Garden City PTA: district reminders
Announcements from the Garden City PTA: Homestead Picture Day is Wednesday September 12th! There is one position available left on the Curriculum Committee. Please fill out the following form if you are interested: http://www.gardencitypta.org/forms/volunteer_form Stewart Picture Day is Tuesday, September 11th! A quick reminder about Picture Day for all parents regarding multiple child ordering. Island […]
Honoring Our Past by Serving for Our Future
Eleven years ago today, I received a note from the main office at my school in Los Angeles, California. When I arrived at the office, I was told to return a phone call from a family friend who was watching my sister and me while my mother was away at a wedding. She was scheduled […]
Historic Millstones in Queens Plaza Will Get Signage
LONG ISLAND CITY — Two centuries-old millstones that were embedded in Queens Plaza may have gotten lost in the shuffle, but the city’s Parks Department is looking to get them out from under foot — adding signage that would explain their historical significance to passersby. The stones currently sit in the newly-opened Dutch Kills Green, […]
LIC Living Room Meets Make-Over TV
See on Scoop.it – Long Island City Tonight on HGTV Home By Novogratz the husband and wife team transform a plain Long Island City living room into an amazing space for the family. See on www.huliq.com
Pop up library: Uni Library Coming to Hunters Point 9/22
FRIENDS OF HUNTERS POINT LIBRARY AND UNI PROJECT PARTNER ON POP UP LIBRARY IN HUNTERS POINT 9/22/12 Pop Up Will Precede Site Dedication for Library Building The Friends of Hunters Point Library and the Uni Project are partnering to bring Uni’s pop-up library to Gantry State Park at Center Boulevard and 48th Avenue in Long […]
La Grande Bouffe
Join M. Wells’s Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, in conversation with Adam Gopnik, for a one-night-only multi-course meal with wine. Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis opened the Quebeco-American diner M. Wells, in Long Island City, in 2010. The restaurant was named one of the top new restaurants of 2011 by the Times and Bon Appetit, […]
10 Surprising Facts About NYCHA, New York’s ‘Shadow City’
In this week’s New York magazine, Mark Jacobson takes on a doozy of a task: examining the city’s public housing projects and why they are what they are today, “a shadow city within the city.” NYCHA, or Nychaland to Jacobson, is the last system of giant housing projects in the country. Once touted as modern […]
Long Island City Lunchtime Dance Party Goes Bulgarian
LONG ISLAND CITY — Summer may be ending, but that doesn’t mean the party’s over. Lunch Beat LIC — the lunchtime dance fest that gives office workers the chance to bust a move during their midday break — is returning to Long Island City with a new spot and a new DJ. Bulgarian-born Joro-Boro will […]
LICNYC supports the Sugary Drink Ban –> NYT ‘Soda Ban Explained’
‘Soda Ban Explained’ – NYTimes.com.
Pudding on the Ritz: Local business owners bet old school dessert will be next …
Stephen Barcelo For New York Daily News David Smith, Christopher DeMark and Lonnie Fortuna, the co-founders of New York Natural Pudding Co. It’s smooth and creamy – and attracting New York-area businesses eager to turn a tasty profit. Greek yogurt? Superpremium ice cream? No, try pudding. A small, but growing number of local entrepreneurs are […]
Van Bramer distributes $638K to district’s nonprofits
Photo courtesy Jimmy Van Bramer Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer throws the first pitch for the Long Island City YMCA’s Youth Basketball League. The councilman gave $50,714 to the YMCA of Greater New York for its sport programs through his discretionary funding. Photo courtesy Van Bramer By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer […]
LICs proud architectural legacy
Not. Check out this beauty just north of Queens Plaza. Not the tower going up. The combo auto repair shop and vinyl Victorian. Yikes. Recalls the Ghosbusters house in midtown from the cartoon series. Remember it?
John Lane of Monroe, age 80
POMPTON LAKES – Services were held for John C. Lane, 80, of Monroe, formerly of this borough, who died on Friday, August 31, 2012. Born in Long Island City, New York, the son of John F. and Edith (Tienken) Lane, he lived in Pompton Lakes, moving to Monroe 10 years ago. An Air Force veteran […]
NEW YORK CITY BALLET
NEW YORK CITY BALLET The season opens with a celebration of a partnership that transformed dance—the collaboration of Balanchine and Stravinsky. On opening night, Sept. 18, the company performs three pieces that display the two artists’ unity of vision: “Apollo” (1928), “Orpheus” (1948), and “Agon” (1957). “Apollo,” originally made for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a […]
Lost bird
Really.
Sep 29: Maker Faire at Hall of Science!
Don’t miss
The Lemon Ice King of Corona
To get to this neighborhood you go west. You cross that giant cemetery that’s just west of Long Island city along the L IE. Bike or car. And when you get here to 108th street a big highlight is this awesome institution.
Indian man kills one after being called Talibani
An Indo-American kick boxer Jasjeet Walia killed another man at a gas station after a heated discussion over the latter calling him a Talibani. The argument started over a broken ATM machine at a gas station in Long Island City , where Jasjeet works. Police said the deceased 28-year-old Oscar Arzeno was the first to […]
OWEN CANFIELD: Nelson and Ginger of the Grog Shop and How They Arrived …
<!– [component:byline] –> Ever wonder how people from other places got to your town to live or work, or both. There’s an interesting couple who can be found every day but Sunday at 540 Winsted Rd., Torrington — Nelson and Ginger Gonzalez. There is nothing at all wrong with Harwinton but the rural setting and […]
Brooklyn is No Longer the "Budget-Savvy" Alternative to Manhattan
A few months back, we here at the Voice reported that Manhattan’s rent was at its highest rate ever, clocking in somewhere around $3,418 a month, on average. Awed by this, I delved into the conundrum that is the Manhattan real estate: if you have to pay an arm and a liver to live on […]