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Restaurant Review: M. Wells Dinette at MoMA PS1
Robert Caplin for The New York Times M. Wells Dinette is a cafeteria in MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Almost everything about the dining room suggests a classroom. More Photos » WHEN M. Wells, a tin-can diner on a windswept corner of Long Island City, Queens, closed in the summer of 2011, its […]
Class, Take a Seat. And a Fork.
Robert Caplin for The New York Times M. Wells Dinette is a cafeteria in MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. Almost everything about the dining room suggests a classroom. More Photos » WHEN M. Wells, a tin-can diner on a windswept corner of Long Island City, Queens, closed in the summer of 2011, its […]
Reed’s Announces New Distribution Throughout New York Metro Market
Home » News » Reed’s Announces New Distribution Throughout New York Metro Market November 20, 2012 1:39 pm LOS ANGELES, CA – Reed’s, Inc. (NASDAQ: REED), maker of the top-selling sodas in natural food stores nationwide, announced today that Abraham Natural Foods Corp. will be distributing their new Reed’s Culture Club Kombucha throughout the greater […]
LIC Businesses Struggling From Sandy Look for Help
QUEENS — Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, The Waterfront Crabhouse, a landmark seafood restaurant on the Hunters Point waterfront, still has no electricity. Tony Mazzarella, who founded the famed eatery in 1977, estimated the damage from the monster storm at about $150,000, but the extent of the destruction remains unknown. “We can’t […]
The art of riding in New York City
Art infuses the bicycling experiencein New York City.(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) As you might have noticed, there were many things I liked about riding through the streets of New York. While envious of their bike-specific infrastructure, one aspect of the New York City bicycling experience that might get easily overlooked by engineers and planners is […]
GIANT PARTNERS WITH BIG APPLE BICYCLE GROUPS TO ‘RIDE NYC …
Giant Bicycle USA, headquartered in Newbury Park, CA, is donating 100 bikes to people in the New York City areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. “Ride NYC Forward” is a partnership effort between Giant and two New York bicycle advocacy groups—Transportation Alternatives (http://www.transalt.org/) and Recycle-A-Bicycle (http://www.recycleabicycle.org/)—to improve mobility among residents in the stricken areas. Giant […]
Adore Floors of Long Island Contributes to Rebuilding Long Island, New York City
Browse Home / Business / Adore Floors of Long Island Contributes to Rebuilding Long Island, New York City Adore Floors Contributes to Rebuilding Long Island New York City with Hurricane Recovery Program (Farmingdale, N.Y.) – With Adore Floors of Farmingdale, NY, the world’s leading manufacturer of Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) flooring headquartered on Long Island, it is […]
No Longer An Isle of Paradise in Long Island Sound [VIDEO]
With temperatures in the 40s made cooler with a brisk breeze under partly sunny skies, Greenwich officials joked they were embarking on the proverbial “three-hour tour” of television’s “Gilligan’s Island.” In reality, it was a 90-minute tour of Greenwich’s Island Beach to view the devastation of Hurriance Sandy on Friday. Clad in winter jackets, […]
Sandy’s effect on waterfront real estate
Most of the luxury high-rises along the western Queens waterfront didn’t flood or lose power — but they may be the latest victims of Superstorm Sandy. Potential buyers, insurers and banks may now be reluctant to invest in prime Long Island City real estate located in hurricane evacuation Zone A, real estate experts said. But […]
On the Waterfront
Sandy has triggered a public debate about how to protect the city in the future given the growing consensus that powerful storms and sea level rise are inevitable. But who will be protected? And who will pay? Gov. Andrew Cuomo thinks New York City needs floodgates. Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks other drastic measures have to […]
City Extends Gas Rationing Through Friday
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is extending the gas rationing system in New York City through the Thanksgiving holiday. He announced Sunday that the odd-even license plate system would be in effect through Friday. Bloomberg said that with 30 percent of stations still closed and a major travel week coming up, the extension would make sure there […]
New York cracks down on price-gouging in Sandy’s aftermath
New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman has put 13 gas station operators on notice that the state is investigating them for allegedly taking advantage of needy customers and inflating prices in the days after Superstorm Sandy. The notices, sent out Thursday, alert the business owners that the state is beginning to enforce its price-gouging laws, […]
Hurricane Sandy reveals fissures in New York
The world didn’t need reminding that the New York area would get up and brush itself off from Hurricane Sandy. New Yorkers certainly didn’t need to be told, and met the disaster’s challenges and terrors with typical grit, grace and fortitude. But Sandy, which hit Oct. 29, made the city feel different. The ability to […]
Hall Structured Finance Closes $27 Million in Deals
With three real estate loans totaling $26.75 million, Hall Structured Finance is on its way toward its goal of originating more than $100 million in new loans during the next 12 months. The three deals include a 128-room hotel in Long Island City, N.Y., a 118-room hotel in Charlotte, N.C., and a 14,600-square-foot retail center […]
Queens Man Arrested In Jasper Johns Sculpture Fraud
Brian Ramnarine, who owns a foundry in Long Island City, was arrested yesterday for allegedly claiming that a sculpture was by Jasper Johns and selling it for $11 million. It appears that Johns himself gave Ramnarine the mold in 1990 to make a wax cast for his 1960 “Flag” sculpture, but investigators say Ramnarine never […]
Attorney General Targets 13 Gas Stations Accused Of Gas Gouging
With the post-Hurricane Sandy gas shortages finally starting to subside (rationing ends in Long Island at midnight, but is still in effect in NYC) the government is starting to crack down on fuel peddlers who tried to make an extra buck amidst the crisis. Yesterday New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office announced that […]
Queens-Midtown Tunnel is open to all traffic
NEW YORK (AP) — The Queens-Midtown Tunnel is now open to all traffic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says trucks are now allowed. The tunnel reopened to cars on Nov. 9. It was severely flooded during Superstorm Sandy. The tunnel under the East River is a major connection between midtown Manhattan and Queens. It carries about 78,000 […]
Big Heart of Queens
Except for a day or two without electricity, the northern half of Queens suffered relatively little from Hurricane Sandy, but for two weeks people from Long Island City to Bayside have been doing what they could to help families in Belle Harbor and other communities devastated by winds, floods and fire. In Bayside, Thomas and […]
Authorities Cast Queens Foundry Owner as Forger
Brian Ramnarine’s foundry in Long Island City was so well-known among artists for its excellent work that Jasper Johns entrusted the owner in 1990 to make a wax cast of the mold for his famous 1960 metallic collage “Flag.” On Thursday, Mr. Ramnarine, 58, was indicted on charges he used Mr. Johns’s mold to surreptitiously […]
State Accuses 13 New York Gas Stations of Price-Gouging
Thirteen gas stations in New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester County are being hit with civil price-gouging charges in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, said. New York business law defines price-gouging as selling goods for “an unconscionably excessive price” during an “abnormal disruption of the […]