Pop Listings for Sept. 7-13
Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. Divine Fits (Sunday) After nearly 20 years of being faithful to one ensemble — the terrific Austin rock band Spoon — the singer-songwriter Britt Daniel formed this supergroup with Dan Boeckner of Handsome Furs and Sam Brown of the New Bomb […]
Man Dead After Gas Station Fight
A man is dead after getting into a fight with a gas station attendant in Queens. Police were called to the Gulf station at Van Dam Street in Long Island City early Thursday morning. When officers arrived, they say they found 28-year-old Oscar Arzeno unresponsive. He was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital where […]
Max Brand: ‘no solid footing — (trained) duck fighting a crow’
22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue Long Island City, Queens Through Sept. 17 Max Brand is a young German artist-musician who lives in Frankfurt and has graphic talent to burn. The seven paintings, all completed this year, that constitute his New York solo debut are to some extent big, colored drawings: scattershot, improvised fields of […]
Mayor Bloomberg defends education record as 1.1 million students head back to …
Viorel Florescu for New York Daily News As more than a million students headed back to class on Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg said “it’s indisputable that our schools are heading in the right direction.” The new school year opened Thursday with 1.1 million city students hitting the books — and Mayor Bloomberg defending his record during […]
Man Found Beaten to Death at Long Island City Gas Station Updated 2 hrs ago
LONG ISLAND CITY — A man was found beaten to death in front of a Queens gas station early Thursday, officials said. Cops found Flushing resident Oscar Arzeno on the ground in front of a Gulf gas station at 53-26 Van Dam St., near Review Avenue in Long Island City, about 6 a.m., an NYPD spokeswoman […]
City Council releases draft district lines
The New York City Council redistricting commission released its proposed new district lines on Tuesday, but the changes made to the previous lines are small. The biggest change to the map in Queens is in the neighborhood of Richmond Hill, which is would be drawn into two districts instead of the previous four. The districts […]
LIC Welcomes Farm Fresh Food Program
By MEGAN MONTALVO At a time when junk food has become more affordable than the organic alternatives, it is no wonder that obesity and diabetes is on the rise, especially for low-income communities like the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. In an effort to combat the obesity epidemic on a local level, Councilman […]
Queens gas station attendant beats drunk man to death for vandalizing cash …
Michael Ip for New York Daily News A gas station attendent killed a man Thursday at a Gulf gas station at 53-26 Van Dam St. in Long Island City, Queens after the man went wild when an ATM would not give him cash. There was another killing at a New York City gas station on […]
Long Island City’s SculptureCenter Throwing Huge Art Block Party Saturday
September 6, 2012, 1:51 pm On Saturday the venerable Queens contemporary art institution SculptureCenter will throw what might just be the artsiest block party this city has ever seen, featuring a series of activity tents manned by artists who have shown at the space. The LIC Block Party, which runs from noon to 5pm on […]
Hunter Street, with a slick new facade
It’s tile! Looks cool. Just south of the Plaza where builders are building round the clock. Good bye industrial past, LIC.
Be first to open your preschool at Queens Plaza
Opportunity knocks. Good bye strip clubs apparently. Time to teach kiddies.
500 more residents at Queens Plaza
The OTHER tower finishing soon near Court Square and Queens Plaza. Not just Rockrose. Now for the local businesses to get to work evicting the greasy spoons and bodegas and making more room for bike shops and indie cafe owners. Come on property owners! Call in those leases.
Rockrose tower and Pearlys
Chashama program is so great. Fun stuff at their properties here at glammo Court Square (everybody saw the NYT piece this weekend) Plus 750 upper middle class renters coming soon. Party on!
The Boulevard of Death Needs New Life
Manhattan is known for its neon lights on Broadway and the stately residential Park Avenue, Paris is home to the fashionable tree-lined Beaux Arts Champs-Elysees, and the Bronx offers the Art Deco Grand Concourse. These are among many major thoroughfares that give a distinctive sense of place to communities, and enhance quality of life. On […]
Lunar Energy Presents BY RIGHTS WE SHOULD BE GIANTS World Premiere …
Lunar Energy Productions will present the World Premiere of By Rights We Should Be Giants, created and written by Lunar Energy ensemble members Nadia Sepsenwol and Tim Van Dyck, October 18-November 3 at The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd Street between 44th Avenue and 44th Road, Long Island City). The production will be directed by Christopher […]
LIC airline snubs Marshall
Elected officials and employees of JetBlue flip a switch that lit the airline company’s new 40-foot sign on the top of the Brewster Building in Long Island City. Photo by Christina Santucci By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers As JetBlue lit its new, 40-foot sign at its headquarters at Queens Plaza last week, Borough President Helen […]