Hey, LIC: Feel the Power!

Thursday, January 26, 2006, by Joey

Above is the first rendering we've seen of the big Long Island City development taking over the old Pennsylvania Railroad Power House building, which has been around since 1909. You may recall the controversy surrounding the razing of its iconic smokestacks last spring. We're not seeing any other information on the Karl Fischer website, but if you click on "news" and then "upcoming projects," you'll see a slew of new Williamsburg buildings ripe for your praise/condemnation. On a side note, doesn't removing "Pennsylvania Railroad" from the building's name make it sound like an '80s gay nightclub? Will residents really be able to say "I live in the Power House" without laughing? Developing...
· LIC's Pillars Will Come Tumbling Down [Curbed]
· Karl Fischer Architect [kfarchitect.com]

Filed under Queens: Long Island City, Real Estate Development, Village Voice,

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Is it me or does the Long Island City shoreline going to be a carbon copy of the jersey city/newport skyline buildings?

Here is a new development going up on the Jersey City side which seems strikingly similar.

http://www.insidea.com

By Anonymous at January 26, 2006 9:40 AM

The difference is it that Queens West will be in NY, easy to commute and have a better set of parks.

Jake

By Jake at January 26, 2006 10:16 AM

Actually if you work on Wall St., JC and Newport is the easier commute by far and there's actually nightlife in JC/Hoboken.

And check out the park(s) on the Hudson River in Hoboken for what a park should look like...thye were built about 10x faster than the snails pace that is Queenswest.

Love ya' Jake!

---kyle

By kyle at January 26, 2006 10:25 AM

Unlimited Metrocard vs PATH + Metrocard.

'Nuff said.

By nickv at January 26, 2006 10:29 AM

the PATH takes Metrocards

By me at January 26, 2006 10:31 AM

umm, NYC vs. NJ address...

...priceless

By Mike Q at January 26, 2006 10:52 AM

Wow... a lot of QueensWesters coming over for a little chit chat!

Get back THERE!

Jake

By Jake at January 26, 2006 11:22 AM

Queenswest is a easy cab ride home at 4am vs Jeresy CIty/Hoboken

By shocka at January 26, 2006 12:04 PM

Really, Mike Q, a "NYC" address vs. a NJ address is "priceless"? So then you'd rather live in Staten Island than Jersey City? Look, I'm a Manhattanite, so I've got no dog in this hunt. But to anybody who would move to Queens instead of Jersey for cachet, all I can say is . . . good luck.

By Anon at January 26, 2006 12:05 PM

10.

I have been to Jersey City/ Newport and LIC is nothing like these neighborhoods. LIC has more of a neighborhood feel and the artistic crowd that adds a lot of flavor and culture to the area.

As for Queens having a better address than NJ well if you have never left Manhattan other than to go into LGA then you might be missing out Queens.

BTW I have been to Hoboken and I think it is a great place. I believe that LIC has the potential of being like Hoboken with the added bonus of being in NYC and in the mid-axis of Manhattan which allows easy access to the whole island.

By JRo at January 26, 2006 2:17 PM

11.

What is the big tall building in the back?

By Ian at January 26, 2006 2:34 PM

12.

JRo, the arty crown in Jersey City isn't in Newport (which is all high-rises) its a little farther inland -- Paulus Hook, Van Vorst Park, Hamilton Park, The Cliffs, etc. Arty types live in the brownstone neighborhoods, not the highrises.

Newport is highrises built on former industrial waste/docklands -- just like the highrises being developed in LIC.

Happily/Sadly for me, I live in JC and work in LIC. I known 'em both. Let the pro-Manhattan comments roll....

By moi at January 26, 2006 2:42 PM

13.

Ian,

The one to the left is the Avalon Riverview (South).

Jake

By Jake at January 26, 2006 4:12 PM

14.

The difference is Jersey City and Long Island City is that JC still has the H&M Powerhouse.

By RCSIAprez at January 30, 2006 11:46 AM

15.