Downtown Flushing, NEW YORK CITY: Some time in the year 2025.
Flushing has become a sprawling high tech megacity, thanks to next generation cutting edge infrastructure.
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1. Downtown Flushing.
Lit like a Neon sky, the mega city of Flushing fills every inch of view, suffering from overdevelopment, overcrowding and traffic. Massive corporate towers, luxury hotels, restaurants and run-down apartments overwhelm the city. Many people bustle around in constant flux, consumed by their high tech devices. The city never sleeps. To the east is Flushing Commons where the wealthy tourists mingle. Overhead in the night sky you see a massive Fuji TV Blimp broadcasting the US Open game. To the south is a Kiosk to connect you to the city networks.
2. COLONY New Technologies Development Center.
Originally planted in the middle of a desolate industrial zone, COLONY office coworkers have since moved into the Sterling City Towers. With an excellent view of the city, and a peaceful view of Flushing Bay from their office, commuters and coworkers have the best of both worlds.
3. The Ambisphere
This is the Valley of Bytes, a fantastic cityscape where bits flow through the air from the Digital Marina out towards Dickensville ending at New College Point. Successor to the Unisphere, a radiant ambient wireless structure circles the mega city.
4. Dickensville
Clusters of old factories and low budget housing that time forgot crowd the north side of the Freedom Mile to Louis Latimer’s home. Where Charles Dickens meets Blade Runner, the Tudor and Victorian homes cling to their existence, slowly encroached upon, absorbed by over-development.
5. Verizon Central Office (CO)
The Verizon Central office is a simple building from the outside, but inside it’s filled with racks, pipes, and twisted cables of fiber. Verizon’s CO serves as a key exchange between Flushing mega city and telecom providers. Since the technology initiative, the old Verizon building was redesigned as a fault-tolerant, technology fortress.
6. Bethlehem Arts 3D
To the North, surrounded by factories, lying on the side of Flushing Bay is the Bethlehem Arts 3D printing factory. Once the site of great ash heap, it now produces, manufactures, and ships cutting edge products to all corners of the world. Bethlehem’s claim to fame is the world famous 3D-printed Ferris Wheel that now overlooks the Digital Marina. They supply all the latest, innovative 3D printed building materials to local construction firms. It’s rumored that Bethlehem is secretly developing new 3D printing cranes capable of building entire multifamily buildings and skyscrapers from scratch.
7. The Commons
In the center of town lies the crown jewel of downtown. A large community hub complete with green space where upscale shops and boutiques cater to international tourists and a wealthier class looking for the latest fashion and unique gifts. An urban oasis, people relax from the barrage of traffic and crowds, to freely surf Open Access Wi-Fi.
8. Biofuze Industries
Overlooking the Flushing Bay, the Biofuze Biomass Plant was erected to provide green energy and low cost energy for the community smart grid and data center at the RKO Dataplex.
9. ENSO Labs
Far to the east, in Bayside at a Class A office tech space is the ENSO Research and Development Labs. The office is tasked with development of new technologies and software to maintain and grow technologies for the smart community.
10. RKO Dataplex – Digital Life Campus.
An old landmarked Vaudeville theater retrofitted for use as a data center. The surrounding buildings make up a technology campus. The medulla of the city pumps infinitesimal bits of ones and zeros, coordinating and performing all of the intricate little necessary automated organic functions of the village and business networks, while executives shuttle back and forth from the Dataplex to the 7 Train tech corridor.
11. Sterling City
Rising from the Valley of Ashes is a Phoenix. Related’s new Willet’s Point high-tech condo development and shopping center sits atop the old Iron Triangle next to Citi Field. People flood the streets to shop and eat. Some lucky Sterling City residents have impressive views of the stadium and watch Mets games from their apartment windows. Sometimes when you walk you can hear the baseball game crowd cheering, and the hum of Ambisphere’s radiant wifi permeating the sky. To the East, a land bridge crosses over Flushing River to the Promenade Mall and the Flushing West LIRR Station (a platform extended from Main Street).
12. Citypod
The Citypod Software Development Center office lies in an undisclosed location to the southwest of New College Point. Software development and operations for the URBOS operating system and City as a Service platform occurs here. Office workers have scenic views of Flushing Meadows Park. The Queens Unisphere shimmers in the distance and reminds the development team why they come to work each day, for the greater good of society.
13. The TimesCenter II at Queens
Some time around 2020, as traditional ad and print models continued to fail, the New York Times discovered they needed much less printing press space at their New College Point campus. They decided to build a second TimesCenter much like the Manhattan version, and it has since become the largest corporate center and public tech forum in New York City. Proximity to the newly renovated LaGuardia Airport, and a myriad of hotels, has made TimesCenter II the hottest spot for corporate tech events.
14. Gennext Plaza
The Network Operations Center (NOC) for Smarter City management, this building oversees servicing and coordinating commercial operations of the Dragon Line, RKO Dataplex, and Ambisphere Wi-Fi mesh.
