Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in two separate complexes. The complex opened in 1939 and is the largest housing project in North America.
Queensbridge Houses
Queensbridge (right), Queensbridge Park (left), and Ravenswood Generating Station (background)
Queensbridge Park
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