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Checking In On Long Island City’s Serious Building Boom
In terms of new development, Long Island City is one of the busiest neighborhoods in New York. According to data from the Long Island City Partnership, there are more than 22,500 new units of housing in the pipeline. Professional construction watcher and Curbed Flickr pool contributor ILNY_ recently caught up on the latest action this […]
Orlick’s last Jackson Heights Food Tour
You don’t want to miss it. ———- Forwarded message ———- From: *Jeff Orlick* Roosevelt Avenue Midnight Retirement Crawl View this email in your browser *As some of you may have heard – I am retiring from food tours. *It’s been a great three years; travelers from all over the world have come to Roosevelt Avenue […]
‘Rent’ returns to the stage in NYC for 20th anniversary – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
NEW YORK — La Vie Bohème is returning to the Big Apple next month when the much-loved musical “Rent” hits the stage in honor of the show’s 20th anniversary. 5th Floor Theatre Company will present the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical at Long Island City’s Secret Theatre, according to Brown Paper Tickets, a site […]
First-ever EcoBon Floating Lantern Festival comes to Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Hundreds of visitors to Gantry Plaza State Park and Hunters Point South Park in Long Island City witnessed the first-ever EcoBon Floating Lantern Festival at sundown Sunday. Dozens of volunteers gathered at the shoreline of the East River […]
Silent Disco returns to Hunters Point South Park in Long Island City
Photo courtesy Lincoln Center Lincoln Center Local returns to the Queens waterfront next month with its popular Silent Disco in Hunters Point South Park. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Silent Disco is coming back to the Long Island City waterfront Thursday, Sept. 3. […]
City throws cold water on “ambitious” LIC megaproject
City throws cold water on “ambitious” LIC megaproject Giuliani aide Teitelbaum hopes to build a large, mixed-use project on Vernon Blvd. August 21, 2015 08:30AM From left: Bruce Teitelbaum, 44-02 Vernon Boulevard and Alicia Glen Not so fast! Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, who oversees housing and development, tamped down enthusiasm yesterday for the newly-announced plan […]
State labels LIC elementary school persistently dangerous for second year
By Tom Momberg TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. PS 111 in Long Island City, where a group of teenagers tried turning a tutoring session into a fight club for first-graders in March, was the only Queens school placed on the state Education Department’s 2015-16 list of […]
Development Could Bridge Long Island City, Roosevelt Island
Thursday, August 20, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Photo via Seth Werkheiser/Flickr] Bruce Teitelbaum, former chief of staff to Rudy Giuliani, has plans for the Long Island City site that the neighbors call Lake Vernon. Teitelbaum and a group of investors are likely to apply for a rezoning, Politico New York reports, in order to build […]
Police: Man Throws Caustic Liquid In Woman’s Face In Queens
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A woman suffered severe burns after a man splashed an unknown substance in her face in Queens, police said. It happened shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday as the woman was getting into her car at the corner of 33rd Street and 43rd Avenue in Long Island City, police said. The attacker […]
NYC’s next megaproject could be in Long Island City
NYC’s next megaproject could be in Long Island City The multimillion-square-foot mixed use proposal includes a footbridge to Roosevelt Island August 20, 2015 09:35AM From left: Bruce Teitelbaum and 44-02 Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City A team of investors led by Bruce Teitelbaum, the former chief of staff to ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is pitching […]
The Next ‘Miss Queens’ to be Crowned Next Month in LIC
Catherine Manett, the winner of last year’s Miss Queens pageant. View Full Caption Miss Queens LONG ISLAND CITY — Who will be the next Queen of Queens? The Miss Queens Pageant will take place next month in Long Island City, where the winner will take home the borough’s crown and go on to compete for […]
City to rename two streets in Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. In an effort to clear up confusion and make the Court Square neighborhood in Long Island City safer, the city will rename two streets that share the same name. Two short dead-end streets are now both named Court […]
Macy’s moves part of its operations to Long Island City
Photo by Bill Parry The Factory in Long Island City inks Macy’s to a 15-year lease for studio and office space. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Macy’s is returning to Long Island City. Atlas Capital Group and Square Mile Capital Management announced Wednesday […]
Macy’s ditches downtown Brooklyn studio space for Long Island City
Photo: Bloomberg News Macy’s is moving its downtown Brooklyn studio space into bigger Long Island City digs. Macy’s is expanding and relocating its photo studio and set space from Brooklyn to Queens. The department store has signed a 150,000-square-foot deal at the Factory Building in Long Island City for a new space to photograph its […]
World Wide Group reveals grand opening of QLIC; 421-Unit Residential Tower in …
New York, NY Adding to the growing appeal of Long Island City – one of New York City’s hottest neighborhoods to live, work and play – World Wide Group today announced that QLIC, the developer’s amenity-rich residential tower at Queens Plaza and 24th Street, will celebrate the grand opening of the leasing center on July […]
Grim-Looking Hotel Headed to Long Island City
Tuesday, August 11, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Renderings by Gradient Architecture Studio.] Developer Greenwich Street Equities is bringing a new 152-room hotel to the northern edge of Long Island City, NY YIMBY reports. The eight-story is being designed by Gradient Architecture Studio in a style that looks pretty foreboding, although the decision to render it […]
Something funny is happening in LIC
Photo courtesy Center City Comedy Center City Comedy, a group of seven members from Astoria and Brooklyn, will perform at the new Standing Room comedy club during its grand opening this week. By Tammy Scileppi TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Charlie Chaplin once said, “a day […]
Citi Bike kicks into high gear in Long Island City
Less than two weeks after officials announced it finally would happen, Queens became the third borough to participate in the Citi Bike program as of Wednesday afternoon, after a Long Island City station was installed on Center Boulevard between Borden Avenue and 54th Avenue. The station, the first of 12 to be installed in the […]
Joffrey Ballet School expands into Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Long Island City prides itself on more than 30 arts and cultural institutions and venues such as Socrates Sculpture Park, SculptureCenter, the Noguchi Museum, and the Chocolate Factory theater. Now the Joffrey Ballet School is expanding into LIC, […]