It’s an Absurd World, So Send in the Clowns
Mr. Aziz and Mr. Cucher then perform their own folk dance, holding hands for the camera, before knocking off for the day and heading down the street toward the Manhattan skyline. Throughout, they’re dressed as clowns. The costumes, they say, are part of their attempt to wrestle with the madness they perceive underlying everyday life […]
For skeptical parents, ‘turnaround’ principal change brings hope
Vivian Selenikas, right, sits with Long Island City High School principal Maria Mamo-Vacacela, left, at the school’s closure hearing. Last week, hundreds of parents, teachers, and students crowded Long Island City High School’s auditorium for a hearing about the school’s planned “turnaround.” ON Tuesday evening, just a dozen parents attended a meeting to hear directly […]
MoMA PS1 Gets Liquor License Nod Despite Local Noise Issues
MoMA PS1 in Long Island City (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY – Hunters Point may be saturated with bars and restaurants, but local residents and members of Community Board 2 showed overwhelming support for booze being served at MoMA PS1. A joint liquor license application submitted by PS1 and the owners of M. Wells […]
School Board 30: Closing High Schools ‘A Crime’
Community District Education Council 30, which oversaw public hearings on the proposed closings of William Cullen Bryant and Long Island City High Schools, two of eight Queens schools slated for “turnaround”, passed a strongly worded resolution in opposition to the proposal at its April 19 meeting held at I.S. 230 in Jackson Heights. A final […]
Energy Use Reviewed At LICP Breakfast
The Long Island City Partnership April breakfast meeting was a forum on reduction of energy use in New York buildings. It featured a panel of speakers, overseen by Ann Kayman and George Crawford, principals of New York Grant Co. Green Partners. Since the energy-use directives initiated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration have gone into effect, […]
Citi’s Team USA shows Olympic pride in LIC
Olympic pride was on full display in Long Island City last week. To commemorate the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Olympic Games in London, Citi’s Team USA Flag Tour visited the bank’s site in L.I.C. on April 18. Paralympian Kari Miller, who plays sitting volleyball, and Olympian swimmer Cullen Jones – both members of Team […]
LIC HS Students, Faculty, Elected Officials Decry School Closings
Long Island City and Bryant High Schools are slated for closure at the end of the school year. The sentiment of the student body regarding the future of Long Island City H.S. was clear at the April 17 public hearing concerning the school’s possible closing and reopening under a different name with different faculty: the […]
Welcome Transit K-9 Unit To Long Island City
They are one of the NYPD’s most important weapons in fighting terrorism. They’re an invaluable tool in fighting crime in the subways – and have recently moved to the heart of the Western Queens community. K-9 Dan, a German Shepherd named for a police officer killed in the World Trade Center attacks, is one of […]
Officials will decide fate of eight Queens schools
Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend The city was scheduled to decide the fate of eight Queens high schools at a public meeting in Brooklyn this Thursday evening. The city Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the city Department of […]
LIC Arts Open Set for 5/12-20
The LIC Arts Open takes over Long Island City from May 12 – 20, 2012, opening with exhibitions by MoMA P.S.1, Reis Studios Experimental Gallery, andSculptureCenter, to name just a few. Remember to mark the FREE Block Party on May 19 in your calendar, and check out over two hundred Open Studios participating this year. For the kids (or the kid in all of us), the Kid’s Art Contest May […]
Stylish Hotels Sprouting in Brooklyn and Queens
Occupancy rates in the city were 85 percent last year, compared with a national average of 60 percent. And despite a tough market for financing, at least 15 hotels opened in the five boroughs in 2011 — roughly half of them outside Manhattan. From 2006 to 2011, 42 percent of the city’s new hotels were […]
Neighborhood profile: Jersey City
Similar to the development of Queens and Brooklyn, Jersey City gained traction in the ’80s when artists moved into the area for cheaper rent. Today, the coast is dominated by high-rise rental and condo towers, such as Crystal Point, which passed the 98 percent sales mark in March, according to The Marketing Directors. And, not […]
Tina Fey on the ’30 Rock’ Live Episode and the Show’s Future
Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC Tina Fey in a live episode of “30 Rock” in 2010. The first time, it’s a stunt; the second time it’s a tradition. On Thursday, “30 Rock” will once again journey from its home at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, to NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan for […]
$100 million in upgrades planned for the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge – Mid
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Free & Cheap in New York: Tues., April 24
I HAVE A ‘DREAM.’ The NuAFrikan Theatre presents “Dream Deferred” at the 133rd St. Arts Center. Written and directed by Marcus Dargan, it’s his award-winning play about how gentrification has affected the various residents of Harlem. “Dream,” which plays through Sunday, features Richard Mays and the Audelco Award-winning actress Johnnie Mae. 7 p.m. $20. 133rd […]
Natural design
Lisa Hedge spent her first New York winter in Long Island City, working for Takashi Murakami’s studio, Kaikai Kiki, mixing 3,000 shades of green paint. “It was an insane design experiment in a way,” she says. “Matching what we were mixing to the swatches, making little samples, creating rules for ourselves. We finished the painting […]
Businesses sue over 3 accidents
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — Along Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, right at the base of the 59 Street Bridge exit ramp, a boarded-up building front now stands where two thriving businesses once operated. Both were casualties of a series of unfortunate car crashes. “We never got to open back. We were repairing […]
Food Charity Packs a New Funding Drive
By MELANIE GRAYCE WEST As the recession takes a continued toll on food pantries and other emergency providers, one of the city’s top hunger charities is embarking on an ambitious fundraising drive to broaden its reach and double the amount of food it distributes. City Harvest plans to announce the five-year, $30 million campaign on […]
Queens High School Student Arrested in Shooting That Injured Sudan Diplomat’s …
A Queens high school student has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded a Sudanese diplomat’s wife last week, police said. The diplomat’s wife, 31-year-old Mawahib Elbahi, was hit by a stray bullet as she walked with her two children in Queens Tuesday. The bullet struck her between the neck and shoulder. She […]
Trayvon shooter Zimmerman walks out of jail on $150K bond
Trayvon shooter Zimmerman walks out of jail on $150K bond George Zimmerman, the neighborhood-watch volunteer who shot and killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, has been sprung from jail. Zimmerman, wearing a beige jacket and jeans and carrying a large brown bag, walked out of the John E. Polk Correctional Facility at midnight on $150,000 bond. […]