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LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first solo museum exhibition of Matt Connors (American, b. 1973), comprising twenty-three paintings from 2008 to the present, including five new works. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, Matt Connors: Impressionism is on view on the 3rd floor of MoMA PS1 through December 31, 2012. The […]

Currently under construction, the “Factory of the Future” is en route to becoming the biggest consumer-facing 3D Printing manufacturing facility in the world, with the potential to 3D Print three to five million unique products a year on high-end, industrial size printers. At 25,000 square feet, the expansive facility will house between 30 to 50 […]

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Plus, a contest to find New York’s next top maker. The crowded presser for the factory of the future. (Photo: Shapways’ Instagram) This morning, Betabeat ventured forth to the industrial environs of Long Island City for a ribbon-cutting at what’s being billed as the “factory of the future.” Naturally, quite a few tech scene regulars […]

Minority residents from Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and Elmhurst came out en masse to last Wednesday’s Districting Commission meeting held at LaGuardia Community College to collect public comments about proposed City Council lines. They said their neighborhoods should be united to stop the fracturing of minority populations. The lines are being redrawn as mandated […]

LONG ISLAND CITY — A new neighborhood coffee shop is giving locally-sourced products a whole new meaning. Coffeed, which recently opened at 37-18 Northern Blvd., is making its sandwiches and salads with vegetables from a farm on the roof of its building run by Brooklyn Grange and plans to give some of its profits to […]

LONG ISLAND CITY — A massive 3-D printing company — which will soon be able to print as many as 5 million products a year — opened up shop Long Island City Thursday after moving from the Netherlands. Shapeways’ new 25,000-square-foot “Factory of the Future” on 48th Avenue and 30th Street, which contains a production […]

Johnson Capital has arranged a $9.5 million loan for a Long Island City hotel at 44-29 9th Street. The loan closed on October 5. The financing will replace two land and bridge loans on the property, the Wyndham Garden Hotel. It was provided by Texas-based Hall Structured Finance, which earlier provided $21 million for the […]

QUEENS — Cops are looking for three men they say assaulted and robbed a man as he entered a Long Island City apartment building. The victim walked into the building at 41-01 Vernon Blvd. at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 when three young men approached him, police said. They then assaulted and robbed him before […]

Richard Jennings’ seven minute pop-opera, The Temptation Of Tim, will have it’s New York premiere in the Harvest Theatre Festival starting November 8th. Variations Theatre Group is presenting two weeks of exciting new work at the brand new Chain Theatre in Long Island City, Queens. The Temptation Of Tim is a 7 minute Pop-Opera about […]