Construction is in full swing at 23-02 42nd Road, the site of a 37-story mixed-use building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Fogarty Finger and developed by Werwaiss Properties, the 372-foot-tall structure will yield 230,000 square feet with 240 residential units spread across 163,000 square feet, as well as 10,000 square feet of commercial space and 91 parking spaces. Suffolk Construction Company is the general contractor for the property, which is located between 23rd and 24th Streets.
YIMBY last visited and photographed the site back in early October 2022, when the development was at street level and crews were finishing the concrete pouring of the ground floor. There was a brief pause in construction shortly thereafter with the exposed steel rebar covered up with wooden boards, but the project quickly roared back to life earlier this year with much of the reinforced concrete superstructure built up. The safety cocoon netting and crane continue to climb upward as the structure is making its mark on the westernmost edge of the Long Island City skyline. This will ensure residents prime and unobstructed views of the Queensboro Bridge, the East River, and sunsets behind the Midtown, Manhattan skyline. YIMBY anticipates crews to top out before the end of the year.
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
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Recent photographs also show the lower section of the light-colored panels and reflective glass windows being installed around the northern corner and the southern lot line wall of the multi-story podium.
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
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The main rendering depicts the project’s envelope composed of floor-to-ceiling glass framed with a uniform grid of white paneling arranged in horizontal groups of two to five stories. It also appears that there will be a rooftop terrace on the northern corner located below the roof line.
The nearest subways from the development include the elevated Queensboro Plaza station to the east, servicing the 7, N, and W trains, and both the interconnected Court Square and Court Square-23 Street stations, collectively servicing the 7, E, F, and G trains.
23-02 42nd Road has a completion date of April 2025 posted on site.
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This is a promising design and LIC really needs that.
Thank god it doesn’t use all glass and has more character
Yeah LIC needs not just a giant dose of good design, it needs a giant dose of buildings clad in anything other than a mirror of blue green glass.
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.
The fit and finish leaves a little bit to be desired. Are they going to fix that?
Thanks to Fogarty Finger and Werwaiss Properties for using Florim large format slabs for the whole facade curtain wall!