Queens Luxury Real Estate Market Picking Up Steam
QUEENS — It’s not quite Park Avenue, but a new report shows that the Queens luxury real estate market is heating up. High-end homes in the borough sold at a faster rate and at higher prices during the summer compared to the spring, according to a report compiled by Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers for […]
At a Ribbon-Cutting for Shapeways’ ‘Factory of the Future,’ Bloomberg Talks …
Plus, a contest to find New York’s next top maker. The crowded presser for the factory of the future. (Photo: Shapways’ Instagram) This morning, Betabeat ventured forth to the industrial environs of Long Island City for a ribbon-cutting at what’s being billed as the “factory of the future.” Naturally, quite a few tech scene regulars […]
Strip Club Owner Will Fight In Court For Right To Pair Booze With Boobs
A strip club that doesn’t serve alcohol is like a Laser Tag arena that won’t turn the damn lights off. You don’t need alcohol to enhance your visit to a strip club, just to silence your brain enough to make your idiotic decisions seem perfectly rational. And yet, night after night, determined patrons of the […]
City Council lines still would divide Rich. Hill
Minority residents from Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and Elmhurst came out en masse to last Wednesday’s Districting Commission meeting held at LaGuardia Community College to collect public comments about proposed City Council lines. They said their neighborhoods should be united to stop the fracturing of minority populations. The lines are being redrawn as mandated […]
Songza exceeds 1 Million registered Users in Canada and over 160000000 …
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Songza™, the popular music streaming app that provides a soundtrack for your life, has surpassed 1 Million registered users in Canada since its debut in early August. Greater than 90% of these users enjoy Songza on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Songza’s unique Music Concierge […]
New LIC Coffee Shop Serves Up Goodies From Brooklyn Grange
LONG ISLAND CITY — A new neighborhood coffee shop is giving locally-sourced products a whole new meaning. Coffeed, which recently opened at 37-18 Northern Blvd., is making its sandwiches and salads with vegetables from a farm on the roof of its building run by Brooklyn Grange and plans to give some of its profits to […]
Shapeways Announces Manufacturing Facility In New York City That Can 3D …
NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Shapeways, the leading 3D Printing community and marketplace, detailed their plans to bring manufacturing back to New York City with their “Factory of the Future,” a new 3D Printing facility being built in Long Island City. Currently under construction, the “Factory of the Future” is en route to […]
Massive 3-D Printing Factory Opens In Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — A massive 3-D printing company — which will soon be able to print as many as 5 million products a year — opened up shop Long Island City Thursday after moving from the Netherlands. Shapeways’ new 25,000-square-foot “Factory of the Future” on 48th Avenue and 30th Street, which contains a production […]
City Redistricting Minority Groups Find New Lines Unacceptable
City Redistricting Minority Groups Find New Lines Unacceptable By ROSS BARKAN More than the sign-waving or cutting remarks, what characterized Queens’ second and final round in front of the blank-faced Districting Commission was a popular two letter word: “déjà vu.” While the decennial redrawing of City Council lines may not excite most of New […]
LIC’s Wyndham Garden Hotel Refinanced with $9.5 M. Loan
Johnson Capital has arranged a $9.5 million loan for a Long Island City hotel at 44-29 9th Street. The loan closed on October 5. The financing will replace two land and bridge loans on the property, the Wyndham Garden Hotel. It was provided by Texas-based Hall Structured Finance, which earlier provided $21 million for the […]
Songza exceeds 1 Million registered Users in Canada and over 160000000 …
iOS fastest-growing Platform with well over 900,000 Users on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Songza™, the popular music streaming app that provides a soundtrack for your life, has surpassed 1 Million registered users in Canada since its debut in early August. Greater than 90% of these […]
Trio Mugged Man in LIC Apartment Building, Cops Say
QUEENS — Cops are looking for three men they say assaulted and robbed a man as he entered a Long Island City apartment building. The victim walked into the building at 41-01 Vernon Blvd. at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 when three young men approached him, police said. They then assaulted and robbed him before […]
Meditating on the Abstract Majesty of Louis Kahn’s Roosevelt Island FDR Park
In 1973, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and mayor John Lindsay announced plans for a new memorial honoring president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Architect Louis Kahn had been singled out as the architect to transform the site of the memorial, the undeveloped southern tip of Roosevelt Island, into a hallowed public park. No one could then […]
THE TEMPTATION OF TIM Makes NY Premiere at Harvest Theatre Festival, 11/8
Richard Jennings’ seven minute pop-opera, The Temptation Of Tim, will have it’s New York premiere in the Harvest Theatre Festival starting November 8th. Variations Theatre Group is presenting two weeks of exciting new work at the brand new Chain Theatre in Long Island City, Queens. The Temptation Of Tim is a 7 minute Pop-Opera about […]