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 […]
Aerosol Museum
Enjoy it while you can. The condo plans are in the works. Demolition. Then forty stories.
Who’s got the scoop on this site near PS1?
Was a bank – State Bank of Long Island
Urbanite Mitchell Moss on sidewalks, subways and gentrification
3:07 PM By Sheila Anne Feeney Urbanite Mitchell Moss on sidewalks, subways and gentrification Mitchell Moss, 63, the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy Planning at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, is also the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. A member of the NYU faculty since 1973, he was raised […]
Transformation complete
Artists Wanted takes residency at Court Square.
Fresh Direct Will Take Food Stamps, Deliver to the Bronx
Online Grocer Fresh Direct is expanding its delivery area to include all of the Bronx — and not just the more affluent parts. The company says it will also accept food stamps at a few select locations as part of a pilot program. Fresh Direct said it was still working out the details of the […]
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 […]