Long Island City, Queens: the East River Waterfront, Vernon Boulevard and Court Square

Socrates Sculpture Park is at 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11106, and NYC Parks lists it at 6.28 acres under the park ID Q465. The Noguchi Museum is at 9-01 33rd Road, at Vernon Boulevard, in a repurposed 1920s industrial building. Rainey Park covers 8.09 acres in ZIP 11106, under the park ID Q048; NYC Parks records that the project was backed by citizens of Long Island City, and that the park carries the name of Dr. Thomas Rainey (1824-1910), a resident of Ravenswood. NYC Parks also records that the Queens East River and North Shore Greenway, completed in portions in 2013, linked Queens waterfront parks including Queensbridge Park, Rainey Park and Socrates Sculpture Park.

Queensbridge Park covers 20.86 acres in ZIP 11101, and NYC Parks assigns it to Community Boards 1 and 2 together. South of Queens Plaza, Gantry Plaza State Park is at 4-44 47th Road, and New York State Parks describes it as a 12-acre riverside oasis. Hunter's Point South Park runs along Center Boulevard between 50th Avenue and 2nd Street. Andrews Grove sits at the intersection of 49th Avenue, 5th Street and Vernon Boulevard, on land NYC Parks records as acquired by condemnation for the approach to the Pulaski Bridge.

MoMA PS1 is at 22-25 Jackson Avenue, in a historic nineteenth-century public school building that was decommissioned as a public school in 1963. The exhibition Rooms opened there in 1976, and the institution became an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art in 2000; its Warm Up series began in 1998, and its Young Architects Program ran from 1999 to 2019. SculptureCenter is at 44-19 Purves Street.

NYC Parks records that Dutch Kills joined Astoria Village, Hunter's Point, Ravenswood, Middletown and Blissville to form Long Island City in 1870, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the Court Square courthouse dates the state legislature's approval of the area's incorporation as a township to May 6 of that year. Ravenswood Playground, 2.76 acres in ZIP 11106, is named after Ravenswood, which NYC Parks calls "the shoreside Long Island City neighborhood in which it resides." Dutch Kills Playground covers 2.40 acres and carries ZIPs 11101 and 11106. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the New York Architectural Terra Cotta Works Building, at 42-10 to 42-16 Vernon Boulevard, places that building in what it calls "the once rural Ravenswood area of Queens (now Long Island City)."

On Queens Plaza, the Bank of the Manhattan Company Building stands at 29-27 Queens Plaza North, also addressed as 29-27 41st Avenue and 29-39 Northern Blvd; the Landmarks Preservation Commission places it in the Dutch Kills section of Long Island City. The New York State Supreme Court's Queens County, Long Island City branch is at 25-10 Court Square. Silvercup Studios keeps its main lot at 42-22 22nd Street and its east lot at 34-02 Starr Avenue.

South of the plaza, the Hunters Point Historic District runs along 45th Avenue between 21st and 23rd Streets, and the Pepsi-Cola Sign stands at 4-09 47th Road. The firehouse of Fire Engine Co. 258 and Hook & Ladder 115 is at 10-40 47th Avenue, also addressed as 10-38 to 10-40 47th Avenue. The Long Island City branch of the Queens Public Library is at 37-44 21 Street, on (718) 752-3700; Court Square Diner is at 45-30 23rd St; and the New York Irish Center is at 1040 Jackson Avenue.

NYC Ferry's Long Island City landing is at 46th Avenue and Center Boulevard, on the East River shoreline the neighborhood's waterfront parks run along.

The New York Irish Center, at 1040 Jackson Avenue, gives its own directions as one stop from Grand Central on the 7 train. The Long Island City branch of the Queens Public Library, at 37-44 21 Street, answers on (718) 752-3700.

By road and rail from Manhattan, the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge is addressed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission to 11th Street and Bridge Plaza North and Bridge Plaza South; the New York City Department of Transportation gives the bridge's total length including the approaches as 7,449 feet. The approach to the Pulaski Bridge takes in land at Andrews Grove, at the intersection of 49th Avenue, 5th Street and Vernon Boulevard.