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Federal agents arrested the owner of a Long Island City foundry last Thursday after he allegedly attempted to sell a fake replica of Jasper Johns’ “Flag” for $11 million. Brian Ramnarine, 58, pleaded not guilty to a wire fraud charge in Manhattan Federal Court and was released on a $250,000 bond. According to documents released […]

Those in the know will be helping small businesses and homeowners affected by Hurricane Sandy fill out somewhat daunting paperwork in Long Island City next Monday and Tuesday. “The federal forms can look a little scary,” said Alana Chavez with the U.S. Small Business Administration, which has an office in the LaGuardia Community College Campus […]

Robert Caplin for The New York Times M. Wells Dinette is a cafeteria in MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Almost everything about the dining room suggests a classroom. More Photos » WHEN M. Wells, a tin-can diner on a windswept corner of Long Island City, Queens, closed in the summer of 2011, its […]

QUEENS — Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, The Waterfront Crabhouse, a landmark seafood restaurant on the Hunters Point waterfront, still has no electricity. Tony Mazzarella, who founded the famed eatery in 1977, estimated the damage from the monster storm at about $150,000, but the extent of the destruction remains unknown. “We can’t […]

Giant Bicycle USA, headquartered in Newbury Park, CA, is donating 100 bikes to people in the New York City areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. “Ride NYC Forward” is a partnership effort between Giant and two New York bicycle advocacy groups—Transportation Alternatives (http://www.transalt.org/) and Recycle-A-Bicycle (http://www.recycleabicycle.org/)—to improve mobility among residents in the stricken areas. Giant […]

  With temperatures in the 40s made cooler with a brisk breeze under partly sunny skies, Greenwich officials joked they were embarking on the proverbial “three-hour tour” of television’s “Gilligan’s Island.” In reality, it was a 90-minute tour of Greenwich’s Island Beach to view the devastation of Hurriance Sandy on Friday. Clad in winter jackets, […]

Sandy has triggered a public debate about how to protect the city in the future given the growing consensus that powerful storms and sea level rise are inevitable. But who will be protected? And who will pay? Gov. Andrew Cuomo thinks New York City needs floodgates. Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks other drastic measures have to […]