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Absurdists Get Wired in Long Island City
Home To See or Not To See, Way Off Broadway Absurdists Get Wired in Long Island City Contributor Scott Redman heads to Queens for a technology-driven theater experience. Was it worth the subway ride or should he have live-streamed the performance instead? David Williams in “Die: Roll to Proceed” (photo: Frank Sun) The WiredArts Fest currently […]
Honda City in Long Island Announces Limited Time Offers on the Entire 2013 …
LEVITTOWN, N.Y., Feb. 25, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — 2013 Honda Civic and the 2013 Honda Civic Hybrid models are now available at special discounted prices at Honda City a Long Island Honda Dealership, for a limited time. Those interested in a new 2013 Honda Civic in Long Island or a 2013 Honda Civic Hybrid in Long […]
Queens Official Responds To The Voice Over Plan To Officially Change Long …
Original Post: We get it, but the term ‘Long Island’ shouldn’t carry this much of a stigma. Because it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Over the weekend, the Post reported that the powers that be in Queen’s newest “New Williamsburg” are a bit ticked off by the fact that Long Island City . . . […]
Fake car parts sold to taxis from LIC spot: Feds
By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Two New Jersey men and a Pennsylvania man have been indicted in Manhattan federal court after they allegedly sold counterfeit car parts to locations in Long Island City and elsewhere, some of which service city taxis and limousines, authorities said. Shashi Malhotra and Fadi Kilani, of Paterson, N.J., and Richard […]
New Sweetleaf Location in LIC to Serve Cocktails From Dutch Kills
Openings Closings Each week, DNAinfo rounds up the restaurants and small businesses that open and close in your neighborhood. The original Sweetleaf in Long Island City. A new Sweetleaf nearby will serve cocktails in addition to coffee. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY — A new Sweetleaf location opening Monday in Long Island City will serve […]
Cops search for LIC church burglary suspect
Police released this image of a suspect in the burglary. Image courtesy NYPD LONG ISLAND CITY — The NYPD was asking the public’s help in identifying a man who is suspected of breaking into the Friendship Baptist Church, on 38-35 12 St., on Feb. 18. The police said the rear door of the church was […]
‘One Billion Rising’ in Long Island City
LaGuardia Community College students and faculty cha-chaed down Van Dam Street on Valentine’s Day to shed light on violence against women. Roughly 30 participants, dressed in black, pink and red, learned the dance as part of the global “One Billion Rising” campaign founded by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, in which citizens rose up for […]
Man struck and killed by police patrol car in Long Island City – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
LONG ISLAND CITY (PIX11) – A man is dead after being hit by a police patrol car in Queens, prompting questions about what went wrong. It happened about 12:45 a.m. Thursday near the Queensbridge North Houses in Long Island City. Cops say officers from P.S.A. 9, which patrols the public housing project, were responding to […]
Should Long Island City Be Abbreviated to "LIC"?
A group is trying to shorten the name of Queens neighborhood Long Island City to “LIC,” mostly because they feel the current name is too long and misleading. According to Rob MacKay, the head of the Queens Local Development Corp. Tourism Council, the name change has to happen because it’s “bad for hotels, it’s bad for real […]
Judge Temporarily Halts Closure Of Long Island City Hospital
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LOL at the Plan to Officially Change Long Island City’s Name to ‘LIC’
We get it, but the term ‘Long Island’ shouldn’t carry this much of a stigma. Because it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Over the weekend, the Post reported that the powers that be in Queen’s newest “New Williamsburg” are a bit ticked off by the fact that Long Island City . . . is called […]
Cops search for LIC church burlgary suspect
Police released this image of a suspect in the burglary. Image courtesy NYPD LONG ISLAND CITY — The NYPD was asking the public’s help in identifying a man who is suspected of breaking into the Friendship Baptist Church, on 38-35 12 St., on Feb. 18. The police said the rear door of the church was […]
Thanks to Broker Switch, Long Island City’s L Haus Sells Out
Wednesday, February 20, 2013, by Jessica Dailey Sales at Long Island City’s L Haus condominium got off to a slow start, despite the many attempts to lure buyers with rent-to-own deals, free rooftop cabanas, and free closets, among other things. But last January, after four years of sales, the project rebooted, got itself a new […]
LIC Bar in Queens returns the favor from The Who
Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Clear Channel Roger Daltrey (l.) and Pete Townshend of The Who performing at “12-12-12,” the Concert for Sandy Relief in December at Madison Square Garden. One rockstar favor deserves another. After The Who donated more than $3,000 worth of sound equipment to help a Queens music venue get back on its […]
Long Island City Is Having an Identity Crisis
Long Island City is confused. (photo via NY Mag) Is Long Island City the next Murray Hill? Or the next Williamburg? Or has it gone straight from being like the old, before-it-was-cool Williamsburg to the future no-longer-cool because it’s all I-bankers living in luxury towers Williamsburg? Who knows? Definitely not Long Island City. What Long […]
LIC’s New Art Gallery
Artist Eduardo Anievas amid his work, at his new studio/gallery in Long Island City. There’s a new gallery/studio in Long Island City, featuring the work of painter Eduardo Anievas, who recently relocated his studio to an accessible space at 10-15 48th Avenue, between Vernon Boulevard and 11th Street. The Anievas Studio/Gallery is open to the […]
Retail Amenities Still Sparse in LIC’s Booming Court Square
LONG ISLAND CITY — If they build it, will the amenities come? A housing boom is coming to Court Square in the next few years with thousands of luxury apartment units planned for the Queens neighborhood, which developers and real estate agencies are touting as the next big thing. Now populated primarily by office workers, […]
neighborhood rebrands as LIC to distance itself from LI
Originally published: February 19, 2013 9:09 PM Updated: February 19, 2013 9:21 PM By MARIA ALVAREZ. Special to Newsday Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Street scenes from Long Island City in Queens. (Feb. 19, 2013) Long Islanders snicker at Long Island City’s identity crisis. The Queens neighborhood’s inhabitants already label their diverse community LIC — […]
FBI busts threesome in bogus Long Island City taxi parts ring
Three people were arrested Tuesday in a probe of knockoff auto parts that were installed in hundreds of city taxis, federal prosecutors said. The arrests took place as agents searched a large warehouse in Long Island City belonging to EY Distributors that was filled floor to ceiling with boxes of the bogus parts. RELATED: TAXI […]
Two indoor climbing gyms to open in LIC
Aaron Showalter/New York Daily News Mike Wolfert is converting a former warehouse into The Cliffs at Long Island City, slated to open in May with climbing walls towering up to 60-feet high. It will be one of the largest climbing facilities in North America. A city better known for concrete canyons and climbing the corporate […]