The Capital Grille in Garden City: First bites
The dish on Long Island’s restaurant and food scene 2:10 PM By Peter M. Gianotti The Capital Grille at Roosevelt Field already is as jammed as the mall during holiday season. The economy must be improving. This restaurant, part of a 48-branch chain, specializes in steak (very good) and seafood (often better), in a setting […]
Awesome new hardware store at Court Square
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Military History Enthusiasts at Osprey Publishing Offer Four Tips to Best …
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Artist Dusts Off Rare Skills by Hand-Painting Old Signs for LIC Businesses
LONG ISLAND CITY — Kenneth Burris has been hand-painting giant billboards and murals for many years. But about a decade ago, his rare skills were replaced by computers. Burris worked on some projects with mural artist Howie Keck and was a production artist at the Peter Max studio in the interim, but was looking to […]
LIC Gets New Stop Sign to Aid Growing Population
QUEENS — Long Island City residents celebrated the the installation of a new four-way stop sign on 5th Street Friday morning that one local politician says is the beginning of a series of steps to keep a heavily trafficked area safe. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer was joined by students and faculty from nearby P.S. 78 […]
For Its Roosevelt Island Tech Campus, Cornell Pursues Some Cutting Edge …
When technology changes at the speed of a microprocessor or the flicker of a screen, in the time it takes to type in a password or hit send on an email, how can buildings be created to contain all this light-speed innovation? That is the quandry confronting the architects designing Cornell and Technion University’s news […]