Police crews today in Long Island City where an armed man allegedly stole two …
Police crews today in Long Island City where an armed man allegedly stole two vehicles before failing to take a third. Cops tonight busted a Long Island City man who went on a wild carjacking and robbery spree that prompted a massive manhunt stretching from Queens to New Jersey. Suspect Nicholas Almonte, 27, was taken […]
Roosevelt Island park
Rafat Ali (@rafat) 5/11/13, 3:30 PM Final one: A tourist in our own city, at Roosevelt Freedom Park on Roosevelt Island, NYC. pic.twitter.com/wbLXiHNHyI
Long Island City carjacking suspect arrested
Long Island City from the Queensboro Bridge to Hunters Point was at a standstill for awhile last Thursday beginning around 9:30 a.m. as a suspected armed robber allegedly filched three high-end vehicles. Police briefly closed down the bridge and part of Borden Avenue in their pursuit of the suspect. About eight hours later they arrested […]
Borough history buffs dig up past at Calvary
Photo by Joe Anuta Kevin Walsh leads the way during a tour of Calvary Cemetery. By Joe Anuta TimesLedger Newspapers There are about 3 million people buried in Calvary Cemetery, the oldest graveyard in the borough. “Which means,” Kevin Walsh, of Forgotten New York, said to a group of about 30 people last Saturday, “there […]
Long Island City strip club gets legal lifeline for liquor license
The owners of a controversial Long Island City strip club could be one step closer to getting a long-coveted liquor license. But civic leaders pledged this week to continue their fight against Show Palace, the glitzy, all-nude eatery that cropped up in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge. Last month, a Supreme Court judge rejected […]
Manhunt for gunman who carjacked two vehicles in Long Island City – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
Police are hunting for a gunman who stole two cars at gunpoint in Queens Thursday morning. The man held up the drivers of two vehicles in Long Island City, getting away each time with the vehicles. A third attempt failed and the suspect got away, according to reports. The carjackings happened around Borden Avenue and […]
Momo Crawl Announcement – Sun, May 19th
Local madman proposes food crawl. /// *Queens People! * * Momo Crawl on Sunday, May 19th. 1:30pm. * *This must be done. * With the opening of Friends Cafe last week,* there are now 19places serving momos in the Little India vicinity of Jackson Heights. * These Himalayan dumplings quietly have become the most popular […]
LIC Flea & Food to open in June
Courtesy of Todd Julian and Old Brick Studios Ice Rider co-owners Jet Thomason (l.) and David Burdick are joining the LIC Flea Food, set to open in June. The duo uses a customized bicycle to shave the ice. An artisans’ flea and food market is coming to the Long Island City waterfront, designed to lure […]
Tiny You expands into Long Island City
Tiny You expands into Long Island City May 1, By Bill Parry Tiny You is getting bigger. The upscale children’s clothing boutique located in the heart of Sunnyside Gardens is opening a new store in Long Island City. The LIC store will be located at 10-50 Jackson Ave., a space that Chimney Cakes used to […]
Hospital expansion passes important hurdle
The state Health Department has approved a major facelift of a western Queens hospital. Mount Sinai Hospital Queens in Long Island City is moving forward with a sweeping $113 million expansion that would erect a state-of-the-art five-story medical building on its campus. “We need a medical facility to accommodate the growing neighborhood,” Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas […]
New Long Island City Condo Five27 Quietly Goes Up For Sale
Monday, May 6, 2013, by Sara Polsky In the competitive new development landscape that is Long island City, can a new building succeed by being very, very quiet? We’ve heard hardly a peep out of Five27, a new condo building at 5-27 51st Street, since the marketing team was chosen in February. But the building […]
Heisted juice on the loose
A poker-faced thief impersonated a delivery driver in Queens and swiped about $153,000 worth of high-end drinks from juice giant BluePrint, The Post has learned. The stunning heist happened Friday afternoon when the man showed up at the company’s Long Island City facility, signed a shipment slip and used a forklift to load his truck […]
A New Food Market for Long Island City
A new weekend market is in the works, and this one is all about Queens. The Long Island City Flea and Food will open in mid-June and run every Saturday and Sunday out of a 24,000-square-foot lot on the corner of 5th Street and 46th Avenue — that should be enough room to hold the […]
Mission to (dit)Mars Hosts Mixer at Open Door in Long Island Tonight
Mission to (dit)Mars, a theatre arts collective serving Queens artists, will be holding a spring mixer at Open Door, Long Island City’s newest tapas restaurant. The mixer will be held tonight, May 2nd, from 6-9pm. This is a free event. A cash bar and light snacks will be provided. This is a great opportunity to […]
Astoria Parents Vying for PS 122’s Coveted G&T Irked by Scoring Error Updated …
Parents looking to land their child a spot in the coveted gifted program at Astoria’s P.S. 122 were thrown for a loop by the recent scoring error. (DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly) DITMARS — When Anastasia Cunningham found out earlier this month that both of her children had qualified for Gifted and Talented classes, she was cautiously optimistic. […]
LICP Holds Breakfast
This year’s annual real estate breakfast meeting of the Long Island City Partnership had a panel of four developers and a newspaper reporter. All who spoke were somewhat bullish on Long Island City’s development so far and its prospects for more. All again proclaimed that transportation facilities were marvelous, to the point where one of […]
LIC Flea & Food to Open in Long Island City
LIC Flea Food, a new outdoor market overlooking the Midtown Manhattan skyline, will debut June 15 on the Hunters Point waterfront in Long Island City, NY. The market will be open Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., through October or November, weather dependent. LIC Flea Food is close to several modes of […]