![]() The trolley cars of the 1950s are long gone, but auto body shops are now mixed in with trendy bars the dusty old Delta Force Army Navy store (owned by Brian Adams, the head technician for the Gruccis, a k a America’s First Family of Fireworks) is a few doors from the new Snob nail salon (No. For instance, a two-bedroom two-bath corner unit with a 174-square-foot balcony at 1 Vernon Jackson is on the market for $899,000, western and southern views included.Īt street level, there’s strong evidence of the strata of time. Availability tends to be scant on Vernon Boulevard, but a renovated 700 square-foot one-bedroom near the intersection with 48th Avenue was recently listed for $1,900 a month. Rents here are about half what they are in Manhattan, according to Eric Benaim, a Queens native who is president of Modern Spaces, a boutique real estate agency focused on Long Island City. Many of the buildings lining the boulevard are clapboard or brick, some date back to the early 1900s, and lots of them house railroad flats, those long, skinny hallmarks of New York City living. 51-02 ) and, yes, a Dunkin’ Donuts, so new the powdered sugar is barely out of the bag. 49-04) a pretty little brick-front florist called fLo rE sta (No. Now there’s everything, including a serious bicycle shop, Spokesman Cycles (No. “In the old days, there was no place to buy an aspirin,” said the Karen Dorsky, director of the Dorsky Gallery over on 45th Avenue. Today, travel the 15-block stretch of Vernon Boulevard from the Long Island Rail Road train yard at Borden Avenue at the southern end to 44th Avenue to the north, and you can see an urban developer’s dream slowly coming true. Progress had moved at a snail’s pace since the late ’90s here in western Queens, but suddenly it has picked up. ![]() “After 6 o’clock, there was almost no one on the street.” Escriout, sweeping his arm toward the trees and benches of Vernon Mall, a small wedge of a park that separates Tournesol (50-12 Vernon Boulevard) from 1 Vernon Jackson, the gleaming new steel-and-glass condominium across the way. “It reminded me of a village in France,” said Mr. ![]()
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