A Review of Sacramone’s, in East Meadow
The owners, Anthony and Domenico Sacramone, who are brothers, have run Sac’s Place in Astoria, Queens, since 1989. Their new place, which opened in January in East Meadow, is casual, sleek and good-looking. On entering Sacramone’s, patrons first encounter a small, handsome bar, then turn left into a two-tiered dining room, with balcony seating up […]
MoMA PS1 Celebrates KRAFTWERK with DJ Harvey, Questlove et al., Sundays thru …
MoMA PS1 celebrates the influence of Kraftwerk with legedary DJ’s in the performance dome every Sunday, now through May 13. Greg Wilson, DJ Harvey, Questlove, and DJ Afrika Bambaataa pay tribute to the German Electro-pioneers amidst the special installation Kraftwerk – Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at the MoMA PS1, 22-25 […]
New York City Sued by Taxi Owners Over New Car-Service Law
A group of taxi fleet owners sued New York City and Mayor Michael Bloomberg over a new law allowing car services to pick up passengers who hail them outside Manhattan. The Metropolitan Taxicab Board filed the lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan today, seeking to have the new law deemed unconstitutional. The […]
Newsmaker: Vishaan Chakrabarti
By Fred A. Bernstein Photo courtesy SHoP The noted urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti (second from right) recently became a partner at SHoP Architects. No one has a résumé like Vishaan Chakrabarti, a planner who has darted between the public and private sectors: as a top executive at Related Companies; a director at the New […]
Free & Cheap in New York: Fri., April 20
‘GOONIES’ BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER. Remember the 1985 movie “The Goonies”? The Tribeca Drive-In is screening this cult classic about kids who go on a wild adventure after finding a pirate treasure map. The movie, which starred Sean Astin and Corey Feldman, begins at 8:15 p.m., but doors open at 6 p.m. Arrive early for […]
JetBlue is Going Out On a Limb: Pledges to Plant More Than 80000 Trees, One to …
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) is teaming up with long-time partner Carbonfund.org Foundation to plant one tree for every customer travelling on the airline on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2012. More than 83,000 customers are expected to take to the skies across JetBlue’s 70 city-network on Sunday, […]
Incentives make solar energy feasible in Qns
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend The sun has powered the solar system for billions of years, so it’s about time business on this planet use that power to save some money. Looking to cut costs on the company’s electric bill, officials at Swing Staging Inc., at […]