Live from Long Island City: Variations’ scores big with holiday radio play
By Kevin Zimmerman TimesLedger Newspapers At the end of the calendar year, smaller theater companies face some fierce competition from “The Nutcracker,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and Mr. Dickens’ story of a miserly old man and a trio of ghosts. Often the little guys skip the season and turn their attention to a late […]
LIC civic associations join together for first food drive
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers When the leaders of two Long Island City civic associations heard how stressed area food pantries are this holiday season, they swung into action. The Hunters Point Civic Association and the LIC/Astoria Lions joined forces to mount their first ever food drive and now they are preparing to deliver over […]
Sculpture Erected on Jackson Avenue to Protest Another Sculpture
Jackson Avenue Sculpture View Full Caption LONG ISLAND CITY — A pricy pink sculpture has some residents seeing red. A $515,000 plan to erect a sculpture of a pink reclining figure by artist Ohad Meromi on Jackson Avenue as part of a public art program, has drawn fire from some residents, with one of them […]
Haley Joel Osment Visits Long Island City High School
Haley Joel Osment, film star and NYU graduate, joined the Get Schooled Foundation this week at Long Island City High School as part of Get Schooled’s College: The Inside Story series. Haley Joel Osment and Get SchooledCredit/Copyright: Perry Bindelglass The event included Long Island City High School theatre students as well as seniors from the […]
Pink ‘Sunbather’ Is Coming To Long Island City
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will be erecting an 8.5-foot-tall bright pink sculpture on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City. The artwork would be located there permanently and the cost to taxpayers would be about a half million dollars. Yes, you read that right. The DCA, through its Percent for Art initiative, has selected […]
Long Island City’s Mu Ramen Offers Japanese With an NYC Twist
I had the good fortune of living for three years in Fukuoka, Japan, a city famed throughout the island nation for its tonkotsu ramen. The noodle soup comes in several iterations, but tonkotsu is the richest, with an intense, creamy broth that is made by simmering pork bones for days at a time. I found […]
Vandalized Long Island City War Memorial Restored
Before and after photos of the Captain Malcolm A. Rafferty monument in Long Island City. The replacement bronze crosses were funded by the Newtown Historical Society. View Full Caption NYC Parks Department COURT SQUARE — Two bronze medals stolen from a Long Island City Spanish-American War Memorial were replaced recently thanks to funding from the […]
Broths Take a Beefy Turn at Long Island City’s Mu Ramen
Mu Ramen famously began as a tiny pop-up in a bagel shop, then moved on to a six-seat table in the apartment of proprietors Joshua and Heidy Smookler. After being overwhelmed by the public response, they decided to find a permanent location, and settled on a small storefront on Jackson Avenue, Long Island City’s busiest and most […]
LIC building blocks stabilized renters from their terraces
LIC building blocks stabilized renters from their terraces The Q41 building uses “Jurassic Park”-style fence on the affordable units December 07, 2014 12:00PM Q41 in Long Island City It’s no “Poor Door” but a luxury tower in Queens is putting up a fence. Long Island City’s new Q41 building, which was bailed out by the […]
The Landmarks Preservation Commission has pulled a plan to remove almost …
The Landmarks Preservation Commission has pulled a plan to remove almost 100 sites from landmark consideration after an outcry from the city’s preservation community. Included in the list was the iconic Pepsi-Cola sign in Long Island City. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly MANHATTAN — The Landmarks Preservation Commission has yanked a plan to remove almost […]
Casa Enrique: Michelin-Starred Mexican in Long Island City, Queens
Courtesy Casa Enrique It was the ceviche that cinched it: I knew I’d return to Casa Enrique, and soon. At this Long Island City Mexican restaurant, slices of fresh fluke caught that morning off the coast of Montauk, Long Island, were bathed in lime juice with a brash mix of green chilies, red onions and […]
Step Inside LIC’s 75000 Square-Foot International Food Bazaar
From Jackson Heights’ heady masalas to the pickled herring of Brighton Beach, we New Yorkers enjoy unparalleled access to a diverse range of international products. But like most aspects of urban living, the reality of these pursuits is decidedly less glamorous than it seems: cross-borough schleps, narrow aisles, and snaking checkout lines have long been […]
Long Island City Clock Tower Building Sold as Locals Look to Landmark It
The former Bank of Manhattan building in Long Island City, known for its clock tower. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska QUEENS PLAZA — The former Bank of Manhattan building in Long Island City known for its clock tower has been sold to a new owner — for the second time this year — as local […]
Cornell gets that gorgeous old hospital
The new Cornell campus gets that gorgeous building for their new campus. Hope they do something terrific with it.
All aboard! Station LIC finally opens
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers A new ponzi scheme is a big hit in Long Island City. The long-anticipated opening of Station LIC finally happened Nov. 17 and several of the 200 customers ordered the Ponzi burger, which you get for free provided you buy the burger for the next diner. “I had a tear […]
Dope new barbershop on Pearson Street
Just south of Jackson Ave at the Court Square subway station there is…a dope new barbershop. Go there, ye olde timey men! [image: image.jpeg] > > >
Restaurants in Long Island City form association to battle hipster reputation
Long Island City is defiantly not the new Brooklyn, a new restaurant group proudly states. More than a dozen restaurateurs in the increasingly trendy community have formed the Long Island City Restaurant Association to promote the neighborhood and challenge recent misperceptions of what the area is — and what it will not be. “It’s very […]
Restaurants in Long Island City form association to battle hipster reputation
Long Island City is defiantly not the new Brooklyn, a new restaurant group proudly states. More than a dozen restaurateurs in the increasingly trendy community have formed the Long Island City Restaurant Association to promote the neighborhood and challenge recent misperceptions of what the area is — and what it will not be. “It’s very […]
Long Island City Is the Latest Hot Spot for Office Real Estate
Nov. 30, 2014 9:03 p.m. ET Real-estate players long focused on Manhattan’s office market have turned their attention to Long Island City, betting on rising office rents as tenants look for low-cost alternatives in the Queens neighborhood. Vornado Realty Trust announced last week it had agreed to buy the Center Building, a former industrial structure […]
Long Island City Is the Latest Hot Spot for Office Real Estate
Nov. 30, 2014 9:03 p.m. ET Real-estate players long focused on Manhattan’s office market have turned their attention to Long Island City, betting on rising office rents as tenants look for low-cost alternatives in the Queens neighborhood. Vornado Realty Trust announced last week it had agreed to buy the Center Building, a former industrial structure […]