{"id":320129,"date":"2026-08-13T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320129\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:15:33","slug":"23-lovely-things-to-do-in-long-island-city-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320129\/","title":{"rendered":"23 lovely things to do in Long Island City, Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you ask us, Queens is one of NYC\u2019s most underrated boroughs\u2014and with neighborhoods like <a href=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/neighborhood-guide-astoria\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/neighborhood-guide-astoria\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Astoria<\/a>, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and more, there\u2019s no shortage of places to explore. (It is, after all, the city\u2019s largest borough.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/queens-neighborhood-fastest-wealth-growth-nyc\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretnyc.co\/queens-neighborhood-fastest-wealth-growth-nyc\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Long Island City<\/a>, the Queens neighborhood that has a little bit of everything. You\u2019ve got waterfront parks with ridiculously good Manhattan skyline views, museums worth making a trip for, plenty of spots to eat and drink, and enough things to do to fill an entire day without ever getting bored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, one day in Long Island City is just enough to get a taste of what makes this Queens neighborhood so special\u2014though we have a feeling you\u2019ll leave wondering why you didn\u2019t start exploring it sooner. So, where should you begin? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s our ultimate guide to spending the day in Long Island City, Queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask us, Queens is one of NYC\u2019s most underrated boroughs\u2014and with neighborhoods like Astoria, Jackson Heights,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-320129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}