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Photo by Ivan Pereira LaGuardia Community College’s Young Adult Internship Program has had 100 graduates. The graduates shown above are from the Southern Queens Park Association’s version of the program. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Long Island City’s LaGuardia Community College announced earlier this month that 100 graduates had gone through its Young Adult Internship […]

A view of the outdoor graffiti art exhibit 5 Pointz in Long Island City, New York. Photo: AFP Graffiti artists are used to escaping cops, jumping from roofs and dodging trains, but New York painters who turned an abandoned factory into a street art legend now face their real nemesis: gentrification. 5 Pointz in the […]

Photo by Rich Scarpitta Boats including those from the NYPD surround the stranded sailboat. Emergency responders assist in the removal of a sailboat Aug. 4 from underneath the Roosevelt Island Bridge, which connects Long Island City to Roosevelt Avenue. According to the Breaking News Network, all of those aboard the boat were removed without incident. […]

Erica Kyle Hahn and Patrick Michael Inverso Jr. were married Saturday at Atwood Ranch in Glen Ellen, Calif. Kimberly Thompson, a California marriage commissioner, officiated. The bride, 34, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Long Island City, Queens, for the Community Healthcare Network, a Manhattan nonprofit health […]

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Suburbs in the New York metropolitan area are stepping up their efforts to attract tourist dollars. But they have to deal with the proximity of New York City, the country’s biggest magnet for visitors. So how do they compete? They don’t. Instead, tourist agencies try to take advantage of the city’s […]

NEW YORK CITY — You’re bound to feel like a kid in a candy store when you arrive in New York. There’s an overwhelming number of things to see and do, and if you’re just getting your bearings, it may be difficult to find your footing in a social scene. Luckily, opportunities abound to meet […]

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Citi bike share at City Hall 1. Citi bike-share program delayed until next Spring [Curbed]2. $19.5M, nine-room condo sale at 988 Fifth Avenue marks most expensive closing for week ending Wednesday [NYT]3. Ground finally breaks on Tower 3 at Northside Piers [Curbed]4. Junior’s is set to expand to Japan [DNAinfo]5. Before getting into real estate, Rubicon Property CEO Jason Haber stood up to the […]

5Pointz, Long Island CIty, NY, 2011. Image: Pelle Sten 5Pointz in the borough of Queens is one of the city’s most arresting sights — a huge building plastered in brilliantly colored, skillfully executed graffiti works that have won international acclaim. Taggers, as they’re known, are invited to paint legally at 5Pointz, watched by an audience […]

(Photo by Andrea Bernstein) (UPDATED 9:55am) There will be no shiny blue Citi Bikes on the streets of New York until March. “Unfortunately there are software issues” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Friday on his radio show on WOR with John Gambling. The mayor said: “One of the newspapers keeps writing, ‘you’re hiding something.’ Yeah, […]