Exterior work is reaching the final stages on Lumen LIC, a 66-story residential skyscraper at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by FSA Capital, the 754-foot-tall structure spans 855,400 square feet and yields 938 rental units with an average scope of 910 square feet. The project will also include lower-level office space and 17,400 square feet of ground-floor retail. The residential inventory is planned to include 282 affordable housing units. The property is alternately addressed as 43-30 24th Street and located along 44th Road between 23rd and 24th Streets.
The hoist was dismantled from the southeastern corner of the superstructure since YIMBY’s last update at the end of December, and the ensuing gap in the reflective glass curtain is currently in the process of being filled in from the bottom up. Only the upper half of this strip still remains exposed. Crews have also enclosed many of the other outstanding gaps in the façade since our last visit, and the majority of work is now focused on the base of the skyscraper.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC’s podium features a contrasting red brick façade framing large warehouse-style windows and ventilation grilles in a nod to the neighborhood’s industrial past. The following close-up shots detail the variety of textural bond patterns in the brickwork.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Much of the current work is taking place behind the sidewalk shed and wooden fencing at the corner of 44th Road and Crescent Street.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
Lumen LIC. Photo by Michael Young.
The below rendering previews the finished look of the multi-story podium and its retail frontage and surrounding streetscape.
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Apartments at Lumen LIC are expected to begin on level four and house up to 16 units per floor. Amenities will include a 75-foot-long temperature-controlled indoor swimming pool; a spa with a sauna, massage room, and steam room; and a fitness center with private yoga and Pilates classes, aquatic fitness lessons, and group weight and cardio classes. Pet care services include a pet space, dog walking and daycare, grooming, behavior training, and veterinary house calls.
Concierge services will include move-in assistance, housekeeping, house office tech support, furniture assistance, in-home chefs and catering, in-home salon services, and personal shopping. Other amenities include a children’s playroom, laundry room, a third-floor common space with a business center, a secondary residential lounge with a demonstration kitchen, and a landscaped outdoor terrace on the fifth floor. There will also be a private parking garage for 39 vehicles, a 280-bike storage room, and additional storage space.
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
Lumen LIC at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, Queens via NYC Housing Connect
FSA Capital purchased the 79,250-square-foot full-block parcel for $200 million from Stawski Partners in March 2022 and later secured a $364 million construction loan from Wells Fargo to complete the project. JLL is handling marketing and leasing for the office component.
The nearest subways from the property are the G and 7 trains at the Court Square station and the E and F trains at the Court Square-23rd Street station.
Residential occupancy has already begun at Lumen LIC while work wraps up. YIMBY expects construction to fully conclude around the end of the year or by early 2026 at the very latest.
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In the first image, the building seems to be gazing longingly at Manhattan where it wants to be. For years, the green former Citicorp Building was the tallest in Queens. It has many loftier neighbors now.
Another addition to the Emerald City.
Should of gone in the glass business–wow
lol 😂 true
‘A’ for effort.
I would NEVER live in LIC because the addresses don’t make sense.
It does make sense Stanley, though in a bit of a convoluted way. But true, it doesn’t roll off the tongue, like say 450 Eleventh Avenue 😀
Stanley, that sounds like a you problem. Let someone more mature than you live in LIC that doesn’t act like a total twat with nothing better to do than trolling the comment section on Yimby like some retarded fuckface 🖕
And whose problem is that, Stanley? 🧐🙄
Then learn it, instead of complaining about the street grid AGAIN Stanley…
Why is this a thing for you to keep repeating and trolling with the same remark, like yesterday’s [predictable] stupid rant about the blank walls of 450 11th Avenue???
Is this some running gimmick that Stanley does on Yimby, like that guy David: Sent From Heaven who sounds like an AI bot?
David seems to have gone to Yimby Heaven. Have not seen him here in a while (??).
Stanley, the next time you try to pull this clueless type $hit, imma call you out like ICE pulling up in my hood and trying to kidnap one of my neighbors. You dumb piece of sht
Don’t live on 2nd Ave., Manhattan, where odd numbers are on the west side unlike other avenues. Also, house numbers in Manhattan run “faster” on some avenues than others. Queens has a much more sensible system.
The old Citicorp Building is still the best LIC tower.
This new one is probably the worst, for now.
There is that new skyscraper that’s going to soon rise to the south of Skyline Tower that I’m excited to see, since it won’t be all glass and provide some color and textural contrast with LIC
which one is this?
24-19 Jackson Avenue by FXCollaborative
Right now it’s that overgrown piece of land next to the court square station with some random construction equipment lost in the tall weeds
I love super tall building, but why are so many of them in NYC so ugly. The LIC skyline looks horrendous.
Can’t believe how incredible it thin and wide the building is!
Nice construction photos looking up at the tower
Does anyone recall reading an article in the late 1980s or early 1990s criticizing the Citicorp building for destroying the “moat effect” (with Manhattan being the castle and the Hudson and East Rivers being the protective waterways)
Before that there were articles wondering when LIC would be redeveloped as happened in parts of Brooklyn.
This looks decent. More than 26 floors though.. maybe 28?
Hi please let me know more info on your studio apt Thank You