Festivals Are the Newest Thing for New Music
A fistful of festivals dedicated to new music have just finished, are happening now or are coming up. Two take place this weekend: the Queens New Music Festival in Long Island City and Look Listen at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in Chelsea. The traditional classical-music festival circuit is vast, including famous brand names like Mostly […]
Eminent domain is off the table
Willets Point business owners who refuse to leave the area are cheering the decision announced last week by the city that it will no longer use eminent domain to remove them. The Mayor’s Office told the court it was dropping the condemnation process shortly before a case was to be heard in state Appellate Court […]
Long Island small biz owners to be honored by SBA
by Claude Solnik Published: May 10, 2012 Tags: business owners, Long Island, SBA, Small Busines Week, Small Business, Small Business Administration The New York office of the Small Business Administration is honoring three Long Island business people and their firms, as well as one government employee as part of its annual Small Business Week awards. […]
LIC festival showcases a bit of everything
Long Island City art galleries and studios open their doors this Saturday for a week-long festival called the LIC Arts Open. Each day of the second annual event holds a diverse selection of art events including comedy festivals; kids arts contests; and improvisation, pottery, painting, sculpture and photography shows. One such gallery that will swing […]
At IS 204, a lesson in changing the world
Tired of drunk loiterers plaguing their neighborhood —intimidating elderly shoppers and keeping children out of parks —students at IS 204 in Long Island City recently decided it was time to take action. For the past three and a half months, 31 students from the middle school have worked with the nonprofit Generation Citizen to curb […]
Unions sue city to stop school closures
The United Federation of Teachers and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators filed a lawsuit this week to stop the city’s plan to shutter and restaff 24 city schools by next September, including seven in Queens, saying it amounts to “sham closings” and violates labor contracts. The Panel for Educational Policy voted last week […]
Cornell Thinks Big As Well As Bold for Roosevelt Island Campus
For now, he’s focused on the challenge of conceiving a place where geniuses can hang out and swap eurekas. Mayne has plenty of experience building for rarefied thinkers: the curvy lockbox of Cooper Union, an astrophysics building for Cal Tech, a satellite control center in suburban Maryland, where a great steel truss, bristling with dishes, […]
Queens misses out on bike share plan
Banking giant Citi will be sponsoring the city’s bike share program when it begins in July, with the bank’s logo going on the bicycles and the docking stations where they can be rented. Mayor Bloomberg, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, other officials and Citi CEO Vikram Pandit announced the deal today at City Hall Plaza. The […]
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