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Parents irate that city may not guarantee gifted and talented middle school …
Parents at two northwestern Queens schools are gearing up for a fight after the city announced students in a highly competitive program may no longer be guaranteed middle school spots. The city is considering requiring all students in District 30 to be re-tested to remain in the gifted and talented program. Students from Public School […]
LIC Marathoner Returns To Help
Former Long Island City resident Ryan Light has been selected to run in one of the largest marathons in the world, the New York City Marathon on November 4. Running through five boroughs, Light has mixed emotions about seeing the neighborhood he grew up in, for the first time since he left at age 18.Raised […]
Nude Joint Owners In 3rd Try For State Liquor License
The owners of a controversial Long Island City strip club twice denied a state liquor license will be taking their case to Albany on October 25, where the State Liquor Authority (SLA) will reconsider their most recent application.. Lawyers for 21 Group Inc. have asked the state panel to review the application for Show Palace, […]
Garden City Village Historian John Ellis Kordes To Speak At Adelphi University
Garden City Village Historian John Ellis Kordes To Speak At Adelphi University The Friends of Adelphi University Library 17th Annual Fall Lecture (Long Island, NY) The Friends of the Adelphi University Library are holding their 17th Annual Fall Lecture, “A.T. Stewart: The Origins of Garden City in 1869 and Adelphi’s Arrival in 1929,” featuring Garden […]
LIC Ice Cream Parlor Creating Obama and Romney Flavors
HUNTERS POINT — The presidential race is heating up, but one Queens business wants to keep the candidates stay cool. A popular Long Island City ice cream parlor — known for creating new flavors and naming them after local businesses and residents — now plans to enter the national debate with flavors based on President […]
Van Bramer, LIC Residents Commend New Stop Sign
Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, local families, community leaders, members of Community Board 2 and students and faculty from P.S. 78 joined the Department of Transportation (DOT) to announce the installation of a four-way stop sign on 5th Street in Long Island City. On October 12, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, local families, community leaders, members of […]
Long Island City strip club going to court to get a liquor license
The owners of the all-nude Show Palace club in Long Island City have given up trying to convince the State Liquor Authority that they deserve a license and are heading to court. The 21 Group, which had hoped to open the site as a strip club named Gypsy Rose, was turned down twice in its […]
Site of Former Sunnyside Boxing Arena Gets Recognition
SUNNYSIDE — A former boxing venue where the movie “Mr. Universe” was shot and where John F. Kennedy held a presidential rally has been recognized with a monument. The plaque was placed earlier this month in front of Wendy’s in Sunnyside, on the corner of Queens Boulevard and 45th Street, where the Sunnyside Garden Arena […]
NYC Focused on Two Meningitis Outbreaks – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (PIX11)— The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene–based now in new offices in Long Island City, Queens–told PIX 11 Monday it’s in the process of contacting local, medical facilities that may have purchased tainted medicine from the Massachusetts specialty pharmacy linked to a national, meningitis outbreak. Fifteen people […]
Four food companies moving to or expanding in Bronx
Four more food companies will move to or expand in the Bronx with city subsidies, and FreshDirect said Tuesday it will hire 200 people over the next three months as it prepares to relocate to the borough. Last week, city officials approved about $30 million in tax exemptions to help Fairway Bakery, Food Fest Depot, […]
Bayside HS girls soccer team defeats Long Island City, 6-1, with star midfield …
Throughout the season, Bayside’s girls soccer team has consistently relied on its senior midfielder, DJ Glazer, to carry it. Tuesday’s game against Long Island City proved to be no different, especially after the team got off to a slow start at home. Rebounding from a relatively slow start that resulted in a one-goal halftime lead, […]
The latest news from the USOC – October 16
Eddie Johnson (Palm Coast, Fla.) found the back of the net twice as the U.S. Men’s National Team scored a 2-1 victory over Antigua Barbuda in the semifinal round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying in North Sound, Antigua, on Oct. 12. The U.S. will finish the semifinal round on Oct. 16 against Guatemala […]
BAE RAE Delivers A New Level Of Sophistication To Contemporary Market
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Start up BAE RAE today announced its launch along with the arrival of its first collection, which is slated to hit stores in Spring of 2013. Former corporate executive, founder and designer Phoebe Kao has created a brand that offers a chic new style of […]
For Its Roosevelt Island Tech Campus, Cornell Pursues Some Cutting-Edge …
When technology changes at the speed of a microprocessor or the flicker of a screen, in the time it takes to type in a password or hit send on an email, how can buildings be created to contain all this light-speed innovation? That is the quandry confronting the architects designing Cornell and Technion University’s news […]
The Capital Grille in Garden City: First bites
The dish on Long Island’s restaurant and food scene 2:10 PM By Peter M. Gianotti The Capital Grille at Roosevelt Field already is as jammed as the mall during holiday season. The economy must be improving. This restaurant, part of a 48-branch chain, specializes in steak (very good) and seafood (often better), in a setting […]
Military History Enthusiasts at Osprey Publishing Offer Four Tips to Best …
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Artist Dusts Off Rare Skills by Hand-Painting Old Signs for LIC Businesses
LONG ISLAND CITY — Kenneth Burris has been hand-painting giant billboards and murals for many years. But about a decade ago, his rare skills were replaced by computers. Burris worked on some projects with mural artist Howie Keck and was a production artist at the Peter Max studio in the interim, but was looking to […]
LIC Gets New Stop Sign to Aid Growing Population
QUEENS — Long Island City residents celebrated the the installation of a new four-way stop sign on 5th Street Friday morning that one local politician says is the beginning of a series of steps to keep a heavily trafficked area safe. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer was joined by students and faculty from nearby P.S. 78 […]
For Its Roosevelt Island Tech Campus, Cornell Pursues Some Cutting Edge …
When technology changes at the speed of a microprocessor or the flicker of a screen, in the time it takes to type in a password or hit send on an email, how can buildings be created to contain all this light-speed innovation? That is the quandry confronting the architects designing Cornell and Technion University’s news […]
LIC businesses mourn exodus of FreshDirect
Photo by Karen Frantz FreshDirect heads to the Bronx after years of calling Long Island City home. By Alicia Taylor-Domville TimesLedger Newspapers Borden Avenue businesses said they would be sorry to lose FreshDirect, an online supermarket that has received millions in city and state subsidies to move to the Bronx for its expansion. FreshDirect delivers […]