Queens: The New Manhattan?

Queens Plaza, in Long Island City, looks like it may be the perfect home for rapidly expanding New York businesses.

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October 28, 2001, 8:00 AM PST

"...The Group of 35, a coalition of developers, commercial tenants and government officials spearheaded by Senator Charles Schumer, identified Long Island City as "an ideal location for creating a new central business district." The areas chief merits: proximity to midtown Manhattan and superb transit access, to be bolstered by a commuter rail station that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to build atop the Sunnyside rail yards by 2011."

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FULL STORY: Queen's High Card

Thursday, October 25, 2001 in Grid Magazine

Community / Economic Development New York

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