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New Hotels in Queens , NY

At Stay In The New, we track every hotel that has opened in Queens within the last two years — LaGuardia access, Flushing and Astoria, and which one actually runs an airport shuttle.

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Recently Opened Hotels in Queens

Three hotels have opened in Queens within the last two years, all of them within a few miles of LaGuardia. Verified opening dates, and an honest note on which one actually runs an airport shuttle.

Opened Jun 2025

The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport

Opened June 2025 • 246 Rooms • 35-32 Leavitt St, Flushing • Indoor Pool & Ballroom • Marriott Bonvoy

Widely reported as the first five-star hotel in Queens, and the reason the borough is worth a second look. The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport opened June 6, 2025 as the hotel component of the Northern Tower mixed-use development on Northern Boulevard, developed by Century Development Group and marking Westin's debut in Queens. The 13-story property holds 246 rooms built around Westin's wellness programming, with a grand ballroom, indoor swimming pool, sauna and fitness center, plus meeting space and upscale dining. It sits in the heart of downtown Flushing with the 7 train and Long Island Rail Road close by, putting Midtown roughly half an hour away. Marriott Bonvoy points eligible.

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Newly Opened

Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia

Newly opened • 208 Rooms • 33-75 Prince St, Flushing • Free LGA Shuttle 5am–11pm • Hilton Honors

The only one of the three that will actually get you to the terminal. Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia is a new-build property on Prince Street running a complimentary LaGuardia shuttle from 5:00am to 11:00pm, with the airport two miles out — which matters more than anything else on this page if you have a dawn departure. The 208 rooms come with the Garden Grille & Bar for made-to-order breakfast and dinner, a fitness center, meeting rooms and a 24-hour shop. Downtown Flushing is a third of a mile away, Citi Field just over a mile, and JFK about ten. Valet parking only, at $40; pet-friendly for a $75 fee. Hilton Honors points eligible.

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Opened Aug 2025

voco Astoria by IHG

Opened August 2025 • 50 Rooms • 30-17 31st St, Astoria • At the 30th Ave Subway • IHG One Rewards

The one to book if you want a neighborhood rather than an airport. voco Astoria opened August 12, 2025 as an eight-story, 50-room property directly at the 30th Avenue subway stop, with rooms looking out across the Hell Gate Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. It is the third voco in New York and the only one outside Manhattan, designed specifically around Astoria — a neighborhood with arguably the best Greek food in the country and a twenty-minute ride to Midtown. Anemi Modern Greek handles breakfast and dinner, alongside a lobby café, a 24-hour market and a 24-hour fitness center. LaGuardia is 2.5 miles away, though there is no hotel shuttle. Pet-friendly for a $75 deposit. IHG One Rewards points eligible.

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Queens has a deep stock of airport and Long Island City hotels, but almost all of it predates our two-year window. These three are the genuinely recent openings — everything else is covered in the neighborhood guide below.

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Opening Soon

Queens Hotels Opening Soon

Almost the entire Queens pipeline sits on one site. Willets Point — the industrial triangle beside Citi Field long known as the Iron Triangle — is being rebuilt into a new neighborhood, and two hotels are part of it.

Opening 2027

Willets Point Hotel

Phase 2 • 250 Keys • Willets Point • Beside Etihad Park

A 250-key hotel is part of Phase 2 of the Willets Point transformation, the same package that delivers Etihad Park — the city's first soccer-specific stadium and the new 25,000-seat home of New York City FC, expected to open for the 2027 MLS season. The wider 23-acre plan adds the largest all-affordable housing project in forty years, a 650-seat public school and more than 150,000 square feet of public open space. The hotel will sit within walking distance of both Etihad Park and Citi Field, on a site that has been auto-body shops for decades. No brand or opening date announced yet.

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Opening 2030

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at Metropolitan Park

Targeting 2030 • 121-09 Roosevelt Ave • Hard Rock International • Casino Resort

By far the largest hotel project in Queens history, and one of the largest in the city. Metropolitan Park is an $8 billion joint venture between Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International on the Citi Field parking lots, designed by SHoP Architects. Plans filed with the Department of Buildings cover roughly 3 million square feet including the hotel and casino; the venture has promoted a 2,300-room hotel alongside 5,000 slot machines, 375 table games, a live music venue, convention space, a "Taste of Queens" food hall and 25 acres of new public green space. Construction prep is underway, with opening targeted for 2030.

