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 […]
Newtown Creek Report to Outline Plans to Control Oil Seepage – DNAinfo
Newtown Creek forms part of the border between Brooklyn and Queens. (Newtown Creek Alliance) QUEENS — A report expected next month will outline a plan to control oil seepage from a former refinery into Newtown Creek, the waterway separating Long […]
Bloomberg: TV, film boosts city economy – Newsday
Email Print Aa Tweet Originally published: January 26, 2012 9:13 PM Updated: January 26, 2012 9:58 PM By IGOR KOSSOV. Special to Newsday Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared Thursday “Gossip Girl Day” in […]
PS1 Moma Winter Open House returns on Sunday (with a dome!)
Sunday, January 29 12:00–6:00 p.m. Please join us for our Winter Open House, celebrating the openings of the exhibitions Henry Taylor and Darren Bader: Images. The opening celebration includes an e-flux lecture by poet, journalist, and artist Bilal Khbeiz; a performance by Megafortress; a screening of YouTube Virals from Tahrir Cinema and conversation with Egyptian […]
Queens Council on the Arts heading to Long Island City – Queens Chronicle
Queens Council on the Arts, founded in 1966, is moving from its home in Forest Park to a new, 1,700-square-foot space at 37-11 35 Ave. in Long Island City, which the nonprofit is leasing from Kaufman Astoria Studios. The organization, which supports Queens-based artists across all disciplines — fine arts, dance, music and more — […]
SculptureCenter News: New Curator and Limited Editions
From SC. SculptureCenter Appoints Ruba Katrib as Curator SculptureCenter is pleased to announce the appointment of Ruba Katrib as SculptureCenter’s new Curator effective February 15, 2012. Katrib joins SculptureCenter after four years at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami. She brings a breadth of curatorial experience to an institution respected for its intellectual […]
City building accidents down 18%: Mayor – Queens Campaigner
City building accidents down 18%: Mayor Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rebecca Henely in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 14, District 25, District 26, Mayor, U.S. House Mayor Michael Bloomberg (c.) celebrates an 18 percent drop in construction accidents compared to last year at an apartment complex being built in Long Island […]
Jaharee Robinson scores bruising win over Jin Ooi in Golden Gloves action – New York Daily News
Jahareer Robinson saw red on his way to the P.C. Richard & Son Boxer of the Night honors at Variety Boys & Girls Club in Long Island City Wednesday. Robinson started aggressively and charged harder when his opponent’s blood appeared. “If I was bloodied, he would have came at me the same way,” he said […]
Rock rose at Court Square
Now at 15 stories. 18 months to go.
City building accidents down 18%: Mayor – TimesLedger
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited an apartment complex under construction in Long Island City Monday to announce what he called a step in the right direction: an 18 percent drop in construction accidents citywide from 2010-11. “This is good for the agency. […]
This Saturday, This Sunday, M. Wells
Shot by Jesse Winter M. Wells is doing a brunch this Saturday and a BBQ this Sunday. All are welcome. Gianna Cerbone-Teoli, who owns and operates Manducatis Rustica in LIC, has let us live at her restaurant during our long limbo. We cook there and do business there, drinking wine by the jugs and messing […]
New Inventions Of The Day And Chicken Thieves In 1888 – Western Queens Gazette
Kodak Camera advertisement c. 1888, Roosevelt Island, originally called Blackwell Island and a Civil War era Gatling gun. Get into a conversation with a longtime Queens resident and you’re likely to discover a former subscriber of the Long Island Star Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until […]
Gypsy Rose Loses Second Liquor License Bid – Western Queens Gazette
The voices of local lawmakers, civic leaders and residents must have reverberated last week with officials at the State Liquor Authority (SLA) who rejected a second application by the owners of a Long Island City strip club for a liquor license. A coalition of elected officials, area residents and business owners led by Councilmember […]
Immigration Office Opens In LIC – Western Queens Gazette
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney welcomed elected officials to the opening of the new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) center in Long Island City. The center is the first of its kind to open outside of Manhattan. On January 20, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas, New York […]
Atrium at LIC Arts Center
Home to Paedeia School, Secret Theater, studios, Ballet, Music School and more. At 23rd and 44th Rd.
Watch a Giant Tunnel Boring Machine Blast a Hole Through New York City – Gizmodo
Watching a 642-ton, 300-foot-long Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) bust a hole from Manhattan to Long Island City reminds me of the tunnel cleaners in Labrinyth. Except, instead of David Bowie singing, it’s Long Island City commuters. The TBM is one of two tunnelers burrowing their way under Manhattan, with braces built as the tunneler Dig […]
Bulldogs make their case – TimesLedger
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Arthur Santanna hears it all the time. Queens is soft. Queens A West is one of the weakest divisions in the city. Star Aaron Williams isn’t around anymore to bail out Long Island City, last year’s PSAL Class […]
The City Council’s ‘free’ cash – New York Post
Pork is better for clogging arteries than clearing them, which is why City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s plan to ease service outages on the 7 train with member-item grease is fraught, to say the least. Van Bramer (D-Queens) offered to pay for 11 weekends of express shuttle buses between Long Island City and […]
February 1-14, Shop in the US from any Country and Receive Valentine’s Day … – MarketWatch (press release)
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Valentine’s Day shoppers who want to ship gifts overseas can take advantage of […]
The City Council’s ‘free’ cash – New York Post
Pork is better for clogging arteries than clearing them, which is why City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s plan to ease service outages on the 7 train with member-item grease is fraught, to say the least. Van Bramer (D-Queens) offered to pay for 11 weekends of express shuttle buses between Long Island City and […]