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Talk about a door-buster deal. Two bandits who smashed their way through the entrances of cellphone stores in Middle Village and Long Island City and stole high-tech merchandise this month remain on the lam.   Authorities said the brazen crooks used a vehicle to smash open the front door of the RadioShack store located at 69-18 Metropolitan […]

Automotive (0 – 3) and Long Island City are both heading into their Saturday contest this week after losing their previous games. Long Island City was within striking distance but couldn’t close the gap last week as it fell 20 – 14 to Douglass Academy. The loss dropped Long Island City’s record to 1-2. Meanwhile, […]

With the Citywide Ferry Service on track to launch next summer, city officials announced last week that a new ferry landing will arrive in Long Island City as part of the first phase of expansion seeking to better connect outer borough residents to Manhattan. Metal Shark and Horizon shipyards have been contracted to build the […]

Developers have been filling Long Island City with new residential projects for several years but the area is still lacking in some basic services. Now, residents will be able to pick up their prescriptions, snacks, school supplies from their children and more when a CVS comes to Hunters Point South Commons, LIC Talk first reported. […]

(L. to r.); Maria Torres-Springer, Commissioner, NYC Economic Development Corporation; Debra Markell Kleinert, District Manager; Elizabeth Lusskin, Executive Director, Long Island City Partnership; Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer; Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan; state Senator Michael Gianaris and Leslie Wright, NYC Regional Director, NYS Parks. Assemlywoman Cathy Nolan released a statement in which she commended the NYC Economic […]

The newest Spider-Man reboot is filming in Long Island City today and residents should expect some simulated explosions today. According to the 114th Precinct, the production company will film a controlled explosion between 3 and 6 p.m. at 43-23 37th Ave. near New York Presbyterian Church.   “Spider-Man: Homecoming” will be the second reboot of […]

Sales are now underway on what will become Longest Island City’s tallest condo building when it is complete next year. The Harrison, as the building is now known, is being developed by Silvercup Properties and features a total of 120 apartments. The New York Times first reported on the sales launch of the building, which […]

The future 15-story residential building at 41-32 27th Street, called Steel Haus, has reached street level. The narrow building will sit upon an irregularly-shaped plot on the northern fringe of the booming Court Square district, north of Queens Plaza. The 46-unit project, developed by the Hakimian Organization, will join a dense block of residential and […]

Sales are now underway on what will become Longest Island City’s tallest condo building when it is complete next year. The Harrison, as the building is now known, is being developed by Silvercup Properties and features a total of 120 apartments. The New York Times first reported on the sales launch of the building, which […]

Office-to-residential conversions are usually expected of ornate, pre-war high-rises, or tall-ceiling industrial lofts. Such conversions are much more rare at mid-century office buildings, particularly ones that had no redeeming architectural value in the first place. Long Island City’s Luna LIC became one of the city’s only such projects when it opened its doors earlier this […]