Long Island City remains in demand!

Another moment in Long Island City, another "trendy" gruesome atrocity:

Brutal kidnapping and torture in Long Island City
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/kidnapping-reminder-long-island-city-gritty-article-1.1745619

“It’s creepy,” said Byrnes, 53, about Long Island City.

I don't understand why LIC is so popular and expensive. There are very limited services in the area and only the #7 train as transportation to Manhattan. Plus, away from the Hunters Point area, it becomes really unattractive. Another mystery of NYC real estate.

kaydee, you're misconstruing LICComm's subject line.

He merely stated that remains in Long Island City are in demand. I can't imagine that could really be the case, given the supply-side of the picture: how so very many remains are produced there each year, the ground being as it is composed of kerosene, PCBs and myriad other industrial chemicals from the past 150 years. The Grim Reaper in vapor form.

And yes they have no services. They have no services today.

Oh, if it isn't Alan "the housing bear" Hart.

So how many people's lives have you ruined by trashing the likes of Williamsburg, Dumbo & LIC over the years? Sucks to be you.

Alan, what's up kemosabe? (safety glasses on), Hello CarolSt ! Been to "LIC reduex" on the water front and must say, I've been impressed. No doubt, with time, a total community with all the trimmings will be present. I'm still put off by the non-rapid transit aspect of the community but the bang for the buck with respect to 'new housing' is evident. Like Alan, I find it hard to ignore the potentially toxic narrative the looms over the eastern shore line of the East River. That being said, the higher up you are, potentially, the less the effect and the relatively non-dynamic street life keeps you off the ground level. All and all it's hard to delineate as to whether alanhart has ruined or saved lives. As a rule, if I'm unsure of the environmental safety associated with a property or an area, my inclination is to play it safe. It might be OK to live on Three Mile Island, own a houseboat on Love Canal or perhaps a dacha in the most beautiful part of Chernobyl but....I'm not doing it.

kaydee, you can't be serious. You must not have visited LIC for the last 5 years.

I think LIC is ok. They have coffee, drug stores, access to Manhattan, headquarters for that airline where Cheetos dust is all over the seats, a couple buildings with really big signs, easy access to the LaGuardia's Marine Air Terminal, free wifi, the G train (not available in Manhattan!), closer to the Mets, US Open, and the World's Fair, boro Prez associated with the Guardian Angels, more languages than Heathrow, Aboutready's parents wouldn't be caught dead there, ... what more could you ask for?

Finally Fieldschester gets something right. As both of my parents were cremated years ago, it's accurate to say they wouldn't be caught dead in LIC.

I have no idea why that happened. Well, I have some idea, but it was not my intention (this time) to pull a Fieldschester and use a different handle.

This early dementia is a bitch.

How's Greenpoint holding up? I hold that toxic waste that Alan Hart talks about from Newton Creek hasn't sipped into your water yet.

Poor thing. You're suffering from memory loss also. If you're addressing me. I'm not in Greenpoint.

Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City, ... wasn't there some person in politics who said that all politics is local, but not the water table, that's part of the shared environment? Tipper Gore? Yes, that's who.

Hey, 10011, where were your parent's ashes spread?

I think she's on vacation again.

LICComment, what do you think about all of the school problems in LIC? Does that pretty much mean parents can't raise a family there and when the hipsters come of age they will be sellers and move out: lots of overhang

LIC isn't really a hipster area. The school crowding is similar to other in demand neighborhoods. I have friends in the UES who tell me how big a problem it is there. It is a huge focus in LIC and the local politicians are pushing the issue hard.

This thread confuses me. Who is about ready to do what? Lord only knows what I was saying last September.

LIC isn't really a hipster area; it's really a dumpster area. It's skyline is dominated by an Eastern Orthodox -style sewage treatment plant. And the only thing its schools need bother with is learning kids how to navigate the healthcare systems.

This is just north of Williamsburg, so more like Northern Orthodox.

It's a construction zone. Every space between the East River and the Sunnyside Yard seems to be under construction if it isn't a newish building. The trees planted in the medians and around Citicorp are changing it. It's very confusing when you're used to being able to see landmarks that are now hidden by highrises

It's the Soviet oligarchs and Arabian princes. They're shoving each other out of the way to live in Long Island City.

No, Alan. I haven't seen any of those, but good chance they're shoving other people out of the Manhattan real estate market. And then there are the tourists............................

Is LIC a full-day tour or a half-day tour? Is the sewage treatment plant extra?

"LIC isn't really a hipster area; it's really a dumpster area. It's skyline is dominated by an Eastern Orthodox -style sewage treatment plant. And the only thing its schools need bother with is learning kids how to navigate the healthcare systems."

I think you are talking about Williamsburg.

"Is LIC a full-day tour or a half-day tour? Is the sewage treatment plant extra? "

I thought it's already been discussed. Cancer rate is Manhattan is 2x higher than LIC. Alan, I would be nervous if i were you.

So new developments are going fro 1,400 psf. Alan was calling for sub 500 back in 2009!!!!
YOU IDIOT!

And btw Allan, how's those co-ops performing in NYC? *ouch!*
Who the hell wants to live in Co-ops in Manhattan anyway? Talk'n about old and stall...

Four posts in a row. Reeks of desperation, like sewage and rotten dreams.

Alan, they stay in the new hotels here (Day's Inn, etc.) and backpack to Manhattan via the subways.

Where is the sewage treatment plant?

Don't we have a sewage plant here in Manhattan? Yet another reason to avoid Bburg/Greenpoint/LIC.

Bburg, great call out on 4 posts in a row!

The sewage treatment plant is REALLY close to LIC. It's in Greenpoint, bordered on the south by Greenpoint Avenue, a quick one-mile stroll from Gantry Plaza State Park. It's actually more obviously visible after they put those goofy domes on top of the pools/tanks. Most of the highrise apartment buildings probably have perfect views of it, but I think the odor has been ...... abated.

These wackos make me laugh. There is a wastewater treatment plant about 2 miles away in Greenpoint. Irrelevant to Hunter's Point or Queens Plaza.

It's about one mile away from Hunter's Point. More like three miles away from Queens Plaza.