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Opening timelines shift as projects move through construction, and casino developments in particular depend on licensing. We update this page as dates are confirmed.

Not ready to book yet? Check what your dates look like now and watch how they move. Queens prices on events more than seasons — the US Open in late August fills Flushing months ahead, and Mets homestands do the same on a smaller scale.

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Where to Stay

Queens Neighborhood Guide

Queens is the largest borough by area and the most linguistically diverse place on earth, which means "staying in Queens" can mean six completely different trips. The deciding factors are usually the airport, the subway line, and whether you actually want to be in Manhattan by nine in the morning. Here is how it breaks down.

Downtown Flushing

Best for: LaGuardia access, food, both new hotels

Flushing is where the borough's recent hotel development has landed, and it is a genuine destination rather than an airport dormitory. Main Street holds one of the largest Chinatowns in the world — New World Mall's basement food court alone justifies the trip — and the 7 train plus the Long Island Rail Road put Midtown roughly half an hour out. The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport anchors the neighborhood as the borough's first five-star, part of the Northern Tower development on Northern Boulevard, with a ballroom, indoor pool and sauna. A few streets away, Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia is the practical pick: a new-build on Prince Street running a free LaGuardia shuttle from 5am to 11pm, a third of a mile from the centre. Compare Flushing hotel rates in Queens against Manhattan for the same nights and the difference is usually substantial.

Astoria

Best for: neighborhood feel, Greek food, Midtown access

The most liveable corner of Queens and the one most visitors end up wishing they had booked. Astoria runs on Greek and Middle Eastern food, tree-lined streets and a waterfront park with the best free Manhattan skyline view in the city. The N and W put you in Midtown in about twenty minutes. voco Astoria opened directly at the 30th Avenue subway stop — fifty rooms across eight floors, with views spanning the Hell Gate Bridge and the skyline, and Anemi Modern Greek downstairs. It is the third voco in New York and the only one outside Manhattan. LaGuardia is 2.5 miles away, though without a hotel shuttle you are relying on a cab or the bus. The Museum of the Moving Image and Socrates Sculpture Park are both walkable. Compare Astoria hotel rates in Queens against Midtown and the gap funds several very good dinners.

Long Island City

Best for: one stop to Manhattan, skyline views

LIC is the closest Queens gets to Manhattan — literally one subway stop from Grand Central on the 7, with waterfront towers looking straight across the East River. Gantry Plaza State Park has the postcard view, MoMA PS1 handles the art, and the restaurant scene has caught up over the last decade. There are no openings here inside our two-year window, which is worth saying plainly given how many hotels the neighborhood has. LIC holds one of the densest hotel clusters in the outer boroughs — Boro Hotel, the Aloft, Courtyard, Hyatt Place, EVEN, Feather Factory and a dozen more — but they are established rather than new. If proximity matters more to you than newness, this is the right neighborhood, and it is worth comparing Long Island City hotel rates in Queens against Midtown for the same dates before assuming Manhattan is necessary.

Willets Point & Corona

Best for: Mets games, the US Open, what's coming

The stretch around Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is where Queens does big events. Citi Field, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center hosting the US Open every late August, the Unisphere, the Queens Museum and the Louis Armstrong House are all here, on the 7 line and the LIRR. It is also where the borough's entire hotel pipeline is concentrated. A 250-key Willets Point hotel is part of the same Phase 2 package as Etihad Park, New York City FC's 25,000-seat stadium arriving for the 2027 season, and the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at Metropolitan Park targets 2030 on the Citi Field parking lots. Until those land, there is no hotel on the site itself — Flushing is the closest base, about a mile and one subway stop away. Compare Flushing Meadows hotel rates in Queens well ahead of the US Open; that fortnight fills the neighborhood months out.

Jackson Heights & Elmhurst

Best for: eating, budget, transit

If you came to New York to eat, this is the answer nobody gives you. Roosevelt Avenue running through Jackson Heights and Elmhurst is arguably the best concentrated food in the United States — Himalayan, Colombian, Thai, Mexican, Bangladeshi, often within one block — and the 7, E, F, M and R all converge at Roosevelt Avenue–Jackson Heights. The hotels here are small, independent and mostly older, so nothing qualifies for our cards. What you get instead is the cheapest legitimate base in the city with excellent transit, roughly twenty-five minutes to Midtown and ten to LaGuardia by cab. It suits travelers who treat the hotel as a place to sleep and the neighborhood as the point. Compare Jackson Heights hotel rates in Queens against the airport cluster; the prices are similar and the evenings are not.

