City Council to Decide Fate of Mecca for Graffiti Artists
The longtime owner of the warehouses, the Wolkoff family, is seeking to demolish the buildings to make way for two towers with a combined 1,000 apartments on a three-acre parcel near Citigroup Tower in Long Island City. Last week, the Wolkoffs agreed to set aside additional space for affordable housing and artists’ studios with the […]
Keeping Hope Alive for Autistic Boy’s Safe Return
There are signs with pictures of him posted on tollbooths at the mouth of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and in languages from Russian to Bengali all over New York City. There have been loudspeaker announcements throughout the subway system, scent-sniffing bloodhounds, volunteer foot patrols and daily scans of rooftops by police helicopters. Several of them have […]