Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 25,600 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Queens, New York City, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Blissville”, “Dutch Kills”, “Hunter’s Point”, “LIC”, “Long Island”, “Long Island City”, “Long Island City, New York City”, “Long Island City, Queens”, and “Middletown”
- Postal codes: 11101, 11109, and 11120
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and MoMA PS1.
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queensboro Bridge, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. Completed in 1909, it connects the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens with the East Midtown and Upper East Side neighborhoods in Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island.
MoMA PS1
Museum
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 22-01 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the Young Architects Program with the Museum of Modern Art.
Belmont Island
Islet
Photo: Farawayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
U Thant Island is a small artificial island or islet in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. The 100-by-200-foot island, created during the construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath, is the smallest island in Manhattan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sunnyside and Greenpoint.
Sunnyside
Neighborhood
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Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It shares borders with Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east and Maspeth to the south.
Greenpoint
Neighborhood
Photo: Jleon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
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Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s. Lenox Hill is situated 1½ miles north of Long Island City and Astoria.
Long Island City and Astoria
- Categories: neighborhood in Queens and locality
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.74553° or 40° 44′ 44″ northLongitude
-73.9485° or 73° 56′ 55″ westPopulation
25,600Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)IATA airport code
ECCUnited Nations Location Code
US XHOOpen location code
87G8P3W2+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 158842914OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
5125125Wikidata ID
Q1190597
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Long Island City and Astoria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لونغ آيلاند سيتي”
- Armenian: “LIC”
- Armenian: “Լոնգ Այլենդ Սիթի”
- Basque: “Long Island City”
- Cebuano: “Long Island City”
- Chinese: “長島市”
- Chinese: “长岛市”
- Danish: “Long Island City”
- Dutch: “Long Island City”
- Esperanto: “Longinsulurbo”
- Estonian: “Long Island City”
- French: “Long Island City”
- German: “LIC”
- German: “Long Island City”
- Greek: “Λονγκ Άιλαντ Σίτι”
- Hebrew: “לונג איילנד סיטי”
- Ido: “Long Island City”
- Interlingua: “Long Island City”
- Italian: “Long Island City”
- Japanese: “ロング・アイランド・シティ”
- Japanese: “ロング・アイランド・シティ地区”
- Japanese: “ロングアイランド・シティ”
- Japanese: “ロングアイランドシティ”
- Korean: “L. I. C.”
- Korean: “롱 아일랜드 시티”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드 시티”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드시티”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Long Island City”
- Norwegian: “Long Island City”
- Persian: “long island city”
- Persian: “لانگ آیلند سیتی”
- Portuguese: “Long Island City”
- Russian: “Лонг-Айленд-Сити”
- South Azerbaijani: “لانق آیلند سیتی”
- Spanish: “Long Island City (Queens)”
- Spanish: “Long Island City”
- Swedish: “Long Island City”
- Turkish: “Long Island City”
- Urdu: “لانگ آئلینڈ سٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Long Island City, Queens”
- Vietnamese: “Long Island City, Thành phố New York”
- Vietnamese: “Long Island City, Thành phố Nữu Ước”
- Vietnamese: “Long Island City”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Long Island, Queens”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Long Island, Thành phố New York”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Long Island, Thành phố Nữu Ước”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Long Island”
- Yiddish: “לאנג איילענד סיטי”
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