LeFrak City

LeFrak City is a very large apartment development in the southernmost region of Corona, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located between Junction Boulevard, 57th Avenue, 99th Street and the Long Island Expressway. The complex of twenty eighteen-story (technically sixteen-story, since the lobbies are the 2nd floors and there are no 13th floors) apartment towers covers 40 acres (162,000 m²) and currently houses over 14,000 people. The development is part of Queens Community Board 4. Named for its developer, the LeFrak Organization (founded by Samuel J. LeFrak), LeFrak City was built 1960-1969 primarily for working- and middle-class families who were interested in modern facilities but could not afford or did...