Metropolitan Opera Returns to Long Island City Waterfront
Queens — Aria aficionados rejoice: the Metropolitan Opera is coming to the Long Island City waterfront this summer. On Thursday, Aug. 9th, as part of The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, three rising opera stars Deanna Breiwick (soprano), Alexander Lewis (tenor) and Edward Parks (baritone) will perform arias and duets from a variety of operas — […]
LIC Residents Want New Waterfront High School to Have Eco Curriculum
LONG ISLAND CITY — For decades, the Long Island City waterfront was a rundown industrial area, with almost no access to the East River. Now, as the community is reclaiming the area, residents want the curriculum at a new school in Hunters Point to reflect this effort and focus on the environment and ecology. IS/HS […]
The water beneath us
by Kathleen Lees Queens Ledger It started with a request. The Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group meeting last week at LaGuardia College in Long Island City may have started with a group introduction, but it continued with a heated discussion of whether the baseline of study for Newtown Creek should be extended from a quarter-mile […]
Top Beer Gardens in New York City
NEW YORK CITY — Enjoying glasses of your favorite brews and plates of food while enjoying the summer outdoors leaves little to complain about. Beer gardens are increasingly popular in New York, with Queens’ pioneering Czech beer gardens leading the way. But some of the other boroughs have begun to catch up with their own […]
Queens Councilman References the Holocaust in Soda Ban Testimony
LONG ISLAND CITY — A Queens city councilman opposed to the mayor’s proposed big soda ban repurposed a famous quote about the Holocaust at a public hearing Tuesday. “When they came for the cigarettes, I didn’t say anything, because I didn’t smoke,” Dan Halloran, who represents Northeastern Queens, said at a Department of Health public […]
Long Island City ice cream shop relies on community
Eyewitness News LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — At your local shop, you should be able to get what you want. Sergio Garcia and his wife Jennifer Dudek really mean that – so much so that their customers have a huge role in choosing the flavors of ice cream at Malu. Dudek believes that behind every […]