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22-25 Jackson Ave
MoMA PS1: art worked into the building
Curator Alanna Heiss founded MoMA PS1 in a former public school, inviting artists to transform its rooms for the opening exhibition in 1976. You can still encounter that approach throughout the building: alongside gallery exhibitions, 15 artist interventions occupy the old school's spaces, with works embedded in walls, ceilings and floors. PS1's contemporary art program also encompasses performances and residencies, continuing its connection with artists who use the museum as a place to work.
11-11 44th Dr
Movement LIC: ropes, boulders and a climbing cave
Climbers at Movement LIC tackle rope routes reaching 45 feet high and bouldering problems spread across two floors. You can start with introductory rope-climbing or bouldering classes, while the routes themselves range from beginner to advanced. Routes are reset weekly, changing the sequences of holds you work through. Climbing here calls on balance and strength as well as the puzzle of figuring out your next move.
10-34 44th Dr
BrickHouse: shape clay by hand or on the wheel
You can work clay with your hands or learn to shape it on a spinning wheel at BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center, farther west on the same stretch of 44th Drive as Movement. Its classes cover wheel throwing, handbuilding and sculpture. Handbuilding means forming the clay directly, while wheel throwing uses the wheel's rotation to develop the form.
4-44 47th Rd
Gantry Plaza: four piers and the old freight waterfront
From Gantry Plaza State Park, you can pick out the Empire State Building and the United Nations across the East River. Four piers extend the walk over the water, with landscaped gardens and a waterfront promenade connecting the park's open spaces. The restored gantries give this stretch its unmistakable profile. They once helped load and unload railcar floats and barges, and remain substantial pieces of the working waterfront against the Midtown skyline.
Center Blvd
Hunter's Point South: wetlands, an overlook and outdoor art
You can follow the water directly from Gantry into Hunter's Point South Park, where paths curve around newly created wetlands and areas of wild planting. A cantilevered overlook projects outward above the landscape. From there, the skyline takes on a different perspective from the one you get along the paths at the water's edge.
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2 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island CityLong Island City · Queens
Not posted yetGallery admission is free; market goods are sold.
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GrowNYC Greenmarket at MoMA PS1
You can shop directly from regional farmers and bakers at GrowNYC’s seasonal market on MoMA PS1’s plaza.
Every day, ending Nov 21 · MoMA PS1 Plaza · Queens · Gallery admission is free; market goods are sold.
🚇 21 St (G) · 2 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 3 min walk
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Sunday Live Music
You can hear live music at LIC Bar’s Sunday fireplace concerts.
Sun Oct 18 · LIC Bar, Long Island City · Queens · Price not listed
🚇 21 St (G) · 5 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 2 min walk
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Gantry Plaza State Park
park · Long Island City
A 12-acre park spread across four piers on the East River.
4.8★ from 10,159 Google reviews
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Hunter's Point South Park
park · Long Island City
A 22-acre waterfront park on the East River in Long Island City, built on former post-industrial land.
4.8★ from 5,548 Google reviews
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MoMA PS1
modern art museum · Long Island City
Admission is free for everyone.
4.4★ from 3,336 Google reviews
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Queensbridge Park
park · Long Island City
A 20-acre community park on the East River under the Queensboro Bridge, with two playgrounds — Vernon Playground and the Queensbridge Baby Park, which is set up for the youngest children.
4.5★ from 1,853 Google reviews
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Movement LIC
rock climbing gym · Long Island City
A 23,600 sq ft climbing gym with rope climbing on walls up to 45 ft, a lead climbing cave, and two floors of bouldering, including an indoor recreation of the Gunks' "Buddha" roof boulder.
4.7★ from 1,644 Google reviews
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Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge
rock climbing gym · Long Island City
A climbing gym covering everything from bouldering to lead routes.
4.6★ from 885 Google reviews
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Book Culture LIC
book store · Long Island City
An independent bookstore on Jackson Avenue spread over two floors: one holds fiction, non-fiction, best sellers and classics, and the other is given over entirely to children's books, with a play area and toys in it.
4.8★ from 547 Google reviews
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Five Iron Golf
indoor golf course · Long Island City
You book one of seven Trackman golf simulator bays in Long Island City and share it with up to five people, choosing between practice, playing a course like Pebble Beach, or the built-in games.
4.9★ from 381 Google reviews
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iFLY Indoor Skydiving New York-Queens
skydiving center · Long Island City
You fly in a vertical wind tunnel rather than jumping from anything, so a child can do it alongside a parent.
4.7★ from 353 Google reviews
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City Ice Pavilion
ice skating rink · Long Island City
An indoor rink of considerable size, with skate rentals and a shop on site.
4.3★ from 353 Google reviews
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live music venue · Long Island City
4.6★ from 278 Google reviews
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Game Zone
internet cafe · Long Island City
This is an esports club built around PC gaming rather than board games.
4.9★ from 234 Google reviews
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SculptureCenter
sculpture museum · Long Island City
SculptureCenter runs a small rotating programme of sculpture and installation exhibitions in Long Island City — currently Ellen Pau's She Moves and Akinsanya Kambon's Soul Sessions, alongside In Practice, a strand showing work by newer artists.
4.4★ from 200 Google reviews
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Salsa in Queens
dance school · Long Island City
Take a salsa, bachata or cha cha class at a studio built around first-time dancers — classes end with open practice time to music, and reviewers describe the room as feeling more like a communal party than a formal school.
