ModernSpaces In The Press
LICP Holds Breakfast
May 06, 2013This year’s annual real estate breakfast meeting of the Long Island City Partnership had a panel of four developers a...
read moreBroker's Weekly: New Development
May 06, 2013Representatives of TF Cornerstone and Modern Spaces gather at 95 Horatio Street's luxurious quadra-plex penthouse for...
read morePrices for Long Island City’s larger apartments increase, whil...
April 17, 2013Prices for Long Island City apartments were mixed in the first quarter of 2013, with larger units commanding higher p...
read moreThe Bindery condos at Long Island City launch sales
April 17, 2013Sales launched yesterday at the Bindery, a condominium development located at 47-34 11th Street in Long Island City, ...
read moreNew Long Island City Condo the Bindery Launches Sales
April 17, 2013Location: 47-34 11th Street, Hunter's Point
Size: 20 units
Prices: $450,000 to $870,000
Developer: Emmy Homes and ...
West Chelsea ConstructoPorn; Sales Update In Court Square
April 08, 2013COURT SQUARE—Long Island City's microhood of Court Square is really feeling the residential boom... or something. The...
read moreVista condos in Long Island City are half sold
April 08, 2013The 48-unit Vista condominium tower in Long Island City has channeled the energy of the universe, it seems. This full...
read moreModern Spaces Celebrates LIC At The Clock Tower
March 26, 2013The Long Island City leading brokerage, Modern Spaces invited the New York community to celebrate the up and coming d...
read moreModern Spaces celebrates LIC
March 26, 2013Long Island City brokerage, Modern Spaces invited the New York community to celebrate the diversity and charm of the ...
read moreNew Development: High Five as new LIC hits market
March 26, 2013Five27, Long Island City's newest luxury condominium, has brought Modern Spaces on board as the exclusive sales and m...
read moreDone Deals: Queens
March 26, 2013Queens
Long Island City
5-03 50th Ave. #4C
$690,000
Three bedroom, 1-bath loft in the Galaxy condominium. 11 f...
read moreBrooklyn’s New Gentrification Frontiers
March 13, 2013(Page 3 of 3)
“When I started selling there 20 years ago,” he said, “you could get a house for $250,000.” Now, tho...
read moreNew Development: A Full L Haus
March 06, 2013The Stahl Organization announced that L Haus condominium in Long Island City is now 100 percent sold. After taking ov...
read moreFive27, a new luxury condo building, is on its way to LIC
March 06, 2013We’ve caught wind of new luxury condo building in LIC, Five27, thanks to the Modern Spaces folks (who also happen to ...
read moreModern Spaces to market Five27 condo in LIC
February 22, 2013Modern Spaces has been tapped to exclusively market the Five27 condominium in Long Island City, The Real Deal has lea...
read moreDeal for LIC penthouse breaks Queens price record
March 06, 2013An all-cash deal for a penthouse at The View in Long Island City has broken the record for the highest price paid for...
read moreRetail Amenities Still Sparse in LIC's Booming Court Square
February 20, 2013LONG ISLAND CITY — If they build it, will the amenities come?
A housing boom is coming to Court Square in the next...
read moreThanks to Broker Switch, Long Island City's L Haus Sells Out
February 20, 2013Sales at Long Island City's L Haus condominium got off to a slow start, despite the many attempts to lure buyers with...
read moreLIC's L Haus Sells Out
February 20, 2013Long Island City’s L Haus condominium is now sold out — a little more than a year after the Stahl Organization switch...
read moreChange name of Long Island City to LIC, say officials, busines...
February 25, 2013In order to separate from the confusion of being mistaken with Long Island, officials and business leaders are lookin...
read moreDevelopment Updates
February 20, 2013The View
24-hour doorman, concierge, garage, fitness center, billiards room, roof deck and spa. Modern Spaces is t...
read moreBuyers planning a future at LIC condo
February 20, 2013By Caitlin Abdo
Long Island City, a long awaited up-and-coming area, is finally coming up.
The Vista, in C...
Modern Spaces Sees Finish Line
February 04, 2013Modern Spaces, the exclusive sales and marketing team for the luxury condominium The View, together with developer TF...
read moreAstoria Real Estate Market Sees Uptick in Luxury Properties, R...
February 04, 2013ASTORIA — The trend of luxury condos and rental apartments, now largely the norm on the Long Island City waterfront, ...
read moreHousing prices rise in Astoria and Long Island City
February 04, 2013Eric Benaim, president and CEO of the real estate firm Modern Spaces, said rents and real estate prices in Astoria an...
read more“Williamsburg West” submarket commands prices significantly hi...
February 04, 2013Williamsburg West, defined by Modern Spaces in its end-of-year report as the area from Wythe Avenue to the East River...
read moreModern Spaces Continues To Expand, One Project At A Time
January 18, 2013When it comes to real estate, there's no question New York City is one of the most sought-after international address...
read moreTwenty9th Park Madison Sells Out; LIC's The View is 90% Sold
January 18, 2013MURRAY HILL—A press release hit our inbox announcing that Twenty9th Park Madison is now 100 percent sold, but we're a...
read moreSome Buildings Find Buyers Need a Nudge
December 19, 2012WHETHER it’s the best of times, or times are just O.K., could depend on whom you ask.
