As if you needed another reason to come move to Long Island City. Now Toll Brothers is sweetning up the deal at 5SL, by offering buyers 1 year of living for free at 5th Street Lofts, thats right, no mortgage, no common charges, no real estate taxes, That plus the buyers protection plan, as stated in this email i got last night. I mean people how can you resist now?
Posted By: Eric Benaim
Obama Cookies at Sage - photo by Dan Hallman
So for the past several months there has been construction going on at 4730 Vernon Blvd, No one knew exactly what was going on in there, other then it was a restaurant, Well i think its about time everyone got a peak inside. Testaccio - will be a high end Italian Restaurant focusing on dishes from Rome. Owners Carlo & Paul Bardone along with long time friend Alviero Pirani have partnered with Chef Ivan Beacco - Former Head Chef of Borgo Antico - and have retained the design firm Dizon Collective, to take on this project, mixing both rustic and modern elements, on three levels, seating over 100 people, featuring Brick Oven Pizza, where the Brick Oven was recently shipped to NY from Rome. “This is just what LIC needs, a taste of Manhattan” says the two brothers and owners of the restaurant. The restaurant is scheduled to be open sometime in late August or Early September, But Long Island City will be able to get its first taste of Testaccio
in the Taste of LIC
Happening Tuesday June 9th at the Gantry Plaza - Begining at 6:30pm, Gift certificates will be raffled off…
So if your heading over to the sales office of the View, you can check out the first model of East Coast 3, Rockrose next waterfront rental project. Well actually East Coast 3 & 4 will be developed together with East Coast 3 being the first of the two to be complete, with number 3 following soon after. It will feature somewhere around 42-45 stories and somewhere between 400-500 rental units with a 110,000sqft K-8 Public School at the base. Something LIC can really use.
Stay Tuned for some more exciting LIC news coming up this week…
A while back the city announced that they were moving forward with the Jackson Avenue Beautification project. Jackson Avenue would have these beautiful deviders with Trees, plants & sculptures similar to Park Avenue, the sidewalks would be wider, more trees and pathways would be added in addition to bikelanes, benches and Street Lights, making Jackson Avenue more pedestrian friendly. Well that time has come, things are really picking up and you can now see the changes occuring, i walk to work everyday and i see a new devider being installed or sidewalks being expanded. Along the Court Square area, they have already expanded some parts of the sidewalks by about 2 feet, a new island has been created near Citi Bank and Sovereign Bank, walk up Jackson Avenue and you will see around 30-40 new bases for street lights, they have also started created sidewalk islands for trees as well as a new bus stop along Jackson & Court Square , The deviders are quite nice, there are already three in progress with a couple that is already filled with soil, the first one ironically was constructed along the block of Dutch Kills, (wonder if Sasha had any pull with the city) They have also added an island and trees along the Pulaski Bridge, this along with the 1.5 acre park in Queens Plaza is really changing the profile of this part of town. completion is scheduled to be complete by September 2010… But it looks like the Court Square and Jackson Avenue is about to give Hunters Point a run for there money…
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Well not exactly, the developers of the view are only releasing 30 units for rent. That’s right! Now, you too, can live in a superlux condo without shelling out all the bucks for it…We have been prepping for the relaunch of our blog, but when we got this juicy little story, we couldn’t help but go live with it… Prices range from $2,440 for a 1 bedroom to a three bedrooms for $7,500 per month… And these are No Fee units
. The units at The View are still for sale and still offering 110% money back guarantee. Could this be LIC’s first condo gone rental? Well sort of - the other ones seem to be doing fine. Although there is some chatter of one condo building
that might go rental. We at OuterB will be back with more on that plus other cool stuff that will be happening throughout Queens, Brooklyn and we might even occasionally have some scoop on Money Makin Manhattan as well… stay tuned.
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