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Movie theater to
open in Flushing
A huge, 34,000 square foot movie multiplex will
open in the heart of a new Downtown Flushing
development scheduled to be completed by the end
of the year.
Regal Cinemas has signed a 20-year lease deal
with real estate developers F&T Group and SCG
America to operate within Tangram, a new 1.2 million
square-foot mixed-use development at 135-15
39th Ave.
Tangram’s seven-screen theatre will feature the
latest in groundbreaking cinema technology including
4DX, which allows the audience to connect with
movies through motion vibration, and environmental
eff ects such as wind and rain. Th is will be the fi rst
4DX location in Queens.
Regal will be the fi rst theatre to open in Downtown
Flushing in 30 years. Operations were originally
slated for South Korea-based CJ CGV, which signed
a lease with the developers last year before both sides
mutually agreed to part ways.
F&T’s current projects in Flushing include
330,000-square foot, mixed-use development at One
Fulton Square, and Flushing Commons — a formerly
city-owned 5.5 acre parking structure being redeveloped
into 1.8 million square feet of residences,
offi ce space, new retail opportunities, community
facility space, parking and an open air plaza.
In addition to the movie theater, Tangram will
include more than 324 luxury residences, 48 offi ce
condos, a four-star branded lifestyle hotel, 275,000
square feet of retail space with a food hall, beer garden,
and high fashion shopping comprising of an
array of exciting international and domestic brands.
Carlotta Mohamed
Big sewer job starts
in Qns. Village
Parts of Queens Village in the area of Hollis
Avenue will soon have updated sanitary and storm
sewers.
Th e Department of Design and Construction
(DDC) announced that sewer installation will begin
this month and is expected to be completed by summer
2021.
According to the DDC, construction will take
place from Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
but they added that some work might be completed
during nights and weekends with notice given to
the community. Hours of operation on Saturdays
and Sunday will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and nighttime
work
Th e city agency plans to install new storm and
sanitary sewers, replace distribution water mains,
manholes, chambers and catch basins and plant
trees in designated areas.
Th e list of aff ected areas are as follows:
• 204th Street between Hollis Avenue and 112th
Avenue
• 205th Street between Hollis Avenue and 112th
Avenue
• Francis Lewis Boulevard between Hollis Avenue
and 112th Avenue
• 208th Street between Hollis Avenue and 112th
Avenue
• 110th Avenue between 205th Street and Francis
Lewis Boulevard
• 111th Avenue between 204th Street and Colfax
Street
• 112th Avenue between 204th Street and 207th
Street
• 111th Road between 205th Street and Francis
Lewis Boulevard
• 221st Place between 91st Road and 92nd Avenue
Jenna Bagcal
Photo by Jenna Bagcal/THE COURIER
‘IT’S HORRENDOUS!’
Bayside residents rail against street work woes
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
Progress is happening on the sewer
and water main upgrade for Bayside
and Flushing — but some residents
and business owners are feeling the
project’s negative eff ects.
Bayside resident Tony Albasini
said his biggest issue is with the left -
over dirt that accumulates on the
streets.
“It’s horrendous, the dirt; it’s coming
up and there’s a cloud of dust
every day,” said Albasini. “Th ey’re
really not keeping up with the street
cleaning. Th ey had a street sweeper
there but they only work the areas
where they’re actually digging up.
Anything past that is just covered.”
Albasini added that parking is at
a premium now that the work has
started traveling east along 38th
Avenue closer to where he lives.
“We have a bunch of people that
live on those blocks and now they’re
parking down by us and we have to
park a little further away now,” said
Albasini.
“Parking is a pain in the neck and
the meter maids are as good as they
come,” said Mike, the owner of Pete
& Sons Paint and Wallpaper at 36-49
Bell Blvd. “It seems like construction
workers come for a day and then
they disappear for two weeks.”
In May 2018, the Department of
Design and Construction (DDC)
broke ground on the $62.5 million
sewer and water main replacement
project, which is funded by
the Department of Environmental
Protection (DEP). According to
DDC, project construction includes
over seven miles of new water mains,
new storm and sanitary sewers and
80 new fi re hydrants and catch basins.
“New water mains will help to
ensure a reliable supply of high-quality
drinking water while new catch
basins and storm sewers will help to
mitigate fl ooding,” said DDC.
Th e city agency has been working
to install water mains “along 33rd
Avenue from 156th Street to Utopia
Parkway, down Utopia to 37th
Avenue, across 37th to Francis Lewis
Boulevard, and continuing along
38th Avenue until 216th Street.”
Construction for the project was
also planned for small portions of
158th Street, Clearview Expressway
Service Road West and 216th Street.
According to the project’s resident
engineer, Dudley Pierre, distribution
water mains have already
been installed in the following areas
in Bayside:
• 216th Street from 39th Avenue to
38th Avenue
• 38th Avenue from 216th Street to
207th Street
• 39th Avenue from 215th Street to
216th Street
Pierre said that DDC has completed
sanitary sewer work at 38th
Avenue from 215th to 216th streets
and sewer work is currently happening
on 216th from 38th to 40th
avenues. By the end of January or
February, Pierre said that they would
begin installing distribution water
mains on 38th Avenue from 206th
Street to Francis Lewis Boulevard
and sanitary sewer work on 38th
Avenue from 215th Street toward
207th Street.
DCC said that all work is expected
to be completed by 2021.
Mike of Pete and Son’s Paint and
Wallpaper declined to provide his
last name.
Excavator on the corner of 216th Street and 38th Avenue
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