38real estate STORY OF ONE HUNTERS POINT Like many buildings in Long Island City, One Hunters Point (OHP) condominium, located at 5-49 Borden Avenue, grew out of ashes of industrial parking lots and thanks to the Olympic dreams. Back in the year when New Yorkers dreamt about hosting the 2012 Olympics, Alayo Architects designed a loft style hotel building OCTOBER on site of a former BY DAVID DYNAK garage lot. An excerpt from the company’s website reads: “The building sits opposite the proposed Olympic Village, and takes advantage of the site’s panoramic views across the East River to Manhattan. The building’s design is an interpretation of the traditional loft buildings that have been typically built in the area. The building’s technical challenges include locating the building partially over the Queens Midtown Tunnel and utilizing a steel and plank superstructure.” After our city’s bid for the games failed in July 2005, the entire Hunters Point area’s Olympic dream had to be rethought and repurposed. But the unprecedented amount of rezoning along the East River was in place ARTS EVENTS Calendar Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City Plaxall.com LICProperties.com 2013 MoMA PS1 Noguchi Museum 22-25 Jackson Ave., LIC, NY 11101 718.784.2084 • MoMAPS1.org 9-01 33rd Rd. (at Vernon Boulevard) Long Island City, NY 11106 718.204.7088 • www.noguchi.org Museum of the Moving Image 35 Ave. at 37 St., Astoria, NY 11106 718.777.6800 • www.movingimage.us Image Employment On view September 5–October 7, 2013 Not on view: September 6, 9 (de-installation period); September 15—26 (NY Art Book Fair) Image Employment presents recent moving image works that investigate various modes of contemporary production. The selected works illustrate differing approaches to the subject, from observational films that avoid participation in capitalistic image creation, to videos that engage corporate omnipotence by employing its processes, as well as works that complicate these two tendencies. Mike Kelley On view October 13, 2013–February 2, 2014 MoMA PS1 presents Mike Kelley, the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to-date and the first comprehensive survey since 1993. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions—which he set in relation to relentless self- and social examinations, both dark and delirious. Bringing together over 200 works, from early pieces made during the 1970s through 2012, the exhibition occupies the entire museum. This exhibition marks the biggest exhibition MoMA PS1 has ever organized since its inceptual Rooms exhibition in 1976. Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - Sunday, January 26, 2014 While en route to Japan for his first time since childhood, Isamu Noguchi paid an unexpected visit to Beijing (then called Peking) from July 1930 to January 1931. A fateful encounter with a Japanese businessman and art collector, Sotokichi Katsuizumi (1889-1985), exposed the young artist to Katsuizumi’s small collection of scrolls by the poet, seal carver, and traditional ink painting master Qi Biashi (1864-1957). Noguchi was entranced by what he saw, and asked to be introduced to Qi Baishi whom he observed and studied with. Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - Sunday, January 26, 2014 Space, Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page was developed in a collaboration between The Noguchi Museum and The Ruth Page Foundation, building on a group of drawings Noguchi made of the great American avantgarde dancer and choreographer Ruth Page posing in a sack dress he designed in 1933 to transform her into a dynamic embodiment of his sculpture Miss Expanding Universe (1932). SERIES The Complete Howard Hawks • September 7–November 10 Organized by Chief Curator David Schwartz All films directed by Howard Hawks, unless noted. All titles to be shown on film. Howard Hawks was the quintessential Hollywood director, a master of many genres who moved easily between drama and comedy with a style that was always lucid, energetic, and direct. Hawks worked in relative anonymity until the 1950s and ‘60s, when auteurist critics discerned a directorial signature that gave depth and coherence to his extremely diverse films. In his influential book Howard Hawks (1968), Robin Wood wrote, “If I were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood, I think it would be Rio Bravo. Hawks is at his most completely personal and individual when his work is most firmly traditional: The more established the foundation, the freer he feels to be himself.” See It Big! (September–October, 2013) September 6–October 20 An ongoing series organized by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, and Chief Curator David Schwartz The Museum’s popular ongoing film series See It Big! celebrates the joys of large-scale moviegoing. It provides a chance to discover or revisit essential films in their full theatrical splendor in one of the finest film venues in the country. Great movies transport us into new worlds, and they immerse us visually and aurally. Despite the easy availability of movies on portable devices and small screens, there is only one way to really see a movie: BIG! The Museum always endeavors to show a film in the best available version, whether it is a stunning digital restoration, or a rare screening of a vintage Technicolor 35mm print. Projection formats are noted throughout. Cut Up • June 29–October 14 • In the Amphitheater Gallery Organized by Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media From supercuts to mashups to remixes, Cut Up celebrates the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work, presenting contemporary videos by self-taught editors and emerging artists alongside landmarks of historic and genre-defining reappropriation. OCTOBER 2013 I LIC COURIER I www.queenscourier.com and Simone Development, an office developer from Westchester, purchased the lot and rights to the architectural plans, and built the condominium building we see today. By April 2009 the building was completed. If you compare the original rendering and the finished building, you will notice that that they are not that different. Trade the crest for balconies, change stucco color, remove some glass, add rooftop cabanas, and you’ve got today’s OHP, a 132- unit condo. When I mentioned this property to a broker from Manhattan, who has been commuting from Long Island for the past 20 years, he told me that he used to park his car there, right behind the billboards above the Midtown Tunnel even before the site was offi cially used as a parking lot. “A very nice homeless guy who lived there used to keep an eye on my car for about $20 per month. The area was pretty desolate back then,” he said. I still see a lot of commuters use Borden Avenue’s eight- and 12-hour parking meters as commuter parking during the week. But $20 won’t even buy you one week of parking today and if you want your car watched, you’ll need to park it in a garage for $250 per month, or ask a doorman to keep an eye. Sure the Olympics fi zzled out for NYC and another chance to host them may never come again. But when I sit on our rooftop and watch the seaplanes taking off and landing on the Hudson in between East River Ferries and jet skis on this last week of the epic mild weather, I feel like I am living the dream. Just not the Olympic kind. David Dynak is a real estate broker at First Pioneer Properties and an LIC resident. He’s lived in Western Queens since 1993.
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