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Posted June 17, 2012
Seventh Annual Taste of LIC Raises over $100,000 for Chocolate Factory Theater
NEW YORK, NY – Over 1,000 neighbors, visitors and local dignitaries gathered at Gantry State Park last week to celebrate Long Island City’s culinary culture and community during the seventh annual Taste of LIC. Veteran event sponsor TF Cornerstone, the developer of East Coast in Long Island City, today announced that this year’s Taste of LIC raised more than $100,000 for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s 2012-13 season of dance, theater, music and multimedia performances. Jet Blue was also a headlining sponsor.
“The 2012 Taste of LIC was an enormous success, and we are excited to once again show our support of The Chocolate Factor Theater and take part in celebrating Long Island City’s mouthwatering culinary landscape,” said Sofia Estevez, Executive Vice President of leasing for TF Cornerstone. “TF Cornerstone is proud to honor Long Island City’s vibrant culinary culture and community.”
The highly anticipated fundraiser took place on the Hudson River waterfront, where more than 50 local restaurants and 100 area businesses offered a robust sampling of Long Island City’s many culinary destinations. Participating restaurants included Alobar Restaurant, Antidote Chocolate, Bear Bar Restaurant, Blend Latin Fusion Restaurant, Brooklyn Brewery, Casa Enrique, Chimney Cake, LIC Market, Lounge 47, Malu, MitchMallows, Nestle Waters, Riverview Restaurant/Lounge, Skinny’s Cantina, Tom Cat Bakery, Vesta Trattoria Wine Bar, and many more.
New York City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer and speaker Christine Quinn along with Chocolate Factory Theater founder and executive director Sheila Lewandowski led the opening remarks.
A special after party took place at SHI, the 2010 Michelin Guide-rated Asian fusion restaurant located on the ground floor of TF Cornerstone’s 4720 Center Boulevard, a 32-story luxury rental building overlooking the Manhattan Skyline.
A preeminent New York City real estate development and management firm with a focus on sustainable design, TF Cornerstone is dedicated to transforming underdeveloped urban areas into thriving neighborhoods. In Long Island City, TF Cornerstone is developing East Coast, a six-building residential and mixed-use community on Center Boulevard along the Long Island City waterfront. Most recently, TF Cornerstone introduced 4615 Center Boulevard, a 41-story rental comprising studios, one- and two-bedrooms. Additionally, the company has recently opened 4540 Center Boulevard for leasing and immediate occupancy. Once complete, East Coast will boast 2,615 rental and 184 condominium residences, and a spectacular array of amenities, parks and outdoor recreational spaces. With retail and commercial spaces included in the mix, TF Cornerstone continues to welcome new businesses, shops and restaurants, helping to build a true community in this burgeoning neighborhood.
For more information about TF Cornerstone and East Coast, visit www.tfc.com.
ABOUT TF CORNERSTONE INC.
TF Cornerstone Inc. is a partnership of two brothers, Tom and Fred Elghanayan, focused on acquisition, development, construction and management of fine residential, commercial and retail properties. Headquartered at 387 Park Avenue South, TFC’s principals pride themselves on their personal involvement with all aspects of their business and portfolio, ensuring the highest level of quality. For more information, please visit www.tfc.com.
ABOUT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER
The OBIE Awarding-winning Chocolate Factory Theater values the process of creation and the spirit of experimentation; and is a leading incubator for new developments in experimental performance. The Factory’s 5,000 square foot facility is home to new work by the company’s Founding Artists; and provides support to over 100 Visiting Artists each year. The work of The Chocolate Factory’s founding artists emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration combining movement, music, video and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies. When successful, the work is not easily categorized as theater, dance, new music, or video art and is rather a thorough intermingling of these disciplines. By extension, our curatorial values when it comes to Visiting Artists leads to work that exists across or between disciplines-work that requires new methods, more time, and a new kind of audience.
Bear Bar Restaurant’s chef Natasha Pogrebinsky serves up a delicious assortment of new European cuisine during the TF Cornerstone-sponsored Taste of LIC.
Members of TF Cornerstone’s sales team enjoy the seventh annual Taste of LIC.
New York City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer and speaker Christine Quinn offer opening remarks at the TF Cornerstone-sponsored Taste of LIC.
Tom and Fred Elghanayan, co-founders of TF Cornerstone, celebrate with Chocolate Factory Theater’s executive director Sheila Lewandowski and New York City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer.
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