Long Island City (often abbreviated
L.I.C.) is the westernmost neighborhood of the
boroughNew York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is segmented into five boroughs. A borough is a unique form of government that administers the five fundamental constituent parts of the consolidated city...
of
QueensQueens is the largest in area, the second-largest in population, and the easternmost of the Five Boroughs which form New York City. The Borough of Queens' boundaries are identical to those of the County of Queens , a subdivision of the State of New York in the Northeastern United States.Located on...
in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. It is bounded on the north by the Queens neighborhood of
AstoriaAstoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside , and Woodside...
; on the west by the
East RiverThe East River is a tidal strait in New York City. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the North American mainland...
; on the east by Hazen Street, 31st Street, and New Calvary Cemetery; and on the south by
Newtown CreekNewtown Creek, is a estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City, New York, United States. It derives its name from New Town , which was the name for the Dutch and British settlement in what is now Elmhurst, Queens...
, which separates Queens from
Greenpoint, BrooklynGreenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...
. It originally was the seat of government of Newtown Township, and remains the largest neighborhood in Queens. The area is part of
Queens Community Board 1The Queens Community Board 1 is a local advisory group in New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Astoria, Old Astoria, Long Island City, Queensbridge, Ditmars, Ravenswood, Steinway, Garden Bay, and Woodside, in the Borough of Queens...
north of the
Queensboro (59th Street) BridgeThe Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island...
and
Queens Community Board 2The Queens Community Board 2 is a local advisory group in New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Hunters Point, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside, in the borough of Queens...
south of the Bridge. The zip codes of Long Island City are 11101, 11102, 11103, 11104, 11105, 11106 and 11109.
History
Long Island City, as its name suggests, was formerly a city, created in 1870. Long Island City, was created from the merger of the Village of
AstoriaAstoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside , and Woodside...
, and the hamlets of
RavenswoodRavenswood is the name for the strip of land bordering the East River in Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is part of Queens Community Board 1.-History:...
,
Hunters PointHunters Point is a neighborhood on the south side of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 2...
, Blissville,
SunnysideSunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens, in New York state, in the United States. It shares borders with Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east and Maspeth to the south. The neighborhood is part of...
, Dutch Kills, Steinway, Bowery Bay and Middleton in Newtown Township, and was a separate city until 1898. The last mayor of Long Island City was a notorious Irishman named Patrick Jerome "Battle-Axe" Gleason. The city surrendered its independence in 1898 to become part of the
City of Greater New YorkThe City of Greater New York was a term commonly used originally to refer to the expanded city created on January 1, 1898 by the incorporation into the city of Richmond County, Kings County, the western part of Queens County, and the eastern part of what is now called The Bronx...
. However, Long Island City survives as
ZIP codeThe ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service . The letters ZIP, a backronym for Zone Improvement Plan, are properly written in capital letters and were chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
11101 and ZIP code prefix 111 (with its own main post office) and was formerly a
Sectional center facility (SCF)A Destination Sectional Center Facility is a Processing and Distribution Center of the United States Postal Service that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes....
. Since 1985, the
Greater Astoria Historical SocietyThe Greater Astoria Historical Society is a non-profit cultural and historical organization located in Astoria, Queens, New York, dedicated to preserving the past and promoting the future of the neighborhoods that are part of historic Long Island City, including; the Village of Astoria,...
, a non-profit cultural and historical organization, has been preserving the past and promoting the future of the neighborhoods that are part of historic Long Island City.
Coat of arms
The Common Council of Long Island City in 1873 adopted the
coat of armsA coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways. Historically, they were used by knights to identify them apart from enemy...
as "emblematical of the varied interest represented by Long Island City." It was designed by George H. Williams, of
RavenswoodRavenswood is the name for the strip of land bordering the East River in Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is part of Queens Community Board 1.-History:...
. The overall composition was inspired by
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
's Coat of Arms. The shield is rich in historic allusion, including Native-American, Dutch, and English symbols.
Community
Long Island City is the eastern terminus of the
Queensboro BridgeThe Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island...
, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, which is the only non-toll automotive route connecting
QueensQueens is the largest in area, the second-largest in population, and the easternmost of the Five Boroughs which form New York City. The Borough of Queens' boundaries are identical to those of the County of Queens , a subdivision of the State of New York in the Northeastern United States.Located on...
and
ManhattanManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...
.
Northwest of the bridge terminus are the
QueensbridgeQueensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in North America. It is located in Long Island City in Queens, and opened in 1939. The 3,142-unit complex is owned by the New York City Housing Authority. The complex is located in Community Board 1...
development of the
New York City Housing AuthorityThe New York City Housing Authority , created by urbanist Charles Abrams, provides housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments. Many of its facilities are known...
