Affordable housing

Construction is quickly progressing on 26-32 Jackson Avenue, aka The Italic, a 49-story residential skyscraper rising 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 ground-up 526-foot-tall structure will yield 384,043 square feet with 19,923 square feet of commercial space and 363 rental units ranging from studios to three-bedroom layouts with 109 units allocated towards affordable housing. 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.

Crews have built up the first level of the reinforced concrete superstructure of 25-01 Queens Plaza North, the site of a 26-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Grubb Properties, which purchased the property for $63 million in 2021, the 311-foot-tall mixed-use project will yield 417 rental units with 124 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 7,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. 25-01 QPN Consigli Construction is the general contractor and King Contracting Group is responsible for brick and CMU installation at the project, which is located between Crescent and 27th Streets, directly adjacent to the elevated Queensboro Plaza station servicing the 7, N, and W trains.