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Two schools get reprieves before DOE approves two dozen closures
The Department of Education gave last minute reprieves to two politically-backed schools this morning – just hours before its policy panel is set to approve the closure of two dozen other schools. Queens’ Grover Cleveland HS – where state Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan is an alum – and Bushwick Community HS in Brooklyn […]
REBNY Backs Bloomberg’s Prevailing Wage Veto, But Unions Balk
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Volunteers plant 100 trees in LIC
Photo by JOSEY BARTLETT Volunteers plant 100 trees in LIC1 Volunteers plant a tree in the Queensbridge Houses complex on Earth Day, April 21, as part of the fifth annual One Thing That’s Green event. Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:00 pm | Updated: 2:41 pm, Thu Apr 26, 2012. Volunteers plant 100 trees in […]
LIC Arts Open – the festival of arts is May 12-20
It is a full blown arts festival these days, thanks mainly to Richard Mazda the tireless Shakespearean behind the Secret Theater www.Licartsopen.org has the full roster
LIC shops sue after two cars slam storefronts
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Two Long Island City stores that were destroyed in two eerily identical car crashes near the Ed Koch-Queensborough Bridge a year ago have filed suit against multiple city agencies and the drivers for damages they estimate to be in excess of […]
Jury convicts man for killing Mayor of LIC
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend A Queens Supreme Court jury found Eric Cherry, 47, guilty Monday of the September 2008 killing of Long Island City community leader Nicolas Nowillo, known as “The Mayor of Long Island City.” “The justice system did its work,” […]
Giant Rooftop Signs Move Closer to a Reality in Queens
Now, a corner of the borough is trying to find a new way to compete, vertically: giant, glowing signs visible across the East River. In response to a push from the airline JetBlue, which opened a new headquarters in Long Island City this month, proposed zoning changes are moving forward to allow the company and […]
It’s an Absurd World, So Send in the Clowns
Mr. Aziz and Mr. Cucher then perform their own folk dance, holding hands for the camera, before knocking off for the day and heading down the street toward the Manhattan skyline. Throughout, they’re dressed as clowns. The costumes, they say, are part of their attempt to wrestle with the madness they perceive underlying everyday life […]
For skeptical parents, ‘turnaround’ principal change brings hope
Vivian Selenikas, right, sits with Long Island City High School principal Maria Mamo-Vacacela, left, at the school’s closure hearing. Last week, hundreds of parents, teachers, and students crowded Long Island City High School’s auditorium for a hearing about the school’s planned “turnaround.” ON Tuesday evening, just a dozen parents attended a meeting to hear directly […]
MoMA PS1 Gets Liquor License Nod Despite Local Noise Issues
MoMA PS1 in Long Island City (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY – Hunters Point may be saturated with bars and restaurants, but local residents and members of Community Board 2 showed overwhelming support for booze being served at MoMA PS1. A joint liquor license application submitted by PS1 and the owners of M. Wells […]
School Board 30: Closing High Schools ‘A Crime’
Community District Education Council 30, which oversaw public hearings on the proposed closings of William Cullen Bryant and Long Island City High Schools, two of eight Queens schools slated for “turnaround”, passed a strongly worded resolution in opposition to the proposal at its April 19 meeting held at I.S. 230 in Jackson Heights. A final […]
Energy Use Reviewed At LICP Breakfast
The Long Island City Partnership April breakfast meeting was a forum on reduction of energy use in New York buildings. It featured a panel of speakers, overseen by Ann Kayman and George Crawford, principals of New York Grant Co. Green Partners. Since the energy-use directives initiated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration have gone into effect, […]
Citi’s Team USA shows Olympic pride in LIC
Olympic pride was on full display in Long Island City last week. To commemorate the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Olympic Games in London, Citi’s Team USA Flag Tour visited the bank’s site in L.I.C. on April 18. Paralympian Kari Miller, who plays sitting volleyball, and Olympian swimmer Cullen Jones – both members of Team […]
LIC HS Students, Faculty, Elected Officials Decry School Closings
Long Island City and Bryant High Schools are slated for closure at the end of the school year. The sentiment of the student body regarding the future of Long Island City H.S. was clear at the April 17 public hearing concerning the school’s possible closing and reopening under a different name with different faculty: the […]
Welcome Transit K-9 Unit To Long Island City
They are one of the NYPD’s most important weapons in fighting terrorism. They’re an invaluable tool in fighting crime in the subways – and have recently moved to the heart of the Western Queens community. K-9 Dan, a German Shepherd named for a police officer killed in the World Trade Center attacks, is one of […]
Officials will decide fate of eight Queens schools
Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend The city was scheduled to decide the fate of eight Queens high schools at a public meeting in Brooklyn this Thursday evening. The city Panel for Educational Policy will vote on the city Department of […]
LIC Arts Open Set for 5/12-20
The LIC Arts Open takes over Long Island City from May 12 – 20, 2012, opening with exhibitions by MoMA P.S.1, Reis Studios Experimental Gallery, andSculptureCenter, to name just a few. Remember to mark the FREE Block Party on May 19 in your calendar, and check out over two hundred Open Studios participating this year. For the kids (or the kid in all of us), the Kid’s Art Contest May […]
Stylish Hotels Sprouting in Brooklyn and Queens
Occupancy rates in the city were 85 percent last year, compared with a national average of 60 percent. And despite a tough market for financing, at least 15 hotels opened in the five boroughs in 2011 — roughly half of them outside Manhattan. From 2006 to 2011, 42 percent of the city’s new hotels were […]
Neighborhood profile: Jersey City
Similar to the development of Queens and Brooklyn, Jersey City gained traction in the ’80s when artists moved into the area for cheaper rent. Today, the coast is dominated by high-rise rental and condo towers, such as Crystal Point, which passed the 98 percent sales mark in March, according to The Marketing Directors. And, not […]
Tina Fey on the ’30 Rock’ Live Episode and the Show’s Future
Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC Tina Fey in a live episode of “30 Rock” in 2010. The first time, it’s a stunt; the second time it’s a tradition. On Thursday, “30 Rock” will once again journey from its home at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, to NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan for […]