MTA Finishes LIRR Tunnel Connecting Grand Central to Queens Updated …
NEW YORK — Manhattan and Queens have never been closer. The MTA broke down a final concrete wall Thursday to create a new Long Island Railroad tunnel between Grand Central Terminal and Sunnyside, Queens. The tunnel is part of the MTA’s $8.24 billion East Side Access project, scheduled to finish in 2019. The ambitious plan features […]
Sandhogs join MTA tunnels in Queens and Manhattan
Sandhogs working on the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s East Side Access megaproject broke through the final piece of reinforced concrete separating newly built tunnels in Queens from newly built tunnels in Manhattan. In so doing, they created a continuous tunnel running more than 3.5 miles from a cavern 12 stories underneath Grand Central Terminal […]
Astoria CSA Forced To Move Out of Community Center
ASTORIA — A program distributing farm fresh food in Astoria has been forced to move out of a field house at a local community center where it has been located for years and will now operate outdoors, members and officials said. The Astoria Community Supported Agriculture program had been using the space at the ARROW […]
Suffering Staten Island school brings PCBs to spotlight
As its profile increases, the New York City Board of Education has to deal with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in public schools whether they like it or not. Last week, a student at P.S. 41 on Staten Island had a PCB ballast leak directly onto her. Once her teacher noticed, she alerted the authorities who, after […]
A Chance to Dine with the Chef of M. Wells
M. Wells, the celebrated diner in Long Island City with a menu that read “like a drawn-out dare,” shuttered in 2011, when the owners weren’t able to reach a lease agreement. Since then, Hugue Dufour, the chef of M. Wells and before that, of Montreal’s “temple of meat” Au Pied du Cochon, along with his […]
LIC soccer players, field need ample time for repair
Photo by Christina Santucci Long Island City players practice on the field at their school. By Joseph Staszewski TimesLedger Newspapers Long Island City girls’ soccer practices at the school involve avoiding cones, but have nothing to do with the players dribbling through and around them. “Part of the field where the carpet comes up, it’s […]
LIC soccer players, field need ample time for repair
Photo by Christina Santucci Long Island City players practice on the field at their school. By Joseph Staszewski TimesLedger Newspapers Long Island City girls’ soccer practices at the school involve avoiding cones, but have nothing to do with the players dribbling through and around them. “Part of the field where the carpet comes up, it’s […]
LIC soccer players, field need ample time for repair
Photo by Christina Santucci Long Island City players practice on the field at their school. By Joseph Staszewski TimesLedger Newspapers Long Island City girls’ soccer practices at the school involve avoiding cones, but have nothing to do with the players dribbling through and around them. “Part of the field where the carpet comes up, it’s […]
Listeria Outbreak Linked to Forever Cheese and Whole Foods Likely to Grow
Forever Cheese of Long Island City, New York issued a recall for its Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand cheese on September 10, 2012. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other public health agencies have traced at least 14 cases of listeriosis to the consumption of contaminated Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand cheese—a salty, white cheese made […]