. Major thoroughfares include Vernon Boulevard, 21st Street, which is mostly industrial and commercial;
Queens BoulevardQueens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens, connecting communities from Long Island City to Jamaica. It forms part of New York State Route 25.-Location:...
, which leads westward to the bridge and eastward follows
New York State Route 25New York State Route 25 is a major east-west road running from east midtown Manhattan, New York City, to the Cross Sound Ferry terminal at Orient Point on the end of the North Fork of Long Island.NY 25 has many names...
through Long Island; and the western-most portion of
Northern BoulevardNew York State Route 25A is a New York State highway and the main East-West route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, running from the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Queens at its western terminus to Calverton in Suffolk County at its eastern end.Known for its scenic...
, which becomes Jackson Avenue (the former name of Northern Boulevard) west of Queens Plaza. The most prominent feature aside from the bridge is the community's green skyscraper, the 658-foot
Citicorp BuildingOne Court Square, also known as the Citigroup Building, is a 50-story office tower in Long Island City, Queens just outside of Manhattan. It was completed in 1990 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP for Citigroup. The tower is tallest in New York City outside Manhattan...
built in 1989 on
Courthouse SquareThe Long Island City Courthouse Complex in Long Island City, Queens is a criminal courthouse. It was built in 1874, but remodeled in 1904 after a fire destroyed a portion of it. The current courthouse was designed by Peter M. Coco in 1904....
, which is the tallest building on
Long IslandLong Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban...
and in New York City outside Manhattan.
Long Island City was once home to many factories and bakeries, some of which are finding new uses. The former Silvercup bakery is now home to
Silvercup StudiosSilvercup Studios is the largest film and television production facility in New York City. Located in the neighborhood of Long Island City, in the borough of Queens, the studio complex has been operating since 1983 in the former Silvercup Bakery building...
, which produces notable works such as HBO's
The SopranosThe Sopranos is an American television drama series created and produced by David Chase. It premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999 and ended its original run of six seasons and 86 episodes on June 10, 2007. The show has also been broadcast on A&E in...
. The Silvercup sign is visible from the
7 TrainThe Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, operated as part of the IRT Division and designated the 7 route...
going into and out of Queensboro Plaza. The former Sunshine Bakery is now one of the buildings housing
LaGuardia Community CollegeLaGuardia Community College is a City University of New York community college located in Long Island City in Queens, New York. It is named for former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
. Other buildings in the LaGuardia College complex originally served as the location of the Ford Instrument Company, at one time a major producer of precision machines and devices. Artist
Isamu Noguchiwas a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
converted a photo-engraving plant into a workshop; the site is now a
museumThe Noguchi Museum, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, was designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi in 1985 to preserve and display his sculptures, architectural models, stage designs, drawings, and furniture designs. It is a two story museum...
dedicated to his work. High-rise housing is being built on a former Pepsi-Cola site, and from June 2002 to September 2004 the former
SwinglineSwingline is a division of ACCO Brands that specializes in manufacturing staplers and hole punches. The company was formerly located in Long Island City, Queens, New York, United States, but is now headquartered with its parent company ACCO in Lincolnshire, Illinois.- History :Swingline was founded...
Staplers plant was the temporary headquarters of the
Museum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the...
. Other factories included
Fisher ElectronicsFisher Electronics is a US based subsidiary company of Japanese electronics conglomerate Sanyo specialising in the field of hi-fi electronics.-History:...
and
ChicletsChiclets is a brand of candy coated chewing gum made by Cadbury Adams. The colors of chiclets are: yellow, green, orange, red, white, and pink. The product's name is derived from Nahuatl word tziktli, in English chicle, the substance from which chewing gum was traditionally made...
Gum.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art CenterThe P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is one of the largest and oldest institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens in New York City...
, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, is the oldest and second-largest non-profit arts center in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. It is named after the former public school in which it is housed.
SculptureCenterSculptureCenter is a contemporary art museum that is located in Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City.-Mission:Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture...
is New York City's only non-profit exhibition space dedicated to contemporary and innovative sculpture. SculptureCenter re-located from Manhattan's Upper East Side to a former trolley repair shop in Long Island City, Queens renovated by artist/designer Maya Lin in 2002. Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter has undergone much evolution and growth, and continues to expand and challenge the definition of sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists. The museum also hosts a diverse range of public programs including lectures, dialogues, and performances.
