Long Island City music school founder pleads guilty to sex trafficking charges
Courtesy of nycservice.org Long Island City Academy of Music director Oliver Sohngen faces life in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking charges. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The founder of a Long Island City music school is facing life in prison after […]
Community opposes LIC waterfront project; demands elected officials create more park land
As the city envisions a new future on the Long Island City waterfront with towering residential buildings, commercial and industrial industries, a new school, and office and art space, many in the community believe the proposal is missing a key element: park land. The Long Island City Coalition has created a petition opposing the Economic […]
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Donnie Wahlberg and ‘Blue Bloods’ co-star visited with cops in Long Island City
Actors Donnie Wahlberg and Marisa Ramirez — who both play NYPD detectives in the television show “Blue Bloods” — showed up at the 108th Precinct on Tuesday, Aug. 15 to meet with real-life detectives and police officers while the show was filming scenes in Long Island City. Wahlberg — former member of the popular 80s […]
TF Cornerstone | 5-40 44th Road | Long Island City Project
Advocates call TF Cornerstone’s $925M LIC megaproject “irresponsible” Critics argue the project site is too flood-prone Rendering of the project at 5-40 44th Road and 4-99 44th Road (Credit: TF Cornerstone) A Long Island City advocacy group is fighting TF Cornerstone’s planned mixed-use waterfront development, arguing that the project is “irresponsible” because it’s planned in […]