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By John Roleke, About.com Guide to Queens, NY since 2003

Living in Hunters Point, Long Island City

Sunday January 23, 2005
The word is out about Long Island City - one subway stop from Midtown, more than a couple stops away from Manhattan housing prices. The Queens West towers brought in luxury housing (or at least skyscraper living). Plus there are restaurants, P.S. 1, and Gantry State Park to enjoy.

But most of this buzz is actually about a single neighborhood in Long Island City - Hunters Point, the section where western Queens meets Brooklyn at the East River, south of the 59th Street Bridge. It's the neighborhood with the Citibank Tower. The term "Long Island City" covers a much larger area, including Queens Plaza, Queensboro, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Blissville, and technically even Sunnyside, Astoria and Steinway.

Hunters Point is still an industrial area (where major redevelopment means major clean-up), but the handwriting is on the wall in the form of signs announcing condominiums to be built in former warehouses.

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