Trading a Mountain View for an Urban View
About six years ago, his vision failing because of macular degeneration, Dr. Newman was forced to retire from his job at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y. They decided to move. The Newmans had always enjoyed their visits to Manhattan, but figured that living there was a dream for an unspecified someday. In the meantime, they […]
Doing Time on the River
But the island had yet another career. For a century, it housed a grim penitentiary, where inmates passed their sentences along the banks of the East River, within tempting sight of freedom on the nearby shores. The penitentiary, a long gray arcaded structure, was completed in 1832 on what was then Blackwell’s Island. Castlelike crenelations […]
In Long Island City, Pepsi Sign Gets More Company
The rental towers are part of East Coast, a project being developed by one of the city’s most prolific builders, TF Cornerstone. When completed in early 2014, East Coast will consist of six skyscrapers clustered around the giant Pepsi sign on the East River waterfront, with almost 2,800 units. The East Coast collection already includes […]
AGs Near Settlement With Big Banks
(Source: Jimmy Vielkind Times Union, Albany, N.Y.) – Good morning! Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the Capitol today, while his cabinet fans out around the state to spread his budgetary message. This means Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy is on Long Island. Sam Hoyt is in Palmyra. Here are this morning’s headlines… State attorneys general — […]
FreshDirect to leave LIC
FreshDirect, the fast-growing online grocer whose expansion plans sparked a border war between New York and New Jersey, isn’t checking out of New York City, but it will be leaving Long Island City, which it has called home since 1999. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the grocer, which has outgrown the Queens […]
Urban art unveiled in Long Island City
A new photo exhibit has turned a lifeless, gray corrugated barrier under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into an outdoor art installation. Six color photographs titled “When it opens like this, up is not over,” by sculptor and photographer Rena Leinberger, were unveiled to the public on a walkway under the bridge, where Queens Plaza […]
Fresh start in the Bronx
Here’s what it takes to keep a thriving, homegrown business with good -paying jobs in the five boroughs when the company is looking to expand: $128 million worth of state and city tax breaks, grants and other financing. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg vowed to pony up that amount in a successful effort to beat […]
Jersey City construction company fined more than $46000 by OSHA for serious … – The Jersey Journal
Jersey City-based Clara Construction has been fined more than $46,000 by U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for alleged safety violations at a local work site. A Clara Construction work site at 109 Christopher Columbus Drive in Jersey City had 10 serious safety violations and one repeat violation, OSHA officials stated […]
Fresh Direct leaving LIC for the Bronx
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend While online grocer Fresh Direct decided not to set up shop in the Garden State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the Long Island City-grown business would be moving to the Bronx. “I’m disappointed they couldn’t find a way to […]