Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a residential and commercial neighborhood on the extreme western tip of Queens, a borough in New York City in the United States. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; New Calvary Cemetery in Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek—which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn—to the south.Photo: Youngking11, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter with 25,600 residents
- Description: neighbourhood in Queens, New York City, USA
- Postal codes: 11101, 11109 and 11120
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queensboro Bridge, officially named the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City.
MoMA PS1
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States.
Belmont Island
Photo: Farawayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
U Thant Island is a small artificial island or islet in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Localities in the Area
Sunnyside
Photo: Dialt0ne, Public domain.
Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
Greenpoint
Photo: Jleon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.
Lenox Hill
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
40°46′08″N 73°57′43″W / 40.769°N 73.962°W 1st Avenue in Lenox HillLenox Hill is a neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Lenox Hill is situated 2½ km north of Long Island City and Astoria.
Long Island City and Astoria
- Categories: neighbourhood and locality
- Location: Queens County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.74553° or 40° 44' 44" northLongitude
-73.9485° or 73° 56' 55" westPopulation
25,600Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
ECCUnited Nations Location Code
US XHOOpen Location Code
87G8P3W2+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 158842914OpenStreetMap Feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
5125125Wikidata ID
Q1190597Long Island City and Astoria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: لونغ آيلاند سيتي
- Arabic: لونغ اسلاند سيتي
- Armenian: LIC
- Armenian: Լոնգ Այլենդ Սիթի
- Basque: Long Island City
- Cebuano: Long Island City
- Chinese: 長島市
- Chinese: 长岛市
- Danish: Long Island City
- Dutch: Long Island City
- English: LIC
- English: Long Island
- English: Long Island City, New York City
- English: Long Island City, Queens
- English: Long Island City
- Esperanto: Longinsulurbo
- Estonian: Long Island City
- French: Long Island City
- German: Long Island City
- Hebrew: לונג איילנד סיטי
- Ido: Long Island City
- Interlingua: Long Island City
- Italian: Long Island City
- Japanese: ロングアイランドシティ
- Japanese: ロングアイランド・シティ
- Japanese: ロング・アイランド・シティ
- Japanese: ロング・アイランド・シティ地区
- Korean: L. I. C.
- Korean: 롱아일랜드시티
- Korean: 롱 아일랜드 시티
- Korean: 롱아일랜드 시티
- Norwegian: Long Island City
- Norwegian Bokmål: Long Island City
- Persian: long island city
- Persian: لانگ آیلند سیتی
- Portuguese: Long Island City
- Russian: Лонг-Айленд-Сити
- South Azerbaijani: لانق آیلند سیتی
- Spanish: Long Island City
- Spanish: Long Island City (Queens)
- Swedish: Long Island City
- Turkish: Long Island City
- Urdu: لانگ آئلینڈ سٹی
- Vietnamese: Long Island City
- Yiddish: לאנג איילענד סיטי
- Blissville
- Dutch Kills
- Hunter's Point
- Middletown
In the Area
- Hunters PointNeighbourhood
- Blissville YardLocality
- BlissvilleNeighbourhood
- Greenpoint LandingNeighbourhood
- Roosevelt IslandNeighbourhood
- Harold InterlockingLocality
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