Astoria Senior Residence Is QBBA Award Recipient

The Queens & Bronx Building Association (QBBA) held their annual 2006 Building Awards gala at Caffe on the Green in Bayside on December 7, and the Astoria Senior Residence, on the grounds of the Variety Boys & Girls Club, 21st Street and 30th Road, was the beneficiary of a Residential-Apartment Building awards

To compete in the contest, participants must meet QBBA specified requirements in the Residential-Apartment Building, Commercial-Stores, Hotels, Restaurants, Banks, Office Buildings (Interior) and Rehabilitations, Alterations & Additions (Exterior or Interior) categories.

The Astoria Senior Residence, winner of a Resident-Apartment Building award, is an 11-story elevator building, containing 98 one-bedroom units. Each residential floor has 10 apartments per floor, except for the second floor which has eight rental apartments, a superintendent's apartment and a laundry room. The units are handicapped adaptable with design features such as grab bars, handicapped accessible showers and special kitchen designs to accommodate "aging-in-place". Fifteen percent of the units are handicapped accessible.

The Queens & Bronx Building Association, 16-66 Bell Blvd., Bayside, is a trade organization with more than 180 construction-related member companies, and is the only local association devoted entirely to protecting the interests of all involved in the building community. QBBA's goal is to convince the City Planning Commission, the borough president's office, and the city council, that zoning and land use controls must favor reasonable levels of new construction.