEP had completed $83 million in improvements at Jamaica Wastewater Treatment Plant, which Mundy said had a major effect. “There’s a certain clarity to the water that you see when you put your fishing line down,” he said. “We’re seeing a big increase in the water quality.”
Since the improvements nitrogen levels in the bay have dropped to 25,000 pounds per day from 54,000 — and are continuing to go down. Bay residents are now looking to new projects, including the ambitious proposals for Sunset Cove, located on Broad Channel, the only inhabited island in the bay. Mundy said there would eventually be a boardwalk across the wetlands, an EcoDock for educational excursions and oyster cages that could be maintained by students and residents. The first phase of the project will be funded with $4.85 million from a U.S. Department of the Interior grant, along with $500,000 from Transco Williams, which is installing a pipeline in the area and is offsetting their impact by funding environmental protections and the DEC. The second phase, which will include the
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construction of the boardwalk, will include funding from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York Rising program, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park) and state Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach). This year also saw the release of “Saving Jamaica Bay,” a documentary by filmmakers David Sigal and Dan Hendrick that chronicles the fight to protect the bay from encroaching development and pollutants. The film debuted at this year’s Queens World Film Festival. Mundy noted that the restoration of the wetlands had benefitted from bipartisan support from elected officials. “We’re in pretty polarized times, politically,” he said. “But with Jamaica Bay, whether it’s Democrat or Republican or anywhere in between, everybody sort of gets it.”
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LIC: Where art meets commerce By Kevin Zimmerman While strolling to her gallery space recently, Carolina Peñafiel experienced a slight existential crisis. As she wandered over to 44th Road she noticed a slinky negligee hanging in a nearby building’s window. For a moment she thought she had been transported to old Long Island City before the 50-story glass towers of condominiums sprang up around the neighborhood. “Back in the day you didn’t know what you would see when you turned the corner,” Peñafiel said. “Sometimes you would walk in and there would be strippers hanging out in the hallway.” The strippers and occasional prostitute have moved on and Peñafiel’s venture, Local Visitors browse the work of artist Karen Kettering Dimit as the No. 7 train rolls by the window during a recent LIC Arts Project, has changed addresses Open festival. a couple of times over the past 16 years, but its mission has remained the same: providing of paperwork, including appli- part of her space in the iconic a new location that would also artists with a place to create cations, requests for proposals graffiti mecca for $500 a month. provide space for Local Project, and mission statements that Peters also told Peñafiel that Peñafiel said. and show their work. “She knows what we do to Peñafiel, who moved to were essential in creating and Local Project could do whatever serve the community,” Peñafiel New York from Chile when she running a non-profit organiza- it wanted with the site. This new spot was the first said. “She likes to help. It was was barely out of her teens, and tion. But then she quickly real- time Local Project needed to very generous of her.” Argentinian Sandro Darsin The new location at 11-27 started Local Project in a loft ized living and working in the figure rent into its operating that doubled as living space same place made it hard to do budget, but Peñafiel said it was 44th Road came with a substanimportant not to pass that ex- tial rent increase for Local Projmuch else. back in 2000. ect, but Peñafiel said it also proShe decided to take a break pense onto to the artists. The two recognized Long Things rolled along for vided the best space her group Island City artists want studios from it all. So with Local Project on about four or five years with Lo- has ever inhabited. to make art and galleries to disShe was able to add a couple hiatus she opted to move in with cal Project becoming more enplay it. “Artists always have a her boyfriend in the Bronx. But trenched in the neighborhood of micro-studios in the back for need for a space,” she said. “We after only a few months away and raising money through artists to lease. The spaces are built this community that was from Queens, Peñafiel under- donations and renting out the small, she said, but they come always going. It was a structure stood she needed Local Project space for other art shows and with cheap rent. Peñafiel sees these studios performances. in her life. that formed organically.” But then the building’s as a place for new artists to uti“I missed it so much,” she With no formal art training Peñafiel found herself play- said. “Then a friend of my said owner, Jerry Wolkoff, an- lize while they toil to get their ing the role of part den mother, space was available in the base- nounced the structure was be- name and work out to a larger part museum curator and part ment of the 5Pointz building. It ing torn down so his company audience. Once that happens, Peñafiel said, they can decamp was part of an area of the build- could build condominiums. community organizer. “We got evicted,” Peñafiel from Local Project, allowing Peñafiel discovered she ing rented out by a lady running said. “We never expected that.” someone else to rent the space. had a knack for what she called a factory.” “That is something that Peters, who was also forced Susan Peters offered Local the tedious work of filling in the seemingly endless reams Project a large room that was out of 5Pointz, started to look for Continued on Page 32
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New hotels rise in Fresh Mds. Merchants hope for more business from travelers booked in rooms By Madina Toure Three hotels are on their way to Fresh Meadows in an area that is composed mostly on single-family homes. The Mayflower Business Group of Great Neck is building a 12-story Wyndham hotel at 61-27 186th St. that will consist of 132 condominium units, 39 indoor parking spaces and a rooftop lounge. George Frangoulis, a spokesman for the developer, said the hotel is almost done, with an expected completion date of December 2016. He said the developer is finishing the hotel rooms, installing the furniture and adding the fixtures and that the sewage system is in compliance with the city Department of Buildings and the city Department of Environmental Protection regulations. The project, he said, will be aesthetically beautiful and will blend well with the community and also boost jobs in the area. “It’s going to provide employment to people,” he said. “There’ll be plenty of jobs. There will be two restaurants inside.” And the worst of the project—loud concrete trucks and material deliveries— is over. “That’s all done with,” he said. “We just installed a fiber optic cable line into the hotel. We cut the street open and it’s been closed up. Everything’s been installed, the water line, everything in.” Jim Gallagher, president of the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, still has some reservations about the hotel in a residential neighborhood, but he said
Art Continued from Page 30 is happening right now,” Peñafiel said. “There is an artist who is moving out now that she has grown her network.” And while development has helped bumped up rents to within striking distance of Chelsea prices, Peñafiel said there will always be room for artists and glass towers to co-exist in Long Island City.
