Astoria community board approves controversial street plan
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Queens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to support a controversial redesign of a busy Astoria strip.
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Community Boards give OK to OneLIC – with several conditions
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Queens Community Boards 1 and 2 both voted in favor of the city’s latest attempt to rezone and rework Long Island City last week, but both did so with a host of suggestions for the city on what needs to be included in the final product.
Read More‘Overburdened’: Two neighborhoods in Queens bear brunt of new asylum seeker shelters
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Two neighborhoods in Queens are home to a large percentage of the city’s migrant shelters and while locals say they are happy to help amid the crisis, they also want the city and other neighborhoods to step up.
Read MoreBuds and bureaucracy: Legal pot seller convinces community board to green light new shop
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Want to open a pot shop in Queens? Well, you’ll have to go through the community board first.
Read MoreIn-NO-vation QNS: Massive development in Astoria voted down by local community board
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The local Astoria community board denied developers’ request to reshape five-city blocks in the neighborhood, known as Innovation QNS, on Tuesday. The meeting was tense, as was the rally that saw supporters and opponents of the project clash face-to-face beforehand.
Read MoreInnovation QNS rejected by local land use committee
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The first of many votes to come on the massive Innovation QNS project slated for Astoria did not go developers’ way Wednesday.
Read MoreCommunity split over Innovation QNS
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The first official public hearing on Innovation QNS, a massive, multi-block development slated for Astoria, brought out mixed opinions from local residents. While most said they were against the project, nearly just as many voiced their support.
Read MoreInnovation QNS faces first community board hurdle
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The developers behind Innovation QNS began the city’s land use review process in earnest Wednesday night, presenting its most concrete plan for the massive five-block development in Astoria to this point.
Read MoreInnovation QNS begins city’s review process
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The developers behind Innovation QNS, a massive, multi-block development planned in Astoria, moved this week to officially subject the project to the city’s review process.
Read MoreAction! Community board approves De Niro’s LIC film studio
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“We’re particularly excited about the potential of this project happening in New York City, which is a city that we love and care a lot about.”
Read MoreDistricting quirk means Queens has key role in final Close Rikers plan
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A quirk of community districting gives Queens outsized influence on the final closure of the nine isolated and outdated jails on Rikers.
Read MoreNew Ditmars Boulevard theater may accelerate Astoria gentrification, residents say
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“Homeowners do not want their quality of life to change.”
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