Aquaponics Start-Up in Long Island City Dreams Big – The Epoch Times
LOFT:LIC uses a recirculating piping system to feed water to plants, fish, and wheat grass. (Zachary Stieber/The Epoch Times) NEW YORK—It’s not your typical growing operation. A closed loop system circulates nutrients and water through a fish tank, a worm bin, wheatgrass, and plant roots in the top floor of a Long Island City building. […]
Hornitos Bowl at 5 Napkin Burger
From our friendly PR friends at Astoria’s 5 Napkin Burger // Hi – This Super Bowl, 5 Napkin Burger (35-01 36th Street @ 35th Street; 718-433-2727) is challenging imbibers to determine the winner of the first ever Hornitos Bowl taking place at all 5 Napkin Burgers. Will The Redemption (for the Patriots) be the most […]
Short-term parking announced in Long Island City – Queens Courier
Fed up with commuters using their neighborhood as a parking lot, residents and community leaders of Long Island City banded together with the Department of Transportation, (DOT) and announced the reduction of 12-hour parking meters. The new meter regulation, which accounts for 39 spots where Vernon Boulevard meets Borden Avenue, one block from the No. […]
Five People Injured in Long Island Expressway Accident – DNAinfo
Five people were injured in a multi-vehicle accident on the Long Island Expressway on Jan. 30, 2012, officials said. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) QUEENS — Five people were injured, including one seriously, in a multi-vehicle accident on the Long Island Expressway […]
MoMA P.S. 1 announces a solo exhibition of Darren Bader – Art Daily
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana Marx / Stuff: the precise affinity between the generic and the specific Ford / I see you’ve gone and changed your name again Cohen Sculptures everywhere. It’s space and space is everywhere. Space is in your thought, space is […]
For sale at Matted: sweet map hanging
Brooklyn-Queens map in the nabe. Matted on Vernon has some good stuff.
Courtyard at MoMA PS1
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In the dome at MoMA PS1
The panorama http://photosynth.net/view/cad2caf7-7cf0-4f50-ac2c-8d0af2e2fbb4
Artomat to become a restaurant
More Vernon developments. Congrats to Plaxall which is scoring paying tenants left and right (Kenny Neon’s old place too).
LIC the new Hells Kitchen?
No way. From here it looks like Battery Park http://photosynth.net/view/2374c14f-f924-4b9e-9847-ed95ef7c943e
Au revoir Kenny Neon
He moved up a few blocks and Plaxall has taken back the space here just off Vernon, near Communitea. Conjecture: the M Wells space.
Topping out near 21st
From the builder of the Badge Building, a new project. Shows the development of LIC is back on track
Disgraced teacher is worth $10M, makes $100000 a year, does nothing, & refuses … – New York Post
Hell no, he won’t go. In a defiant raspberry to the city Department of Education — and taxpayers — disgraced teacher Alan Rosenfeld, 66, won’t retire. Deemed a danger to kids, the typing teacher with a $10 million real estate portfolio hasn’t been allowed in a classroom for more than a decade, but […]
Feds open new LIC office to serve more immigrants – TimesLedger
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Boro leaders joined federal immigration officials Friday to cut the ribbon on a new immigration office that opened recently in Long Island City. The office, at 27-35 Jackson Ave., replaces the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ previous offices […]
It’s Not Just Artists but the Subways They Take That Drives Gentrification – New York Observer
Subways and artists have had a long, long relationship. Everybody knows the old saw about how artist migrations and subway access help drive gentrification in the city, but we never realized the two were quite so intertwined. Capital New York has an interesting story about how a major gallery, Luhring Augustine, moving to Bushwick might […]
It’s Not Just Artists but the Subways They Take That Drives Gentrification – New York Observer
Subways and artists have had a long, long relationship. Everybody knows the old saw about how artist migrations and subway access help drive gentrification in the city, but we never realized the two were quite so intertwined. Capital New York has an interesting story about how a major gallery, Luhring Augustine, moving to Bushwick might […]
It’s Not Just Artists but the Subways They Take That Drives Gentrification – New York Observer
Subways and artists have had a long, long relationship. Everybody knows the old saw about how artist migrations and subway access help drive gentrification in the city, but we never realized the two were quite so intertwined. Capital New York has an interesting story about how a major gallery, Luhring Augustine, moving to Bushwick might […]
It’s Not Just Artists but the Subways They Take That Drives Gentrification – New York Observer
Subways and artists have had a long, long relationship. Everybody knows the old saw about how artist migrations and subway access help drive gentrification in the city, but we never realized the two were quite so intertwined. Capital New York has an interesting story about how a major gallery, Luhring Augustine, moving to Bushwick might […]