Two Cortizo buildings in Hunters Point: a complete curtain-wall envelope with sliding doors and tilt-turn inserts at The Anable, and divided-lite tilt-turns with a corner storefront on 47th Road.
Long Island City is new construction on European aluminum. The buildings going up in Hunters Point, Court Square and Dutch Kills want what Cortizo does well: a curtain-wall skin with operable inserts, slim sightlines, big lites, and the thermal numbers a new building has to report. The Anable at 10-64 Jackson Avenue is the full version — a complete Cortizo envelope, curtain wall with sliding doors and tilt-turn inserts, curved glass at the corner. 5-13 47th Road is the smaller building: divided-lite tilt-turn windows and a corner storefront in the same system.
The LIC job runs with the developer’s architect and the Department of Buildings, on a construction schedule, usually with the crane or the hoist as the constraint. Our shop drawings, the curtain-wall engineering and the installation sequence are coordinated with the superstructure trade.
Hunters Point, Court Square, Dutch Kills, Queensbridge, Ravenswood, Astoria South.
New construction: DOB filings by the architect of record, curtain-wall engineering and testing to the project specification, and NYC Energy Conservation Code performance for the envelope. See curtain wall systems and Cortizo.
Hunters Point towers and mid-rises along the waterfront and Jackson Avenue: curtain wall with window inserts and sliding doors, balcony doors at height, and storefront at the base — the Anable is the complete Cortizo envelope of that kind, and 5-13 47th Road the divided-lite Cortizo windows and corner storefront on a smaller new building.
Converted industrial buildings in Dutch Kills and along the rail yards: large steel-sash openings replaced brick-to-brick, often in steel-look aluminium to keep the line of the facade, and rooftop and courtyard glazing where the conversion adds floors.
Court Square and Queens Plaza offices and hotels: commercial storefront, entrance systems and curtain wall repairs on buildings that trade all day.
Row houses and small multifamily in Hunters Point and Ravenswood: whole-building replacements on uPVC or American aluminium, and wood or wood-look windows where the block is landmarked.
The LIC waterfront takes the wind that funnels down the East River, and a tower window there is a different product from a walk-up window in Sunnyside: compression-sealed tilt-and-turn or fixed with an awning vent, laminated glass on balconies, sliding doors on lift-slide or multipoint hardware rather than brush seals, and every unit set to the wind load on the structural drawings. Inside the neighbourhood, water is the issue: the older masonry moves, and the sill pan and the flashing decide whether a replacement window leaks.
Survey and photographs; a proposal that names the system, glass and hardware and prices the budget, standard and premium options; shop drawings; DOB filings and, in the Hunters Point Historic District, LPC review; fabrication in our shop; installation by our crews, floor by floor with tenants in place where the building is occupied. For new construction we sequence with the facade contractor and set windows and curtain wall from the inside where the site has no sidewalk shed. Lead times run three to twelve weeks by line. To start, send photographs of the openings with rough sizes, the address, and the name of the architect, board or manager if there is one; we reply with a range the same week and a survey date.
Yes. The Anable at 10-64 Jackson Avenue is a full Cortizo curtain-wall envelope with sliding doors and tilt-turn inserts and curved corner glass.
Yes; shop drawings, engineering and installation sequence are coordinated with the superstructure and the hoist schedule.
Yes, in insulated units, as at The Anable’s corner.
Yes: curtain wall with window inserts and sliding doors, balcony doors and storefront at the base, specified to the wind load on the drawings; the Anable at 10-64 Jackson Avenue is the example.
The Hunters Point Historic District covers the 45th Avenue row houses; windows on those facades need LPC approval and matching profiles. The towers and most of the neighbourhood do not.
About this page. Written by Alex GC Inc. d/b/a Alex Glass Construction and reviewed before publication by Aleksandr Chernovolenko, Managing Partner, with our design and estimating lead and a field foreman. Our foremen hold the NYC DOB Site Safety Training supervisor card and our crews the 40-hour worker card; we are certified to fabricate, install and service Alutech and Everest aluminum systems. Facts are drawn from our own projects, manufacturer test data and the applicable codes; where we are giving an opinion, we say so. Last reviewed September 2026. Credentials
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