Queens West · Long Island City · 1998 to 2013
QueensWest.com, the archive
From 1998 to 2013 QueensWest.com was “the online community for Queens West & Long Island City.” It began as a set of answers for the first buyers at Citylights and grew into boards, picture galleries, polls, a business directory, pub crawls and news for a neighborhood that was being built around it.
This is a read-only archive, rebuilt from Jason’s own files and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
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- Timeline, 1997 to 2013Fifteen years of a neighborhood website, year by year.
- Buildings & placesCitylights, Avalon Riverview, Gantry Plaza State Park, EastCoast and the new developments the site followed.
- EventsThe QueensWest.com pub crawls (2003 to 2007), Taste of LIC and more.
- In the pressNew York Times and other coverage that mentioned the site or the buildings.
- PhotosPicture galleries recovered from the site.
- ArtifactsLogos, the 1998 page, screenshots, rate sheets, old polls.
- News, 2003 to 2012Two hundred neighborhood news items posted on the site, from openings and street fairs to park news.
- Neighborhood calendarThe community calendar: 179 events posted by Jake and by members, 2003 to 2013.
- FAQJake’s answers from the help center: Citylights, Queens West, the neighborhood and the site.
- Business directoryThe local business directory as it stood in 2013: 232 listings in 24 categories.
- About QueensWest.comWhy the site started, how it worked and how it said goodbye.
“It has been a pleasure to build, maintain and be a part of the community and hopefully that is mutual.”
– Jake (old school webmaster), May 1, 2013
Looking for today’s neighborhood? Long Island City lives on at the sister site, longislandcity.info. The archive keeps the old addresses working.