Long Island City Walking Tour in Queens (Private)

Welcome to Queens – a most diverse place on Earth!

Duration

2 Hours

About

• Delve into Queens with an excursion through Long Island City – one of NYC’s hottest new neighbor-hoods. In recent years this rapidly-growing district has been revealed as a blooming gem.

• A transformation is deep underway, and it’s astonishing: a vast forgotten industrial zone being revital-ized from the ground up - turning into a top place to live, work and play. Old factories and infrastruc-ture are now giving way to parks, hi-rise towers and cultural institutions.

• Experience Long Island City’s unique vibe on a walk through the neighborhood. Feel the scale of the infrastructure that defines western Queens – a maze of tracks, bridges and trains. Then see raw indus-try transition into sleek modern housing. Check out established and newly budding cultural institu-tions. Stroll through one of the NYC’s top urban parks, and enjoy the breathtaking panoramic views of Midtown Manhattan. Plus discover a secret, unexpected urban oasis!

• Take this all in while learning about the area’s history (a tale of boom-and-bust industry); and the ex-tent of its current urban renewal. Can you guess which common supermarket product has left an in-delible impact on the revitalized waterfront?

• By the end of this tour you will have experienced a unique off-the-beaten-track district just minutes from Manhattan; and you will have discovered why Queens is quickly and quietly becoming the new cool!