OuterB on Queens Real Estate

FRESH MEADOWS

$572,000

64-42 Utopia Parkway, Fresh Meadows, NY

57-year-old brick ranch with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, eat-in kitchen, family room, h/w floors, finished basement, and a 1-car garage. Taxes: $3,500. Asking price: $599,000; on the market for 21 weeks.

Broker: Julia Shildkret

Source: New York Times – 9/15

FOREST HILLS GARDENS

$2,300,000

74 Greenway Terrace, Forest Hills Gardens, NY

Prewar five-bedroom, five-bath Fieldstone townhouse, 3,707 square feet, with custom moldings, hard-wood floors, entry foyer, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, sitting room, eat-in kitchen, butler’s pantry, high ceilings, Jacuzzi, walk-up attic and basement. Also features a private rear garden. Asking price: $2,775,000; on market for three months.

Broker: Terrace Realty

Source: New York Post – 9/14

This weekend, the NY Times ran an article about Jewel Avenue in Fresh Meadows. A four block length of the avenue has received some improvements in the last couple of weeks: preparation for speed bumps, extra stop signs, and room for more bikes, facilitated by the removal of one lane of traffic in each direction.

Why have these improvements been implemented? A teacher from nearby P.S. 200 was killed last December at the intersection of Jewel Avenue and 164th Street. This lead to parents asking the city to make the intersection safer, an intersection that has seen many accidents and near-misses. However, some residents are quite resistant to the improvement plans. They cited the example that buses picking up kids would contribute to backing up traffic.

Maura McCarthy, the Queens borough commissioner of the Transportation Department, sums it up the reasons for the changes this way:

“You must understand, that when a school community such as that of P.S. 200 approaches the department with a petition signed by nearly 150 parents and others proclaiming that ‘Our Children Are in Danger,’ we have no choice but to act.”

Related:
A Road Paved With Good Intentions? [NY Times]
Queens Leaders Fight Safety Fixes for Fatal School Crossing [Streetsblog]

Hooray, it’ll still feel like summer this weekend!

Bayside secret scenic spot [NY Daily News]

Queens [Fresh Meadows] Pedestrian Safety Fixes Move Ahead Despite Opposition. [Streetsblog]

David Oats, president of the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park’s civic association, is pissed about cars parking on the grass, so he’s considering having a picnic on said grassy areas. [NY Daily News]

New York City tops the nationwide list of cities most likely to suffer a hurricane disaster. [Queens Chronicle]

Community Board 11 approved an application to establish more parkland in Udall’s Cove in northeastern Queens. This would help protect wetlands. [Times Ledger]

5SL in LIC has a bunch of units available to see during their open house: #7F, #8F, #5A, #1BN, #4K, #7A, #1AN, #5AN, and more! [NY Times Real Estate Listings]

Photo credit: duluozcats on flickr 

Once again, some in Fresh Meadows, Queens look backwards and away concerning pedestrian and bicycle safety. [Streetsblog]

Save the Elmhust Public Library! [Historic Districts Council Newsstand]

Storm damage in Queens is overlooked. [City Room]

There are ice sculptors in Long Island City. [LICNYC]

Sunnyside Gardens is getting a facelift; too bad the Queens Tribune can’t get some of their facts right. [Historic Districts Council Newsstand]

The 11434 gets new green buses. [The Progressive Southside]

It’s move-in day at 2 Court Square [Long Island City]

Jamaica rezoning - development foes Weprin, Genaro and Avella wish really hard that it wouldn’t happen, but admit it’s inevitable. [Queens Chronicle]

Kevin Walsh took some snaps in LIC, found a lot of old buildings to indicate that LIC isn’t going to hell in a handbasket after all. [Forgotten NY via LICNYC]

Photo credit: Meg Cotner

And since I’ve been gone, more links for you!

Here are some nice maps of new developments in Long Island City, Astoria, Whitestone, Fresh Meadows, and College Point. [StreetEasy]

Photo evidence that Bjork and/or Matthew Barney are in town. Whenever I think of those two, I am reminded of this McSweeney’s gem. [Curbed]

Sleaze Alert: Dennis Gallagher, a Queens Republican, has been charged with rape. Um, eeuw. [City Room]

There are over 22,000 public bridges in NY State. 2,000 of them are “structurally deficient”, which was the designation of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed this week. Three bridges in the city are rated as “poor” by the city, including the bridge at Willow Lake at 76th Road in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. [NY Times]

Mayor Bloomberg signed into law a new anti-graffiti law. [City Room]

Hats off to Chef Darren Lawless of the wonderful Il Bambino, to be the only Astoria restaurant to be included in NY Mag’s 2007 Cheap Eats issue. I can vouch for the deliciousness served here.  Other Queens eats include Burmese Cafe and Frisby in Jackson Heights and Little Pepper in Flushing. [NY Mag]

The trees might be gone at St. Saviour’s, but activists won’t give up on the site. [Times Ledger]

Douglaston House stays in its historic district. [Queens Chronicle]

Forest Hills preservationists are looking for buyers to save two of the century-old townhouses on the East side of 72nd. [NY Daily News]

Queens loves surfers!  Brings me back to my California roots. [nyc.24.us]

ConEd loves Queens… leasing 120,00 square feet of space in Jamaica! [Globe St.]

