Category Archive for Real Estate NewsQueens 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 »
NY TIMES REAL ESTATE Accessorized With Stroller and Rake JULIE SIMONSON, a research pharmacist whose flat accent reveals her Chicago-area roots, grew up in a forest. Her childhood home was surrounded as far as the eye could see by towering deciduous trees whose names and characteristics she knew so well that she could identify virtually Read More »
Illegal Apartments are Potential Death Threats (Queens Courier) From the barrio to the tree-lined streets of upscale neighborhoods all over Queens, thousands of people live in danger. They live in illegal apartments. In the worst cases, unscrupulous building owners partition off houses into multiple apartments – sometimes as many as eight units in a two-story Read More »
Sunnyside housing prices have dropped between 15% and 20%, while coop prices have remained fairly stable, according to Nilo De la Torre, the owner of Century 21 Sunny Garden Realty, located on 45th Street and Skillman Ave. One family houses in Sunnyside Gardens, which sold for $625,000 18 months ago, are now selling for between Read More »
The Queens Chronicle, By Willow Belden It’s happy hour on a Thursday at Donovan’s Pub. The regulars — mostly gray-haired men who have lived in the area for decades — trickle in, greeting each other with cheerful “hellos” and clustering around the bar in the cozy front room for an afternoon beer. Donovan’s — which Read More »
Welcome Mart, a grocery store located on the corner of Queens Blvd and 44th Street, has shut down. On Thursday, the doors were shuttered and the windows were covered in newspaper. Meanwhile, five employees were informed that they had lost their jobs. The owner had been trying to sell the business for more than a year. Six months ago Read More »
