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Car Will Explode in Long Island City Friday Morning for TV Shoot
QUEENS — A car will explode in Long Island City Friday morning as part of a TV shoot, officials said. The explosion, at Second Street and 54th Avenue, will occur between 8:30 and 11 a.m., the NYPD said. Crews will film the detonation for an episode of the upcoming ABC television show “Zero Hour” starring […]
Car Will Explode in Long Island City Friday Morning for TV Shoot
QUEENS — A car will explode in Long Island City Friday morning as part of a TV shoot, officials said. The explosion, at Second Street and 54th Avenue, will occur between 8:30 and 11 a.m., the NYPD said. Crews will film the detonation for an episode of the upcoming ABC television show “Zero Hour” starring […]
NYC Honey Fest is back at Rockaway, Queens
A highlight of the season And… Pop Up Photo Booth is back @ NYC Honey Fest! Hi, How are you? I will be setting up my Pop Up Photo Booth again tomorrow Saturday September 15th at this year’s New York City Honey Festival @ Rockaway Beach. There will be lots of honey, good food, beer and […]
Pop-Up Library Coming To Gantry Park in Hunters Point
HUNTERS POINT — Now you can have a picnic with your Proust. A pop-up library is coming to Gantry Plaza State Park in Hunters Point to promote a new library that will soon be built in the neighborhood. During the event, on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Center Boulevard and […]
Catching scores of rising stars as part of recent comedy explosion in Long …
Anthony DelMundo/for New York Daily News ‘It’s starting to evolve,” says Rebecca Trent, owner of Creek Cave comedy club on Jackson Ave. “It’s taken an awful long time.” Nicholas Fevelo /for New York Daily News Laughing Devil Comedy Club’s Steve Hofstetter says revival of comedy clubs in W. Queens has enabled him to attract a […]
Hazardous PCB leak at IS 204 in Long Island City has parents seething with …
CLARE TRAPASSO FOR DAILY NEWS Parents Tisha Kirkland (l.) and Doreatha Carson stand in front of IS 204, where they learned on Thursday that a light fixture in their seventh-grade children’s school was discovered leaking fluid laced with hazardous PCBs. Parents were outraged this week after learning that a light fixture was leaking PCBs on […]
Waterfront Bus Service Expands in Long Island City Art Corridor
LONG ISLAND CITY — The art bus is on a roll. Waterfront bus service in Western Queens’ burgeoning art corridor, which is packed cultural institutions and a booming tech sector, has been expanded and residents are clamoring for more. Service on the Q103, which runs between Astoria and Hunters Point, was recently increased after state […]
Woodside Community Rallies Against Recent Sex Attack
WOODSIDE — A recent sex attack in Woodside — where the suspect punched a woman in the face while demanding that she performed a sex act on him — sparked outrage among local residents. On Thursday morning, local politicians joined the community leaders to speak out against the assault, which left the victim with a […]
State denies liquor license for LIC party
An arts organization in Long Island City was denied a temporary liquor license for a dance party on Saturday advertised as going “very late.” The event went on, but without a bar. Saturday’s party, called Pearly’s Beauty Salon hosted by Artists Wanted, a for profit business that helps artists gain recognition, was put on by […]
City Bans Big, Sugary Drinks at Eateries, Theaters
New York City’s health board has passed a rule banning super-sized, sugary drinks at restaurants, concession stands and other eateries. The regulation passed Thursday puts a 16-ounce size limit on cups and bottles of non-diet soda, sweetened teas and other calorie-packed beverages. Opponents have decried the large, sugary drinks ban as an improper insertion of […]
Whole Foods cheese recall
Whole Foods cheese recall Whole Foods cheese recall Updated: Thursday, September 13 2012 8:05 AM EDT2012-09-13 12:05:44 GMT Whole Foods Market is recalling cheese sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C. because of fears it may be contaminated with Listeria. Whole Foods Market is recalling cheese sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C. because of […]
Lunchtime concert TODAY – Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, etc.
That’s Daniel Baer from Julliard at the piano in the back. In the New York Times back in January, talking up the free shows you can see. And TODAY TODAY TODAY you can see him at a lunchtime concert at the LIC Arts Center playing none other than “The Tempest” – Beethoven’s Piano […]
Community Board Halts Plans for Pedestrian Plaza in Astoria
QUEENS — Astoria residents won’t be getting their pedestrian plaza after all. After months of heated discussions, a controversial plan to build a pedestrian plaza at a dangerous intersection was rejected by the local community board Tuesday night, forcing the Department of Transportation to go ahead with a plan to build a curb extension costing […]
DJ’s Stretch Out and Find More Fans
Julie Glassberg for The New York Times The D.J. Baauer’s star is rising, which was evident when he played the Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this month. When the police showed up at the Fool’s Gold Day Off party this month, it wasn’t completely clear why. Sure, the lines for the event, held in an […]
Ricotta Salata Frescolina Cheese Recalled – KERO
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — Forever Cheese has issued a recall of one production lot of its Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand products due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.In a news release, the company said there have been 14 reported illnesses in 11 states which may be related to the recalled cheese products.The cheese in question […]
Long Island City Museum Workshops Help Tiny Tots Find Their Inner Artists
LONG ISLAND CITY — “All children are born artists,” Pablo Picasso said, and the Noguchi Museum intends to help the little ones stay that way as they grow up. This fall the Long Island City museum, founded by a prominent Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, is holding art programs for children as young as three months, […]
Ricotta Salata Frescolina Cheese Recalled
Related To Story POSTED: 8:31 am EDT September 12, 2012 UPDATED: 8:50 am EDT September 12, 2012 LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — Forever Cheese has issued a recall of one production lot of its Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand products due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.In a news release, the company said there have been 14 […]
Hoping to Lure Riders With Scenic Commutes
Titania Inglis, a 33-year-old fashion designer who wears her own flouncy avant-garde creations, likes to take the East River Ferry from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where she keeps her work samples, to the East 34th Street slip in Manhattan and then bicycle to the garment center. Indeed, Ms. Inglis, who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, can wax rhapsodic […]
Worker in custody after Gulf fight
Photo by Christina Santucci An officer talks to a man outside the Long Island City Gulf gas station, where an assault occurred that left one man dead. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers The family of a 28-year-old Flushing man, who died in a fight with a Long Island City gas station attendant last Thursday, disputed […]