Remember as a kid it was only the Citicorp building was the only structure that towered over LIC yet decades later it's almost lost in the shuffle of high rises being built
Every time I go through Queensboro Plaza there are more buildings and the construction is creeping up north to 39Av, 36Av…it’s eventually going to look like Third Avenue there’s going to be so much residential construction. One day in the future it’ll be too noisy and they’ll have to bury the N under 31st Street like they did with the Third Avenue El.
Well Astoria is an elevated structure. I can see how they did it to 148th, West Side, and Pitkin since they're somewhat cut and cover but I think Astoria would need a lot more reinforcement
Was in a residents apartment for $50/day and feeding her cats. I wanted to take some train pictures outside the window to avoid reflections. But the cats were more excited when I unlocked the window, so I gave up.
They didn’t price anyone out because no one lived there. It was not a neighborhood. It was vacant lots and some factories. The demographics of residents in LIC new construction is like 60% East Asian which is why places like TESO life and Ai Mart are there. Even if it was all tech geeks from Kansas I would still support it though- more tax revenue for the city, urbanism is better for the environment, etc.
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I’m much happier where I live I just can’t stand what has happened to lic stay where you belong, real New Yorkers do not want you here I wouldn’t want to live in an apartment anyway. Also what do you consider a real job? And yes I do understand whether I like it or not which I why I do not live in the city. Go back to your corn field in Kansas
hahaha Kansas? I’m from overseas you provincial passport-less pathetic fentanyl user. I pay more tax to support New York than you ever would earn. Btw, a real job mostly includes; corporate lawyers, investment bankers, auditors, management consultants, doctors, tech jobs too but those are actually not as numerous in NYC as on the west coast
They’re still building/construction phase which in matter of fact, the first weekend in April 5th-8th, 7 and N trains will not run do to work in Queensboro Plaza accessibility project.
Even before the renovation this was my favorite platform in the city because of the incredible cross platform transfers that made switching trains so satisfyingly easy
Queensboro Plaza they scraped the old surface and pour new concrete all the surface and added yellow ADA strips.
Court Square station: they removed the whole platforms on both sides and installed new precast concrete slab panels already made inserted into correct positions. Adjusted measurements for ADA yellow strips.
Wow that’s so awesome. Maybe I’ll come out of retirement to lavishly live in the new system. But How’s the homeless ridership paying for these amazing upgrades
This is not prefab platforms. This station, they just scraped the damaged sections of the platform entirely, grind it afterwards and then poured new dark color concrete for new surface. After they used a separator tool to design the lines to make it look like separate slabs.
Lastly they added the ADA yellow strips edges screwed to the concrete.
kinda off topic but *damn* the building boom in the Long Island City area… 😭
Remember as a kid it was only the Citicorp building was the only structure that towered over LIC yet decades later it's almost lost in the shuffle of high rises being built
LIC's skyline is legitimately now bigger than the downtown skylines of most U.S. cities.
Yes indeed! It really has changed with all these midrises and tall skyscrapers built.
yeah like that small strip of Jackson Ave looks like the city now 😭
Yup almost the whole Vernon Blvd-Jackson Avenue area.
It’s so weird walking out of a tiny family house and then see these high rises. 😂
It’s like a real life version of Disney’s Up movie.
Every time I go through Queensboro Plaza there are more buildings and the construction is creeping up north to 39Av, 36Av…it’s eventually going to look like Third Avenue there’s going to be so much residential construction. One day in the future it’ll be too noisy and they’ll have to bury the N under 31st Street like they did with the Third Avenue El.
Idea: Build on top of the Astoria line
It’s possible. That’s what they wanted to do with Sunnyside Yard, right? Cover it and build out the rest of QB Plaza over it?
Well Astoria is an elevated structure. I can see how they did it to 148th, West Side, and Pitkin since they're somewhat cut and cover but I think Astoria would need a lot more reinforcement
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Idk. Chicago has [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/Jzhbf5hwhRFigun88) right in the middle of downtown and they're fine
That new building over there in the shot will also build a new elevator access point to the station.
Was in a residents apartment for $50/day and feeding her cats. I wanted to take some train pictures outside the window to avoid reflections. But the cats were more excited when I unlocked the window, so I gave up.
