MTA conductor punched on 7 train in Long Island City after telling …
Cops are still looking for the passenger who slugged a 50-year-old train conductor in Long Island City after the conductor told him he could not smoke on the train, police said. The assault happened on May 9 at about 3:45 a.m. as the 7 train was pulling into the Hunters Point Avenue station near 21st Street […]
Cops seek duo who broke into a Long Island City store and stole …
The NYPD needs the public’s help in finding two men who walked off with power tools after breaking into a store in Long Island City. According to police, at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 21, two unknown individuals went Supreme Glass and Window, located at 30-01 37th Ave. One individual gained access to the building through a […]
In rental-packed Long Island City, affordable apartments from $908/month now available
Located just a short walk away from the Citigroup Building, this Handel Architects-designed rental has just launched the lottery [PDF!] on its 34 affordable apartments, 6sqft first reported. Watermark Court Square, as this development is known, features a total of 168 apartments, and the affordable units here start from $908 per month. The affordable apartments […]
Book store coming to Long Island City, to be located next to 50-story tower
26-09 Jackson Avenue May 9, By Jason Cohen A book store is opening in the Court Square section of Long Island City, an area where developers have struggled to find retail tenants. Book Culture, which has three stores on the Upper West Side, will be opening a Long Island City location at 26-09 Jackson Avenue in […]
MTA conductor punched on 7 train in Long Island City after telling rider to put out his cigarette
Cops are still looking for the passenger who slugged a 50-year-old train conductor in Long Island City after the conductor told him he could not smoke on the train, police said. The assault happened on May 9 at about 3:45 a.m. as the 7 train was pulling into the Hunters Point Avenue station near 21st Street […]
Long Island City’s Time As A Cheap Alternative Is Long Gone
For renters looking for a room in New York City, the most expensive neighborhood, according to a recent study, is not Greenwich Village or even Williamsburg. It is Long Island City, the once-industrial boomtown on the Queens side of the East River. Long Island City, Queens It is just one metric — Manhattan and Brooklyn […]
Long Island City restaurants: Best bets for brunch, barbecue, more
At the southwestern-most corner of Queens, Long Island City boasts proximity to midtown Manhattan, East River views and enough growth in recent years to see an influx of people – and the places they want to eat. So hop on any number of trains and find an array of new favorite restaurants, from a French […]
Co-living development in Long Island City encourages tenants to …
Long Island City seems to be swimming in new developments, but a new 426-unit complex aims to cater to people who are interested in moving in with total strangers. Located at 29-26 Northern Blvd., the complex will be operated by Ollie, a company that runs “micro-suites with hotel-style services.” According to an article in the The New […]
Book store coming to Long Island City, to be located next to 50-story …
26-09 Jackson Avenue May 9, By Jason Cohen A book store is opening in the Court Square section of Long Island City, an area where developers have struggled to find retail tenants. Book Culture, which has three stores on the Upper West Side, will be opening a Long Island City location at 26-09 Jackson Avenue in […]
Book Culture to Open New Store in Long Island City
Book Culture on West 112th Street. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Emily Frost COURT SQUARE — Book Culture, a popular book store with three locations on the Upper West Side, will open its first shop outside of Manhattan in Long Island City, according to a recent report and a post on the company’s Facebook page. The storied […]
Co-living expands to Long Island City with Ollie’s newest New York …
Ollie, the “all-inclusive co-living platform” that launched in New York with the city’s first all micro-unit building, is poised to make a big expansion—this time in Queens. The firm has revealed details on a planned Long Island City building, developed in partnership with Simon Baron Development and Quadrum Global; with room for more than 400 […]
Waterfront parks have been plagued by trash, residents learn who should be cleaning it up
LIC Landing May 7, By Christian Murray Several residents went to a meeting in Long Island City Tuesday to express their concerns about quality-of-life issues that they say are negatively affecting the enjoyment of the waterfront parks. The meeting, hosted by the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy in tandem with the Hunters Point Civic Association, provided […]
New park at foot of the Kosciuszko Bridge in Long Island City is slated to open in 2020
Two parcels owned by the state Department of Transportation will be turned into a destination park with views of the new Kosciuszko Bridge. Representatives from the DOT and State Parks Department outlined a plan for the park at the Community Board 2 (CB 2) meeting in Sunnyside on May 4. Though the departments are at […]
Co-living expands to Long Island City with Ollie’s newest New York project
Ollie, the “all-inclusive co-living platform” that launched in New York with the city’s first all micro-unit building, is poised to make a big expansion—this time in Queens. The firm has revealed details on a planned Long Island City building, developed in partnership with Simon Baron Development and Quadrum Global; with room for more than 400 […]
DeBlasio holds town hall meeting in Long Island City
Photo by Bill Parry Mayor Bill de Blasio fields a question from a young constituent of Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s during a town hall meeting in Long Island City. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. One week after an anti-gentrification rally and march took […]
Long Island City Corrections officer fires shots at ex-boyfriend before killing herself
A Corrections officer killed herself in Long Island City on May 2 after firing shots at her ex-boyfriend near Queensboro Corrections Facility. Kisha Brown, 47, an officer since Aug. 2000, chased her ex-boyfriend Rasheem Lord, 44, outside of the facility at 47-07 Van Dam St. as he was running toward his car at about 6:30 a.m., police […]
Colleagues ‘Devastated’ After Guard Shoots at Ex and Kills Self, Union Says
Kisha Brown knew her ex for nearly 20 years before killing herself in Queens Monday, officials said. View Full Caption Facebook/Kisha Brown QUEENS — Officers at a Long Island City prison are devastated after one of their own opened fire on her ex-boyfriend — also a corrections officer, whom she’d known for nearly 20 years — […]
Renting one room is more expensive in Long Island City than anywhere else in NYC: report
A new report found that Long Island City became the most expensive neighborhood in 2017, beating out 19 other neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn. SpareRoom, a roommate finding service, used data from more than 8,500 ads to compare room rent from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter in 2017. The data reflects […]
Man Caught Touching Himself Aboard 7 Train in Long Island City, Police Say
Police are looking for man caught touching himself as he rode the 7 train in Queens on Wednesday. View Full Caption NYPD LONG ISLAND CITY — Police are looking for a man spotted touching himself as he rode the 7 train in Queens earlier this week. The suspect committed the lewd act as he sat […]
Masturbator on a 7 train in Long Island City is Queens’ latest subway creep on the lam
Police need your help in finding a man who decided to pleasure himself in front of a woman on board a train in Long Island City earlier this week. Law enforcement sources said a 22-year-old woman was riding a Manhattan-bound 7 train approaching the Court Square station at 2 p.m. on May 3 when she […]