JetBlue Names Mary Neff Vice President of Supply Chain
NEW YORK, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) today announces the appointment of Mary Margaret Neff to the position of vice president of supply chain, effective immediately. In her new role, Ms. Neff is responsible for the strategic planning of corporate purchasing programs, company-wide sourcing efforts and supply chain management. She […]
New Delay in Opening African Art Museum
For the fifth time in three years, the Museum for African Art has been forced to delay opening its new home at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, in East Harlem, as it continues to work to raise the money to finish the project. Elsie McCabe Thompson, the museum’s president, said the institution needed to raise […]
New York City Debuts Made In NY Digital Map Tool for Job Seekers
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Today at Internet Week NY, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, along with the city’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne and Internet Week Chairman David-Michael Davies, unveiled a online map to help job applicants find jobs in the city’s many tech and digital media businesses. The Made in New York Digital Map is a modified Google (GOOG) […]
Bike Share Comes to LIC
The city recently opted to “share” its bikes with the borough. The Department of Transportation (DOT) and Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer announced on May 11 that “Citi Bike,” New York’s bicycle share program, will add 10 stations in Long Island City – building upon the locations currently planned in Manhattan and Brooklyn. “Citi Bike,” which […]
At Socrates, ‘Civic Action’ Imagines Long Island City’s Future, Complete With …
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “Untitled,” 2012. (Photo by Rozalia Jovanovic) “I couldn’t care less about herb gardens,” said Natalie Jeremijenko in a shaded area of the Socrates Sculpture Park on Sunday at the opening of “Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City.” The artist and engineer was in jeans and a black cowboy hat with a […]
Ian Carmody photos – Tuesday
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Vertical Farming Among Artists’ Vision for Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — It’s been years since Long Island City was farmland, but an artist is seeing agriculture in its future. On Sunday, Natalie Jeremijenko unveiled a structure dotted with hanging pouches that were filled with flowers at Socrates Sculpture Park as a model of what could be. Jeremijenko, who directs the XDesign Environmental […]
PSAL softball playoff preview
NYPost.com’s PSAL softball beat writer Marc Raimondi takes an in-depth look at the Class A playoffs, which begin with the first round Tuesday. SCHEDULE Tuesday, May 15 First round @ higher seeds No. 32 Grand Street Campus @ No. 1 Tottenville No. 31 Beacon vs. No. 2 Susan Wagner @ Great Kills LL No. 30 […]
Open-Air Status Symbols
There are all kinds of envy in this town. There’s money envy against those who have more, often obscenely more, of the stuff than you do. There’s apartment envy, which often correlates closely with money envy. There’s career envy, relationship envy, school envy; indeed, New York has devised an almost infinite variety of ways to […]