43-25 52nd St. in Woodside. Rendering courtesy of Angelo Ng and Anthony Ng Architects.
March 25, 2025 By Ethan Marshall
Construction has wrapped up for the facade of a 9-story building that will have 27 residences at 43-25 52nd St. in Woodside.
The building is 90 feet tall and spans 22,945 square feet. With an average unit scope of 849 square feet, the 27 residential units will most likely be rentals.
Approximately 20% of the units will be set aside for affordable housing during a future lottery. The building also includes a 36-foot-long rear yard and nine enclosed parking spaces.
The facade features white and black metal paneling that frames a grid of floor-to-ceiling windows and doors leading out to three stacks of balconies. Gray brick covers the first two stories and portions of the third and fourth stories. Minor finishing touches on the ground-floor windows and doors are expected to be completed within the coming weeks.
Construction crews have already begun pouring concrete in front of the entrance for the new sidewalks.
The wall at the southern lot of the building is left blank. At the eastern rear, several balconies lined with metal railings are featured. A centralized two-tiered mechanical bulkhead is on the building’s roof.
Prior to the construction of this new residential tower, 43-25 52nd St. was occupied by a two-story building for the El Renuevo Christian Council. Xiaoke Tang of Yi Lu Fa Corporation acquired the 10,000-square-foot property from Gabriel Blau and Joshua Deutsch for $3.25 million. The building was designed by Angelo Ng and Anthony Ng Architects.
Photo via Google Maps.
Construction is expected to be completely finished later this spring.
2 Comments
It would be interesting to know if the City of New York keeps statistics on how many of these new housing units will end up going to people from Woodside. My guess is very few, if any, of the units will end up going to Woodsiders. This begs the question, what exactly is the benefit of all this new construction in western Queens if it isn’t going to people from the area. The last several years I feel like I live in a perpetual construction zone with the accompanying noise, litter, closed off streets, etc. This is an increasingly crowded, congested area and the plethora of new construction will only make it more so. I don’t mean to criticize the people who end up moving into these new units. I suspect they’ll be relatively high income and well educated people, but western Queens has already had to endure its fair share of development. The people of Woodside, the people of NYC deserve a real conversation with our local elected officials about whether or not all this new development is in our best interest going forward.
I am in lock step with everything you are saying. Sadly I don’t think in our lifetime things will ever get better only worse. The only people who ever move into these new apartments are people who come from out of town. And the affordable apartment are only affordable if you are Bill Gates.