Revealed: 23-01 41st Avenue, Long Island City
A former gas station north of Queensboro Plaza is set to become condos, and YIMBY has the first rendering of what’s coming to the site at 23-01 41st Avenue in Long Island City.
A former gas station north of Queensboro Plaza is set to become condos, and YIMBY has the first rendering of what’s coming to the site at 23-01 41st Avenue in Long Island City.
Property owner Lingyi Hsia has filed applications for two two-story, two-family houses at 46-36 – 46-38 Bowne Street, in East Flushing. Each will measure 3,119 square feet and their full-floor residential units should average a family-sized 1,040 square feet apiece. Across both houses, there will be four off-street parking spaces, two of which will be enclosed in separate 300-square-foot garages. Xiaohong Zhao’s Queens-based Ameriland Brook is the applicant of record. The 62-foot-wide, 5,938-square-foot lot is currently occupied by a two-story house. Demolition permits were filed in June.
Property owner Chang Lin Xue has filed applications for two four-story, three-unit residential buildings at 40-48 68th Street, in Woodside, located a block from the 69th Street stop on the 7 train. One building will measure 5,515 square feet, while the other will measure 5,749 square feet. In each, there will be full-floor units on the ground and second floors, followed by a single unit on the third and fourth floors. Across both buildings, the apartments should average a spacious 1,297 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. Xiohong Zhao’s Queens-based Ameriland Brook is the applicant of record. The 40-foot-wide lot is currently occupied by a three-story, multi-family house, and demolition permits were filed for it in February.
Feng Lin, doing business under an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a three-story, three-unit residential building at 136-19 Booth Memorial Avenue, in Queensborough Hill. The building will measure 3,948 square feet, which means the full-floor units will be spacious, averaging 1,316 square feet. Xiaohong Zhao’s Queens-based Ameriland Brook is the applicant of record, and applications were recently filed to demolish an existing 1.5-story single-family home on the site.
Rising prices in Long Island City are increasingly encouraging condominium development among newly-purchased lots, but most projects built on land bought in earlier years are coming to fruition as rentals, including one building just north of the Queensboro Bridge. There,…