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New York Premiere of Multilingual Musical Rent A White Guy Will Feature Holly …
New York Premiere of Multilingual Musical Rent A White Guy Will Feature Holly Chou, Mara Measor and More By Michael Gioia22 Aug 2012 Fish Out of Water Productions, which features works from Americans living abroad, will present the New York premiere of Rent A White Guy, a multilingual musical fable about the life of foreigners […]
Union Leaders Unite to Help Wantagh Girl’s Battle with Terminal Disease
Sophia’s Cure Foundation, a local charity dedicated to finding a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a terminal and aggressive disease that affects young children, raised nearly $100,000 at a fundraiser in Long Island City last Thursday. The event, which was attended by many from the area’s real estate industry, was the latest by the […]
Astoria Residents To Try Out Pedestrian Plaza For One Day
ASTORIA — A Department of Transportation plan to build a pedestrian plaza on busy strip of Newtown Avenue in Astoria has been drawing both fierce opposition from local business owners and praise from residents. So this Saturday, DOT wants Astorians to see what it would be like if the plaza – designed in part to […]
Pet Photographers Make LIC Canines Shine
LONG ISLAND CITY — Strike a paws! Long Island City dogs — who already have plenty of canine day care centers and dog-friendly restaurants — now have their very own photographers. Two animal lovers, Junenoire Mitchell, 32, and Arianys Wilson, 27, founded KiKi LIC Photography, which specializes in pet photography (Kiki was the name of […]
‘Floating Garden’ Coming to Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — Corn stalks and pear trees growing in the middle of the East River? One New Yorker says it’s possible — and he is building what he calls a “floating garden” off Long Island City to prove it. This weekend, Karim Ahmed, 22, an architecture student at The Cooper Union, will plant sunflowers, kale […]
Tesla LIC
Super cool electric sportscar pioneer has set up its NYC service center. In LIC on Van Dam. A few yards from the “last” exit on the LIE from Long Island and Queens before Manhattan. Or if you are in Manhattan, very close to the Queensborough Bridge outlet. Staten Island goombas apparently won’t be driving Teslas […]
New York graffiti haven braces for gentrification
by Sebastian Smith NEW YORK, Aug 22, 2012 (AFP) – Graffiti artists are used to escaping cops, jumping from roofs, and dodging trains, but New York painters who turned an abandoned factory into a street art legend now face their real nemesis: gentrification. 5Pointz in the borough of Queens is one of the city’s most […]
Construction on Pearson Street
If you need a barometer about real estate, just look to construction. For example, see Pearson Street. This little street is just one block long. It starts on Jackson. It ends on the railyard with a dead end. A long stalled project for a major 40 story condo building seems to have recently restarted. And […]
RENT A WHITE GUY Receives NY Premiere This September
Rent A White Guy, a new multilingual musical fable about life for laowai (foreigners) living in China, will get its New York premiere at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City this September. Rent A White Guy chronicles firsthand fish-out-of-water experiences through scenes and songs in English and Chinese (with English supertitles) and will be […]
Queens Music Startup Shares Playlists Picked by Celebs
LONG ISLAND CITY — It’s a high note for Songza. The free LIC-based Internet music startup that streams playlists matching listeners’ moods and activities recently sparked the interest of some of the biggest names in the biz, including Justin Bieber and Ke$ha who have created playlists for its listeners. Songza, owned by a group of […]
Made in Harlem? City College Gets an Incubator Devoted to Devices
Grove grad shells out $1M. to make it happen. Mr. Zahn. (Photo: CCNY) We thought manufacturing had departed New York for the foreseeable future, and yet suddenly there’s a building boom right here in the five boroughs. Shapeways is building a factory out in Long Island City; now City College’s Grove School of Engineering is getting […]
LIC Woman Sentenced for $1.3 Million Ponzi Scheme
LONG ISLAND CITY — A Long Island City woman was sentenced Monday to three to nine years in prison for stealing more than $1.3 million from 30 people in a “Ponzi” scheme that cost some residents their life savings. Between 2003 and 2008, Ibis Febles, 66, targeted the Latino community in Queens, with the help […]
Youth Cycling Programs Mix Health, Empowerment and Advocacy
Last January, over 200 bicyclists and bicycle advocates gathered in Manhattan to discuss the future of youth bicycle advocacy, education and safety. Not only was the second annual Youth Bike Summit about young people and bikes, most of its participants, including its keynote speaker, were young people themselves. The youth weren’t just swapping stories about […]
LIC incubator home to healthy dog treats
Nicole Townsend’s business out of Long Island City’s Entrepreneur Space, Spoil Me Rotten Dog Biscuit Co., sells organic and healthy treats for canines wholesale to stores and online. Photo by Yinghao Luo By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Manhattanite Nicole Townsend has two furry friends to thank for her business, out of Long Island City’s Entrepreneur […]
PSAL set to launch redesigned, user-friendly website
The PSAL website is undergoing an overhaul that will make the league’s (WWW.PSAL.org) more user friendly than its current version. The largest high school sports organization in the country unveiled a beta version of the new site Monday morning at its Long Island City offices. It is expected to go live to the public in […]
Fancy Revel Hotel & Casino Floundering In Atlantic City
Monday, August 20, 2012, by Scott Solish Things aren’t looking so rosy for the Revel Hotel and Casino, which features restaurants and nightclubs from some of New York’s biggest players. Just a few months after its glitzy launch, the hotel is missing its revenue expectations by a large margin, ranking 8th among Atlantic City resorts […]
Man Fatally Struck by Bus Near BQE in Queens Updated August 20, 2012 4:27pm
QUEENS — A veteran Brooklyn truck driver and grandfather of five was struck and killed by a bus on a Woodside street near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Monday morning, officials said. The victim, Thackoo “Tony” Hargobin, 52, of Canarsie, was struck at 25-60 Borough Pl., near 50th Street just before 9:30 a.m., the FDNY said. Witnesses […]
Police Blotter: NYC Woman Charged in $324 Theft
A New York City woman is charged with petty larceny in connection with the theft of $324.86 worth of merchandise from a Cortlandt Town Center store, according to State Police. Police said Lilliana Varela, 29, of Long Island City, Queens, was accused of taking several men’s and women’s shirts and women’s shoes at about 4:30 […]
Man Fatally Struck by Bus Near BQE in Queens Updated 2 hrs ago
QUEENS — A veteran Brooklyn truck driver and grandfather of five was struck and killed by a bus on a Woodside street near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Monday morning, officials said. The victim, Thackoo “Tony” Hargobin, 52, of Canarsie, was struck at 25-60 Borough Pl., near 50th Street just before 9:30 a.m., the FDNY said. Witnesses […]
Bloomberg announces NYC bike share will now be delayed at least until March – Skift
Bloomberg announces NYC bike share will now be delayed at least until March – Skift. Bummer.