4 Long Island City Buildings Face Demolition For Separate Projects

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Four different buildings in separate corners of Long Island City will soon face the wrecking ball to make way for new developments, city records show.

Separate developers filed plans last week to demolish one pair of buildings on 10th Street between 38th and 40th avenues near the Queensbridge Houses; and another pair on 40th Avenue between 29th and 30th streets, near Queens Plaza.

Here's what we know about each project:

38-39, 38-41 10th St.

The Queensbridge site consists of a two-story residential building at 38-39 10th St. and a next-door building at 38-41, also two stories tall. The latter building is currently home to SERVPRO of Long Island City, a water damage cleanup business.

The listed owner is Andrew Zoitas, a developer connected to at least two other projects in the neighborhood. No new construction plans have been filed for the site yet.

The two buildings date to 1901 and 1916, respectively, though both have been altered substantially since they were first built.

29-16, 29-14 40th Ave.

About half a mile to the southeast, meanwhile, developer Roni Benjamini filed plans Friday to tear down the two buildings on the south side of 40th Avenue.

That site includes a two-story commercial building next-door to the Microtel Inn hotel, as well as the brick building wedged next to CubeSmart Self-Storage, which was first built in 1931.

The site will soon be replaced by an 11-story apartment building known as "Thirtieth," according to the website for Benjamini's development company, which says the project will stand cost $60 million to build and span 110,000 square feet. It will contain 103 rental apartments, of which about 30 percent will be designated as affordable, according to the site.

The property has already gone through the state's brownfields program for environmental remediation, according to developers.