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Wine And Sweets Festival Returns To Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Sugar fiends and wine snobs, get ready to indulge in your favorite vices, because the LIC Flea and Food Market is bringing back its Wine Sweets Fest for round two this summer. The Long Island City market of global eats, handmade crafts and vintage finds will transform into a wine […]
Howard Beach armored truck driver tried to steal $1.6 million money bag in Long Island City: DA
An armored truck driver from Howard Beach is out of jail after being charged with allegedly trying to steal a bag containing $1.6 million in Long Island City, prosecutors announced on Thursday. Riguerson Avril, 37, of 85th Street wound up in handcuffs on July 24 on first- and second-degree grand larceny charges, along with additional counts of criminal […]
Site-specific dance festival with a social mission returns to Long Island City waterfront
The INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival returns to four parks on the Long Island City waterfront next month. For the second year in a row, dance enthusiasts can enjoy this free, two-day exhibition, where dancers will be showcasing contemporary and urban dance choreography while advancing INSITU’s social mission. On Aug. 4-5, the LIC waterfront will be transformed into a giant stage. Performances […]
Wine And Sweets Festival Returns To Long Island City | Astoria, NY …
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Sugar fiends and wine snobs, get ready to indulge in your favorite vices, because the LIC Flea and Food Market is bringing back its Wine Sweets Fest for round two this summer. The Long Island City market of global eats, handmade crafts and vintage finds will transform into a wine […]
CityLights fighting to keep LIC tower affordable
By Mark Hallum TimesLedger Newspapers Residents of the CityLights co-op in Long Island City are pressuring city and state officials to preserve the affordability of the tower with the tax abatement on the property scheduled to expire this year. Many in the building at 4-74 48th Ave, who moved in up to two decades ago, […]
uBreakiFix Expands in New York, Opens in Long Island City
uBreakiFix Long Island City uBreakiFix specializes in same-day repair service of small electronics, repairing cracked screens, software issues, camera issues and other technical problems at its more than 400 stores across North America. uBreakiFix LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., July 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tech repair brand uBreakiFix opened its newest location, uBreakiFix Long Island […]
Related unveils new lobby, courtyard at Blanchard in LIC
Related Companies unveiled the new lobby and courtyard at the reimagined Blanchard Building in Long Island City. Located at 2110 51st Avenue, the seven-story, 220,000-square-foot Blanchard Building offers 35,000-square-foot floor plans and a social atmosphere featuring programming such as a current art exhibit curated by Samadhi Advisors, appealing to the creative and technology-focused companies who […]
Major Queens Office Tower Revealed at 23-10 Queens Plaza South, Long Island City
By: Andrew Nelson 8:00 am on July 24, 2018 UPDATE: According to architect James Davidson from SLCE, “This image does not remotely comply with present or future massing constraints available for this site and was meant merely for internal circulation, not for public view. The 1QPS full block site is built full under today’s zoning […]
Long Island City’s Chocolate Factory Unveils Season
Long Island City’s Chocolate Factory, a dance, theatre, and performance organization that recently acquired a new permanent home in the neighborhood, has unveiled its programming for the 2018–2019 season. The slate will feature new works by choreographers Miguel Gutierrez, Niall Jones, Melanie Maar, Jen Rosenblit, and Donna Uchizono, among others. In October, the Chocolate Factory […]
Another Contender for Queens’ Tallest Skyscraper Revealed at 42-50 24th Street, Long Island City
By: Andrew Nelson 8:00 am on July 23, 2018 Renderings are out for a 74-story tower at 42-50 24th Street, in downtown Long Island City, Queens. If built, the structure would be a major addition to the borough’s vertical profile, with a speculative minimum height of 750 feet, based on double-height retail at the base. […]
Permits Filed for 33-10 38th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
By: Andrew Nelson 6:00 am on July 23, 2018 Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 33-10 38th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The site is one block from the 36th Street subway station, serviced by the E, M, and R trains, and four blocks from the 39th Avenue subway station, […]
‘World’s Fare’ Passport Series brings global flavors to Long Island City starting this September
Taste dishes inspired by food from around the globe at a series of fun events coming to the Long Island City waterfront this fall. The World’s Fare Passport Series will take place on Sept. 9 and 10, Sept. 22 and 23, and Oct. 20 and 21 at 5-25 46th Ave., along Anable Basin. Each weekend will focus on the food, […]
85-Year-Old Woman Robbed in Subway Station: Police
An 85-year-old woman was robbed in a subway station in Long Island City, police said. The woman was near the turnstiles of the 46 Street/Bliss Street station on July 13 when a man started talking to her, the NYPD said. The man took the woman’s wallet out of her purse and fled, police said. The wallet […]
Yet another tall tower is headed for Long Island City
42-50 24th Street rendering via Dynamic Star Long Island City has been fertile ground for new skyscrapers for over a decade–and the biggest additions are still yet to come. Despite concerns over an apartment glut, developers are racing to send 60- and 70- story towers skyward, including the Durst Organization’s Queens Plaza Park, United Construction’s Court Square City View Tower, and Stawksi […]
City Relocates Refugee and Immigrant Job Center to Long Island City
32-20 Northern Blvd., where the HRA’s Refugee and Immigrant Job Center has been relocated. (Google Maps) July 19, 2018 By Nathaly Pesantez The city has relocated a center aimed at helping refugee and immigrants gain employment to Northern Boulevard in Long Island City. The Human Resources Administration’s Refugee and Immigrant Job Center now operates out […]
Under Construction: LargaVista Pays Homage to Its Past With LIC’s Gaseteria Building
In recent years, Long Island City, Queens, has seen its fair share of adaptive reuse projects that have sought to convert the neighborhood’s plethora of former warehouse and industrial buildings into loft-like office spaces targeting creatively oriented, tech and media industry tenants. At 30-10 41st Avenue near Sunnyside Yards, real estate investment firm LargaVista Companies […]
Infant dies after an apparently premature birth inside a Long Island City hotel
Detectives are investigating the tragic death of a newborn girl who apparently was born prematurely at a Long Island City hotel on Wednesday night. Officers from the 108th Precinct and EMS units rushed to the Days Inn located at 31-36 Queens Blvd., at 7:41 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about a child in distress. […]
UPDATE ‘Save Citylights’: Residents of Long Island City co-op rally protest tax bill in front of City Hall
Citylights residents and elected officials rallied in front of City Hall on July 17 to protest the rising cost of their Long Island City co-op. Residents of Queens’ largest affordable housing co-op demanded that Mayor Bill de Blasio cancel a “massive, unfair tax bill levied against the complex on July 1.” “When I moved to Citylights over 20 years […]
Overview of affordable living in Long Island City: 925-unit housing development, Hunters Point South – William Gati
William Gati, Architecture Studio Amid the new super high-priced luxury housing units in Long Island City is a market and affordable option: Hunter’s Point South. The essence of this project is to offer market and low-income housing to people who live in the area, are economically in need, have physical impairments, have a desire […]
Updated: Upcoming Long Island City condo will be the tallest in the borough
Long Island City will soon be the home to Queens’ tallest tower to date. On July 9, the developers of 23-14 44th Dr. secured a $502 million loan from JP Morgan, which was brokered by the New York City-based company Meridian Capital Group. The loan is the largest loan ever for the borough and one of the largest […]