Long Island City ousts CSI/McCown from PSAL A boys’ basketball playoffs, 56-49
Staten Island Advance file photo by Anthony DePrimoJoseph Ojo (1) led CSI/McCown with 15 points during its PSAL A quarterfinal loss to Long Island City. CSI/McCown and host Long Island City HS shared a lot of similarities during the first three quarters of their PSAL Class A quarterfinal contest Thursday in Queens. Both displayed a […]
Inside East of East – first showings were this week
Now you can see inside. You can also visit eastofeast.com to make arrangements to see the place. East of East is renting these babies out! Photographs of the Lofts – Long Island City Lofts – East of East.
Forum Seeks Safety For Bike Riders
Forum Seeks Safety For Bike Riders By Jason Pafundi With gas prices increasing by the day and bike use among residents of the City increasing as well, it would seem as though communities would have gotten together with the Dept. of Transportation to talk about bicycling in the City. On March 3, the DOT met […]
Silent Barn looking for space, holds panel
The Silent Barn in Ridgewood used to be a place to go if you wanted to hear music or see something strange, but not spend a ton of money. Now, the people who ran (and lived in) the space are looking to make it something much more than that. Last Friday, the people behind Silent […]
Boro Prez says yes to JetBlue sign
After getting a thumbs up from Community Board 1 and a thumbs down from Community Board 2, the JetBlue sign that the company would like to see sitting atop its new headquarters in Long Island City got the okay from Borough President Helen Marshall late last month, according to her office. The airline, in a […]
Turnaround proposals submitted for eight Queens high schools
Elected officials are refusing to “turn” the other cheek on the city’s plan to overhaul a number of high schools throughout the borough. The Department of Education (DOE) has submitted proposals to Turnaround eight high schools – Flushing, William Cullen Bryant, Long Island City, Newtown, Grover Cleveland, August Martin, Richmond Hill and John Adams – […]
Critics slam plan to close schools
After hundreds of Queens students, parents, educators and legislators begged Mayor Bloomberg to not close eight schools in the borough, the city has gone ahead and filed the paperwork necessary to move ahead with shuttering the institutions and reopening them this summer with half the staff replaced. The city on Monday night published its final […]
FedEx plant coming to LI City in 2013
Plans by FedEx to relocate its ground operations from western Maspeth to Long Island City are being warmly received in the borough. The international shipping giant will be moving from its site off Grand Avenue and 47th Street to a new distribution center that will be built on Borden Avenue in LIC by spring 2013. […]
Anjelica Huston’s latest show is a smash
ANJELICA Huston is being swept into a new chapter of fame, writes Geoff Shearer. Anjelica Huston has nothing to be embarrassed about. A respected figure among screen acting’s elite, she is being swept into a new chapter of fame – possibly her biggest yet – thanks to a big-budget Steven Spielberg-driven TV show about Broadway, […]
Queens to get about 3000 new classroom seats
Queens schools may become a little less overcrowded this fall — but critics say there still aren’t enough new seats to meet the rising demand. Four new schools and a building addition are slated to open in the borough in September. When the schools reach capacity, they will offer an additional 3,000 seats, city officials […]
DOE to shut down 2 boro high schools
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend The city Department of Education has announced plans to close two struggling Queens high schools, and more of the same was expected for the borough’s other six lowest performing high schools. At a meeting in Brooklyn, the controversial city Panel for […]