{"id":2965,"date":"2007-12-06T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/you_want_to_see_fancified_exposed_brick_and_high_ceilings_where_there_is_only_laminate_flooring_whos_got_scoreboard_now.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T16:01:03","slug":"you_want_to_see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/you_want_to_see.html","title":{"rendered":"You Want To See Fancified Exposed Brick And High Ceilings Where There Is Only Laminate Flooring; Who&#8217;s Got Scoreboard Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May Queens never lose its charm. <a href=\"http:\/\/rovinggastronome.com\/mainblog\/2006\/09\/04\/why-astoria-will-never-be-cool-the-eagle-electric-building\/\">A maligned rehab<\/a> earns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/news\/2007\/1205\/features\/048.html\">top honors from the Chamber of Commerce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some people looked at an unused former Eagle Electric Company factory at 19-19 24th Ave., Astoria as nothing more than a derelict shell. Joseph Pistilli, president of Pistilli Realty, saw the building&#8217;s potential. Where there was once an empty shell of a factory now stands a residence boasting 186 spacious co-operative apartments, served by a 24-hour concierge and offering spectacular views of the East River, Astoria Park and the Manhattan skyline, with prices starting in the mid- $200,000 range.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens Chamber of Commerce honors Pistilli&#8217;s perspicacity and drive at its 95th annual Building Awards dinner this year. Pistilli Riverview East is one of seven buildings deemed winners in the Rehab category, sharing the honor with a single-family residence, a bank branch office, a senior adult center, a branch of the Queens Borough Public Library, an MTA subway maintenance shop and car washing facility and the Visitor and Administration Center at the Queens Botanical Garden.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenswest.com\/neighborhood\/discussion\/00012445?b_start=0#00012475\">Laminate flooring<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Queens never lose its charm. A maligned rehab earns top honors from the Chamber of Commerce: Some people looked at an unused former Eagle Electric Company factory at 19-19 24th Ave., Astoria as nothing more than a derelict shell. Joseph Pistilli, president of Pistilli Realty, saw the building&#8217;s potential. Where there was once an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-blatant_localism","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}