A massive project that would upgrade Flushing’s Long Island Rail Road station at Main Street and create new housing units around it is now taking a back seat to higher-priority projects like Flushing Commons, the Macedonia Plaza and Willets Point, city officials told the Daily News. The plan, first proposed by the Flushing Willets Point Corona Local Development Corp. during the fall of 2009, calls for new station elevators and a platform extension, plus housing and commercial space on a parking lot adjacent to the station and currently owned by the city’s Department of Transportation. [more]

The New York Police Department’s 108th precinct has handed over 15 of its roughly 55 Long Island City parking spots to residents of One Hunters Point, the new 12-story condo tower at 549 Borden Avenue, who have complained for months that the cops were taking up more than their fair share of parking. The condo owners, who also recently succeeded in a campaign to lessen the volume of idling Long Island Railroad train engines nearby, petitioned and lobbied Community Board 2 to get the street parking issue on the table. The NYPD hasn’t exactly surrendered the spots, though. — the city has merely agreed to “kicked the can down the street a little,” according to Joseph Conley, chair of Community Board 2. Now, the bright red “no standing” signs that irked those living at One Hunters Point will be located on the west side of Fifth Street.

Flushing’s CUNY Law School is saying goodbye to its cramped Main Street location and moving to 2 Court Square, next to the Citicorp building, in Long Island City. The new location, which is accessible by seven subway lines, the Long Island Railroad and a number of buses, will be a major upgrade for the city’s only public law school. The Flushing campus is accessible by only one public bus, affords limited parking, and is 75,000 square feet smaller. “We’re bursting at the seams in our current facility,” said Michelle Anderson, the law school’s dean. “We’ve been trying to find a new location and building for more than a decade.” The law school plans to relocate in 2011. [NYDN]  [more]