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The Dutch Kills area just north of the Queensboro Bridge is teeming with hotels, the result of a building boom initially fueled by the possibility of the 2012 Summer Olympics coming to town. Hotels.com lists 16 hotels in Long Island City as a whole, and there are nine by our count between 21st Street and Northern Boulevard just north of the bridge. A recent article in the Journal Inquirer recounts the experiences of a Connecticut-based couple that comes to the city frequently to visit their grown children. Priced out of Manhattan hotels they began sampling the many offerings around Queens Plaza, including the Verve at 40-03 29th Street (where the author paid $143 a night), the Nesva at 39-12 29th Street ($159 a night), the Holiday Inn at 39-05 29th Street ($126) and the Ravel at 8-08 Queens Plaza South. We’ve got photos of all these hotels as well as some others like the Four Points Sheraton at 27-05 39th Avenue and the Fairfield Inn at 29-27 40th Road below. Other hotels near Queens Plaza include the Country Inn & Suites at 40-34 Crescent Street (the cheapest at $108), the Vetiver at 29-11 39th Avenue and the Quality In at 30-03 40th Avenue.

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The Nesva at 39-12 29th Street

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The Holiday Inn at 39-05 29th Street

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Four Points Sheraton at 27-05 39th Avenue

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The Fairfield Inn at 29-27 40th Road


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  1. The writer is incorrect.

    The zoning around queens plaza has always allowed for hotels. It wasnt until the city was discussing rezoning the area when developers jumped in and tried to build before it was changed (see Dutch Kills Rezoning on NYC City Planning Website.) Areas directly around queens plaza still allow similiar zoning as before, plus added benefit of residential, while other areas in dutch kills were down zoned to less than half what you can build before (which is where many of these hotels are, i.e. vetiver, four points, holiday inn etc along 39th ave) – trying to maintain low rise housing with contextual zoning.