Queens East District 7 Annex Garage, the Department’s first completely new garage built in nearly a decade, opened in June. The new facility, located in Flushing at 30-19 122nd Street, between 30th and 31st Avenues, is an 85,000 square foot building that functions as a garage, as well as a repair shop. At this new facility, a total of 56 collection trucks, 24 mechanical brooms, snow fighting equipment and a variety of other Sanitation equipment will be housed behind a sleek façade of glass and colored metal. Large windows covering two walls of the second story lunchroom offer its 89 employees a sweeping view of College Point. The building features several state-of-the-art systems, such as a newly-configured ventilation system that is ducted to deliver plenty of fresh tempered air to workers on the garage floor. This environmentally safe modern structure also uses an air conditioning system that does not require CFC (ChloroFluroCarbons).

The $28 million annex, engineered by Karlsberger Architecture P.C., will serve the College Point and Whitestone areas of Queens. Over the next 10 years, the Department plans to build eight new garages at existing and new sites around the five boroughs.