Your Guide to Memorial Day Weekend In NYC
Hamptons schmamptons. We’re planning on staying in town for this upcoming glorious three-day weekend, and have put together a little guide for our fellow staycationers. Here are a bunch of things to do this weekend that we think sound like a real fun time. Luna Park Opens: Head over to Coney Island, grab a Nathan’s […]
How would you fix: the Hungarian Chimney Cake shop?
At Vernon Jackson. Discuss. Open comments.
LIC strip club to open minus liquor, clothes
Photo by Christina Santucci State Sen. Michael Gianaris (l.-r.), Community Board 2 Chairman Joseph Conley, City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Jerry Walsh and George Stamatiades rally outside the club earlier this year. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers A long-contentious Long Island City strip club is planning to open with a new name, no booze and […]
Google to donate space for Roosevelt Island tech campus
Photo courtesy Michael Bloomberg Mayor Michael Bloomberg (c.) announced with Google Inc. CEO Larry Page (third from l.) that the Internet company would be loaning office space to the new technology campus at Roosevelt Island. Cornell President David Skorton (second from l.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (r.) also attended. Photo courtesy mayor’s office By Rebecca […]
Long Island City charter school teachers bid to unionize
Teachers at another charter school in Queens have voted to unionize, the teachers union announced today. The school, the Academy of the City Charter School in Long Island City, joins 16 other schools that have moved to unionize since 2007, when the union began its campaign to unionize the charter teaching force. The school is a an […]