NYSDOT Invites Minority And Women Owned Business Enterprises To Certification …
ALBANY, NY (05/14/2012)(readMedia)– New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald today invited Minority- and Women Owned-Business enterprises (M/WBE) to participate in a certification workshop hosted by NYSDOT in connection with the Kosciuszko Bridge replacement project. The workshop will be held Tuesday, May 15, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the 5th floor […]
Itskowitch, Woods To Speak At Ring 8
NEW YORK, NY (May 14, 2012) – Tomorrow night’s (Tuesday, May 15, 7 PM / ET) special guest speakers at the Ring 8 monthly meeting, held at the historic Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City, will be David Itskowitch, COO of Golden Boy Promotions, and award-winning boxing writer Mike Woods. In 2007, Itskowitch was selected […]
LIC Co. Brings Home Repair to NYers
From our PR wires: Click and Improve (clickandimprove.com) is a new online home improvement and repair service, and helps to simplify New Yorkers lives by create a "one stop shop" for home projects. Log-on to www.ClickandImprove.com, type-in or search for the problem or service you need (e.g. leaky faucet, paint a room, install an electrical outlet), and in a few […]
LIC Arts Open and the new galleries on jackson Ave
All of a sudden there are five new galleries and performance spaces on Jackson Av. Check them out during this week’s arts open activities. You have probably see the placards — licartsopen.org See the full gallery on Posterous
Neighborhood bad guy: William Garrett
Out of work sound tech and LIC old timer William Garrett has been annoying LIC neighbors for a long time. Now he has done it. The sweet and creative founders of LIC stalwarts Communitea and Lounge 47 have been fielding complaints from these guys for years. They built tents, curtailed hours, etc etc. But now […]
Real Rosie the Riveters recall WWII’s home front
With her rolled-up, ready-to-go sleeves, Esther Horne recalls the famous Rosie herself. Horne helped keep the U.S. working during the war at Gossack’s Machine Shop in Queens. Esther Horne clearly remembers the smell. “We worked in a constant spray of turpentine and we stank,” she says of her time in a Queens machine shop while […]
Despite lawsuits, DOT work, off-ramp still unsafe
Two cars crashed into storefronts near the Ed Koch-Queensborough Bridge within nine days of each other last year. A stretch of street – proven unsafe for cars, pedestrians and even storefronts – has “struck” again. Following three crashes in as many months in 2011, another car accident occurred on May 1 at the off-ramp of […]
MAP: New York City Sites 420 Bike Share Locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and …
New York City has made live its draft maps of bike share stations. The stations dot all of Manhattan south of Central Park, Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, and Clinton Hill. (See here, for why they won’t be in other neighborhoods.) The full maps are here and explanation of costs here. The […]
Sweetleaf Expands to Brooklyn
May 14, 2012, 11:40 am OLIVER STRAND Sweetleaf opened a coffee shop Monday on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. It’s the second location for Sweetleaf, which has a devoted audience in Long Island City, and the latest addition to the growing Williamsburg coffee scene: Blue Bottle Coffee, Toby’s Estate Coffee and a number of other serious […]