Queens Plaza Park, Residential tower in Long Island City, United States.
Queens Plaza Park is a glass residential tower in Long Island City, Queens, rising 71 floors with close to a thousand apartments. The facade is fully glazed, and each unit has floor-to-ceiling windows that open the interior to broad views of the surrounding area.
The site once held the Chase Manhattan Bank Building, erected in 1927, which stood as the tallest commercial building in Queens for decades. When the current tower was built, that older structure was kept and folded into the new construction rather than demolished.
Queens Plaza Park sits in Long Island City, a neighborhood that has shifted over the years from light industry to a place where many different kinds of people now live. A share of the apartments is rented at below-market rates, which makes the building more socially mixed than many others nearby.
The building stands next to Queens Plaza in Long Island City, a short trip from Midtown Manhattan by subway. Shared facilities such as the pool and fitness areas are reserved for residents and are not open to outside visitors.
Residents can adjust the tint of their windows through a smartphone app, controlling both privacy and the amount of light entering the apartment without any blinds or curtains. They can also take part in lighting the exterior facade through a digital art platform called Spireworks, letting them shape how the building looks from the street at night.
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