Another Hotel Slated for Queens Plaza

While new construction on the waterfront has been focused on residential towers, the area just north of Queens Plaza (known as Dutch Kills) has undergone a hotel building boom in recent years. And now there are a couple of new hotel projects in the works just south of the bridge on-ramp. According to signage on the construction fence, a Crowne Plaza hotel is “Coming Soon” to 4231-4235 Crescent Street, on the corner of 42nd Road. Right now the construction fence wraps around a shuttered auto shop, which looks like it’ll be demolished soon. The surrounding warehouses on the block are long gone. (See more photos of the site after the jump.) The DOB hasn’t issued new building permits for the hotel yet but from the looks of the rendering, the design will be eight stories high with some sort of rooftop lounge. Not far away, as we reported recently, an Aloft hotel is in the works for 27-45 Jackson Avenue. It’ll rise 22 stories and is targeted to open in 2015. GMAP