The Queens World Film Festival
Thursday night marked the opening of the Queens World Film Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Running from March 1st through March 4th, the festival will showcase about 130 international films, organized into 34 program blocks, and shown at three different theater venues across Queens. There is also a closing […]
LaGuardia Community College President Named to Homeland Security Panel
Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, will serve on a new panel advising homeland security officials. (LaGuardia Community College) LONG ISLAND CITY — LaGuardia Community College President Gail Mellow has been tapped for a new homeland security panel. Mellow will serve on the new council of college leaders who […]
The amazing revival at the corner of 35th Ave and 36th St
In the space of a few years – the outstanding Five Napkin Burger opens in the old Cup space – Tony Bennett builds his and Frank Sinatra’s monument art high school – the sexy Astor Room opens in the Kaufman Astoria Studios space (still a massively busy radio and tv space) – and the Museum […]
Loved Hugo or The Artist?
The museum that starts with early film — the Lumieres and Melies and Edison and the building where Valentino filmed The Sheik — has segments and sets and tools from the earliest era to today. And an amazing new building. American Museum of the Moving Image. Ammi.org
Aereo’s online TV service infringes copyright, networks say
Aereo’s service that will allow subscribers in New York City to watch broadcast television programs on personal computers and smartphones violates copyright laws, television networks said. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC and other networks said in two separate complaints filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan that Aereo has no right to any of the programs […]
Turk 182 model
Queensboro Bridge from The Museum of the Moving Image.
Aereo’s online TV service infringes copyright, networks say
Aereo’s service that will allow subscribers in New York City to watch broadcast television programs on personal computers and smartphones violates copyright laws, television networks said. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC and other networks said in two separate complaints filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan that Aereo has no right to any of the programs […]
PSAL boys basketball playoff roundup: CSI/McCown tops Global Studies …
Before the year began, CSI/McCown had not only failed to reach the playoffs, but it had never enjoyed a winning season. What a difference a few months can make. The 10th-seeded Dolphins finished third in Staten Island A, picked up their first playoff win earlier in the week and on Friday rallied past Brooklyn A […]
Homes, Parks and Schools are Bayside Draw
By MELANIE LEFKOWITZ Enlarge Image Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal Bell Boulevard, the main commercial strip in Bayside, Queens. Bayside, a vibrant residential neighborhood in northeastern Queens, combines the access and advantages of city living with the ease and open spaces of the suburbs. Bayside is “a little bit country, a little bit […]