Category Archive for Real Estate NewsSunnyside Post New York City Planning officials told residents at a community meeting held by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer last week that it is unlikely that developers would build structures more than 8 stories high along the Sunnyside section of Queens Blvd if the zoning proposal went into effect. Under the new zoning proposal, developers Read More »
Sunnyside was reviewed in AMNY this morning. The following is a scan of that article. The quality is not great. CLICK ON FULL SCREEN. For color, go to the “comment section” and click on the PDF . Sunnyside Living
NY Observer Fall in love, start a family, buy a two-bedroom apartment in Sunnyside, Queens—not necessarily in that order. “We’re getting married this year!” said Claudia Salazer, when asked why she was looking at a two-bedroom condo at an open house Sunday at 41-21 42nd Street. Ms. Salazer, with a grin nearly as big as Read More »
The redevelopment of the Key Food property, located on 46th Street between Queens Blvd. and Greenpoint Ave., will not only include the expansion of the existing supermarket but four stories of apartments and office space above. Raide Zahriyeh, the manager of Key Food, said the office and apartment space will not encompass the entire property but rather the space located on the Greenpoint Ave. portion Read More »
An Indian restaurant will be opening on Skillman Ave., between 46th and 47th Street, where Daco Romano – the Romanian bakery – was located. The restaurant, to be called Basmati Table, will be across the street from Quaint and Claret. There is no word on when it will open.
Question from a prospective resident. “Is there a disagreement in Sunnyside as to what’s the better place to live in? I’m looking to rent a house there and individual listings state ‘north of the blvd.’ Is it safer/quieter in the north?” Thoughts, anyone?
NY POST A gutless punk last night was held on $250,000 bail in a merciless attack on an 81-year-old Queens man beaten senseless during a robbery, authorities said. Jesus “Chu Chu” Fernandez, 23, faces up to 25 years if convicted of the April 5 robbery and assault on lifelong Astoria resident Mayer Behmoiras, who suffered Read More »
Woodside ranks 13 out of NY’s 50 “Most livable Neighborhoods”. NY MAGAZINE While its neighbor Sunnyside scores slightly higher in most categories, Woodside has many of the same good things going for it: low crime, good schools, affordability, and diversity (with a population divided nearly equally among whites, Hispanics, and Asians). Thanks to the plethora Read More »
The author of the NY Magazine article, who ranked Sunnyside 3rd, wrote the following on his blog. * Not to encourage gentrification, but if I were buying property as an investment right now, I’d look toward places that are cheap relative to those qualities that take the longest time to upgrade or repair — particularly Read More »
NY MAGAZINE 1) Park Slope 2) Lower East Side 3) Sunnyside Greenpoint Ave. and First Calvary Cemetery to Northern Blvd. (along the census tract), 44th St. and Locust to Van Dam St. Sunnyside is a hidden gem if there ever was one—though its communities of Armenians, Romanians, Indians, Bangladeshis, Chinese, Koreans, Colombians, and Ecuadorans Read More »
Key Food, on 46th Street, is finally getting that long-promised upgrade. On Saturday, workers were erecting scaffolding around the perimeter of the store as the revamp began. The vacant portion of the store will be incorporated into the main section. Store manager, Raide Zahriyeh, said the entire project should be completed by November. He said the interior will be overhauled, Read More »
Queens Gazette Community Board 2 Chairman Joseph Conley said the late February meeting concerning zoning in Sunnyside and Woodside was “just the start of a series of public meetings”, not a decisive moment when a vote of any kind would be taken. The board and the Department of City Planning called the meeting to begin Read More »
If the New York City Planning Dept’s preliminary recommendations for Sunnyside and Woodside go through, be ready for some large buildings to go up on Queens Blvd. when the real estate market picks up. Last week Tom Smith, from City Planning, outlined all the different zones that would apply to the Sunnyside/Woodside neighborhoods at the local United Forties Read More »
Local residents looking to flee Sunnyside in search of a swanky discount-priced Manhattan apartment are likely to be in for a shock. The Manhattan rental market is beginning to firm up again, according to a report released by Miller Samuel, a real estate appraisal firm. The Miller Samuel report is a snap shot of fourth Read More »
From YourNabe.com Vantage Properties, which owns more than 80 buildings in Queens, agreed to pay $1 million to compensate harassed tenants as part of a settlement that state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The settlement comes after Cuomo said at the end of January that he planned to sue Vantage to stop it from Read More »
‘Absolutely elated’ by A.G. probe of landlord BY Daniel Edward Rosen DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 4th 2010, 10:52 AM THE STATE attorney general’s decision to go after one of Queens’ most controversial landlords won’t deter a group of tenants from moving ahead with its own lawsuit, the tenants’ attorney said yesterday. Rob McCreanor, a lawyer Read More »
NY Times State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that he intends to sue a major New York landlord that he says harassed hundreds of tenants in rent-regulated apartments in Queens and Manhattan in a systematic effort to force their departure to create vacancies for higher-paying tenants. The landlord, Vantage Properties, routinely filed eviction Read More »
