Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum on the northwestern tip of Long Island City, along the East River. Admission is free and you can easily spend an entire day roaming through the ever-changing exhibits. The park also offers outdoor movie screenings every Wednesday during July and August.

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For close to 50 years, Corcoran has been the first name in residential real estate. In New York City, the Hamptons, and South Florida, our agents are the acknowledged experts.

Since 1973, Corcoran agents have been earning―and keeping―our clients' trust with an unwavering commitment to white-glove service, expertise, and integrity. Across our core markets of New York City. the East End of Long Island, and South Florida, we are a growing family of world-class professionals, combining real estate expertise with unrivaled market knowledge and neighborhood fluency.

Staying ahead of the curve matters, and Corcoran supports its agents with the real estate industry’s most experienced and effective marketing and technology teams.

We’re part of the trusted Realogy family of real estate companies, named to the Ethisphere Institute’s annual list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for eight straight years.

A self-described straight-D student named Barbara Corcoran, just 23 years old, founds an eponymous residential real estate company in a tiny office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with seven eager agents and a $1,000 loan.

My Name is Barbara

Corcoran grows beyond the Upper East Side, opening a downtown office. The Upper West Side follows in 1989. Today, the company serves Manhattan from the Cloisters to Battery Park with eight offices and more than a thousand agents.

Made in Manhattan

In the driest days of a historic real-estate drought in New York City, Corcoran concocts a radical word-of-mouth “One Day Sale,” discounting 87 apartments in 17 buildings and putting every last one of them into a contract in the span of 24 hours.

Sale of the Century

Corcoran partner Pamela Liebman, who joined the company as an agent in 1984, founds Corcoran Group Marketing, a division dedicated to the planning, design, marketing, and sales of exceptional residential development projects.

New Developments

Corcoran rolls into the Information Age with the debut of Corcoran.com. In 2003, lauded for the site’s elegance and ease of use, Corcoran wins the Web Marketing Association’s WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development.

Home on the Web

Corcoran crosses the East River with 30 agents in three Brooklyn offices. Today, the company dominates here, with 350 agents in seven offices, $3.2 billion in sales, and a hand in 40 percent of the borough’s residential real estate transactions.

Brooklyn Bridged

Barbara Corcoran taps Pamela Liebman to become the company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. In 2007, Liebman makes the first of Crain’s New York’s biennial lists of the most powerful women in New York City.

CEO for a New Century

Corcoran dons its Wayfarers and plants a flag in Palm Beach, acquiring two of the city’s most respected real estate brokerages. And in 2005, the company adds to its Florida story with the purchase of one of the top firms in Delray Beach.

A Place in the Sun

Acquiring a pair of prominent brokerage firms, Corcoran debuts in the Hamptons with close to 200 agents. And in 2006, the company doubles its East End reach with the purchase of the area’s biggest agency, Allan M. Schneider Associates.

Hamptons Homecoming

Corcoran earns a reputation as a record-breaker with a $45-million condominium sale, the biggest in New York City history. The company handily tops it in 2015 with a $101-million condo deal and in 2017 with a $80-million townhouse sale.

Show Me the Money

Corcoran dives headlong into rental scene with the acquisition of Citi Habitats, New York City’s biggest rental brokerage firm. In the past three years alone, Citi Habitats has any helped more than 40,000 New Yorkers find new apartments.

Revolutionizing Rentals

Corcoran Group Marketing and the Sunshine Group merge to become Corcoran Sunshine, NYC’s premier new-dev firm. With $40 billion in sales to date, CS reps such icons as 56 Leonard, 220 Central Park South, and 15 Hudson Yards.

Good Day Sunshine

Corcoran defines its inclusive worldview with the lauded “Live Who You Are” campaign, expressed through the lens of photographer Tina Barney. In 2014, the company reaffirms the message in a series of 12 portraits by the great Annie Leibovitz.

Words to Live By

Corcoran launches Corcoran Cares to encourage agents and staffers to take part in the company’s charitable initiatives. To date, the program has raised more than $1 million for causes including cancer research, elder care, and arts education.

We Give Together

Corcoran triumphs on social media, building a devoted following with irresistible content and some clever extras, like the 2014 Facebook app that allowed fans to create their own Annie Leibovitz-style “Live Who You Are” portrait.

You Really ‘Like’ Us

Corcoran opens Agent Studio in Manhattan’s Gramercy neighborhood, enriching the agent experience with a catalog of free classes on all aspects of the real estate business, technology, marketing, social media, and personal growth.

Higher Intelligence

Corcoran announces plans to share its respected name and peerless values with carefully selected franchisees in exceptional real estate markets—big cities and leisure destinations—across the country and around the world, beginning in 2019.

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Buying and Selling

There’s something antiquated in Long Island City’s name, for this expansive locale in the New York City borough of Queens hasn’t been an independent city since 1898. And geographically, it’s on Long Island like the rest of Queens, without being of Long Island. The other major date in the life of Long Island City — a much more recent milestone — is 2001, when a centrally located 34-block industrial area was rezoned to allow mixed-use development, including residential high-rises. Across the East River from Manhattan, Long Island City isn’t just one Queens neighborhood: It takes in the villages of Astoria and Hunters Point (which are the most buzzy and desirable), as well as Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Middletown, Sunnyside, Blissville, and Bowery Bay. As a result of Long Island City’s sprawl, real estate prices, accessibility, and amenities vary considerably.

For 28 years, beginning in 1870, Long Island City was independent, formed from the villages and hamlets referenced above. It even had its own mayor. But after its absorption into New York City (which occurred just before the turn of the 20th century), major infrastructure landmarks — the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the Queensboro Bridge — evidenced its integration with, and close proximity to, Manhattan. Gone or repurposed are the factories representing nationwide companies like Pepsi, Chiclets Gum, and Fisher Electronics, as high-rise residential buildings, film studios, and varied 21st century ventures have emerged to redefine the new LIC. (The Pepsi-Cola sign was designated a New York City landmark in 2016.) Representing the area’s cultural commitment is the Noguchi Museum, which was designed and created by the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Though its origins date from the 1980s, the 24,000-square-foot facility, which debuted in its current form in 2004, illustrates the area’s robust 21st-century cultural profile. And some of Long Island City’s distinguished 19th-century architecture remains, such as the coveted townhouses of the Hunters Point Historic District.

History & Culture

LIC can certainly be described as a more spread out neighborhood, and its stores and eateries are distributed accordingly. There isn't one singular main drag or dining district, though you'll certainly find the highest concentrations of options in clusters along Vernon and Jackson Avenues, and along 21st Street by Court Square and Queensboro Plaza. In some regards, the restaurant scene spills over from neighboring Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with countless dynamic offerings from Michelin-starred stalwarts to casual sidewalk cafes that are sure to please even the most finicky foodies. Head into warehouse territory and you'll find a trail of craft breweries to hit after sweating it up at one of the nearby rock bouldering gyms (yes—plural). In terms of shopping, commerce, specially the fashion industry, has been lured by Long Island City’s quick commute from Manhattan and lower rents. Newer haute boutiques and quirky neighborhood holdouts stitch together a vibrant fabric one can spend an entire day exploring.

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Murano, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101