Hunter's Point South is a mixed-use development situated on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in 30 acres (120,000 m2) in Long Island City, the westernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle class, are expected to be developed on the site. As of Spring 2017, the project had attracted $2 billion from private investors.
East River-Hunters Point
Promenade
Long Island City (LIC) is a residential and commercial neighborhood on the western tip of Queens, a borough in New York City in the United States. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; New Calvary Cemetery in Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
The expanding skyline of Long Island City in Queens with One Court Square as seen from across the East River opposite Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in 2017
Religious procession crossing 50th Avenue, 1989
Ancient boulder, a glacial erratic, partly blocking 12th Street
Looking west from an apartment building near Queens Plaza