Avalon Riverview North

Avalon Riverview North is a rental apartment building at 4-75 48th Avenue in Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, owned and managed by AvalonBay Communities. It sits on the East River waterfront as part of the Queens West redevelopment, the state-led plan that turned this stretch of former rail and industrial land into high-rise housing facing Midtown Manhattan.

Gantry Plaza State Park is immediately south, preserving the restored Long Island Rail Road transfer gantries and the Pepsi-Cola sign on the shoreline. Vernon Boulevard’s restaurants and shops run a few blocks inland. The 7 stops at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue, the E, M and G reach Court Square, and the NYC Ferry East River route docks at Hunters Point South.

Completed in 2007, the 39-story tower holds 602 apartments. It followed Avalon Riverview, AvalonBay’s earlier tower on the same waterfront, at a time when Queens West still had only a handful of buildings and few shops or restaurants.

The area has since filled in with more than a dozen towers, and Avalon Riverview North now sits in an established waterfront neighborhood, with Gantry Plaza State Park at the door and the 7 train one stop from Grand Central.