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TF Cornerstone’s Two-Towered, 1,197-Unit 52-10 Center Boulevard Officially Breaks Ground In Hunters Point South, Long Island City


Hunter's Point South Redesign rendering, courtesy TF Cornerstone

The official groundbreaking ceremony for TF Cornerstone‘s two-towered 52-10 Center Boulevard in Hunters Point South, Long Island City will be held today. In addition to over 1,000 new apartments, the project will give rise to what will temporarily become the tallest skyscraper on Queens’ East River waterfront. Fresh renderings have also been released, revealing additional exterior details of the buildings as well as the landscaped greenery and waterfront esplanade.

The larger tower will stand 587 feet to its rooftop with a total scope just shy of 800,000 square feet. There will be 800 apartments located within its 56 floors, as well as a 600-seat elementary school. The combined high-rises will yield 1,197 apartments, and 800 of those units will be affordable housing.

While the burgeoning plans for the site are certainly impressive, additional redevelopment in the vicinity has been temporarily stifled thanks to local opposition to Amazon’s HQ2, which would have resulted in several new towers rising on adjacent lots to the north of 52-10 Center Boulevard. For the time being, plans for land that what would have become Amazon’s HQ2 have seemingly returned to the drawing board.

A completion date for 52-10 Center Boulevard has not been formally announced yet, but with work now underway, a 2021-2022 estimate would not be unreasonable.

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