Some analysts see the recent ...
The start-up generation
December 19, 2012The entrepreneur has had something of a moment lately, with both Presidential campaigns heaping praise on small busin...
read moreLong Island City waterfront real estate may be impacted by Sup...
November 19, 2012Most of the luxury high-rises along the western Queens waterfront didn’t flood or lose power — but they may be the la...
read moreModern Spaces to open first Manhattan office
November 01, 2012The Long Island City-based brokerage Modern Spaces will open its first Manhattan office, The Real Deal has learned. T...
read moreLocal LIC realtor Eric Benaim in The Real Deal
October 11, 2012by megcotner | 10/09/2012 9:30 AM
Local realtor Eric Benaim – president of Modern Spaces (offices in LIC, Astoria, a...
In LIC, Industry condo sells out
October 11, 2012The 75-unit Industry LIC condominium in the Court Square neighborhood of Long Island City has sold out, the property’...
read more16 New Developments Hitting the NYC Market This Fall
October 10, 2012Monday, October 1, 2012, by Sara Polsky
The fall is traditionally a busy time for new developments to hit the market...
Making It Exclusive: Signing With an Agent
October 10, 2012By JIM RENDON
CHOOSING a real estate agent for selling a home may seem simple, but there is much to understand about...
Three-bedrooms in demand as more families come to LIC
October 10, 2012By Cristabelle Tumola
Strollers are becoming a more familiar sight along the Long Island City waterfront. But they a...
Real estate listings of the day – LIC’s Arris Lofts, L haus, M...
October 10, 2012Today we’re going to look at a few real estate listings, all of them in LIC.
The first one is for a 1 bed/1 bath con...
Lucky Long Island City looking forward to new Vista
October 10, 2012Vista Court, the new luxury residential building at 44-15 Purves Street in Long Island City designed by Gene Kaufman ...
read moreGallery: Modern Spaces/TF Cornerstone BBQ Event at The View
October 10, 2012Modern Spaces recently hosted a barbecue celebration to unveil a newly designed model home showcasing unit 103 which ...
read moreFlexible Board Sweetens Deal for $280K 2- Bedroom Co-op in Ast...
October 10, 201221-37 33rd St., #3E
2-bedroom, 1-bathroom
$280,000
Maintenance: $529
By Jessica Glazer
Special to DNAinfo.com Ne...
A Satellite With Great Views of Home Base
October 10, 2012By ALISON GREGOR
WHEN Kirsten Sharett met her husband-to-be, he was living in an industrial area in Long Island City...
LIC Real Estate Selling For Manhattan Prices
October 10, 2012After recent construction, Long Island City, Queens has become one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city for renta...
read moreTop 10 neighborhoods for real estate investment
October 15, 2012It’s time for the middle of the market to make serious gains. Here are areas to buy that could pay off with a little ...
read moreThe Real Deal - Modern Spaces celebrates Williamsburg culture ...
August 02, 2012http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/06/29/modern-spaces-celebrates-williamsburg-culture-with-opening-of-first-brooklyn-o...
read moreQueens West - New LIC Montessori School
August 02, 2012NEW YORK, NY, June 07, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Modern Spaces recently secured a lease for over 4,000-square-feet o...
read moreBrooklyn: Sweetleaf and Low Down - Opens Office With Modern S...
August 02, 2012http://sprudge.com/brooklyn-sweetleaf-and-low-down.html
Janani Sreenivasan is Sprudge.com’s newest contributor. Sh...
read moreLong Island City Is Perking
August 02, 2012Long Island City Is Perking
By LAURA KUSISTO and DANNY GOLD
Long Island City's coming of age has been...
read moreReal Estate Weekly - Sweetleaf and Modern Spaces open up in Wi...
March 16, 2012Modern Spaces, the Long Island City-based residential brokerage, has joined
forces with neighborhood coffeehouse Swe...
Modern Spaces and Sweetleaf Open in Williamsburg
March 08, 2012 Brokerage, Coffee Spot Link Space
By LAURA KUSISTO
A couple of Long Island City mainstays are expanding to Will...
NY Times - In Long Island City, Pepsi Sign Gets More Company
February 10, 2012TWO more glass skyscrapers are being added to the growing collection of towers on the waterfront in Long Island City ...
read moreNY 1 TV - Tech Boom Upgrades Expectations In City's Housing Ma...
February 06, 2012Developers say a boom is on its way, thanks to what many are calling New York's "Silicon
Alley". NY1's Jill Urban fi...
The Real Deal - Modern SPaces Market Report LIC sales prices i...
January 20, 2012For the first time in several years, Long Island City apartment sales prices rose across the board in 2011 and buyers...
read moreNew York Times - Priced out of Manhattan
January 30, 2012So You’re Priced Out. Now What?
