Long Island City sells itself on one line: one stop from Midtown on the 7. So the obvious question about any coworking space Long Island City has on offer is whether that stop buys you a cheaper day at a desk. We ran the numbers across every bookable desk in New York City, and the answer is not the one the neighborhood brochure implies.
Here is the short version. A coworking space Long Island City lists on Wezoo will cost you between $79 and $99 a day. The median day desk across the whole of Queens is $104. The median across Manhattan — the island you are supposedly escaping — is $92. Crossing the East River does not save you money. It saves you the commute, and those are two different things. For the wider picture, our complete guide to coworking covers how day desks are priced everywhere else.
Every rate below comes from live Wezoo inventory, not from an operator’s marketing page.
Wezoo snapshot — Queens hot desks, July 2026
- 4 bookable coworking locations in Queens, 2 of them inside Long Island City (11101)
- 6 bookable open desks in the entire borough
- Price range: $79 to $119 per day
- Median: $104 per day (Manhattan: $92)
- Operators: Regus, Spaces, HQ
Six desks is a thin market, and pretending otherwise would not help you book one. Read the snapshot as a shortlist, not a directory.
Coworking space Long Island City: what a day desk actually costs
Two LIC addresses take day bookings on Wezoo. Hunter’s Point runs $79 a day. Spaces Gaseteria Works runs $99. Widen the lens to western Queens and Astoria adds a third at $109; central Queens adds Forest Hills at $119. That is the whole borough.
| Location | Operator | Area | Day rate | Open desks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter’s Point | HQ | LIC (11101) | from $79 | 1 |
| Spaces Gaseteria Works | Spaces | LIC (11101) | from $99 | 2 |
| 36th Avenue | Regus | Astoria (11106) | from $109 | 2 |
| Forest Hills Tower | Regus | Forest Hills (11375) | from $119 | 1 |
No membership, no monthly minimum: a coworking space Long Island City lists here is booked and paid for one day at a time.
Is coworking space Long Island City cheaper than Midtown? One stop, tested
No. And the gap runs the wrong way.
Across 24 bookable Manhattan locations — 205 open desks — the median day rate is $92, and eight of the island’s 22 priced doors will sell you a Tuesday for $79 or less. That is the same price as the cheapest desk in Long Island City. The Queens median, $104, sits $12 above Manhattan’s.
The tidiest way to prove it is to hold the brand constant and look only at operators with doors on both banks of the East River:
| Operator | Manhattan median | Queens | Effect of crossing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regus (14 Manhattan doors) | $77 | $109 · $119 | +42% to +55% |
| Spaces (6 Manhattan doors) | $114 | $99 | −13% |
| HQ (2 Manhattan doors) | $112 | $79 | −29% |
Three operators, three different answers, and one of them charges you more to leave the island. The river is not a price boundary. The operator is.
One number seals it. Hunter’s Point sits 2.66 km from Grand Central. One Liberty Plaza is 5.58 km away; 14 Wall Street, 5.77 km; 100 Church Street, 5.18 km — and that last one rents a desk for $65. Long Island City is closer to Grand Central than the Financial District is. It is also more expensive. If price alone is driving the decision, the honest comparison is not LIC against Midtown; it is LIC against a coworking space in Manhattan, and Manhattan wins it more often than anyone in Queens would like.
The 3 best coworking space Long Island City picks for a day desk
Three addresses, ranked by day rate. Two are in LIC proper; the third is the nearest fallback when both are taken.
1. Hunter’s Point — Long Island City
What to expect: This is the cheapest day desk on the Queens side of the river, and it is not a coworking floor in the way the word usually implies. Hunter’s Point is a private-office building at 51-02 21st Street with exactly one bookable open desk sitting among 83 private-office seats — a 1.19% open share, the tightest in the borough. In practice that means you are not fighting for a table. You are the drop-in. The 7, E, G and 21st Street–Van Alst platforms are all inside a five-minute walk, and Gantry Plaza State Park with its Midtown skyline view is two blocks west when you need to think. Daylight is flagged on the desk group, which in New York is worth more than most amenity lists.
Best for: the cheapest bookable desk in Queens, five minutes from the Vernon Blvd–Jackson Av 7 platform.
Operator: HQ · Address: 51-02 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 · Day desk: from $79 · Day office: from $209 · Private office: from $489/month
👉 Book Hunter’s Point on Wezoo
2. Spaces Gaseteria Works — Long Island City
What to expect: A converted industrial building on 41st Avenue, and the one LIC address that reads like a coworking space rather than an office tower with a spare chair. Two bookable open desks, natural light flagged on both, breakout areas and catering on site, and a meeting room in the same building from $92.50 an hour if the day turns into a client call. Court Square puts the 7, E, M and G within a three-minute walk — that is four lines from one entrance, which is more than most Manhattan doors can claim. The day rate of $99 is a dollar under the Manhattan median, and the design ratings are the highest of any door in Queens.
Best for: a design-led floor and a meeting room in the same building, two blocks from Court Square.
