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 […]