Rockaway post-Sandy
Rockaway post-Sandy, a set on Flickr. Scenes around Rockaway Beach from Sunday Nov 18
City Extends Gas Rationing Through Friday
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is extending the gas rationing system in New York City through the Thanksgiving holiday. He announced Sunday that the odd-even license plate system would be in effect through Friday. Bloomberg said that with 30 percent of stations still closed and a major travel week coming up, the extension would make sure there […]
New York cracks down on price-gouging in Sandy’s aftermath
New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman has put 13 gas station operators on notice that the state is investigating them for allegedly taking advantage of needy customers and inflating prices in the days after Superstorm Sandy. The notices, sent out Thursday, alert the business owners that the state is beginning to enforce its price-gouging laws, […]
Hurricane Sandy reveals fissures in New York
The world didn’t need reminding that the New York area would get up and brush itself off from Hurricane Sandy. New Yorkers certainly didn’t need to be told, and met the disaster’s challenges and terrors with typical grit, grace and fortitude. But Sandy, which hit Oct. 29, made the city feel different. The ability to […]
Hall Structured Finance Closes $27 Million in Deals
With three real estate loans totaling $26.75 million, Hall Structured Finance is on its way toward its goal of originating more than $100 million in new loans during the next 12 months. The three deals include a 128-room hotel in Long Island City, N.Y., a 118-room hotel in Charlotte, N.C., and a 14,600-square-foot retail center […]
Queens Man Arrested In Jasper Johns Sculpture Fraud
Brian Ramnarine, who owns a foundry in Long Island City, was arrested yesterday for allegedly claiming that a sculpture was by Jasper Johns and selling it for $11 million. It appears that Johns himself gave Ramnarine the mold in 1990 to make a wax cast for his 1960 “Flag” sculpture, but investigators say Ramnarine never […]
Attorney General Targets 13 Gas Stations Accused Of Gas Gouging
With the post-Hurricane Sandy gas shortages finally starting to subside (rationing ends in Long Island at midnight, but is still in effect in NYC) the government is starting to crack down on fuel peddlers who tried to make an extra buck amidst the crisis. Yesterday New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office announced that […]
Queens-Midtown Tunnel is open to all traffic
NEW YORK (AP) — The Queens-Midtown Tunnel is now open to all traffic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says trucks are now allowed. The tunnel reopened to cars on Nov. 9. It was severely flooded during Superstorm Sandy. The tunnel under the East River is a major connection between midtown Manhattan and Queens. It carries about 78,000 […]
Big Heart of Queens
Except for a day or two without electricity, the northern half of Queens suffered relatively little from Hurricane Sandy, but for two weeks people from Long Island City to Bayside have been doing what they could to help families in Belle Harbor and other communities devastated by winds, floods and fire. In Bayside, Thomas and […]
Authorities Cast Queens Foundry Owner as Forger
Brian Ramnarine’s foundry in Long Island City was so well-known among artists for its excellent work that Jasper Johns entrusted the owner in 1990 to make a wax cast of the mold for his famous 1960 metallic collage “Flag.” On Thursday, Mr. Ramnarine, 58, was indicted on charges he used Mr. Johns’s mold to surreptitiously […]
State Accuses 13 New York Gas Stations of Price-Gouging
Thirteen gas stations in New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester County are being hit with civil price-gouging charges in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, said. New York business law defines price-gouging as selling goods for “an unconscionably excessive price” during an “abnormal disruption of the […]
How Can New York State Strengthen Its Electric Grid to Better Withstand Future …
Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, the toll of lost life, lost homes, economic damage and human suffering is still unbelievable, heartbreaking and ongoing. While many New Yorkers have recovered from the storm, and power has been restored to some two million customers, tens of thousands of New Yorkers in areas that were flooded are still […]
Hundreds of New School Seats Planned for ‘Epicenter of Overcrowding’
WOODSIDE — More than 700 new seats are coming to area schools in hopes of providing relief to districts some consider to be the ground zero of overcrowding, officials said in a town hall meeting earlier this week. A new elementary school, P.S. 339, will have about 470 seats for local children. Another elementary school, […]
Bam! That’s Good Coffee!: Emeril Partners with New York’s White Coffee
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Nov. 14, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — White Coffee Corporation of Long Island, NY has announced plans to launch a new coffee line with renowned chef/restaurateur and TV personality, Emeril Lagasse. The new line features four distinctive coffees evocative of New Orleans dining experiences. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121114/DC11902) “Folks, if you’re like me, great tasting […]
Glitch blamed for utility’s payroll gap
ALBANY — National Grid says that a payroll glitch resulted in some employees — including line crews working 18-hour shifts to restore power down on Long Island in the wake of Superstorm Sandy — not receiving all of the pay they were due. Spokesman Patrick Stella said Wednesday that the issues were the unfortunate result […]
A Renter’s Guide to the Rapidly Gentrifying Long Island City
[Photo Pool/Joanna_Pan] Long a gritty industrial wilderness, Long Island City, located one stop from Manhattan via six different trains, began the inevitable march to gentrification in 1997 with the construction of the Citylights co-op. Since then, an array of new developments (mostly rentals and condominiums) have followed and many more are under construction. LIC has […]
Out-of-town lawyers doing big city business
By Holly Dutton In an increasingly tight and expensive New York real estate market, some commercial developers are turning to law firms based in Westchester, where the quality is the same but the cost is less. Steven Goldman, a partner in the real estate practice of Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin Lever, LLP, can afford to charge […]
Police: NYer Posed as Officer to Avoid Gas Ration
NBC 4 New York The odd-even gas rationing rule is now in effect in New York City and Long Island, and already there seems to be relief. Roseanne Colletti reports. Odd-Even Gas Rationing Brings Some… Copy Close Link to this video http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Odd-Even-Gas-Rationing-Brings-Some-Relief-in-NYC,-L.I./178219431 Copy Close Embed this video Replay Gas Rationing Announced on LI After Long […]
Tech Insurgents 2012: Marleen Vogelaar
Ms. Vogelaar. The Manufacturing Maven When 3D-printing startup Shapeways held a ribbon-cutting for its new “factory of the future” last month, more pols were in attendance than at a Hurricane Sandy press conference: Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Empire State Development Corporation President Ken Adams all made the trip to the […]
New York City, Long Island begin gas rationing plan this morning – The Star-Ledger
NEW YORK — A new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day went into effect in New York this morning as a nor’easter that knocked out power anew to hundreds of thousands of customers erased some of the progress made by utility crews. Police were at gas stations to enforce the […]