The Italic’s Glass Curtain Wall Progresses at 26-32 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens
The 14th-tallest building on our year-end countdown is The Italic, a 526-foot-tall residential skyscraper at 26-32 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by American Lions, a joint venture between Fetner Properties and NY Lions Group, the 50-story structure will span 384,043 square feet and yield 363 rental units in studio to three-bedroom layouts, with 109 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 19,923 square feet of commercial space. Hunter Roberts Construction Group is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by Dutch Kills Street and an elevated roadway of the Queensboro Bridge to the northeast and Purves Street to the southwest.