Aug. 30, 2016 By Hannah Wulkan
The Queens Motor Inn in Woodside, a hot sheets hotel where rooms are rented by the hour, will be torn down to make way for a new apartment complex next summer.
Owners of the one-star Yelp reviewed motel, located at 64-11 Queens Boulevard, recently accepted an offer to sell the building which will be finalized come spring.
The hotel is known for its low rates, where guests can book a room for $57 for a four hour stay – or get nightly deals for about $100.
The owner of the hotel, Queemo Corp., recently accepted an offer from developer Gadi Ben Hamo, of Woodside-based Mount Sinai Properties. The sale will not be finalized until next spring. The price details were not disclosed.
Ben Hamo filed the permit for demolition yesterday, and the Inn is scheduled to shut down in May 2017, with demolition and construction beginning soon after that, he said.
Ben Hamo said he plans to build an apartment building that will include about 120 rental units, some of which will be classified as affordable.
He said that he won’t break ground on the project until the state legislature resurrects the 421a tax abatement program, which essentially exempts developers/owners from paying property taxes for 10 to 15 years.
The exemption expired in January, causing many developers to abandon or rethink projects that had not yet broken ground.
“If the city wants any kind of affordable apartments they have to work with the developers and make it worthwhile,” said Ben Hamo, explaining that if the 421a exemption is not reinstated, he will not build and the lot will remain empty.
Mount Sinai Properties also owns and hopes to develop the property at 72-12 Queens Boulevard, which is currently a used car lot. “I think everything on Queens Boulevard will be redeveloped when the tax exemption gets figured out,” Ben Hamo said.
The Queens Motor Inn made headlines last year when two men “bought” a woman and held her there against her will, repeatedly forcing her to have sex with them.
The Inn has also had reports of bedbugs and robberies over the years.
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Damn!!! Another woodside institution down. The place made the neighborhood great. It will be missed.
I agree with Moorehead.
if you want to sit around and eat shrimp butt naked, that’s your business.
I thought you were eating shrimp butt, naked. Punctuation is important.
Is the Woodside Motel next door also a hot sheets hotel?
Hey CD: Get an education then get a job loser.
That’s where I hang out with #blamefoxnews and Angel and David and all the lib dopes.
Sean is on top.
This used to be my playground…This used to be the place I ran to whenever I was in need of a friend…
How much you charge friend ?
again de Bozio is clueless…affordable means 1 person can afford a 1 bedroom with a average full time job
basic sears appliances no luxury anything no pool, weight room, no dishwasher, washer dryers in the basement…
I would be gladly to offer tax abatement’s for a complete building of those apartments, but why do we subsidize anything luxury?
I have only one request. They should save that mini Statue of Liberty and incorporate it into the facade of the new building. It’s vital that we preserve our landmarks.
Good riddance! Hope the construction doesn’t mess with the service road to Queens Bvld going west, that’s how I drive home. Of course there would be room if there wasnt a giant unused bike lane but that’s just fine.
Bart Stone – stop driving then
The bike lane is wider than the car lane, I measured it.
the service road was made narrower to slow you down so people stop crashing into other cars and running over pedestrians.
I LOVE that bike lane. If you see me (red bike, cool-looking helmet, hipster-looking,) toot your horn and I give you a wave.
Just be careful as bike accidents is the number one EMS call in NYC. Just sayin’
this is not true. 911/FDNY doesn’t even release this information, so you clearly just made this up or are believing some rumor.
-old timer But insurance companies do release these numbers.
Are you related to Carlos Danger?
another hourly place gone. where is there another hourly motel in queens besides the one in kew gardens which is just too far. or is there any kind of list of hourly motels/hotels i can go to online?
Doesn’t Bill Clinton stay there when he’s in town?
Anthony Weiner
Area needs to step up the game with better stores for shopping, no more dollar dealz or pawn shops, bring some nice restaurants and shops, hopefully they build a proper commercial building with offices on top and better stores on ground floor.
120 rentals ? The 7 is packed at 6:15am. Good luck with Q60 which ends right off the bridge. People making descions are true limo liberals.
People that can afford new apartments aren’t riding the train at 6:15a.
$57 for a four hour stay, thats why i never used rhis place. Max i need is an hour, im not a cuddler.
My friends Walley And John stayed here during the Magna affair.
Will the Kew Motor Inn be next?
kew motor inn has been one for a long time now
kew motor inn has been a shelter for a long time now –
I banged a lot of hos there!
So you should be in jail for engaging in prostitution.
More apartment for hipsters
Bring it on! I look forward to the influx of new residents and the addition of quality shopping and restaurants.
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160830/long-island-city/7-train-real-estate-boom-rival-hipster-brooklyn-after-l-shutdown-report
our another homeless shelter wait and see
Yeah, look around that part of Queens Blvd- it’s become way too hip for my liking. How could we have missed all the signs?
damn, that was my spot!
you’ll have to come over to my place now.
Where.?
At first I thought this was good, but then he says all that crap about not building until they bring his precious tax benefits back. Does he think Cuomo cares what he thinks? Does he think they are going to bring it back just because he is turning one job site in Queens into a hole in the ground? Why did he even buy it if he can’t afford to build anything without hand-holding by the state?
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This man is prepared to add to our neighborhood’s blight for no reason. Let’s go to his neighborhood and turn all the houses around him into empty lots “until 421a comes back.” Pathetic.
Cuomo wants these to be union jobs
Except I am glad he is pulverizing that site for sexual slavery. And those two men didn’t “buy” a woman. They ENSLAVED her and TORTURED her. They should be in jail for life.
Agreed. The word is RAPE, not “had sex”.
so he’ll either build an eyesore, or create one if the 421a does or does not return….what a cheap schmuck
And a motel with bedbugs that rents in blocks of 4 hours is not a “blight”?
It seems that buying the building at the right time, right price and waiting for the right tax incentives is a smart business decision.
Now lawmakers have to make tax decisions that turn into smart urban planning decisions.
That’s where the people come in. The people need to demand that our lawmakers either grant the tax abatement or come up with a solution that prevents developers from holding on to unused properties too long.
“Now lawmakers have to make tax decisions that turn into smart urban planning decisions.
That’s where the people come in. The people need to demand ….”
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OK, so, this developer buys this land, turns it into a mud pit, and then holds the surrounding neighborhood at ransom, using us as leverage so we have to put pressure on our hopelessly corrupt state government so they create tax incentives so this developer can build another Fedders building? And you think this is an example of the system working? It’s smart business, for sure, but that doesn’t make it good.
-olden days You’re absolutely correct poster “me” is a bit naive. The developers are making pkenty the new game is to socialize all of the expenses and more of the risk just like the banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies do. The gullible person posting under the handle “me” would be the first to condemn an individual as a deadbeat or as a person looking for a govt handout for doing the very same thing this property owner plans to do. Imbeciles like “me” are even stupid enough to cheer it on. “Me” doesn’t realize in a consumer driven market economy everyone needs to make money not just the big players. “Me” you’re a gullible fool who believes you have the answers in other words you’re a sucker.
I think you know too much.!