New company holds contractors accountable
The dishwasher is backing up into the sink, the kitchen light is making a weird buzzing noise and the A/C went bust on the hottest day of the year. What’s a single gal with limited home improvement skills to do? Gladys Ahrens, who suspects some contractors will take advantage of her sans a husband, says […]
Does using an EZ-Pass save you money?
Eyewitness News LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — Most people use EZ-Pass to help save time and money. However, it turns out that the only people who are getting the EZ-Pass discount at the Queens Midtown Tunnel tolls are the ones who got their EZ-Pass transponders from a New York agency. Everyone else is paying the […]
Subcontractors Trade Association Honors TF Cornerstone’s Frederick Elghanayan …
More Topics: Choose a SectorAccounting FirmsAdvertising/Media/CommunicationsCapitalCEO/BoardGeneral BusinessHealth/BiotechInternet/TechnologyInvestment FirmsLaw FirmsMergers AcquisitionsMoney ManagersPeoplePrivate CompaniesPublic CompaniesVenture Capital Posted May 23, 2012 STA Recognizes TFC’s President and Co-Founder for Industry Excellence and Impact on New York Real Estate Market at 43rd Annual Awards Dinner NEW YORK, NY – The Subcontractors Trade Association (STA) recently honored Frederick Elghanayan, president and […]
Queens’ school of hard yuks
It’s the school of hard yuks. The Laughing Devil Comedy Club, Queens’ only joke shop, has started a “Stand-Up Semester” where club owner Steve Hofstetter teaches novice comics the rigors of the funny business. “Comedy is one of the few things that is an art, a science and a business,” said Hofstetter, 32, who has […]
Where This Illustrator/Designer Finds Flowers in Long Island City
Wednesday, May 23, 2012, by Yale Breslin New York City has more stores than anyone could physically tackle, but somehow we always keep returning to the usual suspects. To break out of the rut, we’ve asked some local shopping and fashion gurus to provide their hidden retail gems—those unique stores around our fantastic city that […]
Queensy Jeffrey present: Queens Fiesta Crawl
Sounds cool. LICNYC cannot attest but tell us if you go! From Jeffrey: // I was once offered Roosevelt Avenue tours/crawls around midnight only, but that couldn’t last. Introducing the Queens Fiesta Crawl. With this crawl, I take people around Roosevelt Avenue, from Jackson Heights to Corona, eating and investigating the neighborhood. We become immersed […]
MoMA’s ‘Meta-Monumental Garage Sale’ Will Take All Of New York City’s Junk …
Like this, but way, way bigger. Attention New York City hoarders, packrats and anyone doing a little spring cleaning: there’s a place where they’ll turn your extra junk into art, your trash into treasure, your detritus into dreams! Bring your “good art and bad art. Clothing, jewelry, records, plastic fruit, containers, and costumes. Literature high, […]
Gianaris Honors Lewandowski
State Senator Michael Gianaris honored Sheila Lewandowski of Long Island City’s The Chocolate Factory Theater as part of the state senate’s 15th annual Women of Distinction celebration on May 15 in Albany. Lewandowski was recognized for her ongoing dedication to local businesses, community improvement and the development of the arts in Long Island City. “I […]
Congressman, state senator express doubts about South Bronx development
Two more elected officials have expressed doubts about the use of state-owned land on the South Bronx waterfront for online grocer FreshDirect and other businesses that use trucks. But they lauded the recent announcement that FreshDirect will deliver to all borough ZIP codes as “a positive step.” Rep. Jose E. Serrano and state Sen. Jose […]
Isamu Noguchi ‘HAMMER, CHISEL, DRILL’ Exhibition Opens in Long Island City, 10/3
Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studio Practice, an exhibition that explores Isamu Noguchi‘s working methods, opens at The Noguchi Museum on October 3, 2012. Featuring a variety of hand- and industrial tools, along with photographs, select sculptures, and film footage, the exhibition will illuminate Noguchi’s practice in six of the studios he used during the course […]
Follow a Hungry Chef and See Where It Takes You
DANIEL BOULUD is inevitably drawn to an intense but basic roast chicken in the West Village. Missy Robbins craves East Village ramen. And for Hugue Dufour, only those pristine oysters in Grand Central Terminal will do. At their stoves, New York’s starred chefs are very different from you and me. But when they’re ready to […]
Guiding Hundreds of Trains, a Junction Named Harold
For decades, a standard response to delays and disruptions on passenger trains in New York City has been to blame it on Harold. That would be the Harold Interlocking, a century-old intersection of 14 train tracks in Queens, where hundreds of trains traveling between Pennsylvania Station and points east and north are sorted out each […]
Queens comedian competes for comedy crown
Comedian Andrew Hendrickson took second place in the final round at the Laughing Devil Comedy Festival. Comedian Andrew Hendrickson stepped into the spotlight on the makeshift stage at The Bread Box, a Long Island City eatery just off hip, bustling Vernon Boulevard. The restaurant was packed with locals and comedy junkies looking for a laugh […]
Do You Refer To Manhattan As "The City"?
Photo via RBudhu’s Flickr Recently a friend residing in Williamsburg said he was going to “the city” for the evening—meaning, of course, Manhattan—which raised some eyebrows when the terminology was brought to the table at Gothamist HQ. According to some fast and loose corners of The Internet, the reason that some people call it “the […]
Class: LIC Life Drawing
Life Drawing in Long Island City at M55 Art Great Models/nice atmosphere/all are welcome Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 pm; $10.00 per session M55 Art 44-02 23rd Street Long Island City, NY 11101 (718) 729-2988 Subway to M55 Art: E or M to 23rd Street/Court Square 7 to 45th Road/Court House Square G to Long Island City/Court Square […]
Portraits of all the LIC Artists
By photographer Orestes Gonzales
City Islanders-Long Island to collide in second round of Lamar Hunt US Open Cup
ON DECK FOR THE CITY ISLANDERS WHO: Long Island Rough Riders. WHERE: Skyline Sports Complex, City Island. WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday. THE LOWDOWN After failing to qualify for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup each of its first three seasons, the City Islanders Tuesday night will begin play in American soccer’s national tournament for the sixth […]
Hi-tech manufacturing plant coming to Queens
Jeanne Noonan for New York Daily News Kegan Fisher, director of industrial engineering for Shapeways, which makes products using 3D printing technology and is opening a plant in Long Island City this summer. The golden age of New York City manufacturing may long be over, but that isn’t stopping one enterprising company from setting up […]
MTA: ‘Fastrack’ maintenance is coming to Brooklyn and Queens in 2013
5/21/12 news By Marc Beja MTA: ‘Fastrack’ maintenance is coming to Brooklyn and Queens in 2013 Photo credit: Atlantic Terminal Pavilion in Brooklyn. (Getty Images) Weeknight subway shutdowns are coming to the outer boroughs. MTA officials said Monday that they would bring the “Fastrack” maintenance program, which cancels large chunks of service overnight for four […]
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. […]