Long Island City - the living embodiment of a growing city
Manhattan viewed from Long Island City New York City has many neighborhoods that started out as mostly or primarily industrial. One of those is Long Island City, which sits at the western edge of the borough of Queens. It is tucked in between Astoria, Brooklyn, and the East River. Big Allis - The Con Ed Ravenswood generating plant Long Island City was incorporated as an independent city in 1870, a time when Queens County was made up of dozens of individual towns. Access to the East River allowed for the development of factories in LIC, and it served as home to many small industry factories for the next one-hundred years. Cement Factory In 1898, LIC surrendered its independence and joined New York City. The Queensboro (59th Street) Bridge was constructed, and three subway lines linked it to center of NYC. Much of the area remained an industrial hub through the 1990’s, although the scale of production decreased after the 1970’s. Jet Blue Headquarters In the early 1990’...