Development du Jour: Casa Vizcaya

1.

one word....YUCK!

2.

Its no Arris Lofts. Thats for sure.

3.

TO #2: Does it make a difference if it is Arris Lofts or not? It is still...Long Island C(Sh)it-y..

WHO WOULD EVER MOVE THERE....

4.

Oooh, a Chase bank...what a luxury! Does the bank come with 8.25% mortgage rates too? Yippy, I can wait forever!!

5.

he ignoramus, i mean number 4.

you do realize that mortgage rates were 13% back in the 80's and people still managed to buy homes and move on with their lives, unlike you seem to be able to do.

i don't think chase would give you an account anyway. you've got to keep a minimum balance. sorry.

btw, to the person on another thread who said they'd rather read about lic than clinton hill, i have one question for you....WHHHHYYYY???

6.

You kinda have to give the pro Long Island City folks a gold star for effort. I mean, Long Island City has been a neighborhood touted as 5 years away from being cool for what now, 10 years?

Queens is Queens. Nothing is changing that anytime soon.

7.

Shit, I'd move to Miami before I bought into that monstrosity- and I hate Florida.

8.

This is what Corcoran Sunshine is marketing now? Please somebody find Louise Sunshine!!!!

9.

#5 wrote: "he ignoramus"...before you start charging people with being ignorant, please check your grammar and/or spelling...IDIOT! And dumbass, I'd love to lend you some cash at 13%...oh wait your credit score is probably 300....so you're the reason for the subprime debacle!

10.

Are my eyes playing tricks on me? The apartment listed is $1.2 million for 1200 sq ft. $1,000 per sq ft in LIC?

11.

#5, rates may have been higher at that time, but prices were no where near as high, especially when compared to the median salaries.

12.

"Queens is Queens. Nothing is changing that anytime soon."

#6, I'm not even sure what this means. Have you been to any neighborhoods in Queens? They are all COMPLETELY different. Forest Hills is not Long Island City is not South Jamaica is not Corona is not Middle Village is not Douglaston is not Ozone Park is not...(I could go on)...

So to say "Queens is Queens" means absolutely nothing.

13.

i hate to break it to you #9, but i own in brooklyn and proud of it.

you on the other hand are seemingly proud of queens and don't own a damn thing.

i don't know which is sadder.

oh, and my fico score last i checked was 820. mortgage rate. 6.1

happy?

14.

#11, just as you say prices were no where near what they were in the 80's i'd argue that mortgage rates are no where near where they were either.

i was pointing out someone crying wolf that the rates had gone up a tad.

you can still get a 30 year fixed for under 7%. and that's still considered terrific, but most of you morons don't know a thing about anything that happened before 2001, so i'm letting you know.

helping out the ignorant is a passion of mine.

15.

anon, please find another passion.

16.

#6 anon.
Maybe not everyone is so obsessed with trying to be 'cool' as you seem to be.
Maybe if you didn't try so hard people might like you. Maybe.

17.

1kPSF for LIC is crazy. The interior finishes look decent enough, but I am sure the quality will be shoddy (like every new development) and the area still sucks.

18.

haha. this is hilarious.

1. anon, you're too old.

2. miami is awesome.

3. i'm a transplant new yorker, have never been to queens and never intend on going to queens.

4. think we can persuade bloomberg to FORCE all hipsters to LIC? they are just a waste of space.

5. it cracks me up whenever i meet an unrealized artistic type, all ages from 20-60. i seriously laugh every time.

19.

"unique atmosphere that satisfies your desires."

that is exactly why the real world makes fun of these broker/architect/marketing losers. man i love this blog!

20.

#13 Sorry to break it to you too....I own in Manhattan not in Queens. Wow, I think I can actually hear your ego being hurt from my last post... Just stop the gibberish.

21.

I heard that you had died toaster. I'm very disappointed to find it's not true.

22.

Go back to your midwestern Piggly Wiggly town.

23.

#5
yes 13% but on 80k not 1mil

not quite the same

24.

Don't argue, because soon we will all be screwed by over population and the collapse of the infrastructure.

25.

I think the NYC real estate bubble has officially jumped the shark. People will be laughing at this kind of pricing in LIC years from now...

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you can't get 6.1% on any mortgage bigger than $417,000, doesn't matter what your credit score is, so good luck buying anthing bigger than a studio with the ultra-cheap money.

27.

NYC is still cheaper than Tokyo.

28.

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE WITH #6....

Hey, they got a Chase Bank in LIC!!! YEEEEES !!!!Civilization came at last!!! Next year they are getting a .99c store...

I cannot believe people buy that sh*t...

29.

nope, just been out of the states the past few months. now i'm BACK! but my affliction for this blog has dwindled. i shall stop in from time to time to appease my immature cravings.

death? a little harsh no? i may have to have my cook whip up some extra ice cream tonight to ease the ill wishes. sadface.

ciao ciao

30.

Ugly building, however compared to Arris, it looks like a beauty.

31.

