Queens · Community District 1
Astoria · Old Astoria · Ditmars · Steinway · Long Island City (part) · Queensbridge · Ravenswood · Garden Bay · Woodside (part)
Everything on this ground
Advisory, but it reviews every development before anyone else does — and its meetings are open to you.
City law, the city budget, the binding vote on rezonings.
Tiffany Cabán
District 22 · Democratic · covers 81% of CD 1
718-274-4500Julie Won
District 26 · Democratic · covers 17% of CD 1
718-383-9566Shekar Krishnan
District 25 · Democratic · covers 2% of CD 1
718-803-6373Rent and tenant law, school funding, state benefits.
Diana C. Moreno
District 36 · Democratic · covers 46% of CD 1
718-545-3889Jessica González-Rojas
District 34 · Democratic · covers 37% of CD 1
718-457-0384Steven Raga
District 30 · Democratic · covers 2% of CD 1
718-651-3185Claire Valdez
District 37 · Democratic · covers 2% of CD 1
718-784-3194The other half of state law. MTA funding and oversight.
Kristen Gonzalez
District 59 · Democratic · covers 39% of CD 1
718-765-6674Toby Ann Stavisky
District 11 · Democratic · covers 31% of CD 1
718-445-0004Michael Gianaris
District 12 · Democratic · covers 30% of CD 1
718-728-0960Federal law, and caseworkers for immigration and benefits.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
District 14 · Democratic · covers 74% of CD 1
718-662-5970Nydia M. Velázquez
District 7 · Democratic · covers 25% of CD 1
(718) 340-6244What stands on this ground, and why it's worth knowing.
A 60-acre waterfront park on the East River between the Hell Gate and RFK/Triborough bridges. It contains Astoria Pool, the largest public pool in New York City, built for the 1936 WPA program.
Why it matters
Astoria Pool hosted the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in 1936 and 1964 and is a designated New York City landmark. The park's Shore Boulevard promenade offers one of the best skyline views in the city.
19th Street and 23rd Avenue, Astoria, NY 11102
Visit site ↗A Czech and Slovak social hall and outdoor beer garden opened in 1910 by the Bohemian Citizens' Benevolent Society of Astoria. The tree-shaded garden seats several hundred and serves Central European food and beer.
Why it matters
The oldest continuously operating beer garden in New York City and one of the last survivors of the ethnic fraternal halls that once dotted the outer boroughs. Still owned and run by the benevolent society that built it.
29-19 24th Avenue, Astoria, NY 11102
Visit site ↗A double-deck cantilever bridge over the East River connecting Long Island City to Manhattan, opened in 1909 and renamed for Mayor Ed Koch in 2011. It carries vehicle lanes plus a shared pedestrian and bicycle path.
Why it matters
The bridge ended Queens' dependence on ferries and triggered the borough's development boom; its opening year is often cited as the start of modern Queens. It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register.
Queens Plaza, Long Island City, NY 11101
COORDINATE ESTIMATED. Wikipedia's indexed coordinate (40.7569, -73.9547) is the bridge midpoint over Roosevelt Island, which is in Manhattan; this entry uses the Queens-side landing at Queens Plaza instead so the map pin falls in Queens.
A working film and television studio complex opened in 1920 as Famous Players-Lasky's Astoria Studio. The campus spans 35th Avenue and 35th through 37th Streets and includes New York City's only backlot.
Why it matters
The oldest continuously operating film studio on the East Coast, it produced Marx Brothers and Paramount features in the silent and early sound eras and today hosts 'Sesame Street' and major series and films. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
34-12 36th Street, Astoria, NY 11106
Visit site ↗A museum dedicated to the art, history, technique and technology of film, television and digital media, housed in a building on the historic Astoria Studios campus. Its collection includes more than 130,000 artifacts.
Why it matters
The only U.S. museum devoted comprehensively to the moving image, it anchors Astoria's identity as a film production center dating to the silent era. Its 2011 expansion by Leeser Architecture made it a design destination as well.
