Below-grade work is progressing at 24–19 Jackson Avenue, the site of a 55-story residential skyscraper in the Court Square section of Long Island City, Queens. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Tavros Capital and Charney Companies in partnership with Incoco Capital, the 676-foot-tall structure is slated to yield 600 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space. The 18,000-square-foot property is bound by 45th Avenue to the north, Jackson Avenue to the southeast, and 23rd Street to the west.
Piling machines, excavators, and cement trucks are active on the site while crews assemble rebar and formwork for imminent concrete pouring. Excavation and foundations should continue to unfold over the winter, followed by the rise of the new superstructure potentially by spring.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
24-19 Jackson Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.
The rendering in the main photo depicts the skyscraper’s southwestern elevation, showing its site and scale relative to the Skyline Tower. The structure will begin with a multistory podium spanning the full parcel and topped with a landscaped terrace. Above, the main tower rises uniformly with only a pair of shallow setbacks on the southeastern face. The building culminates in a flat roof and a tall mechanical bulkhead.
The façade will be composed a grid of black paneling framing a reflective glass curtain wall. The bottom half of the tower features a tighter grouping of mullions, while the upper floors have more expansive stretches of glass.
The developers acquired the property from Japanese hotel operator Toyoko Inn for $68.3 million in 2022. The former owner had planned on building a 50-story hotel with 1,200 rooms. The site sat idle and overgrown for some time before crews began clearing it this year.
Chelsea Piers Fitness signed a lease to occupy 72,000 square feet in the building’s podium in a deal brokered by JLL. The facility is slated to feature an outdoor swimming pool, an indoor basketball court, fitness studios, a running track, and athletic training spaces.
YIMBY expects 24–11 Jackson Avenue to be completed between late 2028 to early 2029.
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Finally, some architecture in LIC
I have not visited that part of LIC since the late 90s. Does it feel like a neighborhood yet? Are there sufficient stores and services to support all the new residential construction?
Between here and Hunter’s point is pretty nice. The area by the water is completely transformed and is nice and you should see that view of Manhattan from there. They are really trying but it’s not as integrated and has not become culturally enriched as of yet imho.
Looks really good, but until they figure out how to make their street addresses normal, LIC will be a second-tier neighborhood. Too confusing!
The address system in most of Queens was done after the City of Greater New York became effective on January 1, 1898. I’m now 77 years old and no longer live in the City, although my wife and I fly back every other month to visit from our new home in the middle of nowhere in Phoenix, AZ. Here, in Phoenix, it’s impossible to know what the cross street is from an address. In contrast, Queens has the best system I’ve encountered anywhere, including most of the major cities in the US and elsewhere. I grew up at 51-03 199th St, Flushing 65, NY, which became the 11365 ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) code for the postal zone of Fresh Meadows. The number 51 indicates the avenue that intersects with the street; my house was the second house south of the intersection. The odd number “03” indicates that my house was one of the houses on the east side of the street. Nowadays, it’s in vogue to use the Brooklyn system that doesn’t include the dash, which I hate. So, as a general rule, any time that one has a Queens address, it’s almost as good as a GPS.
Very interesting, Roy – thanks for the explanation!
Roy, although what you wrote is a wonderfully detailed & articulate explanation, I’m afraid it falls on deaf ears because Stanley is going to ask and complain about it again next month. It’s some tired stupid joke he’s been doing for a very long time on this site. See my other comment.
The whole system began as Queens had a number of streets with identical names due to the several towns there prior to consolidation. Every place had a “Main Street.” Numbers were imposed on named streets to eliminate the duplication.
If you want an usual street numbering system, Puebla, Mexico, has even number streets running at right angle to odd number streets. Calle 23 can be far away from Calle 24.
Even in Manhattan, some avenues have house numbers which run faster than others. Also, the even number is not always on the same side of the street.
