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Skyline Tower, previously known as Court Square City View Tower, is a residential skyscraper in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City. [1] [2] The building topped out in October 2019, surpassing One Court Square to become the tallest building in Queens at 762 feet (232 m). [3]
At 811 feet (247 m), The Orchard, a residential skyscraper in Long Island City, is the tallest building in Queens, and the second tallest building in New York City outside of Manhattan. [1] It surpassed the nearby 763-foot (233 m) Skyline Tower , which was Queens' tallest building from 2021 to 2024, and remains the tallest residential building ...
The expanding skyline of Long Island City in Queens, ... Long Island City (LIC) is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens.
Chris Jiashu Xu (Chinese: 徐家树; born in 1967) is a Chinese real estate developer.He is the founder and president of United Construction & Development Group, through which he developed Skyline Tower, the tallest skyscraper in Queens, New York City, and in all of New York State outside of Manhattan from 2019 until 2021.
Long Island has few tall buildings, in contrast to neighboring New York City. Long Island's identity as the birthplace of suburbia involves a desire to maintain the opposite of an urban landscape, with a flat landscape where high-rises are seen to be eyesores that clash with their surroundings, and even three-story buildings can provoke opposition.
The Orlando skyline. The Washington Post/Contributor via Getty Images. Entertainment and food rank: 1. Costs rank: 53. Safety and accessibility rank: 89. Total score: 68.03. 1. New York City.
The Orchard is a residential skyscraper located at 27-48 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.At 823 feet (251 m) tall, The Orchard is the tallest building in Queens, as well as the second-tallest building in New York City outside of Manhattan, behind the 1,066-foot (325 m) Brooklyn Tower.
Water's Edge was a restaurant on barges moored in the East River on the Long Island City waterfront in Queens, New York that operated from 1983 to 2015. Located at the foot of 44th Drive between Anable Basin and the Queensboro Bridge, the restaurant had a panoramic view of the Midtown Manhattan skyline and was a popular wedding venue.