NYC Marathon runners cruise through Long Island City
On Sunday, runners from around the globe took to the streets for the annual New York City Marathon. According to the New York Road Runners, which organizes the event each year, it was the largest field in history with a total of 50,266 finishers — more than any marathon in the world. As per tradition, […]
The better LIC local pediatrician
So it’s flu season. Who should you try? You can’t easily go to the drug store for a kids flu shot, but that’s where you should go as an adult. For your kids, should pop into the local pediatrician? Don’t. They’ll start hassling you for medical history and transferring your files etc. (Read: please sign […]
Long Island City Megaproject Will Be Built on a Graveyard
[Jackson Avenue and Orchard Street, where bones and caskets were unearthed in 1925] HR Real Estate Investment Trust and Tishman Speyer recently teamed up to build 1,600 new rental units and 30,000 square feet of retail in Long Island City, and in addition to the regular amenities that the megaproject will contain there will be […]
Long in Repose, Last Remnants of a Founding Family Will Leave Long Island City
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Drill Bit Plows Into Subway Tunnel, Grazes Train Car In Queens
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An enormous drill bit plowed right into a subway tunnel and grazed an occupied F Train in Queens on Thursday. The train had just pulled out of the 21st Street station in Long Island City, Queens, […]
The 9 coolest spots to watch the NYC Marathon
On Sunday, 50,000 runners from the Big Apple and around the world will race through the five boroughs during the New York City Marathon — a course that winds its way from the Verrazano Bridge up to the melting pot of Bay Ridge, through the heart of brownstone Brooklyn and industrial Long Island City, all […]