Construction is now underway at 30-25 Queens Boulevard, the site of an upcoming 46-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and developed by LargaVista Companies under the 30-25 Queens Boulevard Tenant LLC, the 1,293,315-square-foot complex will stand 517 feet tall. The skyscraper will yield 821,642 square feet allocated towards residential space divided amongst 561 condominium units averaging 1,464 square feet apiece, 471,673 square feet for commercial space, and a cellar level. Leeding Builders Group is the general contractor for the property, which is situated on a 25,177-square-foot lot known as QPX that is collectively comprised of 30-25 Queens Boulevard, 29-10 Northern Boulevard, and 29-14 Queens Plaza East, is located at the corner of Queens Boulevard East and Queens Boulevard, and sits directly west of the exposed rail tracks of Sunnyside Yards.
Recent photographs show a large team of workers and numerous excavators, piling machines, hollow steel piles, trucks, and other vital construction equipment busily transforming the land and digging deeper below street level. The site was once home to an open-air parking lot, a gas station, a low-rise commercial structure, and a vacant lot for the 29-00 Northern Boulevard parcel. Work had recently broken ground towards the end of this summer.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The below images were taken earlier this year when the first pieces of machinery started to arrive at the site.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
A finalized rendering of the design was not been seen, except for a preliminary elevation rendering posted on the construction board which shows a simple massing with a tall podium, a setback around the halfway mark, and a final setback around the crown. A uniform glass curtain wall appears to be the choice of material for the envelope.
Photo by Michael Young
Below are previous renderings of the tower from 2020 when Fogarty Finger was the formerly architect of record.
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Rendering by Fogarty Finger Architects
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Rendering by Fogarty Finger Architects
The development sits right above the subway entrance to the Queens Plaza station, serviced by the E, M, and R trains, while across Queens Boulevard East is the elevated Queensboro Plaza stop, servicing the 7, R and W trains.
30-25 Queens Boulevard’s anticipated completion date is slated for March 2025, as noted on site.
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Oh boy golly gee leapin’ lizards, another featureless glass box.
All these glass walls surrounding multiple, screeching elevated subway lines causing a perfect echo chamber.
Why is it that they keep building ornate stone clad buildings for 5000sf condos on the upper east and west sides, but primarily rental glass towers in Long Island City?
Perhaps Long Island City is a cheaper market and cannot support $10MM condos? Perhaps glass curtain wall construction is more economically viable for the lower price point?
I can’t tell if these are serious questions.
Over the last several decades, as people have fallen in love with floor-to-ceiling windows and light-strewn spaces, birds have suffered the consequences. The amount of glass in a building is the strongest predictor of how dangerous it is to birds, according to a report on the issue published by the city of Toronto.
Earlier this month in Chicago, almost a thousand birds were killed on a single day at a single building, McCormick Place. Nationwide, researchers estimate that hundreds of millions of birds die crashing into windows each year. It’s one factor, along with problems like habitat loss, behind a sharp decline in North America’s bird population. Since 1970, numbers have dropped by about 30 percent.
Architects and companies are trying out solutions. New windows at the Javits Center, a convention space in Midtown Manhattan, are set with patterns that make them more visible to birds, and deaths have declined by 90 percent. Since most crashes happen within 100 feet of the ground, skyscrapers are advised to treat only the first 10 or so stories.
Wind farms, the most moronic form of energy creation possible, are also responsible for massive bird and bat (and now whale) deaths.
Are you the dumbest person on earth?
The new building will open in 2026 and not 2025 for real
Don’t Brooklyn my QUEENS !!!! 😤 Here come the BARBARIANS DAMMIT
That used to be the site of the old QP’s Market Place which was a massive flea market. Used to go there as a kid and buy comic books.
Over 500 new homes! This is going to be great for the area. I hope to see many more. Density brings amenities to area. Its already a great place to live, and will now keep getting better.
I appreciate the much-needed density, but wish it weren’t being provided in such a characterless glass box. I could even forgive that if the developer could be prevailed upon to provide a link between the Queens Plaza and Queensboro Plaza stations. The opportunity for such an amenity was missed before when the buildings on the south side of the plaza were erected. This could be the last chance.