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
Visit site ↗A museum and sculpture garden designed by Isamu Noguchi in a converted photo-engraving plant across from his studio, opened to the public in 1985. It holds the most comprehensive collection of his work.
Why it matters
The first museum in the United States established by a living artist to show his own work, and a defining piece of Long Island City's transformation into an arts district.
9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, NY 11106
Visit site ↗A five-acre waterfront park and open-air studio on the East River, founded in 1986 by sculptor Mark di Suvero and neighbors on a former illegal dumpsite. It shows rotating large-scale outdoor sculpture and offers free public programs.
Why it matters
A model of artist-led reclamation of abandoned industrial land, it became a New York City public park in 1998 and remains a free, working exhibition space with an unobstructed Manhattan skyline view.
32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11106
Visit site ↗The piano manufacturer's American factory, operating in Astoria since 1870, where Steinway grand and upright pianos are still built largely by hand. The surrounding area was the company town of Steinway Village.
Why it matters
Steinway shaped a whole section of northern Astoria, giving the neighborhood Steinway Street, worker housing and the landmarked Steinway Mansion. It remains one of the last major manufacturers still producing in New York City.
1 Steinway Place, Astoria, NY 11105
COORDINATE from OpenStreetMap geocoding of 1 Steinway Place (Wikipedia has no separate article for the Astoria factory; the 'Steinway & Sons' article's indexed coordinate points to Hamburg, Germany). Factory tours are limited and by arrangement only.
Visit site ↗A steel through-arch railroad bridge carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor over the Hell Gate strait of the East River, connecting Astoria to Randalls and Wards Islands. Its main span is 977 feet and it opened in 1917.
Why it matters
Designed by Gustav Lindenthal, it was the longest steel arch bridge in the world when it opened and served as the design model for Sydney Harbour Bridge. Its red arch is a defining element of the Astoria skyline.
A 1940 Art Deco terminal at LaGuardia Airport built for Pan American's transatlantic flying boats, ringed with a flying-fish frieze and containing James Brooks's 235-foot mural 'Flight.'
Why it matters
The only active airport terminal in the United States dating to the first generation of transatlantic air travel, it is a New York City landmark and on the National Register, and it survived LaGuardia's full rebuild.
LaGuardia Airport, Terminal A, East Elmhurst, NY 11371
Stands in LaGuardia Airport, which belongs to no single community district. Community District 1 is the nearest.
Neighbours who already meet about this. Joining one is the fastest way to get a hearing at the board.
Astoria Homeowners, Tenants and Business Civic Association
Civic association
Civic association representing Astoria homeowners, tenants and businesses on neighborhood development and service issues.
Central Astoria Local Development Coalition
Community organization
A not-for-profit community and commercial-revitalization organization founded in 1979 that serves over 1,000 businesses across six Astoria business districts and runs free summer concerts, movies and seasonal programming.
Greater Astoria Historical Society
Cultural
Historical society serving Astoria and Long Island City since 1985 with archives, research collections, walking tours, lectures and local-history programming.
Old Astoria Neighborhood Association
Neighborhood association
A 501(c)(3) neighborhood association covering the part of Astoria between the East River and 21st Street from Ditmars Boulevard to 36th Avenue, promoting economic growth, quality of life and cultural health.
Steinway Astoria Partnership
Business improvement district
Business improvement district covering Steinway Street from 25th Avenue to 36th Avenue in Astoria.
Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens
Community organization
Youth development organization running after-school, summer camp, teen, aquatics and school-based programs from its Astoria/LIC flagship clubhouse and partner school sites.
Overlaps are computed by land area — near a boundary, check your exact address. Every state and federal seat here is on the ballot November 3, 2026. These are the sitting officeholders, not projected winners.
Boundaries: NYC Dept. of City Planning via NYC Open Data (May 2026). Officeholders verified against official sources on 2026-08-06. District overlaps are computed by area and are approximate near boundaries.