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LIC’s own People Get Ready
On this great NPR podcast this week. People Get Ready. http://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/episodes/278/
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 […]
10-inch drill bit almost strikes F train in Long Island City
A massive drill bit nearly hit an F train packed with about 800 riders Thursday when it busted into a train tunnel, according to the MTA. The drill bit, 10 inches in diameter, pierced the subway tunnel from the street as the Queens-bound F train rolled out of the 21st Street station in Long Island […]
New Digs in Long Island City
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Locals Look to Landmark Clock Tower Building in Queens Plaza
Residents who live near the former Bank of Manhattan building in Queens Plaza — known for its iconic clock tower — are pushing to see the structure recognized as a New York City landmark. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska LONG ISLAND CITY — Residents who live near the former Bank of Manhattan building in Queens […]
Development sites sell for $44M in latest Long Island City deal
Development sites sell for $44M in latest Long Island City deal GDC Properties picks up plot that allows 150K sf development October 20, 2014 01:40PM By Claire Moses 11-22 45th Road, Long Island City UPDATED 2:10 p.m. October 23: The Westchester-based GDC Properties bought two adjacent parcels in Long Island City for $44 million, according to […]
Santander Finances GDC Long Island City Industrial Buys
Santander Bank provided a $22 million loan to Hawthorne, N.Y.-based GDC Properties to facilitate the acquisition of two Long Island City industrial properties ripe for conversions, city records show. 11-24 45th Road. The retail and residential developer acquired a one-story warehouse at 11-24 45th Road from a seller listed as Eunhasu Corporation for $37 million […]
Gym in Long Island City focuses on CrossFit for kids – WTVD
LONG ISLAND CITY — You might have noticed CrossFit gyms popping up all over the place. The high intensity workouts focus on strength and conditioning for adults, but now kids are taking part as well. “I was like, what if your kids could have this and the impact at a younger age?” says Michele Kelber. […]
Displaced Long Island homeless crowd South End shelter
Trailing the flashing lights of a police escort, the city bus completed its journey in front of a bleak building in the South End, where more officers and guards were waiting. Out filed some of the 700 former residents of Long Island, where the city’s largest homeless shelter operated until earlier this month — before […]
Gym in Long Island City focuses on CrossFit for kids – WABC
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — You might have noticed CrossFit gyms popping up all over the place. The high intensity workouts focus on strength and conditioning for adults, but now kids are taking part as well. “I was like, what if your kids could have this and the impact at a younger age?” says Michele […]
Hunting in Hunter’s Point South: Affordable Housing in Long Island City
Phase 1 of Hunter’s Point South under construction (Elena Boffetta/NY City Lens) Since first moving to Long Island City five years ago, Kenneth Musante’s rent has been increasing every year. But this year his landlord is asking for $4,000 a month—for a three-bedroom apartment, on the fourth floor, without an elevator. Unwilling to pay a […]
Development site sells for $37M in latest Long Island City deal
Development site sells for $37M in latest Long Island City deal GDC Properties picks up plot that allows 114K sf development October 20, 2014 01:40PM By Claire Moses 11-22 45th Road, Long Island City The Westchester-based GDC Properties bought a development site in Long Island City for $37 million, according to property records filed with […]
Wanted: Gentrifiers for huge Long Island City warehouse
Wanted: Gentrifiers for huge Long Island City warehouse Investors look to up value of their nearby properties by wooing developer to convert 300K sf site October 20, 2014 03:55PM By Rich Bockmann From left: Nigel Shamash and a rendering of 30-02 Borden Avenue Investors in a far-flung corner of industrial Long Island City are looking for […]
Planned Parenthood breaks ground in Long Island City
Elected officials from across the borough joined the leaders of Planned Parenthood of New York City, Thursday, for a groundbreaking ceremony for its new health center in Long Island City. When the 14,000-square-foot state-of-the-art center opens in May 2015, it will be PPNYC’s first in the county allowing 24,000 client visits within the first year […]