New playgrounds are also set to open this fall at PS 12, on 72nd St. in Woodside; PS 134 at 109th Ave. and 203rd St. in Hollis; and PS 153, on 60th Lane in Maspeth.

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

Other new buildings nearby include a 40-unit condo building at 10-50 Jackson Avenue, a 38-unit rental building at 11th St and Jackson Avenue and the 43-unit Robert Scarano-designed Vere 26 condo building.

Published by The Real Deal on August 19, 2008.

“The rents are certainly much more attractive than they are in Red Hook, Dumbo or Long Island City,” says Healy, who pays $1,000 a month for her work space. “An artists community is evolving here because artists enjoy being in quiet places, and there are no distractions here.”

Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.

The massive project is on the 24-acre Long Island City land where the Olympic Village would have been built if New York won its bid for the 2012 Olympics. When plans for Hunters Point South were first announced a couple years ago, the city said all of the housing would be set aside for middle-income earners, but it has since changed its vision for the site to allow for the construction of market-rate units.

Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.

Last Wednesday the city held public hearings on three huge land-use plans, but only two of those were widely reported upon: the rezoning of the Lower East Side and the redevelopment of Willets Point. The third hearing concerned Hunters Point South (formerly known as "Queens West") and the development there of 5,000 units of housing, 60 percent of which, according to WNYC, would be set aside for residents who earn between $55,000 and $158,000 a year.

Published by The New York Observer on August 18, 2008.