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LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Sugar fiends and wine snobs, get ready to indulge in your favorite vices, because the LIC Flea and Food Market is bringing back its Wine Sweets Fest for round two this summer. The Long Island City market of global eats, handmade crafts and vintage finds will transform into a wine […]

An armored truck driver from Howard Beach is out of jail after being charged with allegedly trying to steal a bag containing $1.6 million in Long Island City, prosecutors announced on Thursday. Riguerson Avril, 37, of 85th Street wound up in handcuffs on July 24 on first- and second-degree grand larceny charges, along with additional counts of criminal […]

The INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival returns to four parks on the Long Island City waterfront next month. For the second year in a row, dance enthusiasts can enjoy this free, two-day exhibition, where dancers will be showcasing contemporary and urban dance choreography while advancing INSITU’s social mission. On Aug. 4-5, the LIC waterfront will be transformed into a giant stage. Performances […]

By Mark Hallum TimesLedger Newspapers Residents of the CityLights co-op in Long Island City are pressuring city and state officials to preserve the affordability of the tower with the tax abatement on the property scheduled to expire this year. Many in the building at 4-74 48th Ave, who moved in up to two decades ago, […]

Related Companies unveiled the new lobby and courtyard at the reimagined Blanchard Building in Long Island City. Located at 2110 51st Avenue, the seven-story, 220,000-square-foot Blanchard Building offers 35,000-square-foot floor plans and a social atmosphere featuring programming such as a current art exhibit curated by Samadhi Advisors, appealing to the creative and technology-focused companies who […]

Long Island City’s Chocolate Factory, a dance, theatre, and performance organization that recently acquired a new permanent home in the neighborhood, has unveiled its programming for the 2018–2019 season. The slate will feature new works by choreographers Miguel Gutierrez, Niall Jones, Melanie Maar, Jen Rosenblit, and Donna Uchizono, among others. In October, the Chocolate Factory […]

By: Andrew Nelson 8:00 am on July 23, 2018 Renderings are out for a 74-story tower at 42-50 24th Street, in downtown Long Island City, Queens. If built, the structure would be a major addition to the borough’s vertical profile, with a speculative minimum height of 750 feet, based on double-height retail at the base. […]

Taste dishes inspired by food from around the globe at a series of fun events coming to the Long Island City waterfront this fall. The World’s Fare Passport Series will take place on Sept. 9 and 10, Sept. 22 and 23, and Oct. 20 and 21 at 5-25 46th Ave., along Anable Basin. Each weekend will focus on the food, […]

42-50 24th Street rendering via Dynamic Star Long Island City has been fertile ground for new skyscrapers for over a decade–and the biggest additions are still yet to come. Despite concerns over an apartment glut, developers are racing to send 60- and 70- story towers skyward, including the Durst Organization’s Queens Plaza Park, United Construction’s Court Square City View Tower, and Stawksi […]

In recent years, Long Island City, Queens, has seen its fair share of adaptive reuse projects that have sought to convert the neighborhood’s plethora of former warehouse and industrial buildings into loft-like office spaces targeting creatively oriented, tech and media industry tenants. At 30-10 41st Avenue near Sunnyside Yards, real estate investment firm LargaVista Companies […]