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Renderings Up for New Long Island City Development
Sunday, May 25, 2014, by Rowley Amato YIMBY caught renderings and permits for a new mixed-use project in Long Island City. The development—located at 24-12 42nd Road—will be an eight-story, 36-unit building with 29,403 square feet of residential space and 4,328 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor. The project is being developed […]
Long Island City plays host to South Asian New Year celebration
Revelers get ready to march in Long Island City to celebrate the Bengali New Year. The Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts organized the parade and a street festival. Photo by Rich Bockmann By Rich Bockmann TimesLedger Newspapers Shuvo Noboborsho! Revelers dressed in colorful saris and kurtas took to the streets of Long Island City over […]
LIC Arts Open Festival
Long Island City Artists, or LIC-A, Queens’ premier artist-run, arts advocacy group, was represented in three group exhibitions of its members’ work, 59 private studio openings, three solo exhibitions, and an outdoor photography tour and workshop for families, all in conjunction with the LIC Arts Open Festival and Open Studios event that ran from May […]
Permits granted for Ekstein’s Long Island City condo project
Permits granted for Ekstein’s Long Island City condo project Property to stretch nine stories, total nearly 70,000 square feet May 21, 2014 02:20PM Site at 25-19 43rd Avenue (Source: GMAP) Ekstein Development’s 86-unit residential project in Long Island City is on the move, now that permits have come in. The nine-story project at 25-19 43rd […]
Development impact on Long Island City
With the mayor’s new housing plan released, many neighborhoods throughout the city can expect major changes. The plan, among many other things, seeks to make specific areas more dense, build 80,000 new affordable housing units and transfer more families in homeless shelters to New York City Housing Authority apartments. As one of the more socioeconomically […]
Long Island City BID seeks retailers, plans on introducing graffiti cleanup crew
Queens Plaza (part of BID) May 21, By Christian Murray A monthly graffiti cleanup crew, a visitor/tourist kiosk as well as more trash cans along Queens Plaza are among the many new initiatives that the Long Island City Business Improvement District plans to roll out in coming months. The BID, which covers Queens Plaza and […]
Long Island City springs into fun
Vernon Boulevard, a busy commercial corridor in Long Island City, was closed off to cars and opened for fun for the neighborhood’s first block party, LIC Springs! on Saturday. The event, sponsored by the LIC Partnership, featured face painting, games, music and performances by local businesses owners and artists. The celebration coincided with the LIC […]
Luxury condo building heads to Long Island City
Luxury condo building heads to Long Island City Two-thirds of the property will be made up of “penthouse” space May 20, 2014 03:30PM 5-41 47th Road in Queens A three-unit condominium building, located in a mixed-use Long Island City property at 5-41 47th Road, is now leasing. The property, which is being marketed as 5 […]
Free shuttle bus for Long Island City art
NEW YORK — A new free shuttle bus will transport art lovers around Long Island City’s hip cultural district. The LIC Art Bus will run on weekends from May 10 through Sept. 14 between noon and 6 p.m. It will depart from the Socrates Sculpture Park and make stops at The Noguchi Museum, the Sculpture […]
Whitney Museum Donates Pop-Up Studio to Socrates Sculpture Park
The 472-square-foot freestanding studio was designed by LOT-EK and is made from six stacked shipping containers. View Full Caption Courtesy LOT-EK LONG ISLAND CITY — An outdoor museum in Queens is getting some indoor space. The Whitney Museum of American Art, readying for its move to a new building Downtown, will donate its freestanding educational […]
Long Island City to spring into summer
The Long Island City Partnership will host the first-ever LIC Springs! block party on Saturday, May 17 to coincide with the LIC Arts Open. “Together these events show that there is something for everyone is Long Island City, and should draw New Yorkers of all ages to LIC,” Elizabeth Lusskin, president of the partnership, said. […]
Outdoor Cafe Opening Soon at Hunters Point South Park
LIC Landing, a new open-air cafe, will open soon on the Long Island City waterfront. View Full Caption LIC Landing HUNTERS POINT — A new outdoor cafe is coming soon to the Long Island City waterfront. LIC Landing is set to open next week under the pavilion at Hunters Point South Park, where patrons will […]
A Falun Gong Tradition Forms in a Long Island City Park
NEW YORK—Wearing a gray sheath dress and bright purple cardigan, Joyce Li watched hundreds of people in yellow shirts and jackets at Gantry Square in Long Island City. “To be in a normal society again, and experience that freedom, it’s bringing tears to my eyes,” said Li. Li practices the spiritual meditation discipline from China, […]
Queens Impact Awards: ‘Mama Gianna’ fights to keep Long Island City’s …
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Gianna Cerbone-Teoli has three loves. Her family, her restaurant and her community. All three are in Long Island City. Once considered to be one of the city’s “Little Italies,” LIC has been transformed from a gritty industrial waterfront after-thought to a booming “It” neighborhood with shiny new residential towers with […]
M. Wells Steakhouse aims to bring music festival to Long Island City
A much-ballyhooed Long Island City restaurant will bring new meaning to the term “steak and shake” this summer. M. Wells Steakhouse, the latest offering from Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis of Montreal’s famed Au Pied de Cochon, is organizing an outdoor music festival at an empty lot adjacent to the six-month-old Crescent Street chop house. […]
LIC Landing to open next week
May 13, By Christian Murray The much-awaited outdoor café at Hunters Point South Park is scheduled to open next week. The establishment, called “LIC Landing by Coffeed,” will be located next to the East River Ferry Terminal and will consist of a kiosk, a large sit-down area and a 2,000 square foot event area. Frank […]
Official: Clocktower of LIC sells for $15 million
Clocktower (Bank of Manhattan Building) May 12, By Christian Murray Long Island City’s Clock Tower has officially sold. The Long Island City icon was bought for $15 million by the Criterion Group, a residential development firm. Rumors had been circulating that the property had being sold ever since the Holocenter arts group, which was located […]
‘Juice Press’ to open retail store and production plant in Long Island City
Falchi Building May 11, By Michael Florio Juice Press, a health-food chain that sells organic cold press juices and smoothies, will be moving its production facility to Long Island City later this month. The company is about to move into the Falchi Building, located at 31-00 47th Ave, where it will have a large juice-making […]
Wyndham’s TRYP Brand Makes Long Island Plans
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. Wyndham Hotel Group, the world’s largest hotel company with approximately 7,500 hotels, is expanding its TRYP by Wyndham® brand in the United States with the signing of a franchise agreement for a new-construction, 104-room hotel in Long Island City, New York. The TRYP by Wyndham brand will come to life in the […]
Frick exhibit opens | Long Island City art festival | MoMA party
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