Actually LIC is pretty nice... there are tons of restaurants there, some which have been there for decades (family owned with amazing service) like Manettas. The beach bar is probably the only outdoor bar RIGHT on the waterfront and there's a Whole Foods going in at the bottom of one of the giant buildings on the waterfront.

People need to get off their high horses and stop letting jealousy or cockiness guide their remarks to people that live in the same damn city. Chill.

32.

Give me his phone #, I'll give him my recipe for Vanilla Oxycontin with rat poison syrup.

33.

This place is a joke. What a dump.

34.

this condo development, like nearly every one i've seen going up in long island city, is a complete and total shitshow.

this wouldn't be allowed in the congo.

35.

I love how people justify horrible $1000 psf barfbags with nearby Whole Foods(es), proximity to the subway and other pathetic reasons. Hi, I'm a multimillionaire who buys based on a supermarket and public transportation. *BARFS*

36.

1 mill for Long island city is alot of money

37.

People will justify just about anything, to be an owner.

38.

#31 here...
I didn't even mention a thing about the building. I was just annoyed with people making comments about the neighborhood being crappy. I happen to think otherwise. I don't live there either. In fact, I live in clinton hill. If you don't like the building, don't live there? I used to think people from Brooklyn were generally open-minded, accepting, and tolerant. That was until I started reading blogs. There are some of the most racist, insensitive, judgemental people on these blogs (gothamist, brownstoner, curbed). Quite sad.

39.

#38 Surprise!!!

40.

What is it about Long Island City posts that generate such invective?

I don't live there and I don't have any desire to live there.

But I can think of a whole hell of a lot of places that would be worse to live, many of which are in Brooklyn and some of which are in Manhattan.

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#31,#38

The lack of ameneties in LIC is still very prominent. I live in Astoria and go there from time to time, it's still a friggin ghost town.

42.

I love non sequesters just as much as the next guy, but how about cooling down the (outside) hate speech a little and actually commenting more on this P.O.S. building, eh?

My bitch ‘n’ moan would be on naming… wildly inappropriate building naming. It’s overpriced-condo-in-a-less-than-upscale-neighborhood-aspirational-making-you-feel-like-you’re-buying-into-the-highlife market-speak bullshit. C’mon, WTF? For any of you pro-Miami folks out there, have you ever been to Vizcaya (which I assume this crap was could have been named after)? Go to WWW dot VIZCAYAMUSEUM dot ORG. Clearly, this building makes me think of an Italianate villa. Hmm, I could be wrong. Maybe it’s named after the translation of Vizcaya that is Biscay, as in Bay of Biscay—that little slice of heaven nestled ‘tween southern France and northern Spain off the Atlantic. I guess I’d just be glad to know my building’s name has more cache than my neighbor’s building’s name.

43.

I agree about the name. I would like to see a condo building called Shame just so I could say "I live in Shame!"

Fusion has the worst name here in LIC. Sounds like an 80s night club. What next? Illusions or Scandals. Or is the latter the real name of View 59?
Actually I take it back. Echelon is so digustingly aspirational it makes me sick.

I would love to see an end to all this stupid naming of Condo Buildings although I guess it has been going on forever. I visited a friend in hospital on the UES on Sunday and passed one called the Berk which, for a Brit, is so unintentionally hilarious.

44.

Nothing is worse than Arris.

45.

#44. Do you mean Arris name (I have no idea where that comes from but it is not offensive) or Arris the building...in which case I think it looks quite lovely and appears to be well constructed. What is your problem with it (and please do not pull out the old chestnuts that LIC is a shithole or that it is overpriced)? As a building what is your objection?

In the interests of disclosure I do not live there but I do live in LIC.

46.

arris is a p.o.s.

period.

and worse yet, those that bought there literally paid twice as much as they should have.

nothing worse than overpriced shit.

47.

above just jealous he mispriced lic and now can't afford to get it, looks like suunyside and further east for you sucker!

48.

i think the gantry is the worst named building in lic

49.

LOL. I think Anonymous is the worst named person in LIC.

50.

Arris, ugly and overpriced. The residents of LIC agree they do not consider Arris part of the community. Too far from Vernon and the water.

51.

Who the hell agrees that the residents of Arris are not part of the community moron?

52.

50, everyone that lives in LIC. (except morons that bought into Arris)

53.

#50: I have to agree. You just dont get the vibe that Arris idiots are part of LIC.

54.

What wrong with sunnyside you dickheads? Better to own a home in Sunnyside than pay 3000 a month rent for a 1 bedroom while you are dreaming about that Manhattan condo you will never own.

55.

Another thread gone to the Arris Love fest. It doesn't get better than this. Never seen so much love for 1 building. I guess everyone who hates it has never been inside and has bar far been priced out. HoLLA!

56.

Perhaps people from Brooklyn slam Queens because people from Manhattan are laughing at them and they need to feel superior to someone.

57.

Damn right, and Queens gets to make fun of the Bronx. We can all laugh in unison at Staten Island.