Where to Watch the 4th of July Fireworks in NYC, 2015 Edition
Monday, June 29, 2015, by Curbed Staff [Photo of the 2014 fireworks by Oscar/Curbed Flickr pool] Once again, the annual 4th of July fireworks show will take place on the East River, but this year, the 25-minute Macy’s spectacular will shoot off from two locations, not just one. A double barge will be placed just […]
Adam America, MSD Partners buy $43.5 million Long Island City development site
The real estate development firm Adam America, in partnership with investment firm MSD Partners, has acquired a large residential development site in Long Island City, Queens, for $43.5 million. The pair, who announced the deal Monday, plan to build an 11-story, 210,000-square-foot residential building with 186 units at 22-12 Jackson Ave. The building will include […]
LIC Arts Group Offers Free Wedding Ceremony for Gay Couple
Local Project will offer up its space for a free wedding ceremony, complete with a DJ and photographer. View Full Caption Local Project LONG ISLAND CITY — A Queens arts organization is offering to pay for a gay couple’s wedding — complete with a minister, photographer and DJ — in light of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide. […]
LIC Summit discusses changing landscape of dynamic neighborhood
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Several hundred business leaders, city and state officials, residents and stakeholders gathered Tuesday at the Museum of the Moving Image for the 2nd annual LIC Summit to hear panel discussions on such issues as real estate, transportation, tourism […]
Expect taller towers, more affordable housing in Long Island City
Photo: Buck Ennis The city wants to build more affordable housing in Long Island City. Despite a flurry of new construction in Long Island City that will most likely shift housing in the Queens neighborhood from rental to luxury condominiums, the de Blasio administration is pushing for greater density and more affordable units there, a […]
Bargains getting harder to find as Long Island City market booms
Long Island city wont stay cheap for ever If you ask Evan Daniel, executive vice president of the commercial investment property division of Modern Spaces, going all-in on an unknown quantity is a smart move. Daniel took a diving leap into the Long Island City commercial real estate market just under a decade ago. He […]
City pushes for more affordable housing in LIC
City pushes for more affordable housing in LIC More condo projects likely sprouting up in the area June 23, 2015 05:00PM Long Island City and Bill de Blasio With the possibility of more condo projects coming to Long Island City, the de Blasio administration is pushing for more affordable housing in the area. At a panel […]
Barneys moves into Long Island City space
Barneys moves into Long Island City space Department-store chain moved visual department to Plaxall’s 5-25 46th Ave June 23, 2015 05:21PM By Konrad Putzier 5-25 46th Avenue, on the right (inset: Barneys CEO Mark Lee) (credit: East Village Live) Barneys New York, a company famously synonymous with Midtown Manhattan, moved a small part of its operations […]
Preview Long Island City’s Boro Hotel, Opening Next Week
Friday, June 19, 2015, by Hana R. Alberts Long Island City is full of hotels, and it’s time to welcome another one to the crowd. Meet Boro Hotellocated in a part of Queens that’s like the DMZ between Long Island City and Astoria (and which marketing materials label the “emerging area” of “Dutch Kills”)which opens […]
Never Mind the Feces: Kayaking Is a Growing NYC Pastime
On a typical Saturday leading up to the wet season, Owen Foote can be found at the dead end on 2nd Avenue in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. He’s there to pick up trash and remove other debris from the Gowanus Canal shoreline. Foote is the Treasurer one of the founding members of the Gowanus […]
The Plan: The Factory in Long Island City
Many of the floors at The Factory have been kept as open space. (Photo: DBOX). For a long time, the words “Long Island City” were simply code for warehouse/industrial wasteland. That’s all in the past, but it’s probably fitting that the next big office space in this Queens neighborhood should go by the name “The […]
Getting a Parking Spot in LIC Garage Is Like ‘Hunger Games,’ Residents Say
New rules at the Court Square garage force drivers to wait for hours for monthly parking permits, residents say. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly COURT SQUARE — A change in rules at a parking garage in Long Island City has made getting a monthly parking permit a cut-throat competition rivaling the “Hunger Games,” according to […]
BWW Previews: STATION LIC Opens in Long Island City
Manhattan’s neighbor to the East, is undergoing a transformation; a renaissance of sorts with new luxury condo buildings, waterfront parks and best of all, new restaurants. The latest in the area’s culinary expansion is Station LIC Eatery Bar, a cozy and comfortable neighborhood “joint” located conveniently adjacent to the Vernon-Jackson 7 subway station and one […]
More SHoP-Designed Apartments Heading to Long Island City
Monday, June 15, 2015, by Jessica Dailey [Via Google Streetview] To the surprise of absolutely no one, another Long Island City warehouse will be razed for an apartment tower. New York YIMBY and the Real Deal spotted the permits for the new building, which will replace the old Paragon Paint factory at 45-40 Vernon Boulevard […]
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Long Island City Residents Angry DOT Eliminated Permit Parking Spaces In …
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Long Island City residents are protesting a move by the Department of Transportation that eliminated permit parking spaces in a local municipal lot. The DOT removed a little more than one-third of the parking spaces at the Court Square Municipal Parking Garage and transformed them into daily spots, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported. The agency […]
Meet Prolific Karl Fischer’s Next Building for Long Island City
Thursday, June 11, 2015, by Hana R. Alberts Now this makes sense: one of the most prolific architects in the cityKarl “Hot Karl” Fischeris designing a new residential building in one of the New York that is most busting at the seams with new development. That would be Long Island City, and New York YIMBY […]
Unchained Festival returns to Long Island City’s Chain Theatre
By Kevin Zimmerman TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Fiction Writing 101 begins from the premise that budding authors should write what they know. That does not mean a playwright should turn everything into fodder for the stage. But using events from one’s life — with just […]
Parents Want New School Built at Hunters Point South
A rendering of the next of buildings planned for Hunters Point South, to be developed by TF Cornerstone and the nonprofit group Selfhelp. View Full Caption Office of Design and Architecture HUNTERS POINT — Parents who have been calling for more school seats in growing Long Island City zeroed in on a location for a […]