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QueensLatest Stories

close up view of brown slatted building amid a marshland
Shrek Approved

Environmental center by Handel Architects opens in Jamaica Bay marshlands

The sprawling averne east housing complex, with solar panels on top of buildings
Rockaway Resiliency

New York’s Rockaway Peninsula will be home to the city’s first net-zero development

rendering of retail and dining concourse
Nearing Take-Off

Gensler will design the new $9.5 billion mega-terminal at JFK International Airport

Double negative, a large earthen channel carved into a mesa with a man standing inside
Slippery When Wet

Daily digest: A $1 billion solar farm is scrapped over land art impact, Queens’ tallest tower is complete, and more

Inside of a home renovated by Office of Things
Little Touches

A smart Queens remodel from Office of Things revels in the mundane

The capitol building, soon to be without confederate monuments?
Buyer Beware

Daily digest: The House votes to remove Confederate monuments from the Capitol, London’s V&A East is delayed again, and more

rendering of a proposed park in Sunnyside Yard in NYC
Sunny Days Ahead?

Master plan for Sunnyside Yard megadevelopment places affordable housing front and center

A render of a streetcar waiting at a platform.
Moving Forward

NYC launches new website outlining timeline and process for the BQX streetcar

Interior of an Amazon packing warehouse
Cost and Cost and Cost versus Benefit

New York’s original offer for Amazon HQ2 included an extra $800 million

A gray building with glass cut-aways in Hunters Point
Shelf Life

[Updated] Hunters Point Library facing maintenance issues after opening

Aerial photo of the Long Island City site considered by Amazon
Basin-Based

Plans for ex-Amazon site in Queens aim to move forward with the community in mind

Close up image of concrete towers with observation platforms, seen through uncovered tent structure that makes up the New York State Pavilion
Lights, Camera, Action!

The concrete towers of the New York State Pavilion are ready for restoration

Photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gesturing in front of building to a crowd
House of AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps launch green affordable housing complex in Queens

Photo of rows upon rows of cardboard boxes being packed in a warehouse
Mapping the Amazon

Amazon may have canceled its NYC headquarters, but its footprint is everywhere

Photo of Meeting art installation
Just the Scaffolding

Queens towers interrupt the view at MoMA PS1’s James Turrell installation

Rendering of One Court Square tower with an Amazon logo
Prime Benefits?

New York’s proposal for Amazon’s HQ2 is much worse than we thought

Long Island City and Manhattan from Sunnyside, one of the neighborhoods expected to face rent increases if the HQ2 plans bear out.
Look on the Sunnyside

Amazon to split HQ2 between New York and Virginia, but can they handle it?

Rendering of Snøhetta's Far Rockaway Library
Check It Out

Snøhetta to design a sunset-hued library in Far Rockaway, Queens

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