15. Wi-Fi Train
The Tech Corridor LIRR train connects you to LIC and Silicon Alley here. Open Access Wi-Fi delivers gigabit service on the platform, while commuters wait. Wi-Fi spans entire train route so riders never miss a beat. Inside the train, you hear NYC news, the Fashion Channel, and service alerts all broadcasted from transparent LED wallpaper.
16. PAX Kiosk
Public Access Terminals (PAX) are interactive digital community gateways complete with hyperlocal community ads and news. The kiosks offer Wi-fi, fiber commlinks, and a mobile payment system. You’ll need to download your bitcoins here, because that’s all stores will accept in Flushing these days. Access NYC Muni sites, purchase parking or Metrocards, hail cabs, buy from local restaurants, reach government offices, private banking, even re-charge your cyberdecks, you can do it all. The Kiosks also provides an interactive map for the neighborhood. Each Kiosk taps into the Dragon Line fiber and power grid for its energy and networking capabilities.
17. Triangle’s Edge
What’s left of the Iron Triangle after redevelopment. Commercial warehouses for infrastructure storage, 3D printing, and biomass materials, dot along the river east of Sterling City.
18. The One Hotel and Rooftop Lounge
A posh rooftop bar. Atop this upscale hotel is where office workers and commuters mingle after work. An escape from the overcrowded streets down below, you can relax to a 180 degree view of the Manhattan skyline.
19. Sheraton Four Points at Flushing West
A tall gleaming tower rises. The black body looms high over the New College Point river. This is the second Sheraton Four Points hotel in New York City, flanked on both sides by Fulton Place and Promenade riverfront condos. When completed the hotel will be the tallest building in Flushing.
20. New Millenium Hotel
A luxury hotel downtown. Extended stay international businessmen live where the average room cost per night rivals the average working man’s annual salary.
21. Promenade Condominiums
East of the river in the heart of the New College Point district are waterfront condos catering to upper class Flushing residents. The Promenade is home to a strip of ritzy shops overlooking the river. A sign saying �Flushing River Park� points to a land bridge connecting New College Point to Sterling City.
22. North Shore Marine Transfer Station
Formerly a station for exporting waste to barges, the station is now importing and processing more than 50,000 tons of residental and commercial waste daily at the nearby Biofuze biomass plant, feeding green power to the RKO Dataplex’s behemoth data center.
23. New College Point
A hip community born from the gentrification of an industrial zone during the intense redevelopment period of the 10’s decade. Massive waterfront condos, shopping centers, and endless LED lights run southwest past the Botanical Gardens and northeast to the Digital Marina. This district is famous for its elaborate KTVs and rooftop lounges.
24. Digital Marina
Downtown Flushing is out of room so the Digital Marina is an attempt to remedy that with sightseeing cruises, fine dining, mini golf, and a theater along the shore. Quirky autonomous Selfie Robots whiz by pedestrians asking to take their Polaroid picture for only 5 bitcoins. In the faint distance you see the elevated 7 AirTrain ride the Loop over Flushing Bay to LaGuardia Airport. After Hurricane Sandy hit two decades ago, they decided the Loop would also serve as a massive hurricane sea wall barrier.
25. Freedom Mile
At the terminus of the Dickinsville working class neighborhood, historical sites span a mile radius of downtown Flushing. How fitting that the vast Ambisphere Open Access Wi-Fi mesh promoting Internet freedom is broadcasting from the birthplace of religious freedom nearly 400 years later.
26. New York Hospital
The New York Hospital lies on the far south of Downtown Flushing. The hospital is almost as overcrowded as Flushing itself. One of the benefits of being on the Dragon Line is the instantaneous communications to the rest of the medical community, and health records storage in the HIPAA compliant RKO Dataplex.
27. United Nations Station
You are next to a large Bauhaus style airplane hanger of intersecting trains where people wait to board the 7 Airtrain. LED signs flicker above “Welcome to Sterling City”. The 7 AirTrain railway Loop swings high above the water from the Marina to the Airport, whisking commuters to and from the tech corridor. You are facing a dimly lit subway entrance. Crowds of people gather to the West.
28. US Open
US Open is a Tennis Tournament
29. Blimp
This is a photo of a blimp
30. LGA
LGA Redesigned. A beautiful renovation.
31. SkyView
SkyView mall adds 3 more glorifying buildings.
32. College Point Subway
College Point is going to be connected to the 7 train with an extended train line running into College Point BLVD.
33. 7 Airtrain
7 airtrain bringing you right to the airport.
34. LOOP
Loop di looppppp
35. LGA Convention
LGA Convention. Bringing conventions to another level.
0. Manhattan Skyline
Skyline of Manhattan. Wonderful
36. Ferris Wheel
Ferris Wheel in the greatest park on Earth!