Will MoMA in Queens Leave Behind A Legacy?

The Museum of Modern Art’s Matisse Picasso show closes Monday, and with it the crowds that have thronged out to the museum’s temporary home in Queens will be gone. “Everyone in Long Island City, of course, knows that the Modern’s charmed visit to Queens will end. But they still wonder whether the museum will leave anything enduring behind. Will it help reshape a raw Queens neighborhood, known for its factories and warehouses and the gridlock around the Queensboro Bridge, into the next SoHo or TriBeCa?”