LIC Industrial Business Zone gets increase in funding
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Industrial Business Zone in Long Island City is getting an increase in City Council funding. The $100,000 grant will allow the LIC Partnership to continue to help companies obtain financing, energy efficiency consultation, tax credits and abatements […]
A million pieces of presidential memorabilia locked away in Long Island
Undated photo of original campaign buttons from the collection of Jordan Wright Austin Wright Watch this story on the CBS Evening News Monday night at 6:30 p.m. with Scott Pelley. What may be the world’s largest collection of presidential campaign memorabilia – buttons, brochures, hats, posters, stickers — over a million items in total — […]
Long Island City May Get Another Rezoning, Even More Towers
Friday, January 16, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Photo via Photo Pool/Adrian Cabrero] A 2001 rezoning of 34 blocks of Long Island City allowed for the current development boom sweeping through the Queens neighborhood. Its purpose was, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “to spur residential high-rises while looking to maintain a mix of […]
Organic Avenue is getting squeezed
Updated: January 26, 2015 11:15 a.m. Fresh juice company Organic Avenue is getting squeezed. The 15-year-old retailer this week filed a notice with the State Department of Labor, warning of 38 layoffs in its 15,000-square-foot Long Island City, Queens, commissary kitchen, where all juices, and some food, are prepared. The notice cited “economic” as the […]
LIC Industrial Business Zone Gets $100K in Funding
The city is invested $100,000 into the Long Island City Industrial Business Zone, a 25 percent increase from last year. View Full Caption Facebook/FalchiBuilding LONG ISLAND CITY — The manufacturing sector in Western Queens is getting a financial boost. The city is investing $100,000 this year into the Long Island City Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), […]
NYC tourism records driving Queens hotel boom
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Big Apple is booming. The city’s tourism industry shattered the all-time high with 56.4 million visitors in 2014, generating a record $61.3 billion in economic impact while supporting 359,000 jobs and $21 billion in wages. “From Soho […]
Here Are the Highlights of de Blasio’s State of the City Speech
Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio gave his second State of the City address. The more than an hour-long speech took place at Baruch College and mainly focused on de Blasio’s plans for creating more affordable housing throughout New York City. “If we fail to be a city for everyone, we risk […]
Long Island City Mourns Anthony ‘Tony’ Mazzarella
Tony Mazzarella with Congressmember Carolyn Maloney in 2011 in front of the Waterfront Crabhouse. Longtime Long Island City restaurateur Anthony “Tony” Mazzarella, whose background as a boxer and countless charitable efforts made him a standout in the community passed away on January 25 after a long illness. Mazzarella, 77, opened the iconic Waterfront Crabhouse in […]
7 Train Resumes With ‘Limited Service,’ MTA Says
The 7 train resumed service, but only local, on Tuesday, Feb. 3 after being shut down Feb. 2 due to the weather. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan QUEENS — The 7 train resumed with “limited service” in time for Tuesday morning’s rush-hour commute a day after ice on the third rail knocked out the subway […]
Affiliate of Equator Capital Management Plans Self-Storage Development in … – Inside Self
An affiliate company of investment-management firm Equator Capital Management has acquired an industrial property in Long Island City, N.Y., on which it intends to develop a self-storage facility. The project is expected to break ground before the end of March, and Extra Space Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust, will manage the facility, […]