Lefrak City is a large housing development located in Corona neighborhood in the borough of Queens, part of the Metropolitan area of New York City. It was built in the mid-1960s for working and middle-class families on the north side of the Long Island Expressway.
The city meets the LIE at Junction Boulevard, east of Queens Boulevard, and is close to the western side of Flushing Meadows Park. It is a part of Queens Community Board 4. As of 2010 census, there were 81,328 people residing in the area. The median income for a household in the village is $53,779. Pricing starts at about $1,195.00 for a 468 square foot studio apartment.
Lefrak City, a sprawling complex of 20 16 to 18-story towers, comprising 5,000 apartments and in the area of 15,000 residents, as well as two million square feet of retail space.
Near the corner of 57th Avenue and 99th Street sites buildings Sydney, Melbourne Brisbane and Wellington at Lefrak City.
Queens Library, Lefrak City Branch.
Near the corner of 57th Avenue and 99th Street sites buildings Sydney, Melbourne Brisbane and Wellington at Lefrak City.
The LeFrak Empire was founded by Harry Lefrak, a glazier who moved to New York in the early 1900s and did customized glasswork for Louis Comfort Tiffany. He bought a 120-acre farm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and later off 10 acres on DeKalb Avenue to build small houses. The complex name is taken from its son Samuel J. LeFrak, a noted housing developer who chaired The Lefrak Organization. Samuel took a small company into the big leagues, buying some swampy land in Queens from the Astors, and transforming it in 1959 into Lefrak City, a sprawling complex of 20 18-story towers, comprising 5,000 apartments and 15,000 residents, as well as two million square feet of retail space.
Lefrak City, a sprawling complex of 20 16 to 18-story towers, comprising 5,000 apartments and in the area of 15,000 residents, as well as two million square feet of retail space.
Buildings Canada, Panama, Mexico and the United States, at Lefrak City.
A dental and medical office at Lefrak City.
Buildings London, Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, at Lefrak City.
The organization broke ground in 1960, finishing by 1969, and offered air-conditioned apartments at $40 per room. The LeFrak strategy of “Total Facilities for Total Living” meant bringing recreational, shopping, transportation, and other services to the residents. It was mainly made for middle-class families. Sam LeFrak’s son, Richard, had been president of the Lefrak Organization since at least 1987 and was in charge of day-to-day administration. The Lefrak Organization is one of the largest private landlords in the US, owning and managing some 71,000 affordable yet upscale apartments in New York City and New Jersey as well as millions of square feet of commercial space.
The entrance and exit of the Lefrak City Plaza parking garage.
The United States Post Office Branch for Flushing, Corona and Elmhurst Queens.
A small building outside of the parking garage at Lefrak City Plaza advertises the leasing office as being located at 59-17 Junction Boulevard. It appears a company called Liberty Ashes Inc handles the trash.
Lefrak City Plaza at Junction Boulevard.
Once home to a large Jewish community, the city became largely African-American and was known for drugs and gang violence in 1980s. It changed when an influx of Russian immigrants and immigrants from other former Soviet republics and Muslim immigrants from Africa moved in to the present time. There are some notable current and former residents of LeFrak City that include Kenny Anderson, a former NBA player, Kenny Smith, a former Houston Rockets player and several of the East Coast’s hip hop rappers known as Noreaga (aka N.O.R.E.), Kool G Rap, Akinyele and Prodigy.
Lefrak City from the eastbound south side of the Long Island Expressway.
Buildings Kyoto, Bau, Singapore and Mandalay, at Lefrak City.
A sign promotes major construction and improvement efforts underway at the well maintained complexes; LeFrak City is renovating its lobbies, hallways, laundry rooms, garages, landscaping, and infrastructural aspects to the tune of tens of millions of dollars for its 50th anniversary.
The New York City Bus Stop Q88, Elmhurst, along the Long Island Expressway service road Horace Harding Expressway and 99 Street.
The Lefrak Tower, the first modern office skyscraper in Queens, and the focal point for a new five-building mid-city office complex is one of the historic sites in the city. The construction of the Park Vendome is the world’s first high-rise residential-retail-commercial-judicial office building complex that exists due to the efforts of the Lefrak Organization. The Lefrak City library which was affected by flood still closed for repairs and hopes to have it open as soon as time possible.
