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New Apartment Buildings Coming To 21st Street In Astoria, LIC

A pair of new apartment buildings are set to rise two miles apart on 21st Street in Astoria and Hunters Point, according to city records.

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A drawing of the new building at 46-30 21st St. in Long Island City (left), which will replace the factory building that has long occupied the site (right). A separate building is also planned for 21st Street about two miles north.
A drawing of the new building at 46-30 21st St. in Long Island City (left), which will replace the factory building that has long occupied the site (right). A separate building is also planned for 21st Street about two miles north. (NYC DOB/Lu Ning Architecture)

ASTORIA, QUEENS — A pair of industrial lots two miles apart on 21st Street will soon be redeveloped into residential buildings, according to city records.

Separate developers have filed plans for the new buildings at 27-16 21st St. in Astoria, and at 46-30 21st St., in the Hunters Point area of Long Island City.

Here's what we know about each project.

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27-16 21st St., Astoria

Located just south of Astoria Boulevard, this site is currently home to the Fender Mender collision repair shop.

Owners have not yet filed demolition plans for the existing building at 27-16 21st St., home to Fender Mender collision repair shop. (Google Maps)

The listed owner, Mordechai Schwimmer, filed plans on April 1 for a new eight-story apartment building on the lot, which would stand 84 feet tall and contain 49 apartments, plus 1,000 square feet of retail space.

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The listed architect is Amr Ouda of Jay Architect & Engineering, based in Brooklyn. Schwimmer has not yet filed any demolition plans for the existing auto shop building.

46-30 21st St., Long Island City

Two miles south, meanwhile, developer Chris Xu first filed plans last year for a new nine-story building at 46-30 21st St.

Xu, the founder of United Construction and Development, is also the developer behind Skyline Tower — a residential tower a few blocks away on 44th Drive, that is now Queens's tallest building.

The new building will have 71 apartments, along with 23 parking spaces and ground-floor retail, according to plans filed with the city. (Lu Ning Architecture/NYC DOB)

In December 2020, the longtime owners of the 21st Street site sold it to Xu's company for $13 million in 2020. Currently occupied by a two-story factory building, the lot is in the middle of a busy Hunters Point intersection, sitting diagonally across from MoMA PS1 and next door to a recently built condominium building.

Xu moved to demolish the existing structure in early 2021. Replacing it will be a 71-unit, 95-foot-tall building complete with ground-floor retail and 23 parking spaces.

It will be designed by Lu Ning Architecture, a Flushing-based firm responsible for a number of residential projects around Queens.

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