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Long Island City attack on interracial couple not a hate crime: NYPD
Police investigate at Shi restaurant several days after the incident. Photo by Caroll Alvarado LONG ISLAND CITY — The Police Department determined an attack on an interracial couple in Long Island City was not a hate crime, cops said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit looked into the Aug. 17 attack before concluding it was not […]
Long Island City attack on interracial couple not a hate crime: NYPD
Police investigate at Shi restaurant several days after the incident. Photo by Caroll Alvarado LONG ISLAND CITY — The Police Department determined an attack on an interracial couple in Long Island City was not a hate crime, cops said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit looked into the Aug. 17 attack before concluding it was not […]
New LIC Waterfront Park Flows With City’s Plan
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday at the new Hunters Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City. The $66 million, 5.5 acre park is the first step in the city’s larger plan to develop the 30 acres of riverside property. The project includes a new school which will open for the fall semester […]
New LIC Waterfront Park Flows With City’s Plan
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday at the new Hunters Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City. The $66 million, 5.5 acre park is the first step in the city’s larger plan to develop the 30 acres of riverside property. The project includes a new school which will open for the fall semester […]
Long Island City bursts with art
W ith the change of seasons, Western Queens’ art galleries and museums gear up for their next slate of exhibitions. MoMA PS1 will be dedicating the whole museum, something it has never done, to Mike Kelley’s brightly colored installations, including his well-known balls of stuffed animals. Kelley was an American artist who died last year. […]
New Development Aims for Long Island City’s Purves Street
Purves Street might be Long Island City’s busiest block, with a few new developments definitively in progress and others in the more speculative permit stage. Brownstoner Queens has a useful roundup of all of the projects, including updates to some we’ve covered before. Here now, an overview of what’s happening on Purves Street: 1) 44-35 […]
Men fire shots at Goldfinger’s strip club
Goldfinger’s Infinity August 28, By Christian Murray The police are looking for two suspects who went into a Long Island City strip club Tuesday morning and shot two men. According to police, the suspects went into Goldfinger’s Infinity Club, a gentlemen’s club located at 51-07 27th Street (near 51st Avenue), at around 3 am and […]
Big obsession with little bean
The humble chickpea is about to muscle aside legendary snack foods such as the potato and the peanut thanks to two Queens businessmen who have a big obsession with the small legume. Long-time friends David Levi and Darren Shlisky are behind Chic-A-Peas — baked chickpeas with oil and seasoning — that they churn out in […]
Queens gets new waterfront public park
NEW YORK (WABC) — It’s officially opening day for a new park in western Queens. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held for Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park Wednesday morning. The 5-acre recreational space in Long Island City opened to the public last Tuesday. There is a sun-bathing area, jogging and bike paths. The park will […]
Long Island City’s Answer to the High Line Is Now Open
A waterfront park that includes repurposed rail tracks is open in Long Island City, sprucing up the 30-acre middle-income housing development underway in the Hunter’s Point South area. The five-acre park includes basketball courts, a children’s playground, an expansive dog run and an athletic oval. And, of course, panoramic views of Midtown Manhattan reinforce one […]
Queens’ Long Island City area gets new waterfront public park for growing …
NEW YORK — New York’s borough of Queens is getting a new public park along the waterfront. The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/16JM5xG0 ) reports that Hunters Point South Waterfront Park opens Wednesday. It extends a corridor of waterfront recreational space in the Long Island City neighborhood. The 5-acre park runs along a growing lineup of […]
Hunters Point South Waterfront Park opened last Tuesday
Hunters Point South Waterfront Park opened last Tuesday August 26, By Christian Murray The New York City Parks Department opened a 5 ½ acre waterfront park near Borden Avenue last Tuesday. The park, which is called Hunters Point South Waterfront Park, includes a large lawn, a new dog run, playground equipment and dedicated bicycle lanes. […]
Alewife to get into the brewing business
August 25, By Christian Murray Alewife NYC, a popular Long Island City bar, has plans to break into the brewing business. The owners of the pub, located at 5-14 51st Ave, are currently applying to the state liquor authority seeking the permits necessary to brew beer in a section of the bar. The owners believe […]
Paradise Park
Its ready. Sand. Lawn. Water sprays. Swings. It is just an amazing amazing park. Just a few steps from the LIC Crab House.
Garden paradise
The gated park you dreamed to join is only $50/month. A short bike ride away. Tennis, swimming, the lot.
Interracial Couple Attacked Outside Queens Bar in Possible Bias Crime
Checkey Beckford An interracial couple says they were beaten up in a crime of hate, and they’re talking about their frightening ordeal. News 4’s Checkey Beckford reports. Interracial Couple Attacked In Long Island… Copy Close Link to this video http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Interracial-Couple-Attacked-In-Long-Island-City-Say-They-Were-Victims-Of-A-Hate-Crime/220139201 Copy Close Embed this video Replay An interracial married couple says they were attacked outside […]
Interracial couple attacked in LIC
Authorities investigate at Shi, a Long Island City restaurant. Photo by Caroll Alvarado By Joe Anuta TimesLedger Newspapers Elected officials throughout the city condemned an attack in Long Island City over the weekend on an interracial couple, which sent the neighborhood into shock. Just before 2 a.m. Saturday Billie James-Vogel, who is black, and her […]