A little over three years after Flushing’s $1 billion megaproject broke ground, Flushing Commons is now gearing up to welcome its first set of residents.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission finished the daunting task of clearing out its abundant backlog by voting on 13 sites that have been calendared for landmark consideration since at least 2010.
Housing non-profit Asian Americans for Equality are set to open a large new community and entrepreneurship center in Flushing, Queens that will be located at the corner of College Point Boulevard and 39th Avenue.
The developers have roped in Angelo and Anthony Ng at Architects’ Studio to design the project, which also includes 278,365 square feet of retail, and a 1,500-square-foot community facility, apart from the hotels and the residential towers.
The 2016 US Open is currently underway, bringing the top tennis athletes to New York City as they battle it out for the crown. See photos from the spectacular event as it carries out in the new Grandstand Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona.
If you had ambitions to check out the Queens Museum in the next week or two, you’re going to need to postpone your plans. Heightened security around the US Open is making the museum shut its doors.
A design contest to envision the future of the iconic World's Fair relic yielded more than 250 entrants, but these four proposals—all of which imagine the landmark as a public space—were ultimately the winners.
The retractable roof at the Arthur Ashe stadium was unveiled Tuesday with Billie Jean King herself in attendance. Also present was Jeanne Ashe, the wife of late tennis legend, Arthur Ashe, after whom the stadium is named.
RKO Keith’s Theater has been acquired by Xinyuan Real Estate for $66M. With projects including The Oosten and a forthcoming Hell’s Kitchen tower, Xinyuan has a track record of getting things done, which is promising for the blighted theater site.
A design competition held by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asked people to imagine a new use for Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion, a 1964 World's Fair relic. The proposals range from the practical to the imaginative.
As part of a ten-year, $550 million revamp, dubbed the "Sports Spectacle Vision Plan," of the entire 46-acre campus, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center has received a new stadium.
Flushing West would have created about 1,600 affordable and market-rate apartments in an industrial area between Flushing Creek and the 7 Train terminal, along with new retail and open space.
The parks were chosen after an extensive community engagement effort undertaken by the city's Parks Department. Of the city's 1,700 parks, 690 were submitted by nearby residents for improvements.
Flushing Commons spans a total of 1.8 million square feet. Apart from the two buildings that topped out the project will also include space for retail, parking, and a community center. Construction work on Phase I is expected to wrap by year's end.
Plans once called for the creation of 450 apartments along with a hotel and retail component. The financial crisis in 2008 put an end to all that. The property has also been embroiled in legal controversy in subsequent years.