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Owners Juice Up Nude LIC Strip Club
Operators of a controversial Long Island City strip club twice denied a state liquor license are making good on their threat to open a nude jiggle joint in the newly trendy neighborhood.Show Palace, formerly known as Gypsy Rose, is scheduled to open at 42-50 21st St. on May 31 as a gentlemen’s club and restaurant– […]
Pathmark Pulling Up Stakes In LIC
Store and union officials met with employees at the Long Island City Pathmark Supermarket on May 29 to deliver some bad news. The supermarket that has been a fixture in the community for more than three decades is closing its doors later this summer. News of the closure did not come as a surprise to […]
Foodies Get to Choose the Official Taste of Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — You would have thought The Chocolate Factory Theater’s official flavor was obvious, but organizers of the Taste of LIC are putting it up to a vote. As part of this year’s seventh annual food festival, which raises money for the art space, visitors will be asked to choose its official type […]
League recap: Norman Thomas runs winning streak to five
Norman Thomas (16-2, 9-1) is riding a league-best 5-game winning streak. In the past week, the Tigers won another three games, including a 4-2 victory over Long Island City and a 7-2 win over Madison. First place in the league belongs to Norman Thomas, which has compiled a 16-2 overall record to go with its […]
Pathmark in LIC may be closed
Photo by Nykeema Williams The union representing employees at the Pathmark in Long Island City say they are preparing for a still-unconfirmed closure. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Rumors have been flying over whether or not a Long Island City Pathmark will be closing its doors, but a spokeswoman for the store workers’ union said […]
Odd Couple: Mitchell Algus and Amy Greenspon Are Showing—and, Yes, Selling …
Two years ago, Amy Greenspon and Mitchell Algus moved in together. She was a blond, 31-year-old gallery director who looked a little like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless and regularly appeared in the party pages of Vogue and Style.com. He was an avuncular, opinionated 56-year-old science teacher at a public high school in Queens, who was […]
Neighborhood Watch Ready to Help Cops in Astoria
ASTORIA — Crooks and thugs beware. Astoria is armed with dozens of newly trained block-watch experts ready to rein in the neighborhood’s 5 percent uptick in major crime. “I really care about this neighborhood and I’m trying to do my part to improve the situation,” said Bronwyn Burke, one of about 30 residents coached last […]
New real estate boom in LIC
Anthony DelMundo for New York Daily News Dan Miner, senior vice president of the Long Island City Partnership, in front of MetLife building on Queens Plaza North in Long Island City. The area is undergoing a renewed real estate boom. Long Island City is undergoing another real estate boom, buoyed by a new batch of […]
Housing Pieces Delayed
By ELIOT BROWN The promise of more than 4,000 units of low- and middle-income housing was a significant selling point for two of the city’s largest new developments, Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and Willets Point in Queens. Today, they are moving forward, but the housing pieces have been pushed back for years behind other portions […]
Vancouver’s bike sharing program: Who’s going to run it and what about helmets?
As Vancouverites await word on the city’s public bike-sharing program, New Yorkers are getting set to welcome their own later this summer. From the New York Times: More than 200 cities around the world have bike-share programs. [New York’s is] not the first, but [it] will be one of the largest systems. The program will […]
The Final ‘Unforgettable’ Day of Shooting
By Alexandra Cheney Poppy Montgomery calls everyone, whether or not she’s on a first name basis, mama. Her manicurist, her assist, the woman dying her hair and even the man holding open the door, to name a few. It was a chilly spring day, one that slouched more toward winter than summer, and the wind […]
Queens Parks get waterified
A manual process. But fun. Kids, hit the parks!
East River Ferry Service Increases Capacity; Opens New Brooklyn Bridge Park Slip
To meet demand for the East River Ferry’s pilot service, the city is adding a new fleet with more than twice the capacity on weekends. The new boats will hold 399 passengers, instead of the current 149. In addition, The New York Times reported Friday that the city opened a new ferry slip at Pier […]
Clocktower and its park at Queens Plaza
The renovation of a gorgeous modern park on 1.5 acres at Queens Plaza is done. It used to be disgusting parking that accentuated the traffic insanity — now it is greenery that masks the flows around it. It sits in front of a huge classic Clocktower building that was the Bank of Manhattan and then […]
Forest Park Carousel – open! – pics!
Kiddie pleasuredome open after a 6 year hiatus. This thing is legit! Old world crafted animals and spangles. More than legit — 100 year old wood carved by a German emigre master. $3/ride. Plus a clown every Saturday at 2 and 4. It is open from 11-7 on weekends. Weekdays are to come. http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/forestpark/highlights/12049 See […]
The best Greek: Taverna Kyclades
ONE of the best. Always a long line. Perhaps not in Astoria but Steinway. but gosh darn delicious. 33rd st and Ditmars. Drive of you can. Menu is calamari, peasant salad, saganaki, spanakopita. Lots of promising fish dishes too. See the full gallery on Posterous
Mike’s Weiner secret
When former Congressman Anthony Weiner was under siege last year, Mayor Bloomberg took a kinder approach to his longtime critic than most Democrats. A chorus of party leaders, led by President Obama, called for Weiner to resign when his now-infamous sexcapades on Twitter consumed the political world, made national headlines and became daily fodder for […]
Lipstick on the DOE Pig
City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced the fancy new names for the high schools in Queens he is closing last week. In western Queens, Long Island City High School in Astoria is now Global Scholars Academies of Long Island City, William Cullen Bryant HS in Astoria is now the Academy of Humanities and Applied Science […]
Rockrose at Court Square
It isn’t stopping. Heading for 40 stories. At least.
This Is How We Ride
THIS summer the city’s Department of Transportation inaugurates a new bike-share program. People who live and work in New York will be able to travel quickly and cheaply between many neighborhoods. This is major. It will make New Yorkers rethink their city and rewrite the mental maps we use to decide what is convenient, what […]