LIC businesses collect supplies, provide charging stations and free shows in …
Long Island City businesses, individuals and politicians are all coming together to help out neighborhoods that were pummeled by Hurricane Sandy. LIC Market at 21-52 44th Drive has a growing pile of clothing — especially sweatpants, sweatshirts, socks, coats and underwear — non perishable foods, baby supplies, batteries, flashlights, water and daily newspapers donated from […]
Teebs missed Moogfest, not playing Glasslands, but is in Long Island City …
Reggie Watts at a Brooklyn loft party last month (more by Gretchen Robinette) Teebs and The Mast were supposed to play Glasslands tonight (11/2), but that show, we just realized, was cancelled last month and instead Glasslands will host Cultfever and Kenji Urada (not Blonds, as originally listed) tonight and a late night Hurricane Sandy […]
Power, gasoline and ferry service bring relief to many hurricane-weary New …
Gary Hershorn/Reuters People board a ferry bound for New York at a dock on the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, Friday. Four days after Sandy smashed into the Northeast, rescuers were still discovering the extent of the death and devastation, and anger mounted over gasoline shortages, power outages and waits for relief supplies. Relief […]
MoMA PS1 Offers Shelter to New Yorkers
MoMA PS1 offers place to rest and charge cell phones. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) QUEENS — MoMA PS1 is inviting New Yorkers who may need shelter to come over and make themselves at home. New Yorkers can visit the Jackson Avenue museum for free, spend as much time as they want during its hours, charge their phones […]
DiNapoli Estimates Economic Loss from Sandy Could Top $18 Billion
(Albany, N.Y.) New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today projected the economic damage from Hurricane Sandy could exceed $18 billion for New York State. “These are difficult days for New Yorkers as we work to clean up and recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy,” DiNapoli said. “Lives have been lost, homes and […]
Hurricane Sandy Death Toll 41 In New York City, Hard Hit Staten Island …
Breezy Point Fire Damage caused by a fire at Breezy Point is shown Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, in the New York City borough of Queens. The fire destroyed between 80 and 100 houses Monday night in the flooded neighborhood. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Firefighters look up at the facade […]
Obama Campaign Office in LIC
Get out for Obama this weekend. You can impact Pennsylvania and make calls to swing states. ———- Forwarded message ———- LICNYC, I wanted to let you, and your readers know, that there will be an Obama Campaign office open in LIC this weekend. We will be working out of the BCTGM Local 3 Union Hall, […]
Sage at Court Sq always has awesome flair
And after 3pm half-price sandwiches. Veggie Monterrey.
Awesome new graff at 5 Ptz
And this:
Library at Citi building open till 7 tonight
Then again on Monday.
CUNY Law LIC
Open for business this fall (if not today).
Hurricane Sandy Aftermath: Staten Island Residents Frustrated, Angry, Says …
Books Review | Jessica Durham Updated: Nov 02, 2012 10:30 AM EDT (Photo : Reuters) Anthony Lipin helps his family throw flood damaged furniture from his home onto the street in the New Dorp Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York on Thursday. Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath is one that many didn’t imagine […]
Long lines at gas stations continue to frustrate drivers
Cabdriver Harum Prince joined a nearly mile-long line for gasoline early Friday in Manhattan after already spending three hours in a similar queue in the Bronx — only to have the station run out of gas when it was almost his turn. Prince leases his cab from a garage for $130 a day; in order […]
Storm brings flooding, gas shortages to western Queens
Photo by Rebecca Henely Long Island City resident Sal Vito points out where the storm surge rose on 47th Road near Center Boulevard during Hurricane Sandy. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers While northwestern Queens was not hit as hard as other parts of the borough during Superstorm Sandy, residents were still feeling its effects after […]
Sandy Leaves Thousands In The Dark
By MEGAN MONTALVO While Superstorm Sandy may be out of sight, the after-effects of power loss are still plaguing residents Citywide. The day after the devastation, Consolidated Edison reported that approximately 780,000 customers were without electrical service, including 116,000 in Queens alone. Another 7,000 Long Island Power Authority customers were also without power […]
In hipster Brooklyn, a fuel terminal padlocked as drivers steam
By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) – As drivers in Sandy-battered New York sit steaming in long lines to buy gasoline, a small fuel terminal on a remote road in a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood lies idle, gates padlocked – mute testimony to the root of the energy crisis now gripping the city. Motiva’s plant in […]
Why Isn’t the G Train Running? [Updated]
Down and out of service. (lesterhead/Flickr) Update 11/1 8:09: We finally sort of found out how it is the G train flooded even though it does not go under the East River. Currently, the section of the train running under Newtown Creek is full of water (between the oil, the Superfund sites, and now this, that […]
Hurricane Sandy floods Long Island City, Astoria
Western Queens as a whole weathered Hurricane Sandy without too much damage, residents said. A few trees and lots of branches came down; Gantry Plaza State Park was flooded, but the water subsided by Tuesday afternoon; LaGuardia Airport also filled to the brim and didn’t open until 7 a.m. on Thursday; but nevertheless most of […]