After Cuomo’s Teacher Evaluation Triumph, What’s Next?
‘Where next will Governor Andrew Cuomo strike? The most imminent state problem to be fixed is redistricting, and it looks like there’s nothing for the governor to do—a federal judge most likely will get the state legislature off the case, and put a courtappointed master in charge of drawing new election district lines. The details […]
Jittery Neighbors Want To Nix JetBlue’s Giant LIC Sign
The planned sign (JetBlue). Thanks to some sweet tax breaks, JetBlue is staying in the Big Apple and moving to Long Island City. But when they move into their new home next month, they’d really like to make sure nobody misses it. So the company is working the community boards trying to get approval for […]
Queens students, educators call mayor’s schools plan disastrous
While Mayor Bloomberg is insisting that, despite last week’s progress on teacher evaluation negotiations, he will move ahead with plans to close 33 public schools in the city, including eight in Queens, and reopen them this summer with different names and about half the staff replaced, students, educators and legislators are fighting back and urging […]
Hotel to rise on Skillman Ave in Long Island City
The City University of New York (CUNY) is aiming to check in to the borough’s new hotel hotspot. CUNY recently sent out a request for proposal (RFP) to hospitality industry consultants, seeking ideas on how to develop its lot on Skillman Avenue in Long Island City nearLaGuardia Community College — with the goal of building […]
Brooklyn Grange To Build A Rooftop Farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yards
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm To Add Second, Larger Location in Spring 2012 (PRWEB) February 21, 2012 Brooklyn Grange, New York City’s first commercial rooftop farm, will be expanding their operations in the spring of 2012 to the roof of Building No. 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Funded in large part by a Green Infrastructure […]
Prison ‘Pen Pal’ Teacher Removed
A Queens elementary school teacher had her class of fifth-graders send holiday cards to her jailed boyfriend – a felon with a taste for child porn. Melissa Dean instructed her students at P.S. 145 in Corona to draw holiday cards – and include their home addresses for John Coccarelli, an inmate at the high-security Groveland […]
Walcott says city listens to parents
At a town hall meeting in Oakland Gardens last week, city Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott discussed topics such as parent involvement and overcrowding with a packed auditorium at MS 74. Community Education Council 26 President Jeanette Segal reminded those who had come to meet the city’s top education official of Feb. 15, that the week […]
JetBlue Wants Huge Sign at LIC HQ
NYPOST.COM | NEWSCORE – JetBlue wants to light up the New York skyline with its iconic blue logo — but it must first clear layers of city red tape before taking off. The airline, which will next month move its corporate headquarters to Long Island City, an up-and-coming Queens neighborhood, plans to erect a 40-foot […]