For the love of god Stanley, why the fuck do you keep repeating that same question and statement in every YIMBY article that talks about a project in LIC or Jamaica, Queens?!? Just like these statements you said before:
“I think Long Island City would be taken more seriously if they could just have normal addresses like everywhere else! These hyphenated numbers seem very shabby, why can’t they settle on ONE number?!” – October 11, 2023 from YIMBY’s update on 25-01 Queens Plaza North
“nice, but why can’t they have normal street addresses in Queens?!?” – July 1, 2024 from YIMBY’s update on 23-15 44th Road
“These dumb address in Long Island City are all I need to see, to know I’m not interested! What’s with the two numbers???” – December 22, 2024 from YIMBY’s update on 23-15 44th Road
“I would NEVER live in LIC because the addresses don’t make sense.” – July 8, 2025 from YIMBY’s update on 23-15 44th Road
“Nicely done, we need more tasteful & affordable work like his in our city! Everything (except the weird address) is fantastic – why is Queens so confusing?” – July 30, 2025 from YIMBY’s update on 166-20 90th Avenue
Don’t play stupid and you know goddamn well that many people have given you legit answers. Yet you seem too retarded to remember, or care to remember. Or you just enjoy acting like such a fuckboy because this is the only chance at getting any attention on this site.
Mark my words, you’re going to say the same fucking shit when YIMBY writes about this for their construction countdown in December. It’s not YIMBY’s job to explain the street numbers. This ain’t a history website. Use ChatGPT next time for fucks sake.
Dude this is like the 100th time you made this same comment. Give it a rest Stanley, seriously. I don’t know what you gain from looking like a jerk.
Funny how you supposedly can’t remember the number of times you asked the same question and make the same dumb comment on the numbered street system, yet you always remember to bring it up on occasions like this. Get a life t.w.a.t.
Must be some twisted humor you have Stanley for always bringing this “issue” of the street number system that’s been around longer than anyone alive today. Only a transplant would constantly complain about this as much as you. Whatever I the reason is, you need to touch grass, stop being a fu.cking coward and answer back.
One thing is for sure, people don’t seem to know when they’re being trolled. The joke is on the person that spent a half hour and twenty F words responding to Stanley. I’m sure he thinks the hysterical outrage is hilarious.
So it’s okay for people like Stanley to contribute nothing of value to the comment section, and for you to instigate & buttress his lack of maturity, but then it’s not okay for actual adults who visit this site to say we’re tired of people like yourselves? What makes you think what he’s doing and what you’re doing are okay?
Such a waste of two human lives.
I’m not sure your reactions are matching the offense here folks.
-NFA, a waste of a human life LOL
Of course you’re unsure, stupid. You and Stanley should find another news outlet with a more degenerate demographic of unserious people like FOX News.
NFA and Stanley, it’s called lack of discipline and not having been hit enough & held accountable enough as a child.
We get it Stanley. You’re a trolling manchild. Go find something better to do with your time.
Okay lunatic.
Deranged pair of f*ckboys you and Stanley are.
Stanley, from your embarrassing track record of making such shabby and dumb comments, you’ll always sound like nothing more than a desperate attention-seeking scum.bag who can only get a laugh out of your sad miserable life by taunting other people that have a higher sense of dignity than you could ever possess.
Your f*ckboy NFA seems to be the only one willing to defend your behavior like MAGA defending everything Epstein and 47 did together.
Not a bad design. For once the holdout on the corner didn’t need to stay.
Michael Young’s photos makes a ‘hole in the ground’ interesting..thank you.
This design looks promising and great! But I wonder how the skyline will change once more buildings get built to the west of the 7 train after the recent LIC rezoning. Do you think the views from here, Skyline Tower, and Lumen would be compromised?
There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth when the view is lost from these “Oh say can you see” apartments.
This area has become the new chinatown.
Sometimes it feels as if LIC., Hudson Yards and Jersey City are competing to win a ‘Dystopian Science-Fiction location’ contest.
It’s a bit peculiar to me how my mere observation that people repeatedly sh*t their pants over Stanley’s obvious trolling over such a esoteric peak-nerd controversy makes me a (to paraphrase) ” a stupid f*ckboy that didn’t get hit enough as a child (wtf?)” like Stanley.
Weird.
I knew there were some Asbergers folks on here but jeez.
Asperger’s, which by the way is spelled with a P, not a B genius…is a stretch. But no so much by thinking Stanley is a classic example of Peter Pan Syndrome. Womp womp.
LIC About to get young and yuppie