Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 24-March 1
Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums ★ American Folk Art Museum: ‘Jubilation | Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined’ (through Sept. 2) Having escaped the ugly, West 53rd Street tomb of a building it inhabited from 2001 to 2011, the American Folk Art Museum has […]
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Incident Raises Question: Are NYC Bridges Safe?
LONG ISLAND CITY (CBSNewYork) — There was more fallout Thursday stemming from an incident two days earlier when falling debris landed on a car on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. As city and state agencies appear to fight over responsibility, the former mayor, himself, weighed in. “I love the bridge,” Ed Koch said Thursday. The […]
Rock ‘N’ Roll and Grilled Cheese at The Queens Kickshaw
advertisement Queens is known as one of the more diverse boroughs of New York. From Flushing to Long Island City, the neighborhoods are populated by some of the most concentrated ethnic residents that I’ve encountered in my entire time in New York City. I live in Astoria, and my entire block is comprised of Indian […]
Children of Staten Island drug suspects removed from their home
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities said the children of an MTA Bridges and Tunnels police officer and his wife were present as the couple dealt drugs out of their Tottenville residence. Thomas and Jennifer Bianco’s three sons aren’t home anymore. View full sizeStaten Island Advance/Michael OatesThe children of Thomas and Jennifer Bianco have been placed […]
Photos capture Queens under construction
It’s a common refrain: Long Island City is “up and coming.” But as photos from a recent exhibit in LIC prove, Queens as a whole has almost always been in the process of transforming. The 19 images, on view at the LIC office of realtor Modern Spaces, show this change, thanks to a company called […]
Long Island City Clubhouse Is Getting Serious About Comedy
Let’s face it — Long Island City is just way cooler than your typical go-to trendy neighborhoods in New York City. It’s got that great combo of not-yet-too-gentrified, still-a-safe-place-to-chill, not-as-hipster-as-Williamsburg, and very-friggin’-close-to-Manhattan-AND-Brooklyn. At the heart of this growing Queens neighborhood — where strip clubs are NOT welcome! — is a comedy joint on the rise. […]
SculptureCenter Upcoming Lecture Series: Skaer, Baghramian, Meckseper
LECTURE SERIES: SUBJECTIVE HISTORIES OF SCULPTURE Image: Lucy Skaer, The Good Ship Blank and Ballast, 2010. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Matt Carter. Organized with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics The New School Free admission Lucy Skaer Wednesday, February 29, 6:30pm Wollman Hall 65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street), 5th […]
If a Hiroshima-style bomb landed on Court Square…
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Parents push for citywide gifted middle school
Parents of some of the borough’s brightest elementary grade students are pressuring the city to make good on a promise to extend a popular gifted program in Astoria. Public School 85 parents are circulating a petition to convince the Department of Education to create a citywide gifted and talented intermediate school in western Queens. The […]
Woodside awaits 440-seat school slated to open in ’15
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Immigrant stores left hanging
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Although New York City has the nation’s most immigrant-owned businesses, 92 percent of such business owners told a survey that they got no help from the city and half said they were unaware such assistance was even available. The Fund for […]
Will Queens Plaza Become the New Times Square?
Times Square Lite? (JetBlue) It was a big deal when JetBlue decided to move to Long Island City two years ago. The air carrier founded here would not be splitting town, and it would even be boosting a nascent business district that has never done much beyond the Citi back offices despite the one-stop subway […]
Bloomy names new dean at Roosevelt Isle campus
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend While the first phase of the applied sciences campus coming to Roosevelt Island, now called the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, will not be done until 2017, the institution now has a provost and dean. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Cornell University officials named […]