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The massive Rockrose project and its little artistic offering
This cute cute site is probably the best deal in town. $5k/month for a whole building and lot. Make art. Party. Jackson Ave frontage. Behind it…a colossus. 2000 people schedule to occupy starting 2013 September.
SculptureCenter’s Bill Bollinger–Filled Annex Will Close Early
Work by Bill Bollinger’s in SculptureCenter’s temporary annex. (Courtesy SculptureCenter) The epic and beautiful Bill Bollinger retrospective on view at Long Island City’s SculptureCenter is set to contract a bit after this weekend. A temporary annex that is located down the block from the kunsthalle’s main building and that now hosts four Bollinger sculptures will […]
Gantry State Park in summer glory
A great park. About to expand into the Pepsi Park. Amazing views. Shade. Fitted with relaxation facilities. The only flaw: did they abandon the hammocks? They aren’t back yet. See the full gallery on Posterous
Tower 9? Or is it 10?
Queens West keeps mushrooming towers.
Brooklyn Pickles, then and now
In the center, mind blowing, I can’t believe they make it in Brooklyn, pickles. Artisan, handcrafted, and hip. Adjacent, utterly horrible, kosher, 1960s, mass-produced, pickles and kraut for Old Fashioned Jewish Deli gluttonous suicide. Oh, also made in Brooklyn.
Water games nearing completion
Rainbow Park at Gantry is almost ready for its cherry on top. The water fountain is on its way. Getting closer, but not ready!
The future of Commercial spaces in LIC
Welcome, designers and architects! Good-bye, trash haulers. These guys just moved into 5th street behind the big apartments. http://www.tietz-baccon.com/
Dear community, make this a meadow
This unused lot on Purves Street is an eyesore. Across from sculpture center. Already you can see artists starting to put it to better use. Here’s an idea. Let’s create some kind of partnership to turn this into an urban meadow. Like this one: urbanmeadow.blogspot.com in Red Hook.
LIC Partnership hosts real estate breakfast
LIC Partnership hosted a real estate breakfast on May 15 at the U.N. Federal Credit Union, located at 24-01 44th Road. A group of experts recently gathered to discuss a “booming” topic – the Long Island City real estate market. LIC Partnership hosted a real estate breakfast on May 15 at the U.N. Federal Credit […]
It’s all Related
When Jeff Blau started at The Related Cos. in 1989, the first task Chief Executive Stephen Ross gave the 21-year-old was to buy up auto shops in Willets Point, Queens. Related built stores for Kmart, and the retailer wanted one in the area. Nothing came of it, but 23 years later, Related is about to […]
The rumble
A-head of the game Brown convinced Goodell wants to solve concussion problem The great Jim Brown, new part-owner of the Long Island Lizards lacrosse team, met Friday with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and came away encouraged by the league’s commitment to concussion vigilance. “He’s on board 100 percent,” Brown told The Rumble. “Everything I was […]
Taste of LIC
Don’t miss it.
Van Bramer gives honors to LIC Asians
Photo by Rebecca Henely Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (second from r.) gives proclamations to four significant Asian-American residents of Astoria and Long Island City: Jonathan Imperial of the LIC YMCA (l-r.), Amy Hau of the Noguchi Museum, Wendy Chan of 5SL and community activist Melissa Lee. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers City Councilman Jimmy Van […]
The Don’t-Need-It-for-Long Apartment
IF you are looking for temporary housing in New York City, you can bet that the amount of work it takes to find a place for a month or two is inversely proportional to how much you can afford to pay. At the upper end of the market, a few phone calls will land a […]
Blowtorch Burglar’s Getaway Driver Was Asleep at the Wheel, Cops Say
WOODSIDE — If you snooze, you lose. The getaway driver for a Queens burglary suspect who tried to break into a house using a blowtorch was spotted sleeping at the wheel while his accomplice tried to dash away from cops, authorities said. The ill-timed catnap landed Jefferson Villarama in cuffs after the Memorial Day break-in […]
Singer Songwriter Regina Spektor Joins Steinway Artist Roster
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Steinway Sons, makers of the world’s finest pianos, announced today that singer songwriter Regina Spektor has been named as a Steinway Artist. She joins a distinguished international roster of Steinway Artists including Billy Joel, Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr., Lang Lang and past music greats such […]
Third of Queens Libraries Would Close Under ‘Devastating’ Budget Cuts
CITY HALL — The book might be closing on the Queens Library system. More than 100 residents and elected officials rallied against a series of “devastating” cuts proposed in the Bloomberg administration’s budget for fiscal year 2013 that would shutter nearly a third of the library’s 62 branches and leave the borough with only one branch […]
Dance Listings June 1 — 7
Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. ★ American Ballet Theater (Friday and Saturday, and Monday through Thursday, through July 7) Alexei Ratmansky’s “Bright Stream” is one of the more lighthearted entries in the company’s spring repertory of lavish, full-length ballets. It runs through Sunday evening, then makes way for John Cranko’s more tumultuous “Onegin,” […]
LIC Arts Open puts Queens artists on the map
The creative colony of Long Island City blazed with inspirational energy during the second annual LIC Arts Open – a 10-day extravaganza in which local artists welcome the public into their studios. Festival-goers experienced the cutting edge in painting, sculpture, photography, theatre and ceramics, crafted by many of the city’s most forefront and promising artistic […]