Out-of-Borough Experience: The Cranes of Long Island City

We do sometimes cross the Brooklyn border, and having done so a couple of times in recent days, we'll be featuring a couple of out-of-borough items, like these images of the massive construction site at Queens West in Long Island City. There are currently two buildings under construction there (going up at astounding speed). The crane on the left is the one putting up the Avalon Riverview North tower. The one on the right is working on one of Rockrose Development's East Coast Long Island City buildings, a development that will include five luxury residential towers by 2010, at which point, formerly desolate LIC won't be quite so desolate anymore.