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St. Joseph’s College Offers New Political Science Major
ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OFFERS NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR (PATCHOGUE, N.Y.) – St. Joseph’s College (SJC) is pleased to announce that it now offers a major in political science on both its Long Island and Brooklyn campuses. Approved this summer by the New York State Department of Higher Education, the new bachelor’s degree in political science […]
Police Search for Woman who Bought Jewelry with Stolen Credit Cards
QUEENS — Police are searching for a woman wanted for using stolen credit and debit cards to buy jewelry. The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on Sept. 4, when a 28-year-old woman’s pocketbook was stolen from underneath a desk. Later that day, the victim discovered that someone had made purchases using the credit and debit […]
Cops Nab Gunman In Liquor Store Slay
Detectives at the 114th Precinct Squad last week arrested the gunman who opened fire at a Long Island City liquor store on April 7, killing a 37-year-old ex-convict.Cops arrested Tori Burke, 22, on September 24 in the fatal shooting of Skaka Ryan, 37, inside Soloman Liquors at 24-14 34th Ave. in Long Island City.Cops said […]
TFI Envision Delivers Integrated Campaign for Standard Motor Products, Inc.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — TFI Envision, Inc. was thrilled to be chosen to develop the positioning and integrated brand campaign for Standard Motor Products® TechSmart® brand. TechSmart is a unique line of products developed specifically to deliver innovative solutions for today’s technicians in the automotive aftermarket industry. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121002/NY85531 ) […]
Astoria Restaurant Starts Online Petition to Get Bike Corral
ASTORIA — An Astoria restaurant lauded as being “bike friendly” is putting the pedal to the metal in its battle to install parking for bikes in the street in front of the eatery — starting an online petition after the community board quashed the proposal. Community Board 1 denied the Queens Kickshaw‘s request, saying the so-called […]
City Ramps Up PCB Removal At LIC School
City education officials heeded cries of protest by local lawmakers and parents of students at I.S. 204 and last week agreed to speed up replacement of potentially toxic lights at the Long Island City school. Department of Education (DOE) officials previously said replacement of the lights at I.S. 204 would be completed at some time […]
Walter A. Scherber
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President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet tonight for their first debate.
President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet tonight for their first debate. As Blake Zeff noted in the Daily News, winning the presidential election is only part of what Obama needs to do. If he’s to have any chance of carrying out his promised agenda in a second term, he’ll also need to help Democrats […]
March Against Violence
(L. to r.); Shooting victim 15-year-old Amy Sanchez, who was hit by a stray bullet on September 22 in her apartment, was joined by Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, Assemblymember Cathy Nolan, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Also in attendance were Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, Bishop Mitchell Taylor of the Center of Hope International and the residents […]
Iconic ‘MoonPie’ Baker Teams with White Coffee
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012 — The Flavor of A Southern Tradition Comes North LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Chattanooga Bakery, Inc., baker of the iconic MoonPie® — the southern delectable consisting of two round graham cracker cookies with marshmallow filling in the center, dipped in chocolate, vanilla or […]
Whole Foods Recalls Cheese
Whole Foods Market has recalled a ricotta salata cheese sold in 21 states and Washington D.C. due to concerns about Listeria monocytogenes. The cheese came from the supplier Forever Cheese Inc. in Long Island City, N.Y. The Whole Foods recall is part of an expanded recall for the imported cheese — it was sold to […]
LIC Teen Hit By Stray Bullet Afraid To Go Home
LONG ISLAND CITY — The 15-year old girl who was hit by a stray bullet while doing her schoolwork at home is scared to go back to her apartment at the Queensbridge Houses. Amy Sanchez got a hero’s welcome Monday night during a rally against gun violence in front of her building on 10th Street […]
A Buddha, Full of Air, Sits Serenely on the Waves
The 10-foot-high inflatable Buddha sat on a wooden lily pad in a cove of the East River, bobbing gently back and forth on the ripples of the tide. On a late September day, its translucent plastic skin glittered with the changing patterns of sunlight and clouds. The stone lighthouse of Roosevelt Island and the steel […]
City to replace possibly toxic lights at IS 204
PCBs are suspected carcinogens and neurotoxins, which is why long-term… CLARE TRAPASSO Tuesday, September 25, 2012 The city has agreed to accelerate the timeline to replace potentially toxic lights at a Long Island City middle school after a PCB leak was found in the building earlier this month. The city Department of Education plans to […]
It’s In Queens!
It’s October, and the battle between apples and pumpkins kicks off with local venues hosting harvest festivals featuring one (or both) of these seed-bearing comestibles. Continuing the scrumptiousness, Queens residents can stay local and take Turkish cooking lessons or learn about the history of tea with samples provided after the lecture. For non-food fun, try […]
StudiosLIC Premier
studioslic.com Last Friday fashion photographer Christian Conti welcomed the world to his new gallery creative space, StudiosLIC, with an exhibition featuring his highly acclaimed “Portraits in Fashion” collection. The vast 7000 square-foot Long Island City space boasts four adaptable studios, sliding walls, professional grade equipment and a scenic roof top overlooking mid-town. Conti’s mission […]
TFI Envision Delivers Integrated Campaign for Standard Motor Products, Inc.
By TFI Envision, Inc. LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — TFI Envision, Inc. was thrilled to be chosen to develop the positioning and integrated brand campaign for Standard Motor Products® TechSmart® brand. TechSmart is a unique line of products developed specifically to deliver innovative solutions for today’s technicians in the automotive aftermarket […]
Long Island Modernism
Long Island: The Sunrise Homeland, sponsored by the Long Island Assocation for the 1939 World’s Fair Long Island at mid-twentieth-century, you might have heard, was a place of explosive growth. Most of this was not very interesting. Sprawl. Tract housing. Billy Joel. They came with the island’s rapid suburban development. For a brighter look at […]
High schools that dodged closure try to woo new students at fair
A Long Island City High School student takes a break from his booth to meet an umbrella cockatoo from George Washington Carver High School. The white cockatoo perched on a student’s shoulder during last weekend’s Citywide High School Fair was just one squawking example of the lengths schools go to set themselves apart from eighth-graders’ […]
New Math Mural Adding to Long Island City’s Beauty
LONG ISLAND CITY — Call it art by numbers. Dozens of kids took to an overpass near the Hunters Point train station last Saturday to show that math can be beautiful — painting a mural of the Fibonacci series to beautify the aging structure. The kids began the rendition of the famous mathematical sequence, in […]