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Three hotels are coming to Fresh Meadows later this year. merchants were embracing the hotels. Businesses such as Brother’s Pizza at 185-04 Horace Harding Expressway believe the hotels will bring them more business, he said. “I spoke to a number of merchants along the expressway and they’re looking forward to it,” Gallagher said. On the other side of the Long Island Expressway, East West United Realty Development is building Courtyard and Fairfield Inn hotels at 183-15 Horace Harding Expressway. The Courtyard hotel will consist of 123 rooms, while the Fairfield will have 95. The hotels were supposed to be done by the middle of this year but are now scheduled to open around November or December. The developer topped out the build-
ings in February and is now working on the interior finishing, the guest rooms and the lobby. The elevators were completed in August 2015. Eighteen two-family homes were first constructed around the perimeter on Booth Memorial Avenue and 183rd Street. The hotel owners’ project was approved because they put in their foundations before the area received an R2 zoning, exclusively for single-family homes. A spokeswoman for Marriott, the parent of Courtyard and Fairfield, previously said the hotels’ location near Mets Stadium, LaGuardia Airport and universities makes it an appealing spot. “Right now, it’s very good,” a spokesman for East West United Realty Development, said. “Everything is under control.”
She points to Rockrose Development Corp. President Justin Elghanayan as someone who understands the need to maintain the area’s culture spaces. Rockrose provided the LIC Arts Open—an annual event when artists open their studios to the public and makeshift galleries spring up around the area—with space and money after the organizers asked, Peñafiel said. “Developers aren’t all evil,” Peñafiel said.
Many of LIC’s developers receive the greenlight on their plans after agreeing to include amenities for residents, like schools, retail and even artistic spaces. So if someone is interested in adding a gallery to their building, Peñafiel hopes they think of Local Project first. “We have been here a long time and understand the needs of the community,” she said. “I hope if a developer is going to provide cultural space, they come to us. It would be nice if it was given to locals.”
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Hospitals seek new identity Northshore/LIJ changes name to Northwell to serve all its parts By mark hallum The evolution of North Shore-LIJ Health System to Northwell Health has been years in the making. As the health system has grown through mergers and acquisitions, consumers, employees and affiliates have dealt with confusion over what to call the institution, which has many parts. But at the beginning of 2016, North Shore-LIJ officially emerged with a name that would resonate and form an identity to generate solidarity for the institution. North Shore opened in 1953 on landed donated by publisher and ambassador John Jay Whitney in Manhasset, while Long Island Jewish was established by a group of philanthropists in 1949. In 1992, the North Shore Health System was born. Since then it has grown into the 14thlargest health system in the nation with investment in clinical, educational and research enterprises. Northwell’s services include nursing facilities, rehabilitation programs, home care, hospice services, urgent care, primary care and specialty services on top of hospital care. The real trouble began in 1997 when the merger of North Shore Health System and Long Island Jewish Medical Center led to the creation of North Shore-LIJ. This name change proved to be somewhat bewildering for clients and employees, many of whom were serving at different facilities that still went by their original name. Another issue facing the image of North Shore-LIJ was that the name was not recognized beyond New York City and Long Island. A new name
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North Shore-LIJ health system unites its various medical facilities across the state under one name – Northwell Health. was certainly in order. “We started looking at changing the name of the system eight years ago. People had trouble remembering the exact name of the system,” said chief spokesman Terry Lynam , who pointed out that only two of the 21 hospitals within the system reflected the North Shore-LIJ name. Finding a new name would be no easy task, however. Northwell has more than 100 members on its board of directors and, according to Lynam, each takes pride in how far the health system has come over the years. Reaching a consensus and avoiding trademark issues were obstacles on the road to rebranding. Lynam said the name represents the origins of the
health system by retaining the “North” in North Shore, while having a metaphorical basis. “It is a tip of the hat to the original name. North also reflects that we aim to guide people to better health,” hence the “well,” according to Lynam. But the Long Island Jewish name is not gone forever. The name has recently been added to the Forest Hills Hospital and Valley Stream Hospital in Franklin, L.I. The care provided by Northwell, as well as it name, continues to evolve with times. The different components of the Northwell system consist of in-patient and outpatient care, pediatric care at Cohen Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park and treatment at Zucker Hillside Hospital
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