Landmark

Newtown, founded in the mid-1600s after its colonists had fled from Native American attacks further west in Maspeth – and building literally a “new town,” mocks NYC’s preservationists, who seemingly prefer to recognize only buildings and artifacts in Manhattan and prefer to lavish designations and titles on buildings in that borough while ignoring the amazing treasures in what…

Preliminary construction work started up at the RKO Keith Theater site, the troubled building recently purchased by JK Equities for $30,000,000. The development company plans to build out condos here, and they told the Queens Chronicle that they were cleared by the LPC and the DOB to obtain a permit for “soft demolition.” The head…