The Independent

The Independent is an apartment building in Queens, New York which is located on Crescent Street. The Independent is situated nearby to the metro station Queensboro Plaza station, as well as near the park Queensboro Bridge Greenway.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Queensboro Plaza station and Chase Manhattan Bank Building.

Queensboro Plaza station

Metro station

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The Queensboro Plaza station is an elevated New York City Subway station at Queens Plaza in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. It is near the east end of the Queensboro Bridge, with Queens Boulevard running east from the plaza.

Chase Manhattan Bank Building

Historic building

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY 3.0.

Sven is a residential building located at 29-59 Northern Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. At 762 feet tall, Sven is the third-tallest building in Queens behind Skyline Tower and The Orchard, as well as one of the tallest buildings in New York City outside of Manhattan. Chase Manhattan Bank Building is situated 1,400 feet east of The Independent.

Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Queensboro, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, but known by locals by one of two other names depending on the side, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge is situated 3,400 feet northwest of The Independent.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Long Island City and Astoria and Harold Interlocking.

Long Island City and Astoria

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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.

Harold Interlocking

Locality

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Harold Interlocking is a large railroad junction in New York City. The busiest rail junction in the United States, it serves trains on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Port Washington Branch, which diverge at the junction.

Sunnyside

Neighborhood

Photo: Dialt0ne, Public domain.

Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east, and Maspeth and Newtown Creek to the south.

The Independent

Type: Apartment building
Address: 42-14 Crescent Street, 11101
Categories: building and residential building
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.75027° or 40° 45′ 1″ north

Longitude

-73.94125° or 73° 56′ 29″ west

Levels

Height

161 feet (49 metres)

Open location code

87G8Q325+4F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 281342885

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

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