Queens development sells despite grit

Sky View Parc, a big new Queens development, is being billed as the height of luxury living. But the site sits on a 14-acre former brownfield, next door to the Bland Houses housing project, the Van Wyck Expressway, and Flushing Creek. The 7 train passes by just north of the site, the Long Island Rail Road to the south, and planes flying to and from LaGuardia Airport are often overhead. But that doesn’t worry Muss Development, which plans to totally transform this waterfront site. About 100 residential units have been sold since the building went on the market in February.

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