OuterB on Queens Real Estate

Enjoy the nice weather and check out these open houses:

Bayside
Condo: 3 bedroom/2 bath
$659,000
15-03 Jordan Court
Saturday June 9, 1pm-3pm
Sunday June 10, 1pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]

Forest Hills/Kew Gardens
Condo: 1 bedroom/1 bath
$349,000
The Park Lane Tower, 116-24 Grosvenor Lane, #4E
Saturday June 9, 12pm-2pm
Sunday June 10, 1pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [Park Lane]

Jackson Heights
Co-op: 3 bedroom/2 bath
$560,000
83-10 35th Ave, #3I
Sunday June 10, 1:45pm-3pm
NY Times Listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman]

St. Albans
House: 1920 3 bedroom/2 bath
$439,000
194th St
Saturday June 9, 1pm-4pm
NY Times Listing [Century 21]

Whitestone/Beechurst
House: 3 bedroom/1.5 bath
$845,000
10-10 157th Street
Sunday June 10, 2pm-4pm
NY Times Listing [NY Times Web listing]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Enjoy your Monday off. Here’s what’s up this weekend:

Astoria
Condo: 2 bedroom/1 bath + terrace
$600,000
Saturday May 26, 11am-2pm
Sunday May 27, 11am-2pm
32nd Street near 30th Avenue
NY Times Listing (NYC Connections)

Elmhurst
Townhouse: 5 bedroom/5 bath
$929,000
Saturday May 26, 1:30-4:30pm
54-59 82nd Street
NY Times Listing (Century 21)

Flushing
Condo: 2 bedroom/1.5 bath
$349,000
Saturday May 26, 2-4pm
Sunday May 27, 2-4pm
Roosevelt Avenue
NY Times Listing (Century 21)

Jamaica/Briarwood
House: Jamaica Estates Cape, 2 bedroom/1 bath
$949,000
Sunday, May 27, 2-4pm
[no address provided]
NY Times Listing (Coach Realtors)

St. Albans
House: 3 bedroom/2 bath
$399,000
Sunday May 27, 2-4pm
111-29 205th Street
NY Times Listing (Foxtons)

Time Out New York came up with a list of the 50 best blocks in NYC. LIC’s Hunters Point Historic District got a well-deserved top pick at number 4, and Forest Hills, Astoria, and Sunnyside Gardens made the cut as well. My fave of their choices, though, was the Greystones in Jackson Heights, a block of facing co-ops with limestone facades “set against an overwhelmingly red-brick backdrop.”

But just straight out shocking to me is that Douglas Manor, Ridgewood, Midland Parkway in Jamaica Estates, Rockaway Beach, Kew Gardens, and Addisleigh Park didn’t make the cut. But if it ain’t in Manhattan or Brooklyn, it’s already far off Time Out’s radar. In other words, it’s OuterB.

So what are your favorite blocks in Queens?

• Time Out NY - 50 Best Blocks

• Blackout in Queens - The Second Week [About.com]
• New Queens Waterfront Park…On Newtown Creek [Curbed]
• Bargains in middle-class Maspeth [Real Deal]
• With Scenic Homes and a Rich Heritage, Addisleigh Park Is Thriving [NY Sun]
• Demolishing a Celebrated Wall of Glass at JFK [NY Times]
• Finding the Funds for a 17th-Century Fixer-Upper - Flushing [NY Times]
• Shooting Up - The city’s best huajiao fix found—where else?—in Flushing [Village Voice]
• To the Battlements, and Take Sunscreen: The Joys of Fort Tilden [NY Times]
• Eviction fears in Hollis [Daily News]
• In This Chinatown, Chinese Is Just a Start - Flushing [NY Times]

JAMAICA $435,000

108-18 171st Place, Jamaica, NY — The house is on the edge of St. Albans.

Three-bedroom, 21/2-bath Colonial, 1,500 square feet, with gourmet eat-in kitchen, media room, bamboo floors, California closets, marble bath, Jacuzzi, casement windows, wall-to-wall carpeting, powder room, storage room, walkout basement, through-the-wall AC, fenced yard, alarm, and one-car garage. Taxes $2,716. Asking price $435,000, on market 190 days. Broker: Prudential Rand Realty. Source - NY Post 4/20/06

One-Family Mini-Mansion in South Hollis. $599,900, 195-02 104 Ave, South Hollis, NY. Open House: March 18, and 19, 2006, 1-3 pm. See Craigslist details. Agent - Century 21 Amiable Realty Group, Dennis, 646-842-4060

That’s right — Mini-Mansion, not McMansion. The difference is in the building date and beauty. I’m counting eight bedrooms total, with at least one in a separate apartment. This could either become a dream home for a giant family or become a crazy apartment full of illegal conversion rental apartments. But from the photos, it really should become the home of a giant family.

Jr. 4 Co-op in Rego Park  $235,990 Open House: July 23 & 24 2 to 5 pm. Usually I don’t post open houses without an address, but this one might be worth it.  Ad says there’s a doorman and easy walk to subway.  See Craigslist for more.

Single-Family Attached House in St. Albans  179-44 Selover Rd, St. Albans, NY,  $395,000,  Open House: 7/24/2005  1 to 3 pm. From the map it’s close to the LIRR. See NY Times for more.

Single-Family Detached House in Bellerose, 242-16 90th Avenue, Bellerose, NY, $530,000  Open House:
7/24/2005  2 to 3:30 pm. See NY Times for more.