Start at the top of Queens Plaza and walk southwest to the river. At Queens Boulevard and Queens Plaza East, a 46-story concrete frame is about a quarter of the way up. Two blocks over on 24th Street, a 38-story frame is nearly three-quarters done and the glass is chasing it up the building. At Queens Plaza North, a 19-story condo just got its temporary certificate of occupancy and the movers are double-parked. Down on Vernon Boulevard, a 23-story waterfront condo has its facade finished and is sweeping out for a fall move-in. And at the bottom of Hunters Point South, a nine-unit walk-up and a 547-seat public school have both topped out within sight of each other. Six buildings, one neighborhood, fourteen days of news. Here's the order they're in, because the order is the story.

Farthest from done: 30-25 Queens Boulevard. Baron Property Group and LargaVista's CetraRuddy-designed tower — 525 feet, 46 stories, about 511,000 square feet, 561 units, 169 of them affordable, 21,000 square feet of retail at the base. This site sat stalled through 2024 after excavation and pilings; it came back to life when the developers closed $388.5 million in construction financing in July 2025, backed by Starwood Capital Group, Gotham Organization and Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies. As of QNS's August 18 report the concrete superstructure is around the one-quarter mark, less than four months after it reached street level, with topping-out projected for winter and completion in 2028. That's a job still buying formwork, rebar and pump time. No general contractor is named in any record we found.

“Two buildings are closing out, one is hanging glass, one is still pouring, and the school in the middle is the only one of the six that was bought in public.”

Next: 42-19 24th Street. The Department of Buildings record on job Q01087530 is clean — 38 stories, 408 feet, 207 units, new-building permit issued, developer Montperia, MY Architect on the drawings. Urbanize New York's August 10 progress photos put the superstructure near 75 percent with the blue-green curtain wall climbing behind it, targeting 2027; Urbanize names JLS Group as the builder, and The Real Deal reported a $115 million construction loan on the project in July 2025. About 60 percent of the lot is still open for staging, which Urbanize reads as a planned second phase. Watch that — a tower at 75 percent with a second-phase lot next to it is a site that stays busy.

Then the two that are essentially built. Paragon LIC, at 45-40 Vernon Boulevard: ZD Jasper developed it and built it, Archimaera drew it, 23 stories, 262 feet, 182 condos, 192,500 square feet. It topped out in November 2025, facade installation is complete, and QNS's August 4 report has occupancy starting this fall with completion by year end. And Radiant LIC, at 24-01 Queens Plaza North: New Empire Corporation's 19-story, 117-unit condo designed by ODA, 115,000 square feet, built by Bella Contracting Services. The building received its TCO on July 7, threw the party for it on August 13, and QNS reported construction complete on August 18 with residents moving in. Both of these are out of the construction business and into the punch-list-and-closing business.

And two at Hunters Point South that don't look alike at all. 51-09 2nd Street is a five-story, 45-foot, nine-unit condo by Design Studio Associates with a 13-car garage — topped out, facade going on, fall 2026 finish. Small job. P.S. 341Q, at 1-50 54th Avenue, is not: the NYC School Construction Authority's 547-seat elementary school, Purcell Everett Architects, broke ground November 18, 2024, with QNS reporting at the time a $74.7 million contract to Navillus Tile. As of August 4 the steel frame is topped out and crews are hanging the brick envelope and precast facade panels, with the front doors getting retractable flood gates for a site this close to the East River. Completion is set for August 2027, the 2027-28 school year. Note the owner. That's a public job inside a private-development cluster — a different buyer, a different set of rules, and the one building on this list that was procured in public.

So what does the concentration mean if you're a sub? Read the six as a single schedule. Two buildings are closing out — that work is done, and if you weren't on it you missed it. One is at the facade-and-fit-out stage right now, which means interiors, elevators, mechanical rough-in and finish trades on 42-19 24th Street are being bought this fall, and the school's masonry and precast crews are on site this month with interior trades following. One is deep in structure with a facade package, elevator package and MEP fit-out still ahead of it — 30-25 Queens Boulevard's curtain wall won't start until the frame is well past the setback, which puts that buy somewhere in the first half of 2027 and the fit-out behind it. Let's say you're a curtain-wall installer. You've got one building finishing glass now and one that hasn't started. That's the gap you price your 2027 crew against.

And the pipeline behind these six isn't empty. On August 19, two more Court Square addresses filed temporary-standpipe amendments with the Buildings Department — 45-11 23rd Street, permitted at 54 stories and 310 units, and 23-14 45th Avenue, 314 units, both on the block where Charney Companies and Tavros broke ground last August on a 55-story, 636-unit condo tower with a $525 million loan behind it. Neither is a new start: both sites hold new-building permits from 2022, and the record shows a concrete pump permitted in March and a personnel hoist in April. A standpipe amendment on a job like that means the frame is climbing and the fire line has to climb with it. Call it another 624 units on the permits a few blocks from Queens Plaza, rising as the current crop finishes.

One correction to the shorthand you may have heard: this isn't six towers. It's four towers, one walk-up and one school. Say it that way — the school and the walk-up are the two most useful facts on the list, because they tell you the neighborhood is building for the people who'll live in the towers, not just the towers.

What to do now: if you do facade, elevators or MEP fit-out, 30-25 Queens Boulevard is the 2027 buy and the owner's rep is who you need. If you do interior finish, 42-19 24th Street is buying now. And if you do public-school masonry and interiors, P.S. 341Q is under contract but the SCA has three more Long Island City school sites in hand — the next one will come through the Authority's bid list, not a developer's.