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TFI Envision Delivers Integrated Campaign for Standard Motor Products, Inc.
By TFI Envision, Inc. LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — TFI Envision, Inc. was thrilled to be chosen to develop the positioning and integrated brand campaign for Standard Motor Products® TechSmart® brand. TechSmart is a unique line of products developed specifically to deliver innovative solutions for today’s technicians in the automotive aftermarket […]
Long Island Modernism
Long Island: The Sunrise Homeland, sponsored by the Long Island Assocation for the 1939 World’s Fair Long Island at mid-twentieth-century, you might have heard, was a place of explosive growth. Most of this was not very interesting. Sprawl. Tract housing. Billy Joel. They came with the island’s rapid suburban development. For a brighter look at […]
High schools that dodged closure try to woo new students at fair
A Long Island City High School student takes a break from his booth to meet an umbrella cockatoo from George Washington Carver High School. The white cockatoo perched on a student’s shoulder during last weekend’s Citywide High School Fair was just one squawking example of the lengths schools go to set themselves apart from eighth-graders’ […]
New Math Mural Adding to Long Island City’s Beauty
LONG ISLAND CITY — Call it art by numbers. Dozens of kids took to an overpass near the Hunters Point train station last Saturday to show that math can be beautiful — painting a mural of the Fibonacci series to beautify the aging structure. The kids began the rendition of the famous mathematical sequence, in […]
Great Neck Divorce Attorney Makes Two Super Laywers Lists In 2012
For the third straight year (Long Island, NY) For the third straight year, Jacqueline Harounian, of Wisselman, Harounian Associates, P.C., has been named by New York Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in metro New York for 2012. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers, […]
The Architect Behind M. Wells Dinette Rethinks PS1’s Cafe as "Pantry of Wonders"
In August 2011, M. Wells, an audacious, Quebecois-inspired diner in Long Island City, New York, bid farewell to the cult following it had amassed in just over a year’s time. Having failed to settle a rent dispute with their landlord, owners Sarah Obraitis and Hugue Dufour, the husband-and-wife duo who gave the eatery its renegade streak (and its foie […]
LIC Startup Wants Its Web App to Become New Visual Social Network
LONG ISLAND CITY — Think of it as a scrapbook, only in an online version. Storybox, a new web application designed by a Long Island City-based start up, allows users to tell a story by using pictures that they can share with friends and then watch them reorder it any way they want. The site […]
JetBlue Airways Breaks Ground on New International Arrivals Terminal at John F …
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — New York’s Hometown Airline™ JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU) today breaks ground on the extension to its world class home at John F. Kennedy’s Terminal 5 to pave the way for an international arrivals facility. Set to open in early 2015, the thoughtfully-designed space includes six international arrivals gates – […]
LIC resident pleads to girlfriend’s slay
Photo by Christina Santucci-Inset courtesy NYPD Tigran Tambiev (inset) pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend, Susan Woolf, Dec. 11, 2009. A picture shows police tape around the crime scene. Inset courtesy NYPD By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers A 46-year-old Long Island City man admitted earlier this month to a 2009 murder in which he fatally […]
‘Alienating’ good moms
Andrea Peyser Will the madness ever end? Kelly Rutherford is a celeb who plays socialite Lily van der Woodsen on TV’s “Gossip Girl.’’ But at heart, she’s just a mom. And on Friday, this hurting mother sprinted from the “Gossip’’ set in Long Island City and boarded a plane at JFK — coach class — […]
Top 10 NYC restaurant openings for fall of 2012
Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News Ganso, a Japanese restaurant owned by Harris Salat (front) and Rio Irie, is now open at 25 Bond St. in Brooklyn. DANIEL KRIEGER Grilled branzino, a dish on the menu at MP Taverna, owned by chef Michael Psilakis. He will be opening a new branch of the rustic Greek […]
Newcomers Alobar & Casa Enrique Make The 2013 Michelin Guide Bib …
Two newcomers to Long Island City’s restaurant scene, Alobar and Casa Enrique, were named to Michelin’s just-released New York City Bib Gourmands list — a compilation of dining establishments that serve two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less. Michelin notes in their announcement, “Most importantly, these are restaurants that Michelin’s esteemed inspectors would […]
Emily Cummings, Erik Nelson
Emily Renee Cummings and Erik Christaan Nelson are to be married Sunday at the Foundry L.I.C., an event space in Long Island City, Queens. Kevin M. Cummings, a brother of the bride, became a minister of the First Nation Church in order to officiate. The bride, 31, is a technical designer for Aéropostale in Manhattan, […]
Astoria To Celebrate Oktoberfest With Pig Roast
ASTORIA — Astoria will get plenty of Bavarian spirit this weekend with the neighborhood’s beer gardens planning on pig roasts, live music, beer tastings and Bavarian cuisine. “We have many events throughout the year but Oktoberfest is our top celebration,” said Lubos Spacek, general manager of Bohemian Hall, one of Astoria’s more popular beer gardens. […]
Astoria Pols Rally Against Proposed ‘Bikini Bar’ Updated September 28, 2012 8 …
ASTORIA — Astoria residents who say a proposed “bikini bar” would negatively alter the neighborhood’s character, held a rally Thursday against the venue’s liquor license application. Racks — located on Steinway Street between 19th and 20th Avenues — had been a billiards club, but now its owners want to reopen as a “bikini bar.” “I […]
Astoria Pols Rally Against Proposed ‘Bikini Bar’ Updated September 28, 2012 8 …
ASTORIA — Astoria residents who say a proposed “bikini bar” would negatively alter the neighborhood’s character, held a rally Thursday against the venue’s liquor license application. Racks — located on Steinway Street between 19th and 20th Avenues — had been a billiards club, but now its owners want to reopen as a “bikini bar.” “I […]
NYC diner adding horse meat to the menu
Read more: Local, News, Horse Meat, M Wells Diner, Queens, Dave Nellhaus, Long Island City, Horse Slaughter, Long Island, Horse on the Menu, Moma P.S. 1 Museum, Moma, P.S. 1 Horse Meat nbsp/nbspCourtesy NBC News NEW YORK — Horse meat is not something New Yorkers are accustomed to eating, but it will soon be added to […]
NYC diner adding horse meat to the menu
Read more: Local, News, Horse Meat, M Wells Diner, Queens, Dave Nellhaus, Long Island City, Horse Slaughter, Long Island, Horse on the Menu, Moma P.S. 1 Museum, Moma, P.S. 1 Horse Meat nbsp/nbspCourtesy NBC News NEW YORK — Horse meat is not something New Yorkers are accustomed to eating, but it will soon be added to […]
Even Health Dept. Isn’t Safe From Bedbugs
A single bedbug led to the temporary evacuation and fumigation of one floor of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, on Friday. The episode occurred on the 19th floor of the 21-story glass-and steel Gotham Center at the corner of Queens Plaza South and 28th Street. The […]
Even Health Dept. Isn’t Safe From Bedbugs
A single bedbug led to the temporary evacuation and fumigation of one floor of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, on Friday. The episode occurred on the 19th floor of the 21-story glass-and steel Gotham Center at the corner of Queens Plaza South and 28th Street. The […]