Facing west at Anabel Basin, Hunters Point LIC

1) I went shooting last week around Anabel Basin, which is the point on the LIC waterfront where the Queenswest development site ends. There are some great industrial buildings over there, including Matthew Barney’s studio at the end of the pier. Remember the boat?

2) LIC is going to get it’s first official Green Building. We’re still waiting for some more details on that, but the rumor is that it’s right off Vernon and it’s going to be about as Green as Green can be.

3) Sage American Kitchen is moving their digs over to Courthouse Sq, right next to the Courthouse Sq Wine Store. If you have not eaten there, they have amazing sandwiches and unbelievable cupcakes.

LIC Neighborhood Map by NYCEDC, liQcity additions in red.

Check out this map of Long Island City, put out by the NYC Economic Development Corporation. What’s interesting is how they designated the many sub-neighborhoods of LIC. For instance, I was always under the impression that Hunters Point (no apostrophe) was the whole region of LIC located south of the Queensboro Bridge (outlined in red).

Right at the bridge is the hub of Queens Plaza (also called Queensboro Plaza it seems), which slightly overlaps Dutch Kills, which continues on northward bleeding into a very fuzzy boundary with Astoria. Then west of 21St st and still north of the bridge is the Queensbridge Houses, which also is considered Ravenwood until it also merges with Astoria.

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