Elevator Invention Could Have Saved Suzanne Hart’s Life, Expert Says
A memorial plaque for Suzanne Hart has been put up in the lobby of 285 Madison Avenue, the building where she was killed in an elevator accident on Dec. 19, 2011. (DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) MANHATTAN — As a city report blames worker oversight for the death of Suzanne Hart, one New York-based elevator expert claims he has […]
Old World Literary Salon Meets Co-Working Space In Long Island City
The Oracle Club is a collaboration between novelist Julian Tepper and painter Jenna Gribbon, who hope to draw like-minded writers and artists. The recently opened members-only salon in Long Island City is a meeting (and working) place for writers, artists and intellectuals. The three-room space includes a library, a living room and an art studio, […]
Councilman Vallone Pans Graffiti Art Show as ‘Glorifying Crime’
PLAY VIDEO (DNAinfo/Nick Hirshon) LONG ISLAND CITY — The writing’s on the wall — and Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. does not approve. Vallone’s campaign against the glorification of graffiti has a new target — an ex-subway vandal who began tagging walls as “KR.ONE” while he was a fifth-grader at P.S. 166 in Long Island […]
City plans to close 8 Queens high schools
Local leaders and parents are spitting mad over the city’s plan to close eight Queens high schools at the end of the school year. The city put out proposals this week to shutter William Cullen Bryant High School, in Long Island City, and Grover Cleveland High School, in Ridgewood. Plans to turn around the rest […]
FedEx Ground will move to Long Island City in 2013
FedEx Ground will shutter its Maspeth distribution center and move to a sprawling Long Island City facility next year, company officials said. The new 140,000-square-foot plant on Borden Ave. will cost an estimated $56 million to construct and could be completed by spring 2013, FedEx spokesman David Westrick told the Daily News on Tuesday. The […]
Elevator Expert Invents Device He Says Could Have Saved Suzanne Hart’s Life
A memorial plaque for Suzanne Hart has been put up in the lobby of 285 Madison Avenue, the building where she was killed in an elevator accident on Dec. 19, 2011. (DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) MANHATTAN — As a city report blames worker oversight for the death of Suzanne Hart, one New York-based elevator expert claims he has […]
FiOS dropping Muslim TV station begun by Hassans in Orchard Park
Verizon FiOS is dropping Bridges TV from its regular lineup, putting in further jeopardy the Muslim lifestyle network that was founded in Orchard Park in 2004. The network moved last summer to the New York City area from the Orchard Park office park where its co-founder Aasiya Zubair Hassan was brutally killed by the other […]