Luna, 42-15 Crescent Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 42-15 Crescent Street by Carter Horsley

Luna is a Long Island City rental building built in 2016 with 124 units. It is also known as Luna LIC.

It was erected by Meadow Partners, headed by Jeffrey Kaplan, who bought a 1953 office building on the site and added two floors to it before selling it for about $70 million to the World-Wide Group.

The building was designed by Avinash K. Malhotra Architects.

Bottom Line

The building is notable for the waffle-slab ceilings of its lobby and apartments.

Description

The building’s 10-story base has brown façades with inset windows and an entrance marquee and the top floors are white with setbacks at the sides with balconies.

The building has discrete air-conditioners and no sidewalk landscaping.

The building’s lobby has exposed brick and wood plank walls and wood plank rafters and a wooden clock.

Amenities

The building has a concierge, an on-site resident manager, a fitness center, a roof deck, a bicycle room and a gaming lounge.  The building is pet friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have Bosch washer and dryers, Frigidaire Gallery stainless-steel kitchen appliances, smoky grey quartz countertops, glossy white tile backsplashes.

Apartment 11G is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer across from a 7-foot-long, windowed study and a hall that leads to a 23-foot-wide living/dining room with an open, pass-through kitchen, a 23-foot-wide balcony and a spiral staircase to a 34-foot-long private roof deck.

Apartment Q on the third through the fifth floors is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past an open, pass-through kitchen to a 15-foot-long, living/dining room with a 25-foot-wide balcony.

Apartment K on the 8^th and 9^th floors is a one-bedroom unit with an entry across from an 11-foot-long, windowed study across from an open, pass-through kitchen next to the 21-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment N on the third through the fifth floors is a one-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-long living/dining room with an open, pass-through kitchen and a 21-foot-wide balcony.