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PS1 view from East of East
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Funny Cats at PS1 open now (Darren Bader’s conceptual stylings)
More about the show — which is pretty cool — and by the way this Sunday is the finale and pinnacle of the amazing series on Kraftwerk these showmen have been producing. Featuring…Afrika Bambaata.
Cork Association in New York hold Titanic memorial
The County Cork Association of New York hosted a commemoration and fundraising event of the Titanic on Sunday April 29th, at the Cork Hall, in Long Island City, Queens. The event memorialized the passengers who boarded the Titanic at Cobh/Queenstown, mostly emigrants who came from all over Ireland. Approximately 75 per cent were lost […]
Queens Pop-Up Market Features Award-Winning Delicacies
Katrina Schultz Richter is the founder of the Queens County pop-up market. (Alexander Richter) SUNNYSIDE — Get your sweet — and savory — tooth ready. A pop-up food market is coming to Sunnyside this weekend, just in time for Mother’s Day, featuring a smorgasbord of artisanal foods and delectable offerings, including the winner of the “Best Dessert” […]
LIC Arts Open Fest to Celebrate Local Talent
Donna Levinstone in her Long Island City studio. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY — More than 300 Long Island City artists will show off their work at 55 local venues during the second annual LIC Arts Open, a festival that aims to emphasize the neighborhood’s place on New York’s art map. The festival, which runs […]
INSIDE LACROSSE: Farrell unbeaten in league, eye NYCHSAA crownon
Monsignor Farrell set a few lofty yet simple goals when the season began: go undefeated in league and win a city title. “We put a big star on our regular-season games,” coach Steve Lyman said. “Anytime we are playing our league games we want to win them. … That really drives us.” The Lions still […]
Documentary exposes homophobia in Jamaica
It took four years, cost her friends and family and almost the roof over her head, but Queens based documentary filmmaker Selena Blake got her latest project done. The film, “Taboo Yardies,” about homophobia in Jamaica, West Indies, and its costs to the island nation, is well worth the wait. It’s a powerful collection of […]
An open and shut case
The list of America’s best high schools by US News World Report puts New York City smack on top of the academic heap. There’s a lesson here for United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew. Seven of the top 10 high schools in the state are located in the five boroughs, all at the very […]
Festivals Are the Newest Thing for New Music
A fistful of festivals dedicated to new music have just finished, are happening now or are coming up. Two take place this weekend: the Queens New Music Festival in Long Island City and Look Listen at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in Chelsea. The traditional classical-music festival circuit is vast, including famous brand names like Mostly […]
Eminent domain is off the table
Willets Point business owners who refuse to leave the area are cheering the decision announced last week by the city that it will no longer use eminent domain to remove them. The Mayor’s Office told the court it was dropping the condemnation process shortly before a case was to be heard in state Appellate Court […]
Long Island small biz owners to be honored by SBA
by Claude Solnik Published: May 10, 2012 Tags: business owners, Long Island, SBA, Small Busines Week, Small Business, Small Business Administration The New York office of the Small Business Administration is honoring three Long Island business people and their firms, as well as one government employee as part of its annual Small Business Week awards. […]
LIC festival showcases a bit of everything
Long Island City art galleries and studios open their doors this Saturday for a week-long festival called the LIC Arts Open. Each day of the second annual event holds a diverse selection of art events including comedy festivals; kids arts contests; and improvisation, pottery, painting, sculpture and photography shows. One such gallery that will swing […]
At IS 204, a lesson in changing the world
Tired of drunk loiterers plaguing their neighborhood —intimidating elderly shoppers and keeping children out of parks —students at IS 204 in Long Island City recently decided it was time to take action. For the past three and a half months, 31 students from the middle school have worked with the nonprofit Generation Citizen to curb […]
Unions sue city to stop school closures
The United Federation of Teachers and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators filed a lawsuit this week to stop the city’s plan to shutter and restaff 24 city schools by next September, including seven in Queens, saying it amounts to “sham closings” and violates labor contracts. The Panel for Educational Policy voted last week […]
Cornell Thinks Big As Well As Bold for Roosevelt Island Campus
For now, he’s focused on the challenge of conceiving a place where geniuses can hang out and swap eurekas. Mayne has plenty of experience building for rarefied thinkers: the curvy lockbox of Cooper Union, an astrophysics building for Cal Tech, a satellite control center in suburban Maryland, where a great steel truss, bristling with dishes, […]
Queens misses out on bike share plan
Banking giant Citi will be sponsoring the city’s bike share program when it begins in July, with the bank’s logo going on the bicycles and the docking stations where they can be rented. Mayor Bloomberg, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, other officials and Citi CEO Vikram Pandit announced the deal today at City Hall Plaza. The […]
Get your kids involved in the Green Queens LIC at contest
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Susan Bates/for New York Daily News
Goodbye, Flushing High School. Hello, Rupert B. Thomas Academy at the Flushing Campus. The city is steamrolling forward with plans to close then reopen 24 struggling schools, shedding their old familiar names and selecting new ones. Some names that have been city fixtures for decades would disappear, like Bread Roses Integrated Arts High School, which […]
Cornell Thinks Big as Well as Bold for Roosevelt Island Campus
For now, he’s focused on the challenge of conceiving a place where geniuses can hang out and swap eurekas. Mayne has plenty of experience building for rarefied thinkers: the curvy lockbox of Cooper Union, an astrophysics building for Cal Tech, a satellite control center in suburban Maryland, where a great steel truss, bristling with dishes, […]
Tenth Annual Queens Taste Held At Citi Field
More than a thousand people enjoyed Queens Taste 2012 at Citi Field’s Caesars Club which featured food and beverages from 47 vendors. Hosted by the Queens Economic Development Corporation (QEDC), the tenth annual extravaganza also included an art exhibit by Jackson Heights-based curator Zoescope, a stand up routine by Steve Hofstetter of the Laughing Devil […]