Open-Air Status Symbols
There are all kinds of envy in this town. There’s money envy against those who have more, often obscenely more, of the stuff than you do. There’s apartment envy, which often correlates closely with money envy. There’s career envy, relationship envy, school envy; indeed, New York has devised an almost infinite variety of ways to […]
NYSDOT Invites Minority And Women Owned Business Enterprises To Certification …
ALBANY, NY (05/14/2012)(readMedia)– New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald today invited Minority- and Women Owned-Business enterprises (M/WBE) to participate in a certification workshop hosted by NYSDOT in connection with the Kosciuszko Bridge replacement project. The workshop will be held Tuesday, May 15, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the 5th floor […]
Itskowitch, Woods To Speak At Ring 8
NEW YORK, NY (May 14, 2012) – Tomorrow night’s (Tuesday, May 15, 7 PM / ET) special guest speakers at the Ring 8 monthly meeting, held at the historic Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City, will be David Itskowitch, COO of Golden Boy Promotions, and award-winning boxing writer Mike Woods. In 2007, Itskowitch was selected […]
LIC Co. Brings Home Repair to NYers
From our PR wires: Click and Improve (clickandimprove.com) is a new online home improvement and repair service, and helps to simplify New Yorkers lives by create a "one stop shop" for home projects. Log-on to www.ClickandImprove.com, type-in or search for the problem or service you need (e.g. leaky faucet, paint a room, install an electrical outlet), and in a few […]
LIC Arts Open and the new galleries on jackson Ave
All of a sudden there are five new galleries and performance spaces on Jackson Av. Check them out during this week’s arts open activities. You have probably see the placards — licartsopen.org See the full gallery on Posterous
Neighborhood bad guy: William Garrett
Out of work sound tech and LIC old timer William Garrett has been annoying LIC neighbors for a long time. Now he has done it. The sweet and creative founders of LIC stalwarts Communitea and Lounge 47 have been fielding complaints from these guys for years. They built tents, curtailed hours, etc etc. But now […]
Real Rosie the Riveters recall WWII’s home front
With her rolled-up, ready-to-go sleeves, Esther Horne recalls the famous Rosie herself. Horne helped keep the U.S. working during the war at Gossack’s Machine Shop in Queens. Esther Horne clearly remembers the smell. “We worked in a constant spray of turpentine and we stank,” she says of her time in a Queens machine shop while […]
Despite lawsuits, DOT work, off-ramp still unsafe
Two cars crashed into storefronts near the Ed Koch-Queensborough Bridge within nine days of each other last year. A stretch of street – proven unsafe for cars, pedestrians and even storefronts – has “struck” again. Following three crashes in as many months in 2011, another car accident occurred on May 1 at the off-ramp of […]
MAP: New York City Sites 420 Bike Share Locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and …
New York City has made live its draft maps of bike share stations. The stations dot all of Manhattan south of Central Park, Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, and Clinton Hill. (See here, for why they won’t be in other neighborhoods.) The full maps are here and explanation of costs here. The […]
Sweetleaf Expands to Brooklyn
May 14, 2012, 11:40 am OLIVER STRAND Sweetleaf opened a coffee shop Monday on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. It’s the second location for Sweetleaf, which has a devoted audience in Long Island City, and the latest addition to the growing Williamsburg coffee scene: Blue Bottle Coffee, Toby’s Estate Coffee and a number of other serious […]
Drunk Driver Charged in Sunnyside Pedestrian Death
SUNNYSIDE — Police have arrested and charged a driver they believe struck and killed a young man while driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning in Queens. Sayesh Avedis, 58, of East New York in Brooklyn, faces charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and driving while intoxicated, police said. Cops responded to a call […]
Raimondi’s PSAL softball seeding reaction
1:40 AM, May 13, 2012 ι By MARC RAIMONDI Softball wasn’t on my mind Saturday afternoon. I was at York College covering the PSAL boys volleyball quarterfinals. Then my phone blew up. Calls. Texts. Tweets. E-mails. All PSAL softball coaches upset with the seeding following the meeting held Saturday morning. Two said it was the […]
FreshDirect’s rotten Bronx deal
SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS FreshDirect will get $127.8 million to come to the Bronx, but it won’t deliver to most of the borough. I recently moved to Crown Heights. FreshDirect delivers to my apartment, and I was offered a promotion to try the online grocery service that has become popular since starting to serve New York in […]
Sarah Thein, Owen Weber
Sarah Perla Thein and Owen William Weber are to be married Sunday evening at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Queens. Cantor Miriam Eskenasy is to officiate. The bride, 29, is the executive assistant to the director of the Frick Collection in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College and received […]
Long Island Native John Tesh Returns Home with Big Band in Tow
Mention John Tesh’s name to anyone outside of Long Island and you would probably get a quizzical look. The Long Island born, Garden City-reared musician has had stints on Entertainment Tonight, as a newscaster and a fieldman at numerous Olympics games before giving it all up to pursue a career in music – snagging a […]
‘Hipster’ influx pulls city gaze westward
Inspectors from the city Department of Buildings inspect the damage done by a car that crashed through a Howard Beach Blockbuster. Photo courtesy Nat Roe By Joe Anuta TimesLedger Newspapers Hipsters who are moving into the neighborhoods of western Queens are pulling inspectors from the city Department of Buildings away from their usual hot spots […]
Brewed in Long Island City
It has happened at last Buy growlers in the Recycle A Bicycle building Buy pints at Rockaway Beach
Get your stuff in a MOMA show
Drop off today at PS one. Get your stuff in this giant garage sale show coming up
Big sale at Natural Frontier Market
One year anniversary. 10% discount. Only for the month of May! The best health food store around.
PSAL baseball roundup: Tottenville tops MSIT, clinches 28th straight division …
Tottenville still owns Staten Island A – despite starting in a major hole. The Pirates, who were handed down three forfeits early in the year for using players not on the active roster, clinched a 28th straight division title on Friday with a 6-2 win at McKee/Staten Island. Matt Tanzi went the distance, struck out […]