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2 More Queens Plaza Hotels: Quality Inn at 39-39 30th St and Verve by Clarion at 40-03 29th St
(post by Dee) As promised, we’re going to document all the new hotels in LIC. Two more on the list: Quality Inn located at 39-39 30th Street and just down the block from the strangely built Holiday Inn, across the street from St. Patrick’s Church, the Verve by Clarion brand. Neither doing too well in [...]
4Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
NIghtclub Eugene Shuts Door after 18 Years at 27 W 24th St
(post by Dee) Club Eugene, located at 27 W 24th Street, entertained NYC for 18 years… It has closed two weeks ago without any hoopla or even much mention, in general media. Most guest list and nightclub info sites, like Velvet Rope, still don’t mention anything. The 17,000 sq ft, 2-story place in now being shopped around to “more neighborhood-friendly” tenants, according [...]
12Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Free Mini Cooper for Leasing 717 Madison Avenue? NYC Retail is Mixed News
(post by Dee) If you help Prudential Douglas Elliman lease 717 Madison Ave, Faith Hope Consolo will give you 2009 Mini Cooper on top of your commission. The building has 1900 sq ft on ground level, another 1900 on 2nd floor and a 600 sq ft basement. It is located on Madison between 63rd and [...]
6Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Steinway St in Astoria Turning Into Vacancy Street
(post by BT) A client of mine received a newsletter today from a local Realtor. Looks like he targeted commercial property owners in western Queens. Interesting notes, surely about retail situation on Steinway Street in Astoria. Here it is:
You can’t help but notice a suddenly massive amount of vacant stores in Astoria on Steinway. But [...]
Illiteracy Rate in America and Ignorance of Property-buying Masses
(post by Dee) The more I think about our financial and real estate woes in America today, the more it hits me that this country’s problems run deeper than just Greenspan’s excessively low interest rates in the late 90s or lack of corporate governance. It’s the failure to keep up with the educational and industrial [...]
22Jan2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Empty Retail Spaces in NoHo – Broadway and Astor Place is Land of K-Mart
(post by Dee) Whatever happened to NoHo?! I went down there the other day and couldn’t help but notice how quiet and dead it was. I had an eerie feeling that the festive, cool, lively spirit has left the neighborhood. Half of the storefronts along Broadway were vacant, and 8th Street was deserted! Besides NYU, [...]
14Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Holiday Inn at 39-05 29th Street in LIC Looks Always Empty
(post by Dee) Drove a number of times by the new Holiday Inn LIC at 39-05 29th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101… it looks like no one ever stays there! It’s open and staffed, all right. But the parking lot and the lobby always look empty. Must be the economy because the access to [...]
8Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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