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Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in two separate complexes (North and South). [1]
Long Island City: 26 6 3,142 March 15, 1940 the largest public housing complex in the United States. The oldest Public Housing development in Queens: Ravenswood Houses: Long Island City: 31 6 and 7 2,167 July 31, 1951 Redfern Houses: Far Rockaway: 9 6 and 7 604 June 1, 1959 Rehab Program: College Point: Shelton Houses: South Jamaica: 1 12 155 ...
Tenants voted in 2017 to convert the public housing project into private rental units and leave NYCHA management. Residents then set up the Forest Hills Mutual Housing Association to manage the property and sold a portion of the site to nonprofit housing developer Phipps Houses for $8.5 million.
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
When the western part of Queens County was consolidated with New York City in 1898, that area became the Borough of Queens. In 1899, the remaining eastern section of Queens County was split off to form Nassau County on Long Island, thereafter making the borough and county of Queens coextensive with each other.
Pomonok is a working class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.A subsection of Kew Gardens Hills, it is bounded by the Long Island and Horace Harding Expressway to the north, Kissena Boulevard to the west, 164th Street to the east and 73rd Avenue to the south.
South Jamaica Houses is a housing project in South Jamaica, Queens, New York.It is nicknamed "40 Projects." [1] [2] [3] The original complex, South Jamaica I Houses opened in 1940, [4] [5] while the second complex, South Jamaica II Houses, opened in 1954. [4]
Hunter's Point South is a mixed-use development situated on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in 30 acres (120,000 m 2) in Long Island City, the westernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle class, are expected to be developed on the ...