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Cops: Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver In Long Island City
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — Police are looking for an alleged hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a man in Queens on Friday night. According to officials, police responded to a call of a pedestrian struck on Northern Boulevard and 41st Avenue in Long Island […]
Man in coma after Long Island City hit and run
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — With only one witness, and so far no solid leads, the NYPD is asking for the public’s help to find the person who hit and killed 64-year-old Kumar Ragunath. On Saturday night, officers made their request in neon lights, setting up a digital sign at the intersection where Ragunath was […]
Grandfather killed in Long Island City hit and run
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — With only one witness, and so far no solid leads, the NYPD is asking for the public’s help to find the person who hit and killed 64-year-old Kumar Ragunath. On Saturday night, officers made their request in neon lights, setting up a digital sign at the intersection where Ragunath was […]
El Ay Si, popular Vernon Blvd restaurant, for sale
March 6, By Christian Murray El Ay Si, the popular restaurant located at 47-38 Vernon Blvd., is for sale. Xerxes Novoa, the owner, has listed the business for $175,000. Novoa opened El Ay Si (phonetically LIC) at the end of 2009 and his restaurant is best known for its chicken fried chicken, nachos and pulled […]
Gianaris Celebrates Long Island City HS Victory
State Senator Gianaris spoke in opposition to the Department of Education’s colocation plan at their hearing in October, 2013 at Long Island City H.S. State Senator Michael Gianaris, a proud graduate of Long Island City H.S. (LICHS), joined students, teachers and parents in celebrating the reversal of a Department of Education (DOE) colocation plan that […]
Long Island City Condos Sell Out in Less Than Year – Multi
Mar. 5, 2014 By Dees Stribling, Contributing Writer New York—The Bindery, a condo development by NY Lions Group and Craig Axelrod at 47-34 11th St. in the Long Island City district of Queens, has completely sold out, according to Modern Spaces, which took the units to market. The 20-unit residential building, which is a new-construction […]
Local Art Installations Coming to Revamped Falchi Building
The Falchi Building, a former warehouse at 31-00 47th Ave. in Long Island City. View Full Caption Facebook/FalchiBuilding LONG ISLAND CITY — Local artists are set to create installations for the the Falchi Building, a former Long Island City warehouse owned by the developer of Chelsea Market that has undergone a multimillion-dollar overhaul in recent […]
Train Station-Themed Bar Pulling Into Watering Hole Featured in ‘Cocktail’
A new bar and restaurant, Station LIC, will open at Jackson Avenue and 50th Avenue. The long-vacant building was once a bar where a scene from the Tom Cruise movie “Cocktail” was filmed. View Full Caption Youtube/Mark Nicholls; DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly HUNTERS POINT — This gives new meaning to the term bar car. Station LIC, a […]
Long Island City’s Giant 421-Unit Tower Gets Jazzy Terraces
Monday, March 3, 2014, by Zoe Rosenberg Another glassy tower is coming to Long Island City, it seems, but this time with red terraces to differentiate it from pretty much every other new construction going up in the booming ‘hood. New York YIMBY’s Nikolai Fedak reports that an updated set of renderings have been revealed […]
Japanese restaurant Hibino opens on Jackson Avenue
Hibino LIC (Photo: Dana Frankel) March 2, By Christian Murray A Japanese restaurant opened on Thursday at 10-70 Jackson Avenue– where Los Amigos deli used to be located. The restaurant, Hibino LIC, is being run by the husband and wife team of Masaur and Shuko Fukuda. The restaurant was expected to open in September but […]
Long Island City’s ‘E -Space’ Turns 3 In Style
Showcases Growing Small Business Elected officials and other distinguished guests at the Entrepreneur Space’s third birthday party in Long Island City feast their eyes on a special Belgian waffle cake cut by Mariepaule Vermersch, who worked at her family’s Belgian waffle stand during the 1964-65 World’s Fair. Shown with Vermersch are (from left to right) […]
Hundreds Of UPS Drivers Strike In Queens
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Hundreds of UPS delivery drivers walked off the job in Queens on Wednesday morning. The drivers from Teamsters Local 804 in Long Island City stood in the snow to protest working conditions. Some chanted, “Stop the […]
Avonte Oquendo’s Cause of Death Undetermined, Medical Examiner Says
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said the cause of Avonte Oquendo’s death cannot be determined. View Full Caption NYPD and DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly MANHATTAN — The city Medical Examiner cannot determine what killed Avonte Oquendo, the autistic Queens teen who sparked a citywide manhunt after he fled out of a city school, a spokeswoman […]
Hate crimes unit investigates assault on No. 7 train
Feb. 26, Staff Report A Hispanic man was attacked on a No. 7 train in Queens in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Police say the 43-year-old victim was on the Queens-bound train around 4 p.m. on Sunday when he was punched in the face by the suspect, described as a black […]
Long Island City toy maker creates out of Sandy’s wrath
Long Island City business owners Milan (l.) and Jarka Uherik sell toys made from trees destroyed in Superstorm Sandy. Photo courtesy Milan Uherik By Tammy Scileppi TimesLedger Newspapers Post-Sandy fallen Shady Park trees have undergone a metamorphosis, becoming hand-carved wooden toys and puzzles that put smiles on kids’ faces. Milan Uherik is originally from Slovakia […]
‘Chop shop’ at M. Wells Steakhouse
Jesse Winter It took a team of architects, a six-figure budget and a year-and half to transform the 4,000-square-foot “chop shop” into the whimsical, Québécois restaurant. They’ve gone from motor oil to olive oil. The restaurateurs behind wildly popular three-month-old M. Wells Steakhouse have transformed a garage in an up-and-coming stretch of Long Island City […]
‘A Most Violent Year’ is filming in Long Island City this weekend
This weekend, A Most Violent Year is filming on Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, NY. The movie, which stars Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, follows an immigrant and his family who are trying to grow their heating oil business when their ambition collides with the crime element in 1981 New York […]
‘A Most Violent Year’ is filming in Long Island City this weekend
This weekend, A Most Violent Year is filming on Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, NY. The movie, which stars Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, follows an immigrant and his family who are trying to grow their heating oil business when their ambition collides with the crime element in 1981 New York […]
Lego master hones his art in Long Island City studio
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News Artist Sean Kenney and his staff can make almost anything out of Lego in his Long Island City studio. His work has been shown throughout the country at various exhibits as well as zoos and botanical gardens. Here’s a true toy story, Long Island City-style. Lego master Sean Kenney and […]
Lego master hones his art in Long Island City studio
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News Artist Sean Kenney and his staff can make almost anything out of Lego in his Long Island City studio. His work has been shown throughout the country at various exhibits as well as zoos and botanical gardens. Here’s a true toy story, Long Island City-style. Lego master Sean Kenney and […]