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The greenest grocer
Here on Jackson and 11th is easily one of LICs best shops – Natural Frontier Market. Grand organic and healthy to the max so perhaps you won’t want to do ALL your shopping here. But you want to do SOME. They have all the coolest edge snacks and yogurts and drinks and cereals and stuff […]
Subway stations retain signs listing places and streets that no longer exist
They’re signs of the times — old times. On the A line in the Rockaways, the Beach 98th Street-Playland stop sits next to a high-rise housing development in an otherwise depressed neighborhood. There’s nothing playful about the area, where the roller coaster of the once-popular amusement park Rockaways’ Playland rumbled until the theme park shuttered […]
Bike riding up 4x since Bloomberg took over. 20,000 riders per day
See on Scoop.it – Long Island City Their numbers show commuter cycling has doubled in the last four years and nearly quadrupled since 2001. See on transportationnation.org
Subway stations retain signs of places and streets that no longer exist
They’re signs of the times — old times. On the A line in the Rockaways, the Beach 98th Street-Playland stop sits next to a high-rise housing development in an otherwise depressed neighborhood. There’s nothing playful about the area, where the roller coaster of the once-popular amusement park Rockaways’ Playland rumbled until the theme park shuttered […]
Bloomberg Pushes a Plan to Let Midtown Soar
London, Tokyo and other metropolises have created central business districts with forests of skyscrapers in recent years, seeking to meet the needs of globe-trotting corporate tenants. But New York’s premier district, the 70-block area around Grand Central Terminal, has lagged, Bloomberg officials say, hampered by zoning rules, decades old, that have limited the height of […]
Rob List’s ‘Play by Ear’ at the Chocolate Factory
There are long moments in Rob List’s “Play by Ear” where you could imagine an alternate title for this 70-minute work, maybe something along the lines of “Still Life: Man With Radiators.” The radiators, of the elegant old iron type, belong to the Chocolate Factory, where “Play by Ear” had its premiere on Thursday night. […]
Outcry Scuttles Plan to Put Horse on Menu at M. Wells Dinette
M. Wells Dinette, the highly anticipated reincarnation inside MoMA PS1 of a celebrated Queens restaurant, has been open for only five days, but its chef and owners have already removed a controversial item planned for the menu. The restaurant’s chef and co-owner, Hugue Dufour, said Thursday that he would not serve horse meat tartare, in […]
USS Michael Murphy, Navy’s Newest Destroyer, Pays Tribute To Slain SEAL …
CALVERTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Navy’s newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past. The USS Michael Murphy, a 510-foot destroyer, is being commissioned this weekend in New York City for a Long Island native and Navy lieutenant who became the first […]
M. Wells Says Neigh To Serving Horse Tartar After Getting Violent Threats
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but don’t expect to be eating raw horse in Queens anytime soon. After getting quite a bit of press, and a lot of hate, for its plans to serve horse tartar at MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, the owners of M. Wells Dinette have […]
Common Core Practice | Floating Buddhas, MacArthur ‘Geniuses’ and Fracking
Welcome to our third week of Common Core practice prompts, each classroom-created and tested by our teacher-collaborators, Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, and the ninth grade humanities class they team teach. This week, the class was so inspired by a Times article about an artist’s inflatable Buddha sculpture, that they have designed a challenge for […]
City wants to put PS 110 into PS 199 in Long Island City
Joel Cairo/for New York Daily News Vivian Escobar with her sons Roman Bonilla (l.) and Max Bonilla at PS 199 in Long Island City, Queens. Escobar said there isn’t enough space at PS 199 to accommodate an additional school. The city is belatedly seeking community support to incubate a new elementary school at an existing […]
Newest Navy destroyer pays tribute to SEAL from NY
CALVERTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Navy’s newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past. The USS Michael Murphy, a 510-foot destroyer, is being commissioned this weekend in New York City for a Long Island native and Navy lieutenant who became the first […]
PCBs and overcrowding: A New York City school story
A recent report by unions 32BJ and Local 94 International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) points out that leaks of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the overcrowding of schools are symptoms of a bigger problem in New York City’s public schools. The report, titled “Not Making the Grade,” suggests that inadequate investments in school facilities are […]
Queens of comedy
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LIC Halloween Festival to Feature Doggie Costume Contest
LONG ISLAND CITY — We’re not in Kansas anymore. The annual Halloween Harvest Festival will be returning to Socrates Sculpture Park, complete with a “Wizard of Oz” theme, scarecrows and even costumed pooches. “It’s one of our biggest programs,” said Shaun Leonardo, the park’s director of public programs and community relations. About 2,000 people attend […]
Whole Foods Recalls Cheese Product
Whole Foods Market is recalling ricotta salata sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C., including its store at Merchant’s Walk in East Cobb and Harry’s Farmers Market in Marietta. The cheese came from its supplier, Forever Cheese Inc. of Long Island City, N.Y., because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. It’s an organism which can cause serious […]
Emerging Shore Life New Visions For Queens Waterfronts
Emerging Shore Life By MEGAN MONTALVO For several decades, shorelines throughout Queens have been a premier destination to live, work and play. From the plethora of museums lining the shores in Long Island City to the wildlife refuge at Jamaica Bay, the local waterfronts have served as a draw for residents and tourists alike. […]
Navy set to commission newest destroyer in tribute to SEAL from NY killed in …
“Here is someone who is just like us,” said Cmdr. Tom Shultz, the commander of the USS Michael Murphy and its crew of 300. “We’ve seen his childhood photos and you look at those photos and in every single one of them we have that same photo of our childhood.” Already wounded, Murphy left a […]
Math murals add up in Long Island City
The 49th Avenue bridge at Skillman Avenue in Long Island City got a healthy dose of math and art over the weekend. Publicolor, a nonprofit which engages high-risk teens through design, primarily works in public schools by helping students transform their classrooms from drab to inspiring with large, colorful murals. The Publicolor staff also teaches […]
Gantry Park Esplanade Gets New View into East River
HUNTERS POINT — It’s a new way to look at the East River. Gantry Park, one of the most popular spots in Long Island City, is giving people another reason to stroll down to the waterfront — a hole cut in the middle of the esplanade that allows people to look at the river […]