By JIM RENDON
It’s easy to fall in love with a neighborhood in New York. And given ...
Multi Housing News - Modern Spaces Market Report
January 30, 2012Long Island City, N.Y.—Last year was a very good year for Long Island City, N.Y., which
leveraged the rising rents i...
The Real Deal - Modern Spaces replaces Elliman at LIC’s L haus
January 18, 2012Stahl Organization replaced the Prudential Douglas Elliman team that marketed the L haus condominium in Long Island C...
read moreBoro Magazine - Living Feng Shui
January 05, 2012Teaming up with developer Vantage Partners, Long Island City’s Modern Spaces hopes to use their latest residential ve...
read moreThe Real Deal - Modern Spaces expands to Astoria
January 05, 2012Modern Spaces expands to Astoria
January 05, 2012 01:00PM
Modern Spaces, the Long Island City-based residential...
read moreDaily News - Long Island City to receive more residential hous...
December 19, 2011Long Island City is on the rise — one tower at a time — thanks to a host of new developments, defying the bleak real ...
read moreBrooklyn Eagle - Williamsburg's Louver House celebrates Grand ...
December 19, 2011WILLIAMSBURG — The completion and grand opening of The Louver House, described as a luxury loft-style boutique condo ...
read moreNY Post - Williamsburg Seeing a Rental Rebirth - Modern Spaces...
December 15, 2011Think the L train is crowded now? Brace yourself.
Much of the development in Williamsburg that stagnated after the...
read moreThe Real Deal - LIC's Murano's 60% Sold
November 11, 2011Long Island City's the Murano condominium, developed by Hudson Equities JV and
Developer Jim Plotkin, is now 60 perc...
New York Observer - Vista Court - Certified Feng Shui Consultant
November 10, 2011Most of the sights and sounds at this morning’s event in Long Island City were pretty standard fare for a groundbreak...
read moreNew York Times - In a Queens Enclave, Often Shopping in Vain
November 09, 2011When Nick Bate and his wife decided they wanted to rent an affordable apartment with a third bedroom, they looked acr...
read moreThe Real Deal - New condo to bring feng shui to LIC
November 09, 2011It's not for a lack of balconies that residents of a forthcoming Long Island City condominium won't be able to gaze o...
read moreA Pop-Up Apartment at The Yard
October 17, 2011Nightwood, the deconstructed furniture and textiles company, is very into modern rusticity. That's just the look Mode...
read moreNew Marketing Company, Modern Spaces Takes Industry LIC Condos...
November 09, 2011New Marketing Company Takes Industry LIC Condos to Market
By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor
New York—After bei...
The Real Deal - Modern Spaces takes over for Elliman at LIC's ...
December 15, 2011About one year after launching sales, the Industry condominium in Long Island City will get a
new marketing team, as...
The New York Observer - Real Estate - The Hidden Closets of Jo...
November 09, 2011251 West 19th Street (Photo from StreetEasy)
Although it is doubtless a busy time for
fashion showroom owner Joey G...
Long Island City’s The Yard Nearing 50 Percent Sold
November 09, 2011By Jeffrey Steele, Contributing Writer
New York–As unofficial “mayor of Long Island
City,” Eric Benaim is among the...
NY1 - Long Island City's Waterfront Transforms Into 24/7 Commu...
November 09, 2011The waterfront in Long Island City, Queens, is transforming from a under-utilized area into a
booming residential co...
The Commercial Observer - Modern Spaces brings Crank Spin Stud...
October 17, 2011Spinheads in High Gear! First Cycle Studio to LIC
Sweat it out!
Condo sales might be super sluggish in Long Isl...
Curbed - Long Island City's The View 60% Sold, Still Aiming High
October 18, 2011The amenities, prices, and, well, views at Long Island City's The View may have been intended to transform the waterf...
read moreThe Real Deal - LIC's Modern Spaces expands on Vernon
December 15, 2011Eric Benaim's Long Island City-based brokerage Modern Spaces is moving to new office space. The privately-owned compa...
read moreThe Real Deal / Wall Street Journal - Modern SPaces takes over...
December 15, 2011The Murano, a 12-story, 76-unit condominium at 519 Borden Avenue in Long Island City developed by Hudson Equities, hi...
read moreThe Real Deal - Prominent LIC Developer takes on Executive Pos...
December 15, 2011Verdi developer takes executive role with LIC-based Modern Spaces
March 30, 2011 06:45PM
Craig Axelrod stands in fr...
NY1 - Unfinished Property Should Not Be Bought Sight Unseen
November 09, 2011New construction and consumer confidence are picking up again, as people are
increasingly buying property without ev...
Daily News - Owners tout plan to rebuild 5Pointz in Queens' Lo...
October 18, 2011Owner Jerry Wolkoff and his son David Wolkoff tour iconic 5Pointz graffiti-splashed building in Long Island City and ...
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