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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 […]
Parents irate that city may not guarantee gifted and talented middle school …
Parents at two northwestern Queens schools are gearing up for a fight after the city announced students in a highly competitive program may no longer be guaranteed middle school spots. The city is considering requiring all students in District 30 to be re-tested to remain in the gifted and talented program. Students from Public School […]
LIC Marathoner Returns To Help
Former Long Island City resident Ryan Light has been selected to run in one of the largest marathons in the world, the New York City Marathon on November 4. Running through five boroughs, Light has mixed emotions about seeing the neighborhood he grew up in, for the first time since he left at age 18.Raised […]
Nude Joint Owners In 3rd Try For State Liquor License
The owners of a controversial Long Island City strip club twice denied a state liquor license will be taking their case to Albany on October 25, where the State Liquor Authority (SLA) will reconsider their most recent application.. Lawyers for 21 Group Inc. have asked the state panel to review the application for Show Palace, […]
Garden City Village Historian John Ellis Kordes To Speak At Adelphi University
Garden City Village Historian John Ellis Kordes To Speak At Adelphi University The Friends of Adelphi University Library 17th Annual Fall Lecture (Long Island, NY) The Friends of the Adelphi University Library are holding their 17th Annual Fall Lecture, “A.T. Stewart: The Origins of Garden City in 1869 and Adelphi’s Arrival in 1929,” featuring Garden […]
LIC Ice Cream Parlor Creating Obama and Romney Flavors
HUNTERS POINT — The presidential race is heating up, but one Queens business wants to keep the candidates stay cool. A popular Long Island City ice cream parlor — known for creating new flavors and naming them after local businesses and residents — now plans to enter the national debate with flavors based on President […]
Van Bramer, LIC Residents Commend New Stop Sign
Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, local families, community leaders, members of Community Board 2 and students and faculty from P.S. 78 joined the Department of Transportation (DOT) to announce the installation of a four-way stop sign on 5th Street in Long Island City. On October 12, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, local families, community leaders, members of […]
Long Island City strip club going to court to get a liquor license
The owners of the all-nude Show Palace club in Long Island City have given up trying to convince the State Liquor Authority that they deserve a license and are heading to court. The 21 Group, which had hoped to open the site as a strip club named Gypsy Rose, was turned down twice in its […]
Site of Former Sunnyside Boxing Arena Gets Recognition
SUNNYSIDE — A former boxing venue where the movie “Mr. Universe” was shot and where John F. Kennedy held a presidential rally has been recognized with a monument. The plaque was placed earlier this month in front of Wendy’s in Sunnyside, on the corner of Queens Boulevard and 45th Street, where the Sunnyside Garden Arena […]
NYC Focused on Two Meningitis Outbreaks – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (PIX11)— The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene–based now in new offices in Long Island City, Queens–told PIX 11 Monday it’s in the process of contacting local, medical facilities that may have purchased tainted medicine from the Massachusetts specialty pharmacy linked to a national, meningitis outbreak. Fifteen people […]
Four food companies moving to or expanding in Bronx
Four more food companies will move to or expand in the Bronx with city subsidies, and FreshDirect said Tuesday it will hire 200 people over the next three months as it prepares to relocate to the borough. Last week, city officials approved about $30 million in tax exemptions to help Fairway Bakery, Food Fest Depot, […]
Bayside HS girls soccer team defeats Long Island City, 6-1, with star midfield …
Throughout the season, Bayside’s girls soccer team has consistently relied on its senior midfielder, DJ Glazer, to carry it. Tuesday’s game against Long Island City proved to be no different, especially after the team got off to a slow start at home. Rebounding from a relatively slow start that resulted in a one-goal halftime lead, […]