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Volunteers from the 2016 cheering station interacting with NYC Marathon runners (Queens Center for Progress) Nov. 2, 2017 by Nathaly Pesantez COURT SQUARE — A “cheering station” will be set up in Court Square during the Nov. 5 TCS New York City Marathon to encourage runners passing through Queens, fresh off the race’s halfway mark. […]

A 50-year-old Long Island City resident whose car was hit pelted with eggs by teenagers on Halloween night retaliated by running over a 17-year-old with his car. According to police, Keith Richard was driving a 2008 Dodge caravan when he started arguing with teenagers who had vandalized his car at the intersection of 23rd Street and […]

The victim suffered a fractured skull base, multiple spinal fractures, bruised lungs and other injuries. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Alan Neuhauser LONG ISLAND CITY — The driver who ran over a 17-year-old for egging his car on Halloween night told a shocked witness “that’s what happens” after repeatedly crushing the teen under the wheels of his minivan, leaving him with […]

A nonprofit in Long Island City that provides free access to the arts is looking for funding to continue its work in the neighborhood. Long Island City Artists (LIC-A), which was established in 1986, operates out of a 12,000-square-foot space provided by a plastics manufacturing company, Plaxall, last October. Since then, LIC-A has used the space to […]

Rendering of Vernon Tower, via PACS Architecture and Excel Development On Monday, the lottery opens for 21 affordable units in a new luxury residential building located on the border of the trendy Queens neighborhoods of Astoria and Long Island City. The mixed-use rental at 11-06 31st Drive, called the Vernon Tower despite being just eight-stories, […]

When Joffrey Ballet School was looking for a new space, they searched all over Manhattan south of 120th street and in Brooklyn neighborhoods of Dumbo and Williamsburg. They consistently encountered two problems — price and finding space that met their physical requirements. “We need large open spaces with high ceilings,” says Lee Merwin, the school’s […]

A 50-year-old Long Island City resident whose car was hit pelted with eggs by teenagers on Halloween night retaliated by running over a 17-year-old with his car. According to police, Keith Richard was driving a 2008 Dodge caravan when he started arguing with teenagers who had vandalized his car at the intersection of 23rd Street and […]

A pair of photographs worth $100,000 were swiped from art museum MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, according to the NYPD. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska LONG ISLAND CITY — A pair of photographs worth $100,000 were swiped from MoMA PS1 in Queens, the NYPD said. The museum’s director, who closed the facility on Sunday night, arrived at […]

Keith Richard, 50, drove his car onto the sidewalk on Jackson Avenue, striking a 17-year-old boy, police said. View Full Caption Shutterstock LONG ISLAND CITY — A man drove his minivan onto a sidewalk to mow down a 17-year-old who had been with a group of teens throwing eggs at his car on Halloween night, police said.  Keith […]

Two very valuable black-and-white photographs at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City were reported stolen on Oct. 30, according to police. The museum at 22-25 Jackson Ave. closed at 6:20 p.m. on Sunday. On Monday at 11 a.m., the museum director reported the photos stolen, police said. The photos were worth $105,000, but no description of the photos […]