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Prices rise for smaller LIC condos as supply wanes
Prices rise for smaller LIC condos as supply wanes Both Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts face condo supply shortage, according to Modern Spaces July 17, 2012 06:00PM By Adam Fusfeld Average price per square foot of sold condos in Long Island City (source: Modern Spaces) Condominium prices in Long Island City have responded to a dwindling […]
Driver Injured After Vehicle Smashes Into Building in Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — A driver was injured after the vehicle he was in careened into a Jackson Avenue building early Tuesday, officials said. The unidentified motorist was driving a Lincoln sedan on 44th Drive about 6:45 a.m. when his car collided with a BMW and was tossed into the 14-story glass building at 26-26 […]
Alan Suna
Mr. Suna, 59, is chief executive of Silvercup Studios, a TV and film production studio with two shooting locations in Long Island City. Silvercup has been home to several series, including “Sex and the City,” “The Sopranos,” “30 Rock” and “Gossip Girl.” Mr. Suna’s brother, Stuart, is the president. Interview conducted and condensed by VIVIAN […]
East River Ferry Ridership Reaches 1 Million
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and BillyBey Ferry Company today announced that the East River Ferry has served one million passengers in just over a year, more than double the initial projection of 409,000 annual riders. The successful first year of pilot service, launched as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s Waterfront […]
Desi teacher chosen for Honeywell program
NEW YORK: Dharamvir Gehlaut, a math teacher of Long Island City High School, Queens, New York was among the 185 teachers chosen for the 2012 Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy program at the U.S. Space Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The professional development program held between June 22 and 28 was designed to help […]
Car Jumps Curb, Plows Through Queens Storefront
A car jumped the curb and plowed through a Queens storefront window early Tuesday, sending shattered glass everywhere, officials said. No pedestrians were injured when the vehicle crashed through the ground-floor window of the then-vacant building on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City just before 7 a.m. The driver suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The […]
East River Ferry Doubles Expectations
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Long Island City’s House of Rust Has Detractors
Monday, July 9, 2012, by Dave Hogarty [Photos of East of East facade from StreetEasy and QueensCrap] The East of East condo building on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City drew inspiration from painter Piet Mondrian and sculptor Richard Serra, but some online critics sound like they wish the building’s facade would be tagged by […]
East River Ferry reaches 1M passenger mark
It’s a popular ride. Just a year after opening, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the East River ferry has ferried 1 million passengers since launching last June. This doubles the city’s projection, which expected to serve about 400,000 annual riders. In the coming weeks, the city will launch a survey to ask passengers what […]
Long Island City Rises To Top For Bakers
by Amanda Fung, Crain’s New York Business Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012 at 2:59PM EDT Decades after the hulking Silvercup Bakery was transformed into a major film and television studio and the famed Fink Bakery was vacated due to bankruptcy, Long Island City is back in business as New York City’s breadbasket, a place where […]
Crescent Club launches in Long Island City
A collection of 130 rentals with condo-style interiors and Manhattan skyline views has launched at the Crescent Club in Long Island City, Queens. Crescent Club, a luxury building in Long Island City developed by Meadow Partners and Simon Development Group, has launched a collection of 130 rentals with condo-style interiors and Manhattan skyline views. […]
Emily Stedman – Watercolor Paintings – "Relationships Undressed" – M55 ART
Figurative paintings exploring the physical and emotional relationships between people is the theme of Emily Stedman’s first solo show at M55 Art in Long Island City, Queens, New York. New York, NY, July 16, 2012 –(PR.com)– In this exhibition of large watercolor paintings, entitled “Relationships Undressed,” nude figures posed erotically or pensively seem engaged in […]
‘Individual Spirit’: Joel Shapiro on His Sculpture for the US Consulate in …
A rendering of the bronze sculpture outside the consulate. (© Joel Shapiro/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) “Four and eight are bad in China,” Joel Shapiro explained late last month in his studio in Long Island City, just south of the Queensboro Bridge. The symbol for that number sounds like the symbol for death. “I […]
Summer Fashionistas Get Ahead With Stylish Fedoras Updated July 16, 2012 7 …
ASTORIA — It’s hats off to fedoras in New York this summer. The accessory, which decades ago was associated with detectives and gangsters, can be spotted across the city, fashionably shielding New Yorkers from the sweltering summer sun. “They don’t have a big brim in the back so I can wear it while sitting in […]
Bronx site could become city’s first outlet mall
A Manhattan real estate company is planning a Woodbury Commons-like outlet mall at the Whitestone Multiplex Cinemas site in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx, borough officials say. If those plans bear fruit, the product would be the first such mall anywhere in the city. The Lightstone Group, which paid $30 million for the […]
Summer in the City: Unique Rooftop Experiences
Bars and restaurants are popping up on rooftops all over the city, giving locals a plethora of entertaining ways to spend their summer evenings. While we love a great rooftop bar, we thought we’d give you some other options that can take your rooftop experience to new heights. 1. Brooklyn Grange is a one-acre farm […]
Long Island City Food Truck Lot Forced to Scale Back
LONG ISLAND CITY – The Long Island City food truck lot is starving for business. The lot near the CitiCorp building, which generated buzz and operated five days a week during its first season in 2011, has dramatically scaled back its hours and offerings — leaving workers, who complained about a lack of food options […]
Summer Fashionistas Get Ahead With Sylish Fedoras
ASTORIA — It’s hats off to fedoras in New York this summer. The accessory, which decades ago was associated with detectives and gangsters, can be spotted across the city, fashionably shielding New Yorkers from the sweltering summer sun. “They don’t have a big brim in the back so I can wear it while sitting in […]
Curtain: A project by Jerome W Haferd and K Brandt Knapp organized by …
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League present Folly, a new residency and commission for emerging architects and designers to produce and exhibit a full-scale project at Socrates Sculpture Park. Socrates, in partnership with the League, established the residency to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture and the increasing overlaps […]
The year the Olympics didn’t come to Houston
One of my first assignments in the spring of 2000 upon returning to writing after seven years as an assistant sports editor was to cover the Houston 2012 Olympics bid. It was hardly the worst assignment I’ve had, if for no other reason that I was able to take a couple of trips to the […]