Long Island City’s unstoppable development boom, mapped

These developments are 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 2017 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 Tishman Speyer's Jackson Park and Jerry Wolkoff's 5 Pointz-replacing 1,115 rental development, and that already accounts for thousands of new dwellings.

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.