Coyote spotted on roof of L.I.C. Bar in Queens
Maybe it was thirsty. A coyote scampered back and forth across the roof of a Long Island City bar on Monday, as stunned locals gawked at their wild neighbor. “He didn’t pay his bar tab, so he ran out onto the rooftop,” quipped L.I.C. Bar owner Brian Porter. Tenants with views of the Vernon Blvd. […]
LICNYC sign from the 7 train. (vintage)
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Culture town hall focuses on real estate forcing out LIC artists
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The first ever Long Island City Cultural Town Hall Meeting was expected to be a forum on the “Sunbather” sculpture, a controversial piece of publicly funded art that has roiled Community Board 2 in recent months. Instead, the […]
Q103 bus service now permanent in Astoria and Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Riders and elected officials in western Queens are applauding the long-awaited permanent expansion of the Q103 bus line, which connects Astoria and Long Island City along Vernon Boulevard. The MTA approved the plan that would make weekend and […]
Subways gets $56 million from Long Island City deal
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved the $56 million sale of air rights and parcels of land in Long Island City, Queens, to developers who want to build a new tower in the area, according to the Daily News. Crain’s first reported the deal last week. The MTA will transfer 42,800 square feet of air rights […]
Sunnyside Comedy Group Raises Funds for Urban Farm
Smiling Hogshead Ranch is an urban farm in Long Island City, built on a plot of land owned by the MTA. View Full Caption Courtesy Gil Lopez LONG ISLAND CITY — A stand-up comedy group from Sunnyside will be hitting the stage at Flux Factory Friday night to raise money for an urban farm in Long Island […]
5 staff members removed from Queens school where assault caught on camera – WABC
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — Five staff members have been removed from a school in Queens where two first-graders and a girl were allegedly assaulted by a group of eighth graders. The March 10 incident during school hours at IS 111/Jacob Blackwell School in Long Island City was caught on videotape. The NYPD says three […]
Long Island City’s Clock Tower Is Now a Landmark Hopeful
The iconic Long Island City clock tower buildingalso known as the vacant former Bank of Manhattan Company buildingwill get its chance at landmark designation. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously voted to calendar a hearing to designate it an individual landmark, with LPC Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan calling it a “historic anchor.” A public hearing, […]
2,000 new apartments getting built
LIC real estate is about to double in value and intensity. Expect…Amazon sameday and Citibikes to notice. 50 pictures from the 2015 03 LIC Building Boom Thank Putin and Janet Yellen!
Should $515000 in Taxpayer Money Pay For the Long Island City "Gumby …
Cait Munro, Thursday, March 19, 2015 With two of New York’s most cutting-edge exhibition venues—MoMA PS1 and SculptureCenter—just blocks away from one another in Long Island City, you might expect residents of the Queens neighborhood to be receptive to an offbeat public art proposal. But locals are up in arms over a proposed public art project by Israeli sculptor Ohad […]
Artists in Long Island City being priced out by rent hikes – WABC
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — It’s a neighborhood just a stone’s throw from Manhattan, undergoing a dramatic revitalization. Glass towers are going up along the East River, but as Long Island City goes through this transformation, the artisan community that’s called it home for years is now being forced out and residents face new challenges. […]
Sad dead trees on 11th street
It happened. Some jerk wiped out five trees in a wild drive. 11th street mourns you oh trees.
8th graders caught on camera assaulting 1st graders at Long Island City school – WABC
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — School surveillance video captured a group of 8th grade students bullying and tossing first graders around in the hallway in Queens. Now, outraged parents want to know how this could happen on school grounds. 6-year-old Khamani Jones holds on to her dad’s hand a lot these days, and keeps him […]
LIC Residents Not Pleased With City-Sponsored Plan For Big Pink Sculpture
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City is known for its public art, with city-funded sculptures on several busy avenues. But as CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported Wednesday, one proposal for Queens is drawing a major backlash. Currently, the median next to the crosswalk for Jackson Avenue at 43rd Avenue in Long Island City, Queens may […]
State owes Long Island City High School nearly $7 million
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) is going to bat for his old school. He says New York State owes Long Island City High School almost $7 million and Gianaris is working to make sure his alma mater gets […]
Outcry Over Pink Sculpture Intersects With Broader Questions in Long Island City
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Pink Sculpture, Rainbow Sculpture and Yellow Bird
It took years for the community to axe the kinda-tired yellow fence sculpture in LIC’s Murray Playground. The battle is pitched for the Jackson Ave streetscape. The pink sculpture proposed seems to be unpopular with local curmudgeons and hipsters. One made his own rainbow shed on Jackson Ave. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/nyregion/a-pink-sculpture-in-long-island-city-brings-questions-over-the-use-of-tax-dollars.html?referrer= The original NYT piece above. Pictures, […]
Regus Taking 34000 Square Feet in LIC
The Falchi Building. Regus, an office suite provider, signed a 10-year lease for 34,000 square feet on the third floor of The Falchi Building at 31-00 47th Avenue in the Long Island City area of Queens, as reported by Crain’s New York Business. The Falchi Building is a five-story, mixed-use, building with flexible layouts across its 658,049 square feet. It was […]