Long Island City is also home to several special high schools: Academy of American Studies (a history high school),
Aviation High SchoolAviation High School, official name Aviation Career & Technical Education High School, is taxpayer-supported public high school #Q610 owned and operated by the New York City Department of Education. It is located in Long Island City, which is a largely industrial neighborhood in the New York City...
,
Information Technology High SchoolInformation Technology High School is a public secondary school located in Queens, New York.The school is part of the New York City Department of Education school system.- The school :...
, International High School,
Frank Sinatra School of the ArtsThe Frank Sinatra School of the Arts first opened in 2001 and was co-founded by the great American singer/painter, Tony Bennett, and his wife, public school teacher Susan Benedetto, in partnership with the NYC Dept of Education. It was named in honor of Tony's late friend and colleague, Frank...
, Middle College High School, Newcomers High School, and Robert F. Wagner HS. Not to be confused with SHSAT-based high schools, these schools offer programs that are included at those schools.
Eagle ElectricEagle Electric Manufacturing Company, founded 1920, was a maker of electrical devices, switches and circuit units based in Long Island City, New York, in the borough of Queens. The company was founded by Ludwig and Kluger, both of whose children ran the company after the founders died...
, now known as Cooper Wiring Devices, was one of the last major factories in the area. They have moved production to the
People's Republic of ChinaThe economy of the People's Republic of China is a rapidly developing and influential market economy. China is the third largest economy in the world after the US and Japan with a nominal GDP of US$4.4 trillion when measured in exchange-rate terms...
, and Plant #1, which was the largest of their factories and housed their corporate offices, is being converted to residential luxury lofts.
Long Island City is currently home to the largest
fortune cookieA fortune cookie is a crisp Asian American cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy. In the United States and Canada , it is usually served with Chinese food in Chinese...
factory in the United States, owned by Wonton Foods and producing four million fortune cookies a day.
Lucky numberIn number theory, a lucky number is a natural number in a set which is generated by a "sieve" similar to the Sieve of Eratosthenes that generates the primes.Begin with a list of integers starting with 1:...
s included on fortunes in the company's cookies led to 110 people across the United States winning $100,000 each in a May 2005 drawing for
PowerballPowerball is an American lottery game sold through U.S. lotteries as a shared jackpot pool game. It is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association , a non-profit association formed by an agreement with member lotteries. Powerball is available in 30 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S...
.
Gantry ParkGantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens.The park first opened in May 1998 and was expanded in July 2009...
in Hunter's Point was used as background for the final scenes of Steven Spielberg's film
MunichMunich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September terrorists. The film stars Eric Bana and was co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg...
and The Interpreter (starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman). An opening scene in Spiderman 2 (2006) was also filmed in Gantry Park.
Long Island City was featured more prominently in the 1997 film,
Sunday, with
David SuchetDavid Suchet , OBE is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
and
Lisa HarrowLisa Harrow is an actress, noted for her roles in British theatre, films and television.- Early life :Harrow was born in Auckland and attended Auckland University...
, which was filmed on location.
Long Island City is the home of
5 Pointz5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin or the 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center is an industrial building and artist studio in Long Island City, Queens, at Jackson Avenue at Crane Street and Davis Street where graffiti has been allowed....
, a building housing artists' studios, which has been legally painted on by a number of
graffitiGraffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
artists and is visible near the
Court House Square45th Road – Court House Square is an elevated station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 45th Road and 23rd Street in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, it is served by the ' train at all times, including peak-direction express service during rush hours and...
station on the
7The 7 Flushing Local and 7 Flushing Express are rapid transit services of the New York City Subway, providing local and express services along the full length of the IRT Flushing Line...
train.
Long Island City is home to
Water Taxi BeachWater Taxi Beach is an artificial temporary beach created on a wharf on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. It is operated by the New York Water Taxi Company and is open to the public for free during the summer months only. The...
, NYC's first non-swimming
urban beachAn urban beach, or urbeach,is defined as a space that includes an intellectually, artistically, or culturally sophisticated water feature that is also an aquatic play area, and is located within a culturally or artistically significant area of a city...
, located on the East River. New York City plans to build 5,000 moderate income apartments in this area, a 30-acre development called Hunter's Point South.
Long Island City is also home to Online Grocery Company,
FreshDirectright|thumb|Fresh Direct logo FreshDirect is an online grocer that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. FreshDirect also offers next-day delivery to most of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Westchester County,...
, serving the Greater New York area via deliveries. A customer can also order online and come to the warehouse and pick up the food. Both the warehouse and administrative offices are located on Borden Avenue.
Long Island City is the new home of independent film studio, Troma.
