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Celebrate Halloween in Long Island City with a lineup of spooky events and free treats
Halloween in LIC started as a small event with about a dozen Long Island City families approximately a decade ago and now has grown to include hundreds of families. The event, which was started by local business leaders like Gianna Carbone-Poli of Manducatis Rustica, will take place on Oct. 29 at a number of neighborhood venues. It begins […]
Football Game Recap: Grady vs. Long Island City
Long Island City didn’t have too many spare points last week in its contest with Grady, but it still walked away with a 12 – 6 win. Grady dropped down to.500 with a 3-3 record. The win lifted Long Island City to 5-1. The teams are out to raise these records in their next games. […]
Why You Should Consider Moving to Long Island City
Long Island City was once famous largely for the Pepsi-Cola sign that dominates its waterfront. But the area has changed radically in the last six years. Rental construction here has been the most energetic in the country, and those new homes have lured a hefty number of young professionals and families to a locale they […]
Could Amazon open in LIC? Many hope so
Will Long Island City become home to Amazon’s second headquarters? The city Economic Development Corp. thinks it could, and neighborhood leaders are backing the idea. “I think it’s great news for Queens overall,” Pedro Gomez, president of the Court Square Civic Association, said in a telephone interview last Thursday. “The opportunity for work in the […]
Got the Best Halloween Office Decor? Win a Happy Hour for Your Team
Send us a photo of your haunted office, win a free happy hour for your team. Got the best Halloween office decor? Send your spookiest submissions to [email protected]. Winner gets a free happy hour for their team, on us. Is the office temperature inhibiting your productivity? READ MORE [https://knotel.com/is-the-office-temperature-hurting-your-productivity/] You’re Invited: The Future of Email, […]
City of Gods promises spooky fun at Paper Factory Hotel
Photo courtesy of Jacqui Rabkin Long Island City’s Paper Factory Hotel has teamed up with House of Yes and ZERO to develop a new level of Halloween experience called City of Gods. By Tammy Scileppi TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. A Halloween experience like no other […]
Artist uses her talents to make custom cakes at Long Island City bakery
Amy Stack, the owner of Pink Canary Desserts in Long Island City, can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t baking. “I’ve been baking since I was a little kid because dad and grandmother and dad were big on baking,” she said. “We never had Oreos. They made homemade cookies. I don’t remember […]
Football Game Preview: Long Island City vs. Far Rockaway
Far Rockaway and Long Island City (5-1) meet up on Saturday this week after opposite experiences in their previous matchups. Far Rockaway finished a few points shy of KIPP NYC College Prep two weeks ago, taking a 29 – 25 hit to the loss column. The defeat dropped Far Rockaway’s record to 4-2. Meanwhile, Long […]
15 Queens restaurants, multiple in Astoria/LIC, Elmhurst, awarded …
New York City Restaurants Celebrated for Great Food, Good Value in 2018 MICHELIN Guide (PRNewsfoto/Michelin) Oct. 24, by Nathaly Pesantez Michelin has released its picks for the 2018 Bib Gourmand award, a recognition designated to 127 restaurants this year where diners can eat quality food for a good value. The restaurants, revealed on Oct. 23, […]
9 Months After Fire, Rent-Stabilized LIC Tenants Fighting to Return Home
The building at 10-38 47th Road as it looks now, nearly nine months after the fire. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly HUNTERS POINT — It’s been nine months since a fire forced Claire Munday from the apartment she’s called home for the past 20 years. The artist and longtime Long Island City resident has been crashing with various friends […]
15 Queens restaurants, multiple in Astoria/LIC, Elmhurst, awarded 2018 Michelin Bib Gourmand
New York City Restaurants Celebrated for Great Food, Good Value in 2018 MICHELIN Guide (PRNewsfoto/Michelin) Oct. 24, by Nathaly Pesantez Michelin has released its picks for the 2018 Bib Gourmand award, a recognition designated to 127 restaurants this year where diners can eat quality food for a good value. The restaurants, revealed on Oct. 23, […]
Second phase of Hunters Point South project in Long Island City will rise even higher after redesign
Hunters Point South in Long Island City, the largest affordable housing unit to be built in New York City since the 1970s, will get a major redesign. The second phase of construction, which will include almost 1,200 units, was originally spread out into two towers and another building perched in between. But a rail tunnel […]
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Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law …
For two decades, Jerry Wolkoff let graffiti artists use his crumbling Queens warehouse complex as a canvas for their vibrant works. Artists gave the spot the name “5Pointz” — a place where all five New York City boroughs come together — but painters traveled from as far as Japan and Brazil to tag, bomb and […]
Born in Sandy-flood hospital, kids ‘stronger than the storm’ – Merced Sun
Their lives began with one of the most dramatic stories of Superstorm Sandy: the evacuation of 32 newborn babies from a major New York City hospital that got flooded and lost power. Hospital staffers tended to laboring women in the dark and carried mothers and tiny infants — 21 of them in intensive care — […]
After four years, TF Cornerstone files plans for 1200-unit building at Hunters Point South
Updated rendering of parcel c for Hunters Point South, courtesy of ODA Architecture TF Cornerstone on Thursday filed its first permits for a 1,200-unit apartment building as the second phase of the city’s Hunters Point South redevelopment, a project that first began in 2013. The plan for the waterfront neighborhood in Long Island City, Queens […]
A judge is poised to decide whether graffiti can be protected by law
Graffiti’s transformation from a kind of vandalism to a high art form is almost complete. In the last half century, street art has evolved from a stain on neighborhoods to a tourist draw and the toast of museums and galleries, embraced in pop and high culture. As its market value rises, the controversial art form […]
Long Island City and Amazon: A match made in tech heaven
Fifty-three years ago, New York City played host to the world as it showcased American culture and technology on the grounds of the World’s Fair to over 51 million visitors in Queens. The 1964 World’s Fair was conceived with futurism in mind, featuring Jetsons-like Googie architecture on a sprawling, leafy campus. Today, as cities across […]
Trial over 5Pointz graffiti whitewashing begins – Curbed NY
Tuesday marked the beginning of a trial that’s been brewing since at least November 2013, when developers Jerry and David Wolkoff swiftly and without warning whitewashed the walls of 5Pointz, Long Island City’s beloved and erstwhile graffiti institution. Wolkoff has owned the property bound by the rail yard and Jackson Avenue, and Crane and Davis […]
After four years, TF Cornerstone files plans for 1,200-unit building at …
Updated rendering of parcel c for Hunters Point South, courtesy of ODA Architecture TF Cornerstone on Thursday filed its first permits for a 1,200-unit apartment building as the second phase of the city’s Hunters Point South redevelopment, a project that first began in 2013. The plan for the waterfront neighborhood in Long Island City, Queens […]