Apricots are available this weekend at the Sunnyside Farmer’s Market. [City Room]

FRESH MEADOWS

$188,000

196-69 73rd Ave, Fresh Meadows, NY

Two-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 825 square feet, with living/dining room combination, renovated kitchen with dishwasher, wall-to-wall carpeting and covered porch. Maintenance $744. Asking price $199,000, on market eight weeks. Broker: Anthony Carollo, Carollo Real Estate. Source - NY Post 8/24/06

FOREST HILLS $980,000

193 Puritan Ave. Forest Hills, NY 

Attached prewar three-story, four-bedroom, three-bath brick townhouse, 2,052 square feet, with entry vestibule, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, family room, basement, patio, garage and front and back gardens. Asking price $999,000; on market two weeks. (Broker: Terrace Realty) Source: NY Post 9/3/05

FRESH MEADOWS $515,000

196-10 58th Ave, Fresh Meadows, NY 

Four-bedroom, one-bath brick-and-frame Cape on a 50-foot-by-90-foot lot, with dining room, eat-in kitchen and detached garage. Taxes $3,093. Asking price $525,000; on market three weeks. (Broker: Anthony Carollo, Carollo Real Estate) Source: NY Post 9/3/05

FRESH MEADOWS $672,500

61-29 163rd St., Fresh Meadows, NY 

Two-family house on a 4,000-square-foot lot, with one-bedroom, one-bath duplex over two-bedroom, one-bath unit with eat-in kitchen. Property features basement with separate entrance, laundry room, private driveway and two-car garage. Taxes $2,775. Asking price $699,000, on market five weeks. (Broker Anthony Carollo, Carollo Real Estate) Source: NY Post 8/27/05

QUEENS VILLAGE $425,000

89-90 218th Place, Queens Village, NY 

Prewar three-bedroom, two-bath Colonial on a 3,000-square-foot lot, with formal dining room, finished basement, porch, private driveway and one-car garage. Taxes $1,349. Asking price $469,000, on market 25 days. (Broker: Century 21 Laffey Associates) Source: NY Post 8/27/05

HOLLISWOOD $805,000

80-23 192nd St, Holliswood, NY

1-Family Colonial brick house, 3-Bedroom, 1 1/2 baths,  finished basement, 2-car garage, 40×100 lot,  $4,600 taxes, on market 3 weeks, listed at $825,000 (Broker: Goller & Costi Realty)  Source: NY Times 8/26/05

FOREST HILLS, $278,000

102-10 66th Road, Forest Hills, NY

2-Bedroom, 1 bath, 900 sq foot co-op, 24-hour doorman, common roof deck and building pool, on market one week, $995 maintenance (50% tax deductible), listed at $289,000 (Broker: Century 21 Benjamin) Source: NY Times 8/26/05

FRESH MEADOWS, $625,000

164-15 78th Ave, Fresh Meadows, NY

Five-bedroom detached house, high ranch, 2 full baths, finished basement, 1-car garage, whirlpool, 30×100 lot, $2,694 taxes,  15 weeks on market, listed at $679,000 (Broker: )  Source: NY Times, 7/9/05

KEW GARDENS, $1,625,000

48 Beverly Road, Kew Gardens, NY

Five-bedroom detached Mediterranean-style house, 4 1/2 baths, dining room with terrace, 2 fireplaces, finished basement, laundry room, 70×100 lot, $3,172 taxes, 3 weeks on market, listed at $1,369,000 (Broker: Terrace Realty) Source: NY Times, 7/9/05  The house number may be wrong, but Beverly Road is the best part of Kew Gardens, just over a couple blocks from the LIRR station and the shopping strip.

BAYSIDE $135,000

35-07 205th St., Bayside, NY

One-bedroom, one-bath garden co-op, 500 square feet, with washer/dryer and renovated kitchen and bath; building features courtyard. Maintenance $370. Asking price $135,000, on market one day. (Broker: Anthony Carollo, Carollo Real Estate) Source: NY Post, 7/9/05

FLORAL PARK $810,000

27110 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, NY

Two-bedroom, two-bath co-op, 1,700 square feet, with master-bedroom suite with walk-in closets and panoramic views from two balconies. Maintenance $2,056, 55 percent tax-deductible. Asking price $839,000, on market 28 days. (Broker: Linda Rappaport, Greenthal Property Sales at North Shore Towers) Source: NY Post, 7/9/05   North Shore Towers, the home of this condo, is a familiar sight from the Grand Central, and it’s a more interesting place to live than its 1970s facade suggests.