By amol on April 25, 2012
Mr. Aziz and Mr. Cucher then perform their own folk dance, holding hands for the camera, before knocking off for the day and heading down the street toward the Manhattan skyline. Throughout, they’re dressed as clowns. The costumes, they say, are part of their attempt to wrestle with the madness they perceive underlying everyday life [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Vivian Selenikas, right, sits with Long Island City High School principal Maria Mamo-Vacacela, left, at the school’s closure hearing. Last week, hundreds of parents, teachers, and students crowded Long Island City High School’s auditorium for a hearing about the school’s planned “turnaround.” ON Tuesday evening, just a dozen parents attended a meeting to hear directly [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
MoMA PS1 in Long Island City (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY – Hunters Point may be saturated with bars and restaurants, but local residents and members of Community Board 2 showed overwhelming support for booze being served at MoMA PS1. A joint liquor license application submitted by PS1 and the owners of M. Wells [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Community District Education Council 30, which oversaw public hearings on the proposed closings of William Cullen Bryant and Long Island City High Schools, two of eight Queens schools slated for “turnaround”, passed a strongly worded resolution in opposition to the proposal at its April 19 meeting held at I.S. 230 in Jackson Heights. A final [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
The Long Island City Partnership April breakfast meeting was a forum on reduction of energy use in New York buildings. It featured a panel of speakers, overseen by Ann Kayman and George Crawford, principals of New York Grant Co. Green Partners. Since the energy-use directives initiated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration have gone into effect, [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Olympic pride was on full display in Long Island City last week. To commemorate the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Olympic Games in London, Citi’s Team USA Flag Tour visited the bank’s site in L.I.C. on April 18. Paralympian Kari Miller, who plays sitting volleyball, and Olympian swimmer Cullen Jones – both members of Team [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Long Island City and Bryant High Schools are slated for closure at the end of the school year. The sentiment of the student body regarding the future of Long Island City H.S. was clear at the April 17 public hearing concerning the school’s possible closing and reopening under a different name with different faculty: the [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
They are one of the NYPD’s most important weapons in fighting terrorism. They’re an invaluable tool in fighting crime in the subways – and have recently moved to the heart of the Western Queens community. K-9 Dan, a German Shepherd named for a police officer killed in the World Trade Center attacks, is one of [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend The city was scheduled to decide the fate of eight Queens high schools at a public meeting in Brooklyn this Thursday evening. The city Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the city Department of [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
The LIC Arts Open takes over Long Island City from May 12 – 20, 2012, opening with exhibitions by MoMA P.S.1, Reis Studios Experimental Gallery, andSculptureCenter, to name just a few. Remember to mark the FREE Block Party on May 19 in your calendar, and check out over two hundred Open Studios participating this year. For the kids (or the kid in all of us), the Kid’s Art Contest May [...]
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By amol on April 25, 2012
Occupancy rates in the city were 85 percent last year, compared with a national average of 60 percent. And despite a tough market for financing, at least 15 hotels opened in the five boroughs in 2011 — roughly half of them outside Manhattan. From 2006 to 2011, 42 percent of the city’s new hotels were [...]
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