Operator: Spaces · Address: 30-10 41st Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 · Day desk: from $99 · Day office: from $269 · Private office: from $675/month
👉 Book Spaces Gaseteria Works on Wezoo
3. 36th Avenue — Astoria, western Queens
What to expect: Strictly speaking this one is in Astoria, 1.9 km north of Court Square — close enough to walk in twenty minutes, one stop on the N or W if you would rather not. It earns its place here for a simple reason: with only three bookable open desks in LIC proper, western Queens needs a fourth option, and this is the nearest one. The building carries 38 private-office seats behind those two open desks, breakout space and catering, and the widest suite ladder in the borough. At $109 a day it is the dearest desk in western Queens, which is the point of the next section.
Best for: a fallback with real depth when both LIC desks are gone — 1.9 km north, one stop on the N or W.
Operator: Regus · Address: 35-01 36th Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11106 · Day desk: from $109 · Day office: from $299 · Private office: from $765/month
Where the day rate actually falls: the city line, not the river
Here is the thing experienced bookers work out eventually and nobody writes down. Inside New York City, distance from Midtown tells you almost nothing about what a desk costs.
Measure every one of the 29 priced desks in the five boroughs against Grand Central and the correlation between distance and day rate is −0.20. Hold Regus constant and it collapses to +0.01 — statistically, nothing at all. Manhattan’s own spread makes the point: $39 in Harlem, $189 on West 14th Street, four subway stops apart.
Now run exactly the same measurement across the wider metro — the same 49 desks plus New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island — and the correlation snaps to −0.49. Outside the city limits alone it reads −0.45. New Jersey’s 17 locations have a median day rate of $69, a full $35 under Queens.
So the discount is real. It just does not start where you think. The gradient begins at the city line, not at the river. One stop on the 7 is not far enough to be worth anything to a landlord.
That is the honest case for a coworking space Long Island City can offer you: it is a commute case, not a price case. One stop on the 7 does not buy you a cheaper desk. It buys back the forty minutes you would otherwise have spent getting to one — and if you want the wider version of that trade-off, see flexible workspace explained.
Beyond the desk: day offices and private offices at every coworking space Long Island City lists
Every LIC location that sells an open desk also sells a lockable room by the day and a private office by the month. The step up from desk to door is remarkably consistent: across the four Queens buildings a day office costs 2.73× the open desk at the same address — $209 at Hunter’s Point, $269 at Gaseteria Works, $299 on 36th Avenue, $359 in Forest Hills. That multiple is 2.87× nationally, 2.75× in Los Angeles. The building changes the price; it does not change the ratio.
For a team rather than a person, the monthly ladder starts at $489 at Hunter’s Point, $675 at Gaseteria Works and $765 on 36th Avenue, with suites sized from one to eleven desks. Nine of Hunter’s Point’s 23 suites are listed as available now. If the requirement is longer than a month, our guide to the private office New York market covers how those rates compare across the city.
Day office, private office or open desk, every option above is booked through the same LIC listing.
How to choose the right coworking space Long Island City option
Three desks, three genuinely different days.
- Cheapest, quietest: Hunter’s Point, $79. One open desk in a building of 83 private offices. You will not be sharing a table with anybody.
- Most like a coworking floor: Spaces Gaseteria Works, $99. Breakout areas, catering, natural light, a meeting room downstairs, and four subway lines at Court Square.
- The fallback with depth: 36th Avenue, $109. Astoria, twenty minutes on foot or one stop on the N, and the widest private-office ladder in the borough if the day turns into a month.
Whichever you pick, book the specific building rather than the neighborhood — in New York the price lives at the street door, not on the map.
Both LIC options and the Astoria fallback are on the same Queens page.
Neighborhood context and business-district data come from the Long Island City Partnership, the local economic development organization that manages the LIC Business Improvement District.
If you are weighing an address for a registered business rather than a desk, the U.S. Small Business Administration sets out what to check before you commit.
Ready to book your coworking space in Queens?
Rates update as operators change them, so check the live listing before you travel.
Coworking space Long Island City: frequently asked questions
How much does a coworking space Long Island City costs per day?
A day desk in Long Island City costs $79 at Hunter’s Point and $99 at Spaces Gaseteria Works on Wezoo. Widen to western Queens and 36th Avenue in Astoria adds a third option at $109. The Queens median is $104 per day, against a Manhattan median of $92.
Is a coworking space Long Island City cheaper than Midtown?
Usually not. Manhattan’s median day desk is $92 and eight of its 22 priced locations rent for $79 or less — the same as LIC’s cheapest. Held brand-constant, Regus charges 42–55% more in Queens than in Manhattan, while Spaces and HQ charge less. The saving depends on the operator, not the river.
Which coworking space Long Island City option is closest to the 7 train?
Both. Hunter’s Point at 51-02 21st Street is roughly five minutes from Vernon Blvd–Jackson Av, and Spaces Gaseteria Works on 41st Avenue is about three minutes from Court Square, which also serves the E, M and G.
How many coworking desks are actually bookable in Queens?
Six, across four buildings, on Wezoo today. It is a thin market: LIC has three open desks in total. Book ahead rather than walking in, especially mid-week.
Can I book a meeting room or private office at the same LIC address?
Yes. All four Queens locations sell meeting rooms by the hour, day offices by the day and private offices by the month. A day office costs about 2.73× the open desk at the same building; private offices start at $489 a month at Hunter’s Point.
