Long Island City in Queens

The major of new venues have clustered near P.S.1.  The New York Center for Media Arts, a nonprofit that hosts exhibitions and educational programs devoted to electronic art, was founded by a Korean businessman Yang Soo Kim.  Another recent arrival is David Dorsky, whose family ran the Dorsky Gallery in Manhattan.  Since closing the gallery, he has leased and renovated two spaces in a former Long Island City factory where Dannon yogurt lids were once manufactured:  one houses King Point Fine Art, and the other, the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program.

Activity farther from P.S.1 includes the temporary move of the Noguchi Museum from its building near the East River to the second floor of a commercial space near MOMA QNS.  Noguchi's neighbor, Socrates Sculpture Park maintains its outdoor site along the East River, offering spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline.  Close to the Queensboro Bridge is the Fisher Landau Center, an open-by-appointment exhibition venue, study center, and storage facility.

Travel time from midtown to P.S.1 clocks in at seven minutes on the subway.  To facilitate transit, MoMA initiated Queens Artlink, a program sponsored by the city that offers free weekend bus services between midtown Manhattan and art venues in Queens.