So many new buildings are rising up in the once decrepit area of Long Island City near Queensboro Plaza. If you (like me) consider our society’s pace of expansion to be unsustainable then the orgiastic erection of countless ultra-luxury structures in Queens and Manhattan must seem like an apocalyptic foreboding. All these buildings can only come down. It reminds me how, on the day of 9/11, I looked at the tall buildings of the garment district and midtown and asked to myself “Is all this going to be gone soon?” That sentiment seems ludicrous now that we know the resources available to those who attacked us that day. But as more and more thousand-unit buildings rise up I find myself asking the question again. This time it does not seem so ludicrous.
Long Island City: Up. Up. Up.