Jamaica & the JFK Corridor

Best for: JFK flights, early departures, LIRR

The other airport, and a completely different calculation from LaGuardia. Jamaica Station is the transfer point where the JFK AirTrain meets the Long Island Rail Road, which reaches Penn Station in about twenty minutes — faster into Manhattan than most of Brooklyn manages. No recent openings qualify here either, but the practical picture matters: the JFK hotel cluster along the Van Wyck and around Federal Circle is built for early departures and layovers, most of it running 24-hour AirTrain or shuttle access, and Resorts World sits beside the racetrack nearby. If your flight is out of JFK rather than LaGuardia, none of the three new hotels on this page is convenient — Flushing is about ten miles from JFK. Compare JFK airport hotel rates in Queens directly rather than assuming the newer Flushing properties will work for a dawn flight.

One rule holds across the whole borough: check which airport you are actually flying out of before booking. Flushing and Astoria are both close to LaGuardia and genuinely far from JFK, and the two airports are on opposite sides of Queens.

Quick Answers

Queens' Newest Hotels — Answered

What has actually opened in Queens, which one gets you to LaGuardia, and what is coming to Willets Point.

What is the newest hotel in Queens?

Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia is the most recent, a new-build 208-room property on Prince Street in downtown Flushing. Before it, voco Astoria opened August 12, 2025 with 50 rooms at the 30th Avenue subway stop, and The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport opened June 6, 2025 with 246 rooms. Those three are the only hotels to open in Queens within the last two years.

Which Queens hotel has a free LaGuardia shuttle?

Of the three recent openings, only Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia runs one — complimentary, operating 5:00am to 11:00pm, with the airport two miles away. The Westin Flushing sits a similar distance from LaGuardia and voco Astoria about 2.5 miles, but neither advertises a hotel shuttle, so plan on a cab, rideshare or the bus. If you have a very early departure, the shuttle hours are the detail that matters most.

Does Queens have a five-star hotel?

It does now. The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport opened in June 2025 and was widely reported as the borough's first five-star hotel. The 13-story, 246-room property is the hotel component of the Northern Tower development on Northern Boulevard, built by Century Development Group, and includes a grand ballroom, indoor swimming pool, sauna and fitness center alongside Westin's wellness programming. It marked the Westin brand's debut in Queens.

Is it cheaper to stay in Queens than Manhattan?

Usually by a wide margin, and the transit tradeoff is smaller than most visitors expect. Long Island City is one subway stop from Grand Central on the 7, Astoria runs about twenty minutes to Midtown on the N or W, and Flushing is roughly half an hour by 7 train or Long Island Rail Road. The saving tends to be largest during peak Manhattan demand weeks, which is exactly when the boroughs are worth checking.

What hotels are being built in Queens?

Nearly the entire pipeline sits at Willets Point beside Citi Field. A 250-key hotel is part of Phase 2 of the Willets Point transformation, alongside Etihad Park — New York City FC's 25,000-seat stadium arriving for the 2027 season. Larger still, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino at Metropolitan Park is an $8 billion Steve Cohen and Hard Rock joint venture on the Citi Field parking lots, promoted at 2,300 rooms and targeting 2030.

Are any new Queens hotels near JFK?

No — and this is the most common Queens booking mistake. All three recent openings sit in Flushing and Astoria, close to LaGuardia and roughly ten miles from JFK on the other side of the borough. If you are flying out of JFK, the established hotel cluster around Federal Circle and the Van Wyck, or Jamaica near the AirTrain and Long Island Rail Road interchange, will serve you far better than anything on this page.

About the Borough

New Hotels in Queens, New York

Queens has always had hotels. What it has not had, until recently, is hotels anyone chose on purpose. The borough's rooms clustered around two airports and along the Long Island City waterfront, booked by people who needed to be near a gate or who found Manhattan too expensive that week. The last two years have started to change that, and the change is concentrated in one neighborhood.

