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Lack of Free Public Pools Leaves Central Queens Residents Sweltering
QUEENS — Mary Arevalo sat in the hot sun last week while her 5-year-old daughter Yasmina ran through the sprinklers at Russell Sage playground in Forest Hills. Decked out in a large hat, sun dress and sunglasses, she was doing her best to endure the sweltering heat. Arevalo, 39, wanted to go swimming, but that […]
Queens Artists to Perform in Free Hunters Point Waterfront Concert Series
HUNTERS POINT — Free live music is coming to the Long Island City waterfront this summer. Starting this week, New Yorkers will have a chance to listen to Queens-based bands every Tuesday night as part of the Live at the Gantries series in Hunters Point. “Gantry Plaza State Park is a gorgeous venue,” said Jennifer […]
Van Duzer Days Festival Returns to Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND — The fourth annual Van Duzer Days street festival will return to Stapleton in July. The festival will run on two weekends and feature local bands, live painters, craft workshops for children and local businesses opening up their doors for the event, said Gena Mimozo, a member of the Van Duzer Days Planning […]
Straphangers Pooh-Pooh Dirty Pigeons at Woodside and Sunnyside Stations
QUEENS — Woodside‘s gone to the birds. Scores of pigeons that have built nests around the 7 train elevated tracks in Woodside and Sunnyside have for years forced straphangers and pedestrians to duck and dodge as they wait for trains or walk on the street beneath the tracks, residents and elected officials say. Now, subway […]
The Toxic Avenger on The Toxic Avenger: Five Questions for French DJ …
In the most recent print issue of the Village Voice, we visit the Long Island City headquarters of Troma Entertainment, the “almost” 40-year-old Z-movie studio responsible for such unforgettable titles as Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid!! and Tales from the Crapper. But the company’s best known creation is The Toxic Avenger, an early-’80s cult classic that […]
PS1’s Warm Up series started Saturday Anna Codrea-Rado
A week and a half after the city’s schools closed up for summer, one was hopping, and on a Saturday, no less. The school, of course was MoMA PS1, and in its courtyard/playground in Long Island City, a crowd gathered for the first Warm Up event of the year. Schoolchildren have not wandered the […]
New Long Island City Condo is Rusting—Intentionally
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 […]
Man Arrested in Library Groping of Two Girls Has History, Police Say
Suspect in Queens Library Groping QUEENS — A 49-year-old Brooklyn man, who has a history of criminal sex abuse against young girls, was arrested in connection with two groping attacks last Saturday against a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old, police said. Joel Grubert, who has previously also been arrested under the name Marc Grubert, according to […]
The City’s Lifeblood Gets its Day in the Sun
A fireboat named John J. Harvey shows off its spray to a crowd of City of Water Day attendees. Photo by Paul Margolis City of Water Day Cost: Free Locations: Governors Island and Liberty State Park in South Field, N.J. Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. As New Yorkers shuffle through an […]
New York City being mentioned as potential site for 2024 Olympic Games
New York City Controller John Liu is among advocates of New York City again trying to be an Olympic host city. With the Olympic Games that New York lost to London just weeks away, a quiet buzz is building around the potential for another Gotham bid. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee […]
Socrates Sculpture Park Transformed Illegal Dump Into Cultural Institution …
DNAinfo.com: By Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer LONG ISLAND CITY — When Mark di Suvero, a well-known abstract sculptor, moved his studio to the Hallet’s Cove area more than 25 years ago, the waterfront there was being used as an illegal dumping ground. But for Di Suvero, the industrial wasteland seemed perfect for his large-scale work, […]
Off-duty NYPD officer busted for drunk driving after crashing in Long Island …
Medioimages/Photodisc/Getty Images An of-duty NYPD officer was busted in Queens for drunk driving early Sunday. An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested for drunk driving in Queens Sunday. Brayan Terrazas, 26, was busted after crashing into a divider on Jackson Ave. in Long Island City just before 3 a.m., officials said. He was not injured and […]
Hottest Day Yet to Scorch the City
NEW YORK CITY — An excessive heat warning was in effect all day Saturday until 6 p.m., as highs briefly reached near 100 degrees in some areas of the city for the third day in a row. City dwellers skirted the denser areas for breezier climes in parks like Union Square, where shoppers crowded the […]
From Around the City: Graffiti’s days are numbered
When the 7 train surfaces in Long Island City, straphangers are greeted by an oversize likeness of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. on a hulking warehouse covered in graffiti. Soon they are likely to see two shiny apartment towers. Longtime property owner David Wolkoff wants to replace 5Pointz—a five-story, block-long canvas for graffiti artists for […]
Plans to Raze Graffiti Landmark 5Pointz Move Ahead
Plans are moving ahead to demolish the five-story graffiti landmark in Long Island City known as 5Pointz, where artists have been allowed to paint freely for more than a decade. Building owner David Wolkoff said next year he hopes to begin tearing down the 200,000-square-foot warehouse-cum-canvas that is visible from the No. 7 elevated train […]
New York City being mentioned as potential site for 2024 and 2026 Olympic …
Craig Warga/New York Daily News New York City Controller John Liu is among advocates of New York City again trying to be an Olympic host city. With the Olympic Games that New York lost to London just weeks away, a quiet buzz is building around the potential for another Gotham bid. The U.S. Olympic Committee […]
Three Dead in Queens Triple Shooting
SPRINGFIELD GARDENS — Three men were found shot to death, with two of them sitting inside a double-parked SUV, on a Queens block early Saturday morning, police said. Two men were found riddled with bullets inside the front seats of a Jeep Grand Cherokee at 5:06 a.m. Saturday morning, police said when they responded to […]
Six People Hurt After SUV Slams Into City Bus on Central Park West
UPPER WEST SIDE — An SUV slammed into a city bus at a busy Central Park West intersection Friday afternoon, sending six people to the hospital with minor injuries, fire officials and witnesses said. The northbound M10 bus was stopped on Central Park West at West 75th Street about 2:30 p.m. Friday when a black Escalade […]
MoMA PS1 Dance Party Returns to Long Island City for Summer
QUEENS — Long Island City‘s about to get its fist pump on. Starting this weekend, MoMA PS1 begins its Warm Up series — a showcase of experimental live music, sound, performance, and DJs that will rock in the museum’s courtyard throughout the summer. The series, which celebrates its 15th year, attracts on average 3,000 people […]
Residents of Trenton’s Luther Towers locked out for week-long repairs – The Times of Trenton
TRENTON — Some 200 residents of the Luther Towers apartment building who have been locked out of their homes since a fire two days ago were told today that they will not be allowed back in until next week at the earliest. Firefighters emptied the 12-story building late Wednesday after an explosive electrical fire in […]