Court Square Place is a 16 story office building located at Hunter and 25th Streets, near Court Square, Long Island City, Queens just outside of Manhattan and is "the tallest building constructed in the area since 1989." It is owned and operated by the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU). It was completed in 2006 based on the designs from architects of HLW International with Tishman Construction Corporation handling the major construction. Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc., Eurotech Construction, Permasteelisa USA and Cives Steel Company also provided construction support.
The New York Times states that the building "rivals new construction in Manhattan." It is across 44th Drive from the Citicorp Building.
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“Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.