The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport is the property that shifted the conversation. Reported as the first five-star hotel in Queens, it opened as the hotel component of a mixed-use tower on Northern Boulevard, bringing a ballroom, indoor pool and full wellness programming to a neighborhood that had never had that tier. It sits in downtown Flushing, which is a destination in its own right — one of the largest Chinatowns in the world, with food that draws people out from Manhattan rather than the other way round.

A few streets away, Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia answers a plainer question well. It is a new build on Prince Street with a complimentary LaGuardia shuttle running from early morning to late evening, which is the single most useful amenity an airport-adjacent hotel can offer and one that surprisingly few of them actually provide. For a dawn departure it is the most practical new room in the borough.

voco Astoria is the outlier, and the one to book if the airport is incidental. Fifty rooms directly above a subway entrance in Astoria, looking out toward the Hell Gate Bridge and the Manhattan skyline, with a modern Greek restaurant downstairs in a neighborhood built on Greek food. It is the only voco in New York outside Manhattan, and it is designed around where it sits rather than around a terminal.

What comes next is a different scale entirely. The land beside Citi Field — the industrial triangle that has been auto-body shops for decades — is being rebuilt into a new neighborhood with housing, a school, public parkland, a soccer stadium for New York City FC, and two hotels. One is a modest 250-key property within the Willets Point plan. The other is a Hard Rock casino resort promoted at 2,300 rooms, which would make it among the largest hotels in New York City. Both are years out, and we track them here as dates firm up.

Frequently Asked Questions

Practical questions about staying in Queens, from airport logistics to getting into Manhattan.

How long does it take to get from Queens to Manhattan?

It depends entirely on the neighborhood. Long Island City is one stop from Grand Central on the 7 train, so the ride is a few minutes. Astoria runs roughly twenty minutes to Midtown on the N or W. Flushing is about half an hour on the 7, or noticeably faster on the Long Island Rail Road into Penn Station. Jamaica reaches Penn in around twenty minutes on the LIRR. All of those are competitive with, or better than, much of Brooklyn.

Which new Queens hotel is best for an early flight?

Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia, because of the shuttle. It runs complimentary from 5:00am to 11:00pm with LaGuardia two miles away, which covers most early departures without a cab booking. The Westin Flushing is a comparable distance from the airport and voco Astoria about 2.5 miles, but without shuttles you are arranging your own transport at whatever hour your flight demands. For a JFK departure, none of the three is a sensible choice — they sit on the wrong side of the borough.

Are the new Queens hotels pet-friendly?

Two of the three are. Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia accepts pets for a $75 non-refundable fee with a 50-pound weight limit, and voco Astoria takes them for a $75 deposit per stay, with advance notice so a pet-friendly room can be assigned. Policies and fees change, so confirm directly with the hotel when you book rather than relying on a listing page.

Where should I stay in Queens for the US Open?

Flushing, and book far ahead. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center sits in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, one stop from downtown Flushing on the 7 train, which makes The Westin Flushing LaGuardia Airport and Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia the two closest new hotels to the grounds. The tournament runs across late August into early September and fills the neighborhood months in advance, with rates well above the rest of the year.

Is parking available at the new Queens hotels?

Hilton Garden Inn Flushing LaGuardia offers valet at $40 per night with no self-parking option, which is worth knowing before you arrive. Street parking in downtown Flushing is difficult at almost any hour. Given how well Queens is served by the subway and Long Island Rail Road, and how expensive parking gets across the city, most visitors are better off without a car unless the trip involves driving out to Long Island.

Is Queens a good base for visiting New York?

For a lot of trips, yes. Rates run well below Manhattan for the same night, the subway connections are strong, and you get neighborhoods that exist for the people who live in them — the food along Roosevelt Avenue and in downtown Flushing is among the best in the country. The honest caveat is that if your itinerary is Broadway shows and Midtown museums with late nights, you will spend real time on trains, and staying in Manhattan may be worth the premium.

Why are there so few new hotels in Queens?

Queens already has a lot of hotel rooms — the airport corridors and Long Island City hold dense clusters — but most of that stock is older, which is why only three properties qualify for our two-year window. New York City has led the country in new hotel rooms for two consecutive years, and the majority of that construction lands in Manhattan. Queens development has instead concentrated on the Willets Point redevelopment, where the next wave of rooms will arrive later this decade.

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