Long Island City’s thousands of incoming apartments, mapped

40+ developments poised to usher in Queens's next generation of rentals and condos

Long Island City is changing at a rapid clip—so fast, in fact, that a recent study found that the once-industrial neighborhood has given rise to more new apartments since 2010 than any other neighborhood in the country. The exact number of incoming apartments is a little hard to pin down, and always changing, but with an eye to the neighborhood's skyline, it's impossible to deny that Long Island City is on fire.

At Hunter's Point South alone, a 30-acre swath of untamed wild along the East River is giving rise to 5,000 new apartments, a school, retail, restaurants, and a waterfront park. Add to that a handful of ambitious new rental and condo towers like Rockrose's 974-apartment rental The Hayden and Jerry Wolkoff's 5 Pointz-replacing 1,115 rental development, and that already accounts for thousands of new dwellings.

Since 2014, when we last mapped the thousands of apartments raining on the neighborhood, a lot has changed: The title holder for Queens's tallest-tower-to-be has turned over many times; Some developments on the list have finished up, and new ones have been announced. But three years later, the flurry of activity remains. Here, we've mapped developments that are proposed or in progress, meaning that even the many new buildings that recently opened in the neighborhood are omitted here.

Did we miss one? Leave a comment or send a note to the tipline, and we'll gladly add it to the list.