CUNY Law School to Open New Location in June
This June, the CUNY School of Law will have its grand opening for its new building in Court Square, in Long Island City. The construction was announced in 2009 and it will provide the school with an extra 70,000-square-feet of space that is just steps from the MTA subway and bus lines, the New […]
Bike fans unite, the Queens Borough Bridge
Transportation alternatives is frequently out at the base of the Queens Borough Bridge for the morning commute. They were there today. Get on your bike LIC!
Bike share is coming to Queens
Attention Normal People: come to this event to help plan Bike Share in LIC. Don’t leave it to the weirdos. Monday May 21 at the Irish Center on Jackson at Vernon
Amtrak worker hit by LIRR train & injured
An Amtrak worker was seriously injured early Friday after he was hit by a Long Island Rail Road train, officials said. The worker, whose name was not immediately released, was on an eastbound LIRR track near the East River tunnel in Long Island City, Queens, when he was hit by a train coming from Penn […]
LIC Spotting
Can you spot this LIC landmark in the Emirates “see the world” commercial of glamorous locales?
Chashama at Court Square
All that Chashama space is really terrific at Court Square. They have fixed up the bank and art is now getting installed. Check it! Maybe The Palms won’t be back after all…
Goodbye PS1 dome
It is coming back next year though – it was a hit
Neighborhood bad guy update: William Garrett
Apparently William G and his wife(?) are artists too – part of this prestigious (not really) assemblage at Gotham Center for the LIC Arts Open. Good for them! Make art! Contribute to the world. But why the semi-pro crankiness for 8 years hassling the Lounge 47 folks? LICers, you have lost your lovely L47 patio […]
PSAL baseball roundup: Beacon clinches ninth straight Manhattan A West crown
Even without its top two pitchers, Beacon’s reign atop Manhattan A West continued. Lukas Marble had three RBIs, Dylan Long and Caleb Kerbs each scored twice and Nikolai Grumet had two hits and an RBI as Beacon blanked rival Stuyvesant, 5-0, to clinch the PSAL Manhattan A West crown. Matt Aronowitz fanned four in four […]
Girls Softball Preview: The Second Round of the PSAL’s Class-A Playoffs
The second round of the Public Schools Athletic League’s Class-A softball playoffs could be mistaken for the “Staten Island-Queens Softball Invitational Tournament.” That’s because ten of the remaining 16 teams are from one of those two boroughs. However, that number soon will be trimmed down. On Thursday, May 18, seven of the eight second-round games […]