A look at New York’s biggest rooftop farm
Take a photo tour of the largest rooftop farm in New York City: Brooklyn Grange sits on top of 43,000 square of feet of space on two buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Brooklyn Grange has been running a rooftop farm in Long Island City since 2010, but Thursday’s was the first look at their […]
De Blasio is right to defend small business
Ticket first, ask questions later. Thatís city policy when it comes to minor code violations at small businesses, according to Public Advocate Bill deBlasio óand other officials, civic leaders and mom-and-pop shopkeepers themselves. It makes you wonder if the Bloomberg administration is actively trying to destroy small business in the city. Bloomberg gave Goldman Sachs […]
That’s one big ass fan
I was intrigued by news of an exhibit being displayed this summer in the courtyard of the Long Island City museum. Wendy is a 56-foot wide, 45-foot tall spiky, blue starburst structure sprayed with pollution-fighting chemicals. It was conceived by New York-based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and won MoMA PS1’s 13th-annual Young Architects Program, in […]
LIRR line is one tunnel closer
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority crossed the river on July 16 hundreds of feet underground and came one step closer to the completion of the East Side Access line. “We’re literally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on completing East Side Access, the largest mass transit project under construction anywhere in […]
Nerd Alert: Schumer Calls On MTA To Create "Nerd Bus"
With Cornell set to open a high-tech campus on Roosevelt Island in a few years (with a multi-year stopover in Google HQ first) good old U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is worried that the geeks won’t be able to handle the tram or the F train. Because there is nothing really important going on in Washington, […]
Ellis Island Resident Artists Draw Inspiration from Immigration
ELLIS ISLAND — Art imitates history. Three artists spent the month of July poring over the archives on Ellis Island as part of the first-ever artist residency program there, searching for inspiration among the stories of New York’s millions of immigrants. Theresa Loong, a filmmaker, and Laura Nova, a performance artist, focused on food, learning about […]
Van Bramer weds partner after 13 years
Posted on August 2, 2012 by Rebecca Henely in City Council, City Offices, District 26 Queens County Clerk Audrey Pheffer (l.) presides over the marriage of City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (c.) and his partner of 13 years, Dan Hendrick. Photo courtesy Jesse Winter Dan Hendrick (l.) and City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer were happy […]
Brooklyn Yields Cucumbers as NYC Expands Industrial Roof Farms
It’s a 1-acre farm fertile enough to produce a 2-ton harvest of rainbow chard, kale, basil, eggplant and cucumbers — and it sits atop an 11-story industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. New York City’s largest rooftop garden will soak up more than 1 million gallons of storm water a year, reducing the risk […]
2 Employees Contract Legionnaires at CUNY School
Two employees at LaGuardia Community College in Queens have contracted Legionnaires’ disease as a result of legionella bacteria in the hot water system, health officials say. The legionella exists in Building C at the school in Long Island City. Staff members learned in a school email Wednesday that two employees there have contracted Legionnaires in […]
Senator Schumer wants a ‘Nerd Bus’ to connect high-tech hubs in Brooklyn and …
New York’s senior senator is calling for a “Nerd Bus” that would link up high tech hubs in Brooklyn and Queens with Roosevelt Island — and help some of the city’s brightest bulbs get around town. “New York is seeing a major tech boom, with Brooklyn and Long Island City leading the way,” Sen. Chuck […]