OuterB on Queens Real Estate

Curbed highlighted the following ad by MPC Properties (one of our advertisers) this week:

Illustrating how you get more bang for your buck here in Queens.

Jackson Heights is a great neighborhood, and in the words of one of the commenters on Flickr, “1/2 the price for twice the value, twice the quiet and fives times as many trains.” Jackson Heights also has the plus of amazing food, beautiful gardens and architecture in the historical district, and a nice mix of cultures. Plus the subway stations are in a good location, and when heading to the city you arrive in Midtown, which is more centrally located for what most people want to do (it’s just as easy to get downtown as it is uptown from midtown, she says, stating the obvious). Plus, we don’t have to deal with the pain in the ass train that is the L.

Related:
Billy Burg, Meet Jack Heights. Really. [Curbed]
More Park. Less Slope [previously on OuterB]

Photo credit: bondidwhat on Flickr

Queens leads the pack in calls to Comptroller William Thompson’s Foreclosure Prevention Helpline. Established in April of this year, it links callers with certified counselors at the US Department of Housing and Urban and Development. According to the Staten Island Advance, “callers [are] people often struggling to pay high-interest, subprime loans. Subprime loans are fueling a surge in foreclosures on a national and local level.”

Borough breakdown of calls is as follows:

1,150 calls total
45% (518 queries) from Queens
32% (366 calls) from Brooklyn
15% (175 calls) from Staten Island
7% (80 calls) from the Bronx
1% (11 calls) from Manhattan

There have been calls from out of state, too.

Related:
15 percent of callers to foreclosure helpline were from the Island [Staten Island Advance]
NYC, Get Ready for Heaps of Foreclosures [previously on OuterB]

AMNY’s article today on East River redevelopment has two titles - “New life pouring into the waterfront” and the bombastic headline from the front page “From industrial shoreline to ‘East Riviera.’”

The article talks about projects on both sides of the river, Manhattan and Brooklyn, but somehow misses Long Island City. The photos that accompany the article, though, tell another story. Take a gander at them for an eyeful of LIC skyscrapers (plus the UN).

• New life pouring into the waterfront [AMNY]
• QueensWest Discussion

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Here’s a shout-out to the new Brooklyn Record blog from the same fella who does Brownstoner. Best of luck to the new site, which covers restaurants, shopping, news, politics, and more. (Looks like the Brownstoner has inc’d up to Brownstoner Media.)

• Brooklyn Record - A Daily Dose of Brooklyn

Jackson Heights real estate specialist Michael Carfagna (MPC Properties) killed me with the ads he’s been running in Park Slope. (Full disclosure - I will be helping with the MPC website later this year.) I don’t know of any other broker in Queens with as much originality or chutzpah.

More Park refers to the many classic Jackson Heights co-ops that have large, private gardens. Less Slope (I’m guessing) is a shot at Brooklyn real estate prices, which have risen much faster than the rate in Jackson Heights.

Carfagna says that almost 80% of his new business is from Brooklyn. It was a no-brainer to advertise in Park Slope and other neighborhoods. It makes sense to compare the two neighborhoods. Jackson Heights has that urban feel of Brooklyn, and the architecture in the historic district is great, some of the best in Queens.

Has anyone seen these ads in action? Have they played well? I don’t think they’re running still.

• More Park, Less Slope Ad (MPC Properties)
• More -Michelle Beaudoin - another realtor specializing in Jackson Heights co-ops
• More - Jackson Heights - Neighborhood Profile [About.com]