Long Island City also has a new district of residential towers called Queens West, located at the East River just north of the main LIRR Long Island City Station. Queens West is intended for residents who commute to Manhattan to work by ferry or subway. The first tower, the 42-floor Citylights, opened in 1998 with an elementary school at the base. Others have been completed since then and more are being planned or under construction.
The city has been the home since 1999 to the Brooks Brothers tie manufacturing factory, which employs 122 people and produces more 1.5 million ties per year.
Education
Long Island City is served by the
New York City Department of EducationThe New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. These schools form the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,600 separate schools...
.
Long Island City is zoned to:
Long Island City is zoned to:
A 7-12 school called
Baccalaureate School for Global EducationThe Baccalaureate School for Global Education is a New York City Public School located in the Astoria section of Queens, New York. BSGE was established in 2002. It serves a student body of approximately 430 students between the 7th and 12th grades...
is in LIC.
9-12 high schools include:
- Long Island City High School
Long Island City High School , commonly abbreviated L.I.C., is a public high school in New York City, located in Long Island City in the borough of Queens. The present building was built in 1995. The school has an enrollment of around 4,000...
- Academy Careers Of Television and Flim(ACTvF)
- Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts first opened in 2001 and was co-founded by the great American singer/painter, Tony Bennett, and his wife, public school teacher Susan Benedetto, in partnership with the NYC Dept of Education. It was named in honor of Tony's late friend and colleague, Frank...
- High School of Applied Communication
- Academy Of Finance and Enterprise
- International High School At Laguardia
- Middle College High School
Middle College High School can refer to several schools in the United States:*Chattanooga State Middle College High School, Chattanooga, Tennessee*Grossmont Middle College High School, El Cajon, California...
- Aviation Career And Technical High School
Aviation High School, official name Aviation Career & Technical Education High School, is taxpayer-supported public high school #Q610 owned and operated by the New York City Department of Education. It is located in Long Island City, which is a largely industrial neighborhood in the New York City...
- Academy of American Studies
The Academy of American Studies is a selective public high school in Long Island City, Queens, New York, which was founded in 1996 by the With roughly 620 students according to , this is one of the smallest high schools in New York City. Located just east of Manhattan and at the very tip of...
- Newcomers High School - Academy for New Americans
Newcomers High School opened in 1995 with Lourdes Burrows as it principal together with a group of teachers looking to accommodate new immigrants. It's located in Long Island City, Queens. Main train stations to this school are Queens Plaza and Queensborough Plaza. This school specialize in...
- Queens Vocational High School
- Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute For Arts & Technology
- William Cullen Bryant High School
William Cullen Bryant High School, or Bryant High School for short, is a secondary school located in Queens, New York City, New York, USA which educates grades 9 through 12. It is named in honor of the American poet, William Cullen Bryant....
- Information Technology High School
Information Technology High School is a public secondary school located in Queens, New York.The school is part of the New York City Department of Education school system.- The school :...
- Bard High School Early College
Bard High School Early College , is an alternative public secondary school in New York City that allows five to six hundred highly motivated and scholastically strong students to begin their college studies two years early...
II
Trivia
- Seven Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between...
players were born in Long Island City: Gus Sandberg (1895), Billy ZitzmannBilly Zitzmann was a professional baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds. William Arthur Zitzmann is his full name. He batted right handed and also threw right handed. He was 175 lbs . He was born on November 19, 1895 in Long Island City, New York...
(1895), Joe Benes (1901), Tony CuccinelloAnthony Francis 'Tony' Cuccinello was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Cincinnati Reds , Brooklyn Dodgers , Boston Bees/Braves , New York Giants and Chicago White Sox . Cuccinelo batted and threw right-handed...
(1907), Ed Boland (1908), Al CuccinelloAlfred Edward Cuccinello was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the New York Giants during the 1935 season. Listed at 5' 10", 165 lb., Cuccinello batted and threw right-handed. He was the younger brother of Tony Cuccinello.A native of Long Island City, New York,...
(1914), and Billy LoesWilliam Loes is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1950 through 1961, Loes played for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Baltimore Orioles and San Francisco Giants...
(1929).
- Two Major League Baseball players have died in Long Island City: John Hatfield
John Van Buskirk Hatfield was an American professional baseball player in the 1860s and 1870s. He was a batting star and versatile fielder for the Mutual Base Ball Club both before and after spending the 1868 season as left fielder for Harry Wright's Cincinnati Red Stockings...
(1909) and Dike VarneyLawrence Delano "Dike" Varney was a Major League Baseball pitcher during part of the season. The left-hander was born in Dover, New Hampshire....
(1950).
- The NBA's Ron Artest
Ronald William "Ron" Artest, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who is currently with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. Artest gained a reputation as one of the league's premier defenders as he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2004...
and filmmaker Julie DashJulie Dash is a United States filmmaker. Her Daughters of the Dust in 1991 was the first full-length film with general theatrical release in the United States by an African American woman. Daughters of the Dust was included in the National Film Registry in 2004...
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/03/movies/in-the-old-neighborhood-with-julie-dash-home-is-where-the-imagination-took-root.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all both grew up in the Queensbridge HousesQueensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in North America. It is located in Long Island City in Queens, and opened in 1939. The 3,142-unit complex is owned by the New York City Housing Authority. The complex is located in Community Board 1...
, the nation's largest public housing development.
- The first season of What Not to Wear (US version)
What Not to Wear is an American reality television show that is based on a British show of the same name. The program currently airs on The Learning Channel in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Canada...
was filmed in Long Island City.
- The videogame Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV is a sandbox-style action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the sixth 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto series....
, which takes place in a fictionalized version of New York City called "Liberty City", features a neighborhood called "East Island City" which resembles Long Island City in its architecture and feel. Many signs and awnings from local Long Island City businesses are used as graphical elements for stores in the East Island City area. The Silvercup sign (changed to "Silverback"), Citicorp Building and the gantry cranes in Gantry Plaza State Park, among other Long Island City landmarks, also appear in some form in the East Island City environment. Gantry Park was referred to as "The Black Towers" or simply Hobart, which used to have a factory at the end of 49th avenue.
Transportation
Long Island City is served by the , , , , , , and trains of the
New York City SubwayThe New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit...
. The
Long Island CityLong Island City is a rail terminal of the Long Island Rail Road in Long Island City, Queens. Within the City Terminal Zone and located at Borden Avenue and 2nd Street, it is the westernmost LIRR station in Queens and the end of the Main Line...
and
Hunterspoint AvenueHunterspoint Avenue is a Long Island Rail Road train station within the City Terminal Zone. It is located at Hunters Point Avenue and Skillman Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The station has an island platform and is not wheelchair accessible.Steps used to access the station are so seriously...
Long Island Rail RoadThe Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a commuter rail system serving the length of Long Island, New York that has been classified as a Class II railroad by the Surface Transportation Board. It is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, servicing around 81 million passengers each year, and...
stations are here, and a commuter ferry service operated by NY Water Taxi at the East River Wharf. Cars enter by way of the
Queensboro BridgeThe Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island...
, the
Queens Midtown TunnelThe Queens–Midtown Tunnel is a toll road in New York City. It crosses under the East River and connects the Borough of Queens on Long Island with the Borough of Manhattan The Queens–Midtown Tunnel (sometimes simply known as the Midtown Tunnel) is a toll road in New York City. It crosses under the...
and the
Pulaski BridgeThe Pulaski Bridge in New York City connects Long Island City in Queens to Greenpoint in Brooklyn over Newtown Creek. It was named after Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War fighter Kazimierz Pułaski because of the large Polish-American population in Greenpoint...
. The
Roosevelt Island BridgeThe Roosevelt Island Bridge is a lift bridge that connects Roosevelt Island to Long Island City in Queens, crossing the East Channel of the East River. It is the sole route to the island for vehicular and foot traffic ....
also connects Long Island City to
Roosevelt IslandRoosevelt Island, formerly known as Welfare Island , and before that Blackwell's Island, is a narrow island in the East River of New York City. It lies between the island of Manhattan to its west and the borough of Queens to its east...
.
Queens BoulevardQueens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens, connecting communities from Long Island City to Jamaica. It forms part of New York State Route 25.-Location:...
,
Northern Boulevard (New York 25A)New York State Route 25A is a New York State highway and the main East-West route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, running from the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Queens at its western terminus to Calverton in Suffolk County at its eastern end.Known for its scenic...
and the
Long Island ExpresswayInterstate 495 is a 71.02 mile -long Interstate Highway on Long Island, New York. The western terminus of the route is at the western portal of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan...
all pass through the area.
External links
- Ins & Outs Magazine
- Pictures of Astoria & LIC
- Greater Astoria Historical Society
- Long Island City Business Development Corporation
- LIC Community Boathouse
- LIC Cultural Alliance
- The Noguchi Museum
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- SculptureCenter
- Forgotten NY: Long Island City
- 1911 Britannica article
- 108th and 114th Precincts of the NYC Police
The New York City Police Department , established in 1845, is currently the largest police force in the United States, with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City...
, including weekly crime statistics
- Cookies contain fortunes for Powerball winners, a May 2005 article from CNN
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- Cookie Master, a June 2005 article from The New Yorker
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- Queensbridge Houses, NYCHA project
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