Avalon Riverview

Avalon Riverview is a rental apartment building at 2-01 50th Avenue in Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, owned and managed by AvalonBay Communities. It stands on the East River shoreline at the foot of 50th Avenue, part of the first wave of residential towers built on the Queens West waterfront.

Gantry Plaza State Park runs along the water immediately north, and Hunters Point South Park continues south past the ferry landing with lawns and a pier facing the Manhattan skyline. Center Boulevard and Vernon Boulevard carry the neighborhood’s restaurants. The 7 stops at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue, the NYC Ferry East River route docks at Hunters Point South, and the Long Island Rail Road stops at Hunterspoint Avenue.

Completed in 2002, the 32-story tower holds 372 apartments and was among the early rental towers of Queens West, the state-sponsored redevelopment of rail yards and industrial land along the Long Island City shore. When it opened, the area had few residents and almost no retail, and early tenants were in effect pioneers.

Two decades later the waterfront is lined with towers, parks and restaurants. Avalon Riverview’s position on the shoreline gives it open views of the Midtown skyline and the United Nations, with Gantry Plaza State Park and Hunters Point South Park on either side.