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Address: 32-33 47th Avenue
Neighborhood: Long Island City
Architect:  Hohauser, William I.
Year: 1948
Current Status: Extant
Award:  Bronze Plaque for Industrial
Typology:  Industrial Building

The Universal Steel Equipment Corporation building is located in a largely intact industrial zone in Long Island City. These blocks, located approximately between Skillman Avenue, 39th Street, the Long Island Expressway and the beginning of Queens Boulevard, shelter a number of Queens Chamber Award winners. This building is an example of how moderne design was moving into modernism with a long, low, streamlined profile. The materials are basic and include brick, concrete and glass brick with limestone and aluminum trim. This remains one of the most intact and earliest Queens Chamber winners. It is now occupied by a vitamin distributor.