OuterB on Queens Real Estate

Astoria
House: 4 bedroom/3bath
$1,149,000
33-31 29 St.
Sunday September 9, 12-3pm
NY Times listing [Portrait Realty]

East Elmhurst
House: 2 bedroom/1 bath
$619,000
80-02 30th Avenue
Sunday September 9, 1-4pm
NY Times listing [Re/Max]

Flushing
House
$1,300,000
108 -18 69th Road
Sunday September 9, 1-3pm
NY Times listing [Halstead Property]

Long Island City
Condo: 2 bedroom/2 bath
$560,000
4-74 48th Ave, #38F, #38D
Sunday September 9, 11:30am-1pm
NY Times listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]

Rego Park
Co-op: 2 bedroom/1 bath
$209,000
97-11 63 Rd
Sunday September 9, 12-3pm
NY Times listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]

It should warm up by the weekend…perfect for open house hunting! Check out the listings below:

Briarwood/South Jamaica
Co-op: 1 bedroom/1 bath
$230,000
Green Briar, 85-15 Main Street, #10K
Saturday June 16, 12pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [NY Times Web Listing]

East Elmhurst
House: 4 bedroom/3 bath
$589,000
24-27 97th Street
Sunday June 17, 12pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [laffey.com]

Elmhurst
Co-op: 3 bedroom/1.5 bath
$310,000
94-11 60th Avenue, #2J
Sunday June 17, 12pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [Bellmarc]

Flushing
House: 3 bedroom/3 bath
$679,000
189-37 37th Avenue
Saturday June 16, 2pm-4pm
Sunday June 17, 2pm-4pm
NY Times Listing [Century 21]

Woodside
House: 3 bedroom/2.5 bath
$799,000
73-04 41st Avenue
Saturday June 16, 2pm-5pm
Sunday June 17, 2pm-5pm
NY Times Listing [NY Times Web Listing]

Hello, it’s Monday.

This weekend I was in Manhattan (walking around Tudor City, a beautiful old development) and saw LIC from across the river. It’s incredible to see all the tall buildings, with more on the way (you can see new development in the distance in the picture). All those high-rise condos give it a Palm Beach kind of feel. Of course, it hasn’t been that way forever.  A long-time resident describes the area as it used to be, over on the QueensWest board:

I moved here 20 years ago, before there were ANY condos or co-ops, there was no goat cheese, no hummus, no tapas, no thai, no lattes, no bike shop or pet shop, no ATM. The riverfront was a massive trash heap with tons of junked cars and rats. Friends in Manhattan gasped. What WAS the attraction? Blue skies overhead, the promise of seeing the lower half of the skyline ‘in a few years’(and it happened!), my neighbor watching out for my car, giving me basil from her garden, another offering fresh figs from the tree in his yard, calamari at Manducati’s, karaoke night hosted by Spike at the Vernon Cafe was better than the Soprano’s and it was REAL, being less 5 minutes from midtown…then watching people trickle in and figure out that THIS side of the river is where it’s AT.

LIC will continue to grow, whether one likes it or not; it’s been moving forward for years now. It is a great community and has a lot to offer. I wonder if Willets Point, the next new hot spot, will grow high-rise condos like that. Also, having walked around Tudor City, which was a huge development of its time (something like 3,000 units), I marvelled at how beautiful it was - will future people look onto these big buildings in LIC and feel similarly?

Related:
The “right” building to choose [QueensWest]
Tudor City, New York [A View on Cities]

BAYSIDE $745,000

40-31 203rd St, Bayside, NY

Detached three-bedroom, one-plus-bath Colonial on a 40-foot-by-100-foot lot, with formal dining room, eat-in kitchen with granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances, full finished basement with family room, office and laundry room; home features detached two-car garage and private driveway. Taxes $3,604. Asking price $769,000, on market 14 weeks. Broker: Carollo Real Estate

EAST ELMHURST $620,000

27-47 Mcintosh St., East Elmhurst, NY

Prewar four-bedroom, two-bath Colonial on a 3,000-square-foot lot, with two-bedroom, one-bath unit with eat-in kitchen over two-bedroom, one-bath unit with eat-in kitchen; home features washer/dryer and full finished basement. Taxes $1,682. Asking price $569,000, on market 148 days. Brokers: Bernie Rebollar and Marlown Caso, Vision Global Realty

LONG ISLAND CITY $415,000

41-26 27th St, Long Island City, NY

One-bedroom, one-bath condo, 732 square feet, with dining area and hardwood floors; Queens Plaza Condominiums building features part-time doorman, roof deck, gym, laundry, storage and live-in super. Common charges $448, taxes $33. Asking price $425,000, on market two weeks. Broker: Harold Valestin, The Developers Group

Source - NY Post 4/26/07