4.9★ from 189 Google reviews
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CityPickle Long Island City
pickleball court · Long Island City
Four climate-controlled indoor pickleball courts with a bar and restaurant attached.
4.4★ from 150 Google reviews
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Cucala Dance Company
dance school · Long Island City
This is a drop-in dance studio running weekly evening classes in Salsa, Traditional Bachata, Cumbia, Hip-Hop, House, Argentine Tango and Capoeira.
5★ from 144 Google reviews
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Quackade: Arcade & Party Games
video arcade · Long Island City
The floor splits into a few zones.
4.9★ from 134 Google reviews
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Westside Skate and Stick at City Ice Pavilion
hockey supply store · Long Island City
This is a skate shop inside City Ice Pavilion rather than somewhere to spend an afternoon.
4.6★ from 111 Google reviews
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Gantry Plaza State Park - Sports field
park · Long Island City
A turf field inside the park, used for soccer.
4.6★ from 97 Google reviews
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SingSing Karaoke Bar & Chicken
karaoke bar · Long Island City
4.6★ from 95 Google reviews
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Elite Per4mance Baseball Facility
baseball club · Long Island City
5★ from 94 Google reviews
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Dance Queens Fitness
fitness center · Long Island City
A studio running pole dancing classes.
5★ from 90 Google reviews
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Sol Dance Center
hip hop dance class · Long Island City
A dance school running scheduled group classes children can join by the session.
4.5★ from 85 Google reviews
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Fred Astaire Dance Studios
dance school · Long Island City
You take ballroom and Latin lessons in a shared ballroom where several private lessons run at once — one student or couple working with an instructor on waltz, tango, foxtrot, cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba, hustle, or East and West Coast swing.
5★ from 70 Google reviews
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Bridgeview School of Fine Arts
art school · Long Island City
This is an enrolled art school in Long Island City, not a drop-in visit.
4.9★ from 70 Google reviews
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Kotofit Long Island City (Badminton, Pickleball)
sports club · Long Island City
An indoor sports club for badminton, pickleball and ping pong, with courts bookable for up to eight players.
4.9★ from 69 Google reviews
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Hunters Point South
ferry terminal · Long Island City
4.2★ from 64 Google reviews
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Coki By Cottage Kind
candle store · Long Island City
This is a booked-seat candle-making studio where you sit down and make one thing to take home.
5★ from 64 Google reviews
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Gotham Pickleball
pickleball court · Long Island City
An indoor club in Long Island City with four Laykold Cushion Plus courts.
4.9★ from 63 Google reviews
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Art Strong NYC
art school · Long Island City
Art Strong is an art studio in Long Island City where children make things across drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture.
5★ from 59 Google reviews
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AlterWork Studios
pottery classes · Long Island City
Part studio, part gallery, covering several disciplines.
4.9★ from 53 Google reviews
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Cozy Art Land
painting studio · Long Island City
A Long Island City studio where you book a specific instructor-led workshop and make something to take home.
4.9★ from 42 Google reviews
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L.I.C. - ICE
ice skating rink · Long Island City
This is a hockey program rather than a drop-in rink.
4.8★ from 41 Google reviews
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BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center
art school · Long Island City
4.6★ from 33 Google reviews
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Sculpture Space NYC
pottery classes · Long Island City
4.7★ from 32 Google reviews
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Underpenny
antique store · Long Island City
4.6★ from 25 Google reviews
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LIC Community Boathouse
boat club · Long Island City
Free kayaking on the East River, run by a volunteer boathouse that has been going for over twenty years.
4.2★ from 21 Google reviews
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RNK Ceramics
pottery classes · Long Island City
5★ from 21 Google reviews
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Studio Oddities Tufting
art studio · Long Island City
4.8★ from 12 Google reviews
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Neighborhood FAQs
Where can I eat in Long Island City?
You can choose between cooking rooted in Chiapas and a French dinner built around familiar bistro dishes.
Casa Enrique serves Mexican food shaped by chef Cosme Aguilar’s memories of the traditional Chiapas dishes he learned from his mother, sister and aunts.
Café Henri lists onion soup, escargots and quiche alongside mains such as coq au vin and mussels with fries. Its homemade tagliatelle comes with several sauce options.
Where can I see art in Long Island City besides MoMA PS1?
SculptureCenter has three exhibitions on view through December 28, 2026, while Culture Lab LIC is showing graphic design through November 1.
SculptureCenter shows Aziz Hazara’s Coming Home, Cevdet Erek’s Americas and Yining Fei’s Feral Sediment. It’s open Thursday through Monday, 12pm–6pm.
Culture Lab LIC art gallery has Form & Function, a graphic design show curated by Dawn DeVito, and The IRVA Art Collaborative Group, curated by Bob Roher. Visit Thursday or Friday 5–9pm, or Saturday or Sunday 2–9pm.
Which breweries can I visit in Long Island City?
Both breweries have Long Island City taprooms, with one emphasizing a rotating house-made lineup and the other offering cans to take home.
Fifth Hammer Brewing pours its own beers across a variety of styles, plus guest wine, cider, kombucha and other nonalcoholic drinks. The taproom also hosts live music and trivia.
Rockaway Brewing Co. LIC taproom serves locally made beer at its Fifth Street taproom and sells cans to go. Its range includes IPAs, lagers and other styles.
