2017 LIC BID Annual Report View Report
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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 718.786.5300 licqns.com Long Island City Things to see and do Visit Shop Eat and drink Relax and play New York City’s largest cluster of art LIC offers a diversity of unique shops. LIC has a wide variety of restaurants and There are many wonderful parks and institutions and museums outside LIC’s central retail strip is Vernon cafes offering an array of world cuisines plazas in the area for relaxation and of Manhattan is in LIC. LIC’s artistic Boulevard (B7). Look out for stores at every level of dining, as well as a great play. Perhaps the grandest among and cultural offerings include fine along Jackson Avenue (D7), the eastern selection of unique bars. them is Gantry Plaza State Park and art, at places like MoMA PS1 (D7), portion of Queens Plaza (E5), and in Hunters Point South Park (A7), which SculptureCenter (E6) and Noguchi Sunnyside (H7). Many places to eat and drink are located offer ample seating and spectacular Museum (E1); theater, at venues like the on Vernon Boulevard (B7) and Jackson waterfront views of Midtown Manhattan. Chocolate Factory Theater (B7) and Avenue (D7), 44 Drive (D6), Queens Secret Theatre (D6); and film, at the Plaza (E5), and 36 Avenue (G4). Gantry Plaza State Park also is home to Museum of the Moving Image (H4). the famous Pepsi-Cola sign (B6), which occupies the former site of a Pepsi-Cola factory. Enjoy ferries, food, dog runs, playgrounds and quiet spaces. A One grid square represents B East Harlem C D Lighthouse Park E F Astoria Park30 Drive G H Robert F. approximately 7 minutes walk Kennedy Bridge 1 North John Jay Park 30 Road 1 Hunter Socrates College 72 St Sculpture 68 St E 73 Street Park Astoria Health Hunter College Playground 30 Drive Athens Square Manhattan E 72 Street Waterfront Newtown Avenue Greenway Octagon Park Park Avenue 30 Av Armory 31 Avenue York Avenue Broadway Noguchi 30 Avenue Museum 31 Road Rainey Park FDR Drive 31 Drive Manhattan 2 Manhattan Park Lawn Main Street 2 St. Catherine’s Park 34 Avenue 9 Street E 68 Street Ravenswood Broadway New York- 10 Street Presbyterian Roosevelt 11 Street E 67 Street Hospital Island Access to 33 Avenue Promenade Roosevelt Island 12 Street Central Park Central 31 Avenue 13 Street Astoria E 66 Street 33 Road 14 Street 3 Avenue Roosevelt Island E 65 Street Bridge 23 Street Ravenswood Playground 21 Street Pedestrian and 34 Avenue E 64 Street bike access 2 Avenue Rockefeller Roosevelt University Broadway East Roosevelt Vernon Boulevard E 63 Street Island Promenade Broadway Island 36 Avenue Tramway 1 Avenue 3 E 62 Street West 3 Roosevelt Island Spirit Playground 35 Avenue Crescent Street Channel Library Rivercross 28 Street E 61 Street Lawn York Avenue East River 37 Avenue 29 Street Esplanade Blackwell House Twenty-Four 30 Street Pedestrian and Sycamores Park bike access 36 Avenue 31 Street Roosevelt E 59 Street East 34 Avenue Island Blackwell 32 Street Park Ravenswood Channel Generating 38 Avenue Southtown 33 Street E 58 Street Common Station 37 Avenue Queens 34 Street Queens 35 Street E 57 Street Queensboro Roosevelt East River Bridge Island Greenway Roosevelt Long Island City 36 Street Vernon Boulevard Island 40 Avenue Library Dutch Kills Kaufman Tramway E 56 Street Roosevelt 38 Avenue Playground Astoria 4 9 Street 4 Island Service to Studios Steinway St Queens 36 Av E 55 Street Tramway Manhattan 10 Street Manhattan Museum of the Steinway Street Waterfront Brooklyn 11 Street Moving Image Greenway 39 Avenue E 54 Street Queensbridge Park 12 Street 13 Street Dutch Kills E 53 Street Queensboro Queensbridge Playground Bridge Library 21 Street 40 Avenue 36 Avenue Thirty Five E 52 Street UA Kaufman 22 Street Astoria Cinemas Southwest 21 St Queensbridge 23 Street Fisher Landau Promenade New York Center for Art Roosevelt Architectural 24 Street 28 Street Steinway Street 41 Avenue Island Terra Cotta Works Queensbridge Promenade Baby Park Crescent Street 29 Street 39 Av 5 New York 27 Street 5 Vernon Boulevard Southpoint Park Power Authority 43 Avenue St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic 31 Street Steinway St Power Plant 9 Street Queens Plaza North Flux Church 36 St Factory 37 Street 38 Street 32 Street 43 Road 36 Street 10 Street 33 Street 34 Street ConEdison Renwick Northern Boulevard Midtown Learning Center Brooklyn Grange Smallpox Queens Plaza Materials for the Arts Hospital Rooftop Farm at 12 Street at the Center Building Building 40 Road Standard Motor Products Building 13 Street Silvercup Studios Long Island City JetBlue sign 42 Road Pedestrian and bike access Clocktower Honeywell Street 44 Avenue 22 Street Queensboro Plaza Plaza Long Island Long Island City 23 Street 2 Gotham 39 Street FDR Four City 44 Road Art Center Dutch Kills Freedoms Park 44 Drive Secret Theatre 24 Street Center Green 6 6 Crescent St Queens Plaza 44 Drive Service to Center West St Manhattan Boulevard Sunnyside Brooklyn CUNY Orchard St East River 45 Avenue Dorsky Gallery School Hunter Street Curatorial Programs of Law Queens Boulevard Yards Lou Lodati Queens St Playground Citicorp Building Dutch Kills St 45 Road Murray One Court Square Skillman Avenue Playground Purves St Court Square Pepsi-Cola 46 Avenue 46 Road Library Sign Vernon Boulevard SculptureCenter Gantry Plaza 43 Avenue State Park Vernon Boulevard Court Sq-23 St Sunnyside 47 Avenue Thomson Avenue Thomson Avenue MoMA PS1 Bridge Mural 33 St- Skillman Avenue Long Island Rawson St Queens Boulevard 47 Road 21 St City YMCA 7 New York State 7 Hunter’s Point Chocolate Jackson Avenue Supreme Court LaGuardia Community Park Factory Queens County Queens Boulevard Theater 11 Street Community 40 St-Lowery St College LaGuardia Hunter’s Point Long Island Performing Gantry 27 Street 28 Street Arts Center South Park St. Mary’s Austell Place Hunters Andrews Roman Catholic d Grove lv Jackson Avenue Midtown East 34 Street Church B 50 Avenue r Point Hunterspoint Av Pearson Place e t Hunters Point Av n 51 Avenue 47 Avenue e Hunters Point Vernon 21 Street Factory South C Pedestrian and Falchi Mall Vernon Blvd- bike access Davis Court LIC 49 Avenue LIRR Building Indoor Jackson Av Dear BID Members, Extreme Sports Borden Avenue Skillman Avenue Park Corona 5 St New York 47 Avenue Thomas P. Irish Center Noonan, Jr. Service to This past year has been a banner year for the LIC BID and LIC. With the effort of so many29 Street in 30 Street Thalia Playground Manhattan Long Island City Lon 30 Place g 31 Street City Ice Flushing Meadows- Isla Dutch Kills Brooklyn Old Hickory the community,nd E and especially Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, the LIC BID was finally 31 Place Spanish xpre Van Dam Street Pavilion Park Pedestrian 51 Avenue sswa Theatre access y 48 Avenue 33 Street 8 expanded, almost doubling in size. 34 Street 8 54 Avenue LIRR 50 Avenue 35 Street Hunters Point Avenue 36 Street 53 Avenue 37 Street 38 Street In theBorden following Avenue pages we will highlight the LIC BID and invite you to explore our four Key 39 Street Welcome 39 Place 48 Avenue 40 Street Corridors with their many local attractions, including great27 Street restaurants, retail and cultural Pulaski Bridge 43 Street 44 Street sites. We will tell you all about our ongoing BID Services, remind you to Shop Local LIC, and Hunters Point Avenue 45 Street Newtown Creek 46 Street Greenpoint Avenue 2 Street Manhattan Avenue update you on the many ways to Experience LIC. Finally, we look at LIC by the Numbers Street End Park Pedestrian and track some of the significant changes happening in and around the district. access Greenpoint Avenue Greenpoint Be sure to sign up at licqns.com for updates throughout the year and to access extensive 50 Avenue Ash Street information about the neighborhood. A Greenpoint, Williamsburg B C Williamsburg D E F G Calvary Cemetery H Dumbo, Financial District Brooklyn We look forward to working with our community and business partners to serve this growing area, and we extend our warmest welcome to all new members of the BID. Sincerely, Visitor destinations Retail areas Parks and plazas Public transit Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm/ G5 Long Island Gantry B7 Roosevelt Island Tramway B3 36 Avenue G4 Astoria Health Playground F1 Queensbridge Park C4 21 St C7 Roosevelt Island Tramway B4 Standard Motor Products Building MoMA PS1 D6 SculptureCenter E6 Broadway H3 Athens Square H1 Rainey Park E1 21 St-Queensbridge D4 Steinway St H4 Center Building/Materials for the Arts F5 Museum of the Moving Image H4 See Exhibition Space E6 Center Boulevard B6 Blackwell Park C3 Ravenswood Playground F2 33 St-Rawson St F6 Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av C7 Chocolate Factory Theater B7 New York Architectural C4 Silvercup Studios D5 Greenpoint Avenue H8 Dutch Kills Green E6 Southpoint Park B5 36 Av G4 Citicorp Building One Court Square D6 Terra Cotta Works Socrates Sculpture Park E1 Jackson Avenue D7 Dutch Kills Playground F3 Spirit Playground E3 36 Street G5 Citi Bike Station Clocktower Plaza F5 New York Irish Center C7 Thalia Spanish Theatre H8 Queens Boulevard G7 FDR Four Freedoms Park A5 St. Catherine’s Park B2 39 Av F5 Citi Bike is a convenient solution for quick Court Square Library D6 New York Power Authority Power Plant C5 TransCanada Power Plant Elizabeth LusskinD3 Queens PlazaDavid Brause E5 Gantry Plaza State Park B6 Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. Playground H7 40 St-Lowery St H7 trips around New York City. With thousands of Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs C6 New York-Presbyterian Hospital B2 UA Kaufman Astoria CinemasExecutive Director,H4 Steinway StreetChairman, H4 Hunter’s Point Community Park B7 Twenty-Four Sycamores Park B3 68 St-Hunter College A1 bikes at hundreds of stations, members can unlock a bike at any station, ride, and return it Fisher Landau Center for Art F4 New York State Supreme Court D6 Vernon Boulevard C6 Hunter’s Point South Park A7 Broadway G2 LIC BID LIC BID to any station.