In recent years, Long Island City has evolved significantly. Factories, warehouses and small tenements have been replaced with residential apartment towers.
A bright pink 4000 pound bronze Long Island City art installation, The Sunbather by artist Ohad Meromi now sits at 43rd Avenue and Jackson Avenue.
A new sculpture showing the price of gold in real time through the use of water vapor and LED lights has been installed in Hunter's Point South Park in LIC
Long Island City may be home to one of NYC's quirkiest new parks with a Request for Expressions of Interest from MTA for adaptive reuse of disused train tracks.
With Chance Ecologies, we explored Hunters Point South still abandoned waterfront, a last holdout before encroaching development overtakes Long Island City NYC.
The Long Island City clock tower, the tallest skyscraper in Queens for 66 years may be demolished following a building sale while campaign continues to save it
The day has come for 5 Pointz. Animal New York reports that as of this morning demolition has begun today for the former graffiti mecca of NYC
Students learn aircraft mechanics at Long Island City's Aviation High School in Queens, a curiosity in NYC's public school system that provides opportunities for aviation careers.
Several abandoned gantries–or slips for ferries–mainly in association to trains are located around NYC in Long Island City, the Bronx, North Brother Island
A deeper look at the renderings for the new Hunter's Point South parcel in Long Island City by architecture firm ODA, developed by TF Cornerstone.