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US Post Office-Long Island City
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U.S. Post Office, Long Island City, April 2008
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| Location: | 46-02 21st St., Long Island City, Queens |
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| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1928 |
| Architect: | Wetmore, James A.; US Treasury Department |
| Architectural style: | Colonial Revival |
| Governing body: | U.S. Postal Service |
| MPS: | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP Reference#: | 88002348[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 11, 1989 |
US Post Office-Long Island City is a historic post office building located at Long Island City in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1928, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under director James A. Wetmore. The building is a two story, symmetrically massed brick building with limestone trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a frontispiece with four semi-engaged limestone Ionic order columns that support a pedimented entabulature.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]