The Lesbian Whose Dreams Are Much Dirtier Than Her Sex Life
Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Lesbian Whose Dreams Are Much Dirtier Than Her Sex Life: Female, 29, Long Island City, PR professional, lesbian, in a relationship. DAY ONE 8 a.m. In my dream, I commission my partner to make love to me in a park. […]
A New Home for an Endangered Yiddish Bookstore
However bleak is the prognosis for the language itself, the last secular Yiddish bookstore in New York City has survived a near-death experience and found a new home in the distinctly unfamiliar soil of Long Island City, Queens. The 75-year-old shop, run by the nonprofit Central Yiddish Cultural Organization, faced extinction two years ago when […]
The Maria Callas connection to Astoria
Before she was born, her parents moved from Greece to Astoria. Believe It. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas#section_1 Where exactly did she live? (According to the biography.) The Kalogeropoulos family’s first home was a three-room apartment in Astoria, Queens, with a view across Hell Gate to the awesome skyscrapers of Manhattan. There was a small park a few […]
KSW, Inc. Awarded Projects Totaling 26 Million Dollars – SYS
By Marketwire . Article Rating: May 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — (Marketwire) — 05/21/12 — KSW, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSW) today announced that it has recently been awarded two very prestigious projects, totaling approximately $26 million. The first project is the Baccarat Hotel Residences New York, a Starwood Flagship […]
New Jacks head to iS8 semis
May 21, 2012 Ravi RozierNYCHoops.net TweetLONG ISLAND CITY, NY – The best game of the day was the last one of the day at the 2012 iS8/Nike Spring H.S. Classic. The Panthers were matched up against The Rens Juniors and what started out slow turned out to be a dandy. The Panthers had the top […]
Clashing Underground
By TED MANN Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal A view of the cavernous area that has been opened many stories below Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project. On a recent Saturday, after weeks of planning, works crews were set to converge on a Queens train yard to […]
i.S.8 quarterfinals roundup: Sheppard beats Panthers, buzzer; Juice moves on
There is foul trouble and there is the scenario the New York Panthers found itself in Sunday afternoon. After guards Tarik Phillip and Melvin Johnson fouled out late in the fourth quarter, the Panthers were down to four players in the i.S. 8/Nike Spring Classic quarterfinals at the Variety Boys Girls Club in Long Island […]