The Orchard

42-02 Orchard Street | Long Island City | built 2025

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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2022
March
Lloyd Goldman files plans for a Long Island City residential skyscraper
Goldman submitted plans to the Department of Buildings in March 2022 for a tower on the lot bounded by Jackson Avenue, Orchard Street and Queens Street, one block from Queens Plaza. Perkins Eastman designed it and BLDG Management developed it, and construction began the same year. The tower topped out in July 2024.
Source: Wikipedia
2025
The Orchard opens as the tallest building in Queens at 823 feet
The 69-story tower holds 824 apartments, 200 of them affordable, above a retail podium and a two-level underground garage with 208 spaces. Its 100,000 square feet of amenities include pools, theaters, a basketball court and a dog pit. Only the 1,066-foot Brooklyn Tower is taller among New York City buildings outside Manhattan.
Source: Wikipedia

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