In Jamaica, once Queens’s pre-eminent downtown, the highest demand for housing is just north and east of downtown Jamaica. Rezonings in the 2000s failed to recognize this, instead downzoning these residential neighborhoods on the periphery…
After years of languishing during and after the recession, new development in downtown Jamaica is finally heating up, with a number of new market-rate projects on the way. YIMBY has already covered two apartment buildings…
In the Richmond Hill section of Queens, just to the east of downtown Jamaica, Maddd Equities is building a three-story commercial building at 115-02 Jamaica Avenue, designed by Aufgang Architects and scheduled to be completed later…
Last month, YIMBY reported that permits were filed for what we thought was the first major market-rate residential project in the core of downtown Jamaica, in eastern Queens, since the area was rezoned in in…
For the nation’s hottest housing market, the number of building permits being handed out in New York City is pathetic. While permits issued in other major U.S. cities have rebounded since the recession, the Wall…
