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Songza’s Music Strategy Poised to Disrupt Pandora, Spotify, iTunes
João-Pierre S. Ruth3/5/12Leave a CommentFollow @jpruth The team at Songza in Long Island City is chasing a trend in the music world: They’re moving away from downloads and towards streaming content. And the Songza folks are hoping their platform, which curates song lists for users, can stifle the likes of larger Internet music player Pandora. To leverage […]
How FreshDirect Delivers Misery Along With Your Groceries–And How Workers and …
New York City, like most of the country, is hurting for jobs—good jobs that pay a living wage and provide benefits so that people can support their families. Yet billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with Governor Andrew Cuomo and Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., is about to hand over $129 million in public money, […]
Derelict LIC construction site continues to stagnate
A stagnant construction project on Long Island City’s waterfront is showing little promise of moving ahead anytime soon, sources with knowledge of the project said. Owners of the property at 44-02 Vernon Blvd., the former site of an oil refinery, have been remediating the lot since 2004, a state environmental official said. The process included […]
Carwash Workers in New York City Plan Union Drive
His bosses have often paid him and the other carwash workers less than minimum wage and have cheated them on overtime pay, Mr. Nicolas said. The workers, he said, are not provided with protective gear but are forced to use caustic cleaners that burn their eyes and noses. Community organizers say these kinds of violations […]
Secret Theater Deal: Eight-Week Introduction to Acting Series or Four Children’s Acting Classes
https://local.amazon.com/queens/B007FYNYBQ
Legacy of 2006 blackout yielding green projects
The legacy of the 2006 blackout that crippled parts of western Queens for days is being forged in some unusual environmentally friendly ways. Discarded cooking oil, once dumped into city sewers, is being shipped off to a recycling plant where it is transformed into bio fuel. Concrete has been chipped away to allow planting of […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Closing this weekend! Museum of the Moving Image – Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2011/07/16/detail/jim-hensons-fantastic…
Forever Cheese Sets the Bar for Carbonfund.org’s Earth Day 2012 Promotion
BETHESDA, Md. and LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., March 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Carbonfund.org Foundation is proud to announce Forever Cheese as the launch partner for our Earth Day 2012 Promotion. With Carbonfund.org’s plant two-get one free tree planting promotion, 7,500 trees have already been planted. Earth Day 2012 can be one of the most […]
Read All About It! Kids Vex Titans!
Right. And next: “Eight Is Enough,” a murder-mystery musical about a maiden living with seven Smurf-like men who won’t stop whistling. But here’s the thing. That strike? It happened, ya mug. It happened. There really was a newsboy strike in 1899 that unsettled the empires of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. There really were […]
At some turnaround schools, city is telling principals they’re out
The city has begun telling principals at some of the schools slated for a controversial overhaul process that they won’t be part of the changes. The city is moving forward with plans to overhaul 33 struggling schools according to a federally prescribed school improvement strategy known as “turnaround.” Turnaround requires that schools replace at least […]
When Old School Was New: Nas’ ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’
Enlarge Courtesy of the artist Nas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Courtesy of the artist Nas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Since the heyday of hip-hop, one man has been broadcasting the music videos, the culture and the people in the community all throughout New York City. His name is Ralph McDaniels, and […]