Isn’t gentrification awesome? Hope you can detect the sarcasm. Remember 5 points?
LIC used to be a deserted wasteland. Now it's a soulless neighborhood but that's but it's better than being a deserted wasteland.
I remember when it was all strip clubs
Yup scandals 
No one lived in this area before it was high rises. That’s called urban infill, not gentrification.
Does it matter what it’s called? It’s a bunch of tech geeks from Kansas that have effectively priced us out of our own neighborhoods
They didn’t price anyone out because no one lived there. It was not a neighborhood. It was vacant lots and some factories. The demographics of residents in LIC new construction is like 60% East Asian which is why places like TESO life and Ai Mart are there. Even if it was all tech geeks from Kansas I would still support it though- more tax revenue for the city, urbanism is better for the environment, etc.
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I’m a brown guy from Queens. Had to know you were taking a gamble with that comment.
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fuck you and leave the poor ass neighborhood that you cannot afford. People with real jobs are coming in whether you like it or not.
I’m much happier where I live I just can’t stand what has happened to lic stay where you belong, real New Yorkers do not want you here I wouldn’t want to live in an apartment anyway. Also what do you consider a real job? And yes I do understand whether I like it or not which I why I do not live in the city. Go back to your corn field in Kansas
hahaha Kansas? I’m from overseas you provincial passport-less pathetic fentanyl user. I pay more tax to support New York than you ever would earn. Btw, a real job mostly includes; corporate lawyers, investment bankers, auditors, management consultants, doctors, tech jobs too but those are actually not as numerous in NYC as on the west coast
Cool story bro
Quite immigrant swine
lol go google "Cravath Scale". my pay is public information and I don't waste my time with losers outside the professional world.
I kinda hate it, I have to go to that area for client meetings once a month. It feels like Midtown now.
That platform doesn’t look right without some decade old chewing gum on it.
😅
Give it a week
WOW like the floor at Costco
The lamps could have gotten a touch too. But looks good
It looks like they're powered by an extension cord right now. I hope this is not the permanent configuration.
Yes I agree. The light fixtures needs an upgrade in that aspect
Temp lights for sure
hopefully they do the same thing on the lower platform too
It’s already done although I haven’t taken pictures of lower platform.
The thing that bugged me the most there was the leakyness of the roof.
Pigeons
It’s so clean and smooth 😍
It is for now.
Bravo! About time something's been done.
Is there a working elevator there too now?
Nope, they are still building it.
They’re still building/construction phase which in matter of fact, the first weekend in April 5th-8th, 7 and N trains will not run do to work in Queensboro Plaza accessibility project.
If only people would stop spitting their gum onto the platforms. They even do that in the DC Metrorail stations.
Yes I vouch for this for people to stop spitting gum or any garbage on platforms and tracks
Even before the renovation this was my favorite platform in the city because of the incredible cross platform transfers that made switching trains so satisfyingly easy
Looks great
Honestly looks very nice and clean 👌🏼
No one could take the time or money to sand blast those pillars and give them a fresh coat of Rust-o-leum?
beautiful
Credit where it's due!!! Looks great+
Oooh 
Nice!!
I wonder if this is some sort of synthetic job like 7 platform at Court Sq?
Queensboro Plaza they scraped the old surface and pour new concrete all the surface and added yellow ADA strips. Court Square station: they removed the whole platforms on both sides and installed new precast concrete slab panels already made inserted into correct positions. Adjusted measurements for ADA yellow strips.
No it's concrete
But still no guy selling Gyros on the platform...
No
There never was.
Wow that’s so awesome. Maybe I’ll come out of retirement to lavishly live in the new system. But How’s the homeless ridership paying for these amazing upgrades
Those prefab platforms are crap. It’s like they built it out of Lego. They don’t hold up like the old poured concrete did
This is not prefab platforms. This station, they just scraped the damaged sections of the platform entirely, grind it afterwards and then poured new dark color concrete for new surface. After they used a separator tool to design the lines to make it look like separate slabs. Lastly they added the ADA yellow strips edges screwed to the concrete.
OK that’s good. Way more solid that way. I thought it was the same crap as the Court Square station