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Kiwanis Celebrates 25 Years, Honors Past Presidents
(L. to r.); Honoree Linda Perno, Assemblymember Aravella Simotas, Honoree Paul Vallone, Ed Babor, Honorees Mark Salerno and Edward Boladian, Club President Donna Furey, Honorees Antonio Meloni, Will Dionisio, Anthony Siano, Paul Halvatzis, Jerry Kril and Rose Anne Alafogiannis and attendee Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. at the Kiwanis Club of Astoria-Long Island City 25th Anniversary […]
Union Endorses Constantinides For City Council
UFCW Local 1500, the largest supermarket union in New York, held a press conference on September 21 to announce their endorsement of District Leader Costa Constantinides for City Council, District 22, which represents Astoria, and parts of Long Island City and Woodside. “Many elected officials talk the talk but few will walk the walk as […]
LIC Spa Offers Speedy Lunchtime Treatments With a Side of Food
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 […]
Dad killed on ‘Boulevard of Death’
A father of two biking to work in Queens died on his birthday yesterday after smashing into a truck, police said. Alexander Martinez, who had just turned 37, was on his usual commute from Jamaica to Long Island City at about 6 a.m., when he collided with the truck merging onto Queens Boulevard from the […]
Father of 3 Killed in Hit-Run on Birthday
NBC 4 New York Alex Martinez A father of three was struck and killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in Queens Tuesday, his 37th birthday. Alex Martinez was cycling on Queens Boulevard toward Long Island City when he was struck by a vehicle near Hoover Avenue in Kew Gardens, police said. The driver sped […]
Baseball’s new star witness is an old face
LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY, N.Y. — Kirk Radomski clutches the steering wheel of the white Lexus sedan, his bulging biceps stretching the seams of his black knit shirt, cursing at the driving rainstorm and the motorists clogging the highway. Radomski is meeting with the owners of fitness and body-building stores in the New York City area. […]
City to replace possibly toxic PCB lights at IS 204 within two months
The city has agreed to accelerate the timeline to replace potentially toxic lights at a Long Island City middle school after a PCB leak was found in the building earlier this month. The city Department of Education plans to finish changing all of the light fixtures at Intermediate School 204 within two months, agency officials […]
Queens community colleges fight CUNY changes
The English departments at two Queens community colleges are fighting CUNY’s efforts to reduce their four-hour introductory writing classes to three hours. The English Department at LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, passed a resolution on Wednesday rejecting CUNY’s plan to cut the hours of the school’s composition classes. The resolution also supported the […]
M. Wells Returning to Long Island City With MoMA Flavor
LONG ISLAND CITY — A long-awaited foodie hotspot is returning to Long Island City. The gourmet favorite, M. Wells Dinette, featuring a new menu inspired by French and Japanese cuisines, is opening on Thursday at MoMA PS1. The owners, chef Hugue Dufour and his wife, Sarah Obraitis, who ran their previous restaurant, M. Wells, in […]
GPS Standards Sought After Misdirected Trucks Ram Low Bridges
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. should write standards for GPS-connected devices used by truck and bus drivers to stop them from hitting low bridges after driving onto restricted roads, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said. Truckers following faulty directions by global positioning systems devices have hit bridges in New York City, Long Island and Westchester […]
Truckers Guided by GPS Said to Hit NY Bridges 200 Times
The U.S. should write standards for GPS-connected devices used by truck and bus drivers to stop them from hitting low bridges after driving onto restricted roads, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said. Truckers following faulty directions by global positioning systems devices have hit bridges in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County more than 200 […]
Fresh And Tasty Raw Horse Meat Comes To LIC Soon!
Giddy up, horse meat is coming to Queens! After what seems like ages (or maybe just a year and some change) much-loved but short-lived Canadian Long Island City diner M. Wells is coming back to us with this week’s opening of M. Wells Dinette inside MoMA P.S. 1. And hold on to your saddles, because […]
Truckers Directed by GPS Said to Hit New York Bridges 200 Times
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Truck drivers following faulty directions by GPS-connected devices have hit bridges in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County more than 200 times in the past two years, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said. The U.S. Transportation Department should investigate a “dramatic increase” in low-bridge strikes and write U.S. standards for […]
Veronica Baugh, Diana Osterfeld
Veronica Eileen Baugh and Diana Beth Osterfeld were married Saturday in New York. The Rev. Virginia VerEecke, an interfaith minister, officiated at the Park, a restaurant. Ms. Baugh, 50, is a senior executive assistant at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in New York. She received an associate degree from LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, […]
Police Look For Alleged Queens Smartphone Robber
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MTA Finishes LIRR Tunnel Connecting Grand Central to Queens Updated …
NEW YORK — Manhattan and Queens have never been closer. The MTA broke down a final concrete wall Thursday to create a new Long Island Railroad tