Filmmaker Chronicles Decades in LIC’s ‘Overlooked’ Blissville Neighborhood
A shot of the neighborhood from Hank Linhart’s “Blissville: An Investigation” View Full Caption Hank Linhart/BlissvilleStories.org LONG ISLAND CITY — Videographer Hank Linhart has spent years exploring a remote corner of Queens with a compelling name: Blissville. He first discovered the small neighborhood, located along Newtown Creek south of the Long Island Expressway and west […]
Macy’s July 4th Fireworks Heading Back to East River This Summer …
The Macy’s Fireworks display in 2013. View Full Caption DNAinfo /Jesse Ward LONG ISLAND CITY — Macy’s annual Fourth of July fireworks will return with a bang over the East River this summer for the fourth year in a row, officials announced Monday. The 25-minute pyrotechnic display will kick off at 9:25 p.m. on […]
Macy’s July 4th Fireworks Heading Back to East River This Summer …
The Macy’s Fireworks display in 2013. View Full Caption DNAinfo /Jesse Ward LONG ISLAND CITY — Macy’s annual Fourth of July fireworks will return with a bang over the East River this summer for the fourth year in a row, officials announced Monday. The 25-minute pyrotechnic display will kick off at 9:25 p.m. on […]
Macy’s July 4th Fireworks Heading Back to East River This Summer …
The Macy’s Fireworks display in 2013. View Full Caption DNAinfo /Jesse Ward LONG ISLAND CITY — Macy’s annual Fourth of July fireworks will return with a bang over the East River this summer for the fourth year in a row, officials announced Monday. The 25-minute pyrotechnic display will kick off at 9:25 p.m. on […]
Starbucks moving into Jackson Avenue space in Long Island City
Long Island City residents will be able to get their grande lattes at the neighborhood’s second Starbucks location. The franchise will open the new addition at 26-14 Jackson Ave., Court Square Blog first reported. The retail space is located within Dutch LIC, a mixed-use building with condos. The space used to be occupied by the development’s sales […]
$1 Movie Tickets Offered For Kids Films At Long Island City Theater
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — A Queens movie theater is offering $1 tickets to kids movies for nine weeks through the summer. UA Kaufman Astoria Stadium 14 RPX, located at 35-30 38th Street in Long Island City, will be showing two kids movies on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m between July 4 and Aug. […]
Long Island City’s Hunter’s Point South phase 2 may be back on track
After a “slight hiccup” last year involving complications with the Amtrak tunnel and power lines that run under the site, the second phase of the Hunter’s Point South megaproject may finally be back on track, Crain’s reports. The troublesome train tunnel required developers TF Cornerstone to rejigger plans for the 1,197-unit building to include a […]
Starbucks moving into Jackson Avenue space in Long Island City …
Long Island City residents will be able to get their grande lattes at the neighborhood’s second Starbucks location. The franchise will open the new addition at 26-14 Jackson Ave., Court Square Blog first reported. The retail space is located within Dutch LIC, a mixed-use building with condos. The space used to be occupied by the development’s sales […]
Annual Taste of LIC Moves to Kaufman Studios After 8 Years on Waterfront
A vendor serves up treats at a previous Taste of LIC event. View Full Caption Timothy Lee LONG ISLAND CITY — Taste of LIC, the neighborhood’s annual food festival, will be held at Kaufman Astoria Studios this year after an eight-year run on the Hunters Point waterfront, organizers said. The 12th annual restaurant-tasting event — […]
Long Island City waterfront project still sitting idle after gaining approval 3.5 years ago
One of the final large-scale projects of the Bloomberg administration is languishing on the Queens waterfront despite its having been approved three and a half years ago. But there are signs that the development may finally be moving forward. TF Cornerstone was selected in December 2013 to build a 1,197-unit apartment complex as part of […]
In Queens and Staten Island, two competing visions for New York’s …
If you walk along New York City’s waterfront for long enough, different possible futures begin to wash over you like waves. Will the coastline become a hypergentrified playground for billionaires? A toxic stew left behind by the government? A flooded dystopia lashed together by bridges and docks? A haven for horseshoe crabs and other survivors […]
The Insider: $10000 Stylishly Furnishes a Long Island City Rental From Scratch
In need of help pulling together his one-bedroom rental in a new-construction building in Long Island City, Queens, a single guy consulted Noble Abode, a service that teams clients with selected interior designers. That’s how Bushwick-based designer Luna Grey of Luna Grey Interiors came to be presented with a new client and a slender budget, one […]
Inside Queens’ Lost Elks Lodge, Long Island City’s Newest Demolished Historic Building
Earlier this year, Long Island City lost another one of its centenarian treasures. The old Elks Lodge, with its famed terracotta facade, was demolished. It started last year when developers illegally jackhammered one of the terracotta Elks, it ended in a pile of rubble that fills the cellar walls. Built in 1907 and originally housing […]