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Arts Listing
The Queens Botanical Garden presents the Jamaica Estates Association Art Show “The Artist Within: The Urge to Create” on view through Sept. 30, Tuesday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Gallery of the Visitor Center and Administration Building, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Reopening after extensive renovations, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens […]
Astoria’s Popular Restaurant “Mundo” Slated to Close Soon
ASTORIA — The next few weeks may be the last chance for awhile to taste one of the city’s most distinctive blend of cuisines — Mundo restaurant’s mix of Argentinian and Turkish food. The owners of the popular eatery say they plan to close to take on a new challenge. Guillermo Lucerofabbi, an Argentinian, and […]
Astoria Pols Rally Against Proposed ‘Bikini Bar’ Updated 3 hrs ago
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 […]
Big wheel
Ours is bigger than yours! Describing it as unlike any attraction “on the planet,” Mayor Bloomberg gave the high sign yesterday to a 625-foot-tall Ferris wheel for Staten Island that will become the tallest in the world and could transform the borough’s sleepy waterfront into a thriving tourist and shopping destination. The New York Wheel’s […]
35 Long Island Sound projects funded by federal grants
By Mark Zaretsky, Register [email protected] / Twitter: @markzar Long Island Sound-based education for school kids in New Haven and other cities and the removal of a dam on the West River are among 35 projects that will benefit from the latest round of federal Long Island Sound Futures Fund grants. Twenty grants totaling $757,922 are […]
A big wheel on SI
Ours is bigger than yours! Describing it as unlike any attraction “on the planet,” Mayor Bloomberg gave the high sign yesterday to a 625-foot-tall Ferris wheel for Staten Island that will become the tallest in the world and could transform the borough’s sleepy waterfront into a thriving tourist and shopping destination. The New York Wheel’s […]
The ‘Boulevard of Death’ must be transformed, say slain cyclist’s kin
Martinez family photo Alexander Martinez, an electrician and father of three who was commuting by bicycle on Tuesday, was struck and killed by a truck on Queens Blvd. near Hoover Ave. Police are still searching for the hit-and-run driver. The family of a cyclist killed on his birthday said Thursday that the “Boulevard of Death” […]
New Hunters Point Library Is On Its Way
HUNTERS POINT — The waterfront site of the new library that will boast an outdoor amphitheater and a rooftop reading garden will be dedicated next week. During the event, “we are going to symbolically plant the seed of the library,” said Jennifer Manley of Queens Library, who noted the groundbreaking is expected sometime next year. […]
LIC school incident sheds light on PCBs
On Sept. 10, with the school year only a few days old, a custodian at IS 204 in Long Island City walked into a counselor’s office, looked up and noticed something frightening — a clear liquid dripping from an overhead light fixture. He immediately alerted school officials. The light was removed and replaced that same […]
Man Arrested for Firing Shot That Hit Teenage Girl in LIC Apartment
LONG ISLAND CITY — A 37-year-old man was arrested for firing a gunshot in the Queensbridge North Houses that struck a teenage girl in the hand earlier this week, police said. Day Bryant, a Harlem resident, was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, the NYPD said. […]
LIC Art Exhibit to Feature Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns
LONG ISLAND CITY — The works of the biggest contemporary artists, from Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns to Kiki Smith and Nan Goldin will be on display at a Long Island City art center starting this Friday. “Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection” will present paintings, sculptures and photography from the vast collection of Fisher […]
Father of Two Killed While Riding Bike to Work – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
By STEPHANIE TSOFLIAS pix11.com | @stephtsoflias 8:28 p.m. EDT, September 26, 2012 LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (PIX11)— 37-year-old Alex Martinez hustled in the Big Apple to make a life for his family in Florida. And every chance he got, his family said Martinez stopped to take it all in. “He was the epitome of a […]
Inner City Roof Farming
The idea of bringing a farm to the inner city seems to be an inherent contradiction. Nonetheless, the idea of roof farming is springing up in places like the boros of New York City. Brooklyn Grange is a roof farm located on the rooftop of a building on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens. […]
Aerosol Cans To Run Dry: 5 Pointz Out of Time, Space to Go With It
5 Pointz. (The Flooz) As the above-ground train rolls past the Court Square stop on the 7 line, a stone’s throw into the heart of Long Island City, passengers are awakened by a defiant cacophony of shapes and colors against a backdrop of the graying and decrepit Queens skyline. There, a red-brick warehouse stands proud, […]
Horse Meat on Menu Raises Eyebrows
Horse meat is not something New Yorkers are accustomed to eating, but it will soon be added to the menu at the M. Wells Diner in Queens. “It doesn’t sound appetizing to me, but that’s their prerogative,” remarked neighbor Dave Nellhaus. M. Wells opens Thursday inside the MoMA P.S. 1 Museum in Long Island […]
Father of 2 Killed in Hit-Run on Birthday
NBC 4 New York A union electrician staying with family in Queens was struck and killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in Queens Tuesday, his 37th birthday. Pei-Sze Cheng has more. Father of 3 Killed in Hit-Run on Birthday Copy Close Link to this video http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Father-of-3-Killed-in-Hit-Run-on-Birthday/171279111 Copy Close Embed this video Replay A […]
Stray bullet hits teen doing her homework
Eyewitness News LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — A teenager is recovering in the hospital after she was struck by a stray bullet while doing her homework in Long Island City. It was a quiet Sunday morning when 15-year-old Amy Sanchez was trying to take advantage of the peace and do her homework near a window […]
This Week’s Cover: Tina Fey on her career in comedy and saying goodbye to ’30 …
After seven seasons, 10 Emmys, and countless catchphrases — Blerg! I want to go to there! High-fiving a million angels! — 30 Rock will wrap up its illustrious and delightfully bizarre run early next year. To help us cope with the loss, we sat down with Rock‘s creator and star, Tina Fey, for a wide-ranging […]
Spa Offers Speedy Lunchtime Treatments With a Meal on the Side Updated …
LONG ISLAND CITY — Would you like a massage with that? Stressed-out office workers looking for a little RR along with their lunch are lining up for an offering of mini-facials, reflexology and other treatments while their food is prepared as part of “lunchtime treat[ment]s,” the brainchild of two Long Island City businesses. “When they […]
Resurrected M. Wells Diner Opens at MOMA PS1 Tomorrow
September 26, 2012, 10:40 am The beloved post- (or pre-) MoMA PS1 and SculptureCenter Long Island City diner M. Wells will reopen tomorrow inside the former contemporary art institution, right on schedule and just in time for this year’s one-week-earlier New York Art Book Fair, which runs September 28-30 and is sure to give the […]