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Art World Missed Connections: At the Affordable Art Fair and Outside MoMA PS1
This week’s two Art World Missed Connections take us from a booth at the Affordable Art Fair’s first fall edition in Chelsea to the sidewalks outside Long Island City’s MoMA PS1, where two strangers pass each other, while exchanging sidelong glances filled with desire, “every morning.” While the former involves a plot filled with international […]
Ski Slope May Be Coming to Astoria Park This Winter
Astoria Community Board gives thumbs up to the proposal to build a ski slope in the neighborhood. (Getty/Robert Giroux) QUEENS — Call it the Alps in Astoria. A ski slope may be coming this winter to Astoria if a proposal — which Community Board 1 in Queens has approved, but is still bogged down with […]
Dog lost in LIC!
Toro, a brown Pomeranian, went missing from my apartment on 47th Rd. in Long Island City late yesterday afternoon. He bolted from the building and ran up Jackson Ave. toward Thomson Ave. The dog was just visiting and normally lives in Brooklyn Heights and Port Washington. No tags. Any help or tips on where […]
Bloomberg says NYC is becoming a better place to start a small business
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Is New York City a good place to start a small business? In his weekly radio address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted his administration’s recent accomplishments as evidence that the answer is “yes.” “Businesses that want to stay competitive can’t rest on their laurels, and to keep our economy growing and creating […]
At Queens Tech Meetup, CornellNYC Answers Whether They Serve the Nerds or …
Dean Huttenlocher. (Photo: Jukay Hsu, via Instagram) October’s Queens Tech Meetup began with a statistic. Coalition for Queens founder Jukay Hsu announced that, since the inaugural June meeting, the group has grown to more than 800 members. While it didn’t look like everyone had turned out on Wednesday night, Long Island City’s See Exhibition Space was packed, […]
Exhibition chronicles the vital legacy of the African American artistic …
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 19601980, a comprehensive exhibition that chronicles the vital legacy of the African American artistic community in Los Angeles, examining a pioneering group of black artists whose work, connections, and friendships with other artists of varied ethnic backgrounds helped shape the […]
Queens Principal Forced To Retire After Allegedly Offending "Blacks, Jews, Gays"
It’s really difficult being in charge of one of our city’s fair high schools—every stray comment you make about how sexy the copy machine looks is taken the wrong way! Every sexy photo you put on Facebook might end up plastered on the walls of your school! So principals should know better than to make […]
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‘Bigot mouth’ principal booted
She’s an equal opportunity offender. A Queens high-school principal made a host of discriminatory remarks against Jews, blacks and gays — as well as off-color quips about sex and sexual favors among co-workers, city investigators found. Nancy Casella was forced to retire from Information Technology HS in Long Island City this month after the jarring […]
MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors (American, b. 1973), comprising twenty-three paintings from 2008 to the present, including five new works. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, Matt Connors: Impressionism is on view on the 3rd floor of MoMA PS1 through December 31, 2012. The […]
Video: Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City
Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous “Factory of the Future” in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year. Bloomberg Opens “Factory of the Future” New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and 3-D printing company Shapeways’ CEO, Peter Weijmarshausen, snip a ribbon […]
Shapeways Announces New 3D Printing Facility in Long Island City
Currently under construction, the “Factory of the Future” is en route to becoming the biggest consumer-facing 3D Printing manufacturing facility in the world, with the potential to 3D Print three to five million unique products a year on high-end, industrial size printers. At 25,000 square feet, the expansive facility will house between 30 to 50 […]
New Hunters Point Schools Not Enough For Growing Nabe, Parents Say
QUEENS — Hunters Point parents worry that the two new schools coming to the neighborhood — tripling the number of schools there — won’t be enough to satisfy the needs of a rapidly growing population of families with young children. Residents voiced their concerns to elected officials, as well as Department of Education and School […]
Farm-Rite Expands to Long Island; Opens Calverton Store
<!– var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; AddThis Button END –> Farm-Rite Inc. facility in Calverton, N.Y. Roger Theberge (L), branch manager, and T.J. Lohr, parts manager, are both located at the Calverton, N.Y., branch. AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0′,’width’,’400′,’height’,’335′,’src’,’/testing/slideshowpro’,’quality’,’high’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash’,’movie’,’/testing/slideshowpro’,’FlashVars’,’paramXMLPath=http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/testing/steveparam.xml&xmlFilePath=http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/testing/steve.asp?id=19094′ ); //end AC code Long Islanders looking for tractors, skid steers and backhoes only need to look as far as […]
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 […]