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SculptureCenter Upcoming Lecture Series: Skaer, Baghramian, Meckseper
LECTURE SERIES: SUBJECTIVE HISTORIES OF SCULPTURE Image: Lucy Skaer, The Good Ship Blank and Ballast, 2010. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Matt Carter. Organized with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics The New School Free admission Lucy Skaer Wednesday, February 29, 6:30pm Wollman Hall 65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street), 5th […]
If a Hiroshima-style bomb landed on Court Square…
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Parents push for citywide gifted middle school
Parents of some of the borough’s brightest elementary grade students are pressuring the city to make good on a promise to extend a popular gifted program in Astoria. Public School 85 parents are circulating a petition to convince the Department of Education to create a citywide gifted and talented intermediate school in western Queens. The […]
Woodside awaits 440-seat school slated to open in ’15
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Immigrant stores left hanging
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Although New York City has the nation’s most immigrant-owned businesses, 92 percent of such business owners told a survey that they got no help from the city and half said they were unaware such assistance was even available. The Fund for […]
Will Queens Plaza Become the New Times Square?
Times Square Lite? (JetBlue) It was a big deal when JetBlue decided to move to Long Island City two years ago. The air carrier founded here would not be splitting town, and it would even be boosting a nascent business district that has never done much beyond the Citi back offices despite the one-stop subway […]
Bloomy names new dean at Roosevelt Isle campus
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend While the first phase of the applied sciences campus coming to Roosevelt Island, now called the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, will not be done until 2017, the institution now has a provost and dean. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Cornell University officials named […]
After Cuomo’s Teacher Evaluation Triumph, What’s Next?
‘Where next will Governor Andrew Cuomo strike? The most imminent state problem to be fixed is redistricting, and it looks like there’s nothing for the governor to do—a federal judge most likely will get the state legislature off the case, and put a courtappointed master in charge of drawing new election district lines. The details […]
Jittery Neighbors Want To Nix JetBlue’s Giant LIC Sign
The planned sign (JetBlue). Thanks to some sweet tax breaks, JetBlue is staying in the Big Apple and moving to Long Island City. But when they move into their new home next month, they’d really like to make sure nobody misses it. So the company is working the community boards trying to get approval for […]
Queens students, educators call mayor’s schools plan disastrous
While Mayor Bloomberg is insisting that, despite last week’s progress on teacher evaluation negotiations, he will move ahead with plans to close 33 public schools in the city, including eight in Queens, and reopen them this summer with different names and about half the staff replaced, students, educators and legislators are fighting back and urging […]
Hotel to rise on Skillman Ave in Long Island City
The City University of New York (CUNY) is aiming to check in to the borough’s new hotel hotspot. CUNY recently sent out a request for proposal (RFP) to hospitality industry consultants, seeking ideas on how to develop its lot on Skillman Avenue in Long Island City nearLaGuardia Community College — with the goal of building […]
Brooklyn Grange To Build A Rooftop Farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yards
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm To Add Second, Larger Location in Spring 2012 (PRWEB) February 21, 2012 Brooklyn Grange, New York City’s first commercial rooftop farm, will be expanding their operations in the spring of 2012 to the roof of Building No. 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Funded in large part by a Green Infrastructure […]
Prison ‘Pen Pal’ Teacher Removed
A Queens elementary school teacher had her class of fifth-graders send holiday cards to her jailed boyfriend – a felon with a taste for child porn. Melissa Dean instructed her students at P.S. 145 in Corona to draw holiday cards – and include their home addresses for John Coccarelli, an inmate at the high-security Groveland […]
Walcott says city listens to parents
At a town hall meeting in Oakland Gardens last week, city Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott discussed topics such as parent involvement and overcrowding with a packed auditorium at MS 74. Community Education Council 26 President Jeanette Segal reminded those who had come to meet the city’s top education official of Feb. 15, that the week […]
JetBlue Wants Huge Sign at LIC HQ
NYPOST.COM | NEWSCORE – JetBlue wants to light up the New York skyline with its iconic blue logo — but it must first clear layers of city red tape before taking off. The airline, which will next month move its corporate headquarters to Long Island City, an up-and-coming Queens neighborhood, plans to erect a 40-foot […]
Mike Bloomberg: Libraries Aren’t Just About Books, They’re Places to Find Jobs!
Sam LevinMayor Mike Bloomberg announces library partnership, alongside Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, left.Yes, books and reading and anything that involves words on actual paper are totally screwed. But that doesn’t mean New York City libraries aren’t valuable! That was kind of the message behind Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s announcement this morning that he is expanding […]
JetBlue Seeking OK for Huge Sign at New Long Island City Headquarters
NYPOST.COM | NEWSCORE – JetBlue wants to light up the New York skyline with its iconic blue logo — but it must first clear layers of city red tape before taking off. The airline, which will next month move its corporate headquarters to Long Island City, an up-and-coming Queens neighborhood, plans to erect a 40-foot […]
Knife terror aboard N train
Knife terror aboard N train A crazed subway panhandler pulled a knife and threatened a straphanger on a crowded train yesterday before being subdued by a good Samaritan and held until cops arrived, authorities and witnesses said. The 35-year-old woman boarded the Manhattan-bound N train at around 6:40 p.m. at Queensboro Plaza and began asking for […]
Brooklyn Grange To Build A Rooftop Farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yards
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm To Add Second, Larger Location in Spring 2012 (PRWEB) February 21, 2012 Brooklyn Grange, New York City’s first commercial rooftop farm, will be expanding their operations in the spring of 2012 to the roof of Building No. 3 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Funded in large part by a Green Infrastructure […]