A Renter’s Guide to the Rapidly Gentrifying Long Island City – Renters Week …
[Photo Pool/Joanna_Pan] Long a gritty industrial wilderness, Long Island City, located one stop from Manhattan via six different trains, began the inevitable march to gentrification in 1997 with the construction of the Citylights co-op. Since then, an array of new developments (mostly rentals and condominiums) have followed and many more are under construction. LIC has […]
LIC Businesses Struggling From Sandy Look for Help – DNAinfo.com New York
QUEENS — Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, The Waterfront Crabhouse, a landmark seafood restaurant on the Hunters Point waterfront, still has no electricity. Tony Mazzarella, who founded the famed eatery in 1977, estimated the damage from the monster storm at about $150,000, but the extent of the destruction remains unknown. “We can’t […]
Super cool performance at SculptureCenter Saturday
REVERBERATIONS PARK MCARTHUR AND YVE LARIS COHEN, R.E.H. GORDON, PAUL CLIPSON AND JOSHUA CHURCHILL, WOODY SULLENDER Image: R.E.H. Gordon, The Observants, 2011. Performers: AJ Durand, Edie Fake, Rami George, R.E.H. Gordon. Photo: Oli Rodriguez Embracing lengthy formats and quotidian content, Reverberations mines an inherent materiality within the ephemeral moments of dance, film, and sound. By […]
Vacant Long Island City Bank-Turned Art Exhibit Debuts this Week – DNAinfo …
LONG ISLAND CITY — Staff of the art organization No Longer Empty were busy Monday putting the finishing touches on its latest exhibit, slated to open this week, in which they transformed the long-vacant Bank of Manhattan building in Long Island City into three floors of art projects. The show, “How Much Do I Owe […]