Pols Want New Eligible Income Formula for Affordable Housing
This Bushwick building includes four subsidized apartments for singles and couples making up to $38,100. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Gwynne Hogan MANHATTAN — Two Albany lawmakers hope to change the formula determining eligibility for affordable housing. Astoria and Long Island City’s Sen. Michael Gianaris and Rep. Brian Barnwell want to create income bands for affordable units funded with […]
Long Island City Taqueria Mines The World For Fillings
The versatility of the taco is being mined once again at a new DIY taqueria in Long Island City, Unico, that opened on Monday. Behind the concept is Suvir Saran, who runs internationally-inspired restaurant Tapestry, which opened last year in the West Village. Together with restaurateur Roni Mazumdar, Saran’s offering “global tacos” in a choose-your-own-adventure-style […]
Solar-Powered Art Installation Coming to Long Island
In the past, the Museum of Modern Art’s Young Architects Program has addressed environmental issues as thorny as geopolitical water conflict and the American suburb in crisis through glowing tubes and exquisitely detailed models. This year’s winner is no less ambitious, exploring the crossover between material science and architecture with a soft forest of glowing, […]
Court Square non-profit offers low-cost legal services
CUNY School of Law February 23, By Hannah Wulkan A year-old experimental program based out of a local law school is looking to create more affordable legal services in an effort to bridge the “Justice Gap.” The Court Square Law Project, working out of space within the CUNY Law School at 2 Court Square, aims […]
Pols Want New Eligible Income Formula for Affordable Housing …
This Bushwick building includes four subsidized apartments for singles and couples making up to $38,100. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Gwynne Hogan MANHATTAN — Two Albany lawmakers hope to change the formula determining eligibility for affordable housing. Astoria and Long Island City’s Sen. Michael Gianaris and Rep. Brian Barnwell want to create income bands for affordable units funded with […]
Long Island City Taqueria Mines The World For Fillings: Gothamist
The versatility of the taco is being mined once again at a new DIY taqueria in Long Island City, Unico, that opened on Monday. Behind the concept is Suvir Saran, who runs internationally-inspired restaurant Tapestry, which opened last year in the West Village. Together with restaurateur Roni Mazumdar, Saran’s offering “global tacos” in a choose-your-own-adventure-style […]
LIC #resist members: here’s how to see what our Congresswoman Maloney is up to
If you have been part of any of the many, many #resist groups around LIC, you should be aware that our most direct representative is Carolyn Maloney in the US House. About a million people in her district. This is her: She votes on impeachment. She votes on taxes. She is up for re-election in […]
Sit under a canopy of photo-luminescent yarn at Long Island City’s MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 has announced its choice for the annual Young Architects Program and this year, museum patrons will be able to sit under a canopy that is responsive to light and darkness. “Lumen,” the project created by New York-based architect Jenny Sabin, is a”socially and environmentally responsive structure that adapts to the densities of bodies, […]
Town hall in Long Island City tonight focuses on efforts to resist Trump policies
One local elected official is hosting a town hall to bring together his constituents and local organizations that want to organize in response to several policies brought forth by the Trump administration. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is leading a “Resistance Town Hall” at MoMA PS1 at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15. The event will share […]
Van Bramer to lead ‘Resistance’ against Trump at town hall meeting Wednesday
February 14, By Hannah Wulkan Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer will be hosting a town hall meeting in Long Island City Wednesday as he aims to bring together activists and local groups opposed to President Donald Trump’s policies. The event, dubbed Resistance Town Hall, will take place at MoMA PS1 at 7 p.m. and will be […]
Town hall in Long Island City tonight focuses on efforts to resist …
One local elected official is hosting a town hall to bring together his constituents and local organizations that want to organize in response to several policies brought forth by the Trump administration. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is leading a “Resistance Town Hall” at MoMA PS1 at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15. The event will share […]
Rockrose’s 50-story Long Island City tower debuts rentals from $2465/month
Queens’s erstwhile tallest tower has now launched leasing on its 974 apartments, a tip courtesy BuzzBuzzHome has revealed. Leasing on the market-rate units here follows just a few months after the lottery on the affordable apartments got underway in November last year. Of the total apartments, 195 are affordable with rents starting at $913/month for […]
Van Bramer to lead ‘Resistance’ against Trump at town hall meeting …
February 14, By Hannah Wulkan Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer will be hosting a town hall meeting in Long Island City Wednesday as he aims to bring together activists and local groups opposed to President Donald Trump’s policies. The event, dubbed Resistance Town Hall, will take place at MoMA PS1 at 7 p.m. and will be […]
Town hall meeting in Long Island City tonight focuses on efforts to …
One local elected official is hosting a town hall to bring together his constituents and local organizations that want to organize in response to several policies brought forth by the Trump administration. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is leading a “Resistance Town Hall” at MoMA PS1 at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15. The event will share […]
Woman mauled to death in her Long Island City home by English …
A 75-year-old Queens woman was apparently mauled to death, and her son attacked, early Monday by one of her dogs, police said. The woman, Louise Herminda, was found just before 1 a.m. inside her Long Island City home with trauma to her upper torso, police said. She was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where […]
Police looking for missing Long Island City man
February 15, Staff Report Police are searching for a man who went missing in Long Island City over the weekend. According to the report, 31-year-old Daniel Kim, who lives at 43-10 Crescent Street, was reported missing, and was last seen on Saturday around 7 p.m. He is described as a 5-foot-6 Asian man weighing about […]
Forklift driver is fatally crushed in a freak accident at a Long Island City warehouse
A 28-year-old forklift operator died on Saturday afternoon in an accident outside a Fire Department storage facility in Long Island City, police said. Rakesh Ram, 28, of Brooklyn was using a forklift to move boxes of material into the warehouse located at 30-03 Review Ave. at about 12:35 p.m. on Feb. 11, according to authorities. […]
Woman mauled to death in her Long Island City home by English Mastiff dog she adopted, NYPD says
A 75-year-old Queens woman was apparently mauled to death, and her son attacked, early Monday by one of her dogs, police said. The woman, Louise Herminda, was found just before 1 a.m. inside her Long Island City home with trauma to her upper torso, police said. She was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where […]
Man dies when forklift pins him against van in auto repair shop in … – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens — A private contractor died after a forklift pinned him against a van in a FDNY auto repair shop Saturday afternoon. The man, who has been identified as Rakesh Ram, 28, was loading a van about 12:35 p.m. at the auto repair shop on Review Avenue, police said. The forklift slid […]