NY Times: Affordable and Reliable, Queens Real Estate Ascends (New York: 2014, apartment)
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Elmhurst where Continental Park and The Elm are located will get a big boost when the proposed LIRR station is opened - homeless shelter notwithstanding.
There's a massive amount of construction in LIC and Astoria visible from the 7 and the N elevated trains. Even in Jackson Heights, new buildings are popping up.
LIC is in rapid development and it will get major developments in retail as the construction projects already underway finish.
Further on out in Queens, the Rockaways will continue to get more development as that is the longest stretch of beach in NYC.
There's a massive amount of construction in LIC and Astoria visible from the 7 and the N elevated trains. Even in Jackson Heights, new buildings are popping up.
LIC is in rapid development and it will get major developments in retail as the construction projects already underway finish.
Further on out in Queens, the Rockaways will continue to get more development as that is the longest stretch of beach in NYC.
I love that beach, there is great surfing out there.
The logical thing for a city hard pressed for land on which to build new housing to do is to build more land. It can be done, and in a way that erases the social and physical barriers separating Manhattan from Queens. Build coffer damns at the upper and lower ends of the East River. Pump out the water in between. Fill it in with material dredged up elsewhere. PRESTO! New land on which to build the hundreds of 70 story apartment towers needed to accommodate some of the people who want to live here. And they'd be able to do away with all the bridges and tolls connecting Long Island to Manhattan.
The logical thing for a city hard pressed for land on which to build new housing to do is to build more land. It can be done, and in a way that erases the social and physical barriers separating Manhattan from Queens.
Why on earth would anyone want that?
Manhattan has an identity as its own island and it should always be that way.
Manhattan has an identity as its own island and it should always be that way.
Much of lower Manhattan is built on "reclaimed" land. Ever wonder why Wall Street is called its name? That was actually along the shore line at one point and had a wall to signify its boundry, back when New York was New Amsterdam. All the streets to the east of it were eventually built on land that was created.
The logical thing for a city hard pressed for land on which to build new housing to do is to build more land. It can be done, and in a way that erases the social and physical barriers separating Manhattan from Queens. Build coffer damns at the upper and lower ends of the East River. Pump out the water in between. Fill it in with material dredged up elsewhere. PRESTO! New land on which to build the hundreds of 70 story apartment towers needed to accommodate some of the people who want to live here. And they'd be able to do away with all the bridges and tolls connecting Long Island to Manhattan.
What's not to like?
We don't have a housing crisis due to lack of land. I think we have a housing crisis because of overly-liberal economic policies.
The NYC housing market is not allowed to act like a market.
We don't have a housing crisis due to lack of land. I think we have a housing crisis because of overly-liberal economic policies.
The NYC housing market is not allowed to act like a market.
The massive amount of government interference may contribute to the housing mess but really it is market driven. Too many people want to live in NYC and there are only so many square feet to parcel. Too much demand and too little supply.
I agree. We don't need more land, just use what land we do have more efficiently.
Just imagine how many more units could be built if the city just allowed developers to build a few more floors to everything that is being built.
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