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Hotel boom is changing Long Island City
It’s destination Long Island City. A Queens neighborhood that went from sprawling warehouses and manufacturing plants to luxury towers is now undergoing its latest transformation: as a haven for tourists. Hotel developers are capitalizing on the area’s proximity to Manhattan — and lower nightly rates — to lure visitors to chic lodges that fight to […]
Van Bramer Tours Newest School In Long Island City
On August 28, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer and Lorraine Grillo, president of the School Construction Authority (SCA), toured one of District 26’s newest schools, Academies of Film and Television/Hunters Point South Community M.S. in Long Island City. The Long Island City school is just one of five new schools currently coming online and will be […]
Your Guide to Queens Council District 22
With Peter Vallone Jr. term-limited, three are running in the Democratic Primary. In the 22nd Council District, which encompasses Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, three Democrats are running in the primary to succeed term-limted Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. Costa Constantinides, a district leader, has received a bulk of the endorsements and […]
Ricky’s opened its LIC costume store on Saturday
Sept. 3, By Christian Murray Ricky’s, the costume and cosmetic chain, opened a temporary Long Island City location on Saturday. The store, which will remain open until early November, is almost exclusively focusing on Halloween costumes. It is located at 5-27 50th Avenue (between 5th Street and Vernon Blvd) and is being operated by Long […]
Long Island City Restaurant Criticized for Allegedly Not Helping Victims of …
On Saturday night, an interracial couple and their friend were attacked outside of Long Island City restaurant SHI by a group of men who bombarded them with racial and homophobic slurs. Now, the restaurant is under fire for allegedly not allowing the victims to come back inside following the attack. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel were […]
Truck fire on Queensboro Bridge brings traffic delays
From twitter (operator911@BUFF) Sept. 2, 2:00 pm A truck caught fire at around 10 am on the Queensboro Bridge this morning temporarily shutting down traffic on the lower level in both directions. The FDNY has not yet determined what caused an 18-wheel truck to catch fire on the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge. There were […]
SUV drives into house in Garden City South
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (WABC) — An SUV went out of control and crashed into a house Saturday morning in Garden City South, Long Island. Authorities say the accident happened at about 9 a.m. at a two-story home on Kensington Road. The car smashed into a first-floor bedroom, but luckily the occupants of the home were […]
Parents oppose plan to create tech school inside Long Island City High School
Anthony DelMundo/for New York Daily News Parents are opposing a plan to co-locate a new technical-themed high school inside Long Island City High School. The city tried to close the school last year due to the its low graduation rate and flagging student performance, but the closure was blocked by court order and a new […]
Long Island City ready to roll out first batch of healthy snack
The humble chickpea is about to muscle aside legendary snack foods such as the potato and the peanut thanks to two Queens businessmen who have a big obsession with the small legume. Long-time friends David Levi and Darren Shlisky are behind Chic-A-Peas — baked chickpeas with oil and seasoning — that they churn out in […]
Long Island City attack on interracial couple not a hate crime: NYPD
Police investigate at Shi restaurant several days after the incident. Photo by Caroll Alvarado LONG ISLAND CITY — The Police Department determined an attack on an interracial couple in Long Island City was not a hate crime, cops said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit looked into the Aug. 17 attack before concluding it was not […]
Long Island City attack on interracial couple not a hate crime: NYPD
Police investigate at Shi restaurant several days after the incident. Photo by Caroll Alvarado LONG ISLAND CITY — The Police Department determined an attack on an interracial couple in Long Island City was not a hate crime, cops said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit looked into the Aug. 17 attack before concluding it was not […]
New LIC Waterfront Park Flows With City’s Plan
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday at the new Hunters Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City. The $66 million, 5.5 acre park is the first step in the city’s larger plan to develop the 30 acres of riverside property. The project includes a new school which will open for the fall semester […]
New LIC Waterfront Park Flows With City’s Plan
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday at the new Hunters Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City. The $66 million, 5.5 acre park is the first step in the city’s larger plan to develop the 30 acres of riverside property. The project includes a new school which will open for the fall semester […]
Long Island City bursts with art
W ith the change of seasons, Western Queens’ art galleries and museums gear up for their next slate of exhibitions. MoMA PS1 will be dedicating the whole museum, something it has never done, to Mike Kelley’s brightly colored installations, including his well-known balls of stuffed animals. Kelley was an American artist who died last year. […]
New Development Aims for Long Island City’s Purves Street
Purves Street might be Long Island City’s busiest block, with a few new developments definitively in progress and others in the more speculative permit stage. Brownstoner Queens has a useful roundup of all of the projects, including updates to some we’ve covered before. Here now, an overview of what’s happening on Purves Street: 1) 44-35 […]
Men fire shots at Goldfinger’s strip club
Goldfinger’s Infinity August 28, By Christian Murray The police are looking for two suspects who went into a Long Island City strip club Tuesday morning and shot two men. According to police, the suspects went into Goldfinger’s Infinity Club, a gentlemen’s club located at 51-07 27th Street (near 51st Avenue), at around 3 am and […]
Big obsession with little bean
The humble chickpea is about to muscle aside legendary snack foods such as the potato and the peanut thanks to two Queens businessmen who have a big obsession with the small legume. Long-time friends David Levi and Darren Shlisky are behind Chic-A-Peas — baked chickpeas with oil and seasoning — that they churn out in […]
Queens gets new waterfront public park
NEW YORK (WABC) — It’s officially opening day for a new park in western Queens. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held for Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park Wednesday morning. The 5-acre recreational space in Long Island City opened to the public last Tuesday. There is a sun-bathing area, jogging and bike paths. The park will […]
Long Island City’s Answer to the High Line Is Now Open
A waterfront park that includes repurposed rail tracks is open in Long Island City, sprucing up the 30-acre middle-income housing development underway in the Hunter’s Point South area. The five-acre park includes basketball courts, a children’s playground, an expansive dog run and an athletic oval. And, of course, panoramic views of Midtown Manhattan reinforce one […]
Queens’ Long Island City area gets new waterfront public park for growing …
NEW YORK — New York’s borough of Queens is getting a new public park along the waterfront. The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/16JM5xG0 ) reports that Hunters Point South Waterfront Park opens Wednesday. It extends a corridor of waterfront recreational space in the Long Island City neighborhood. The 5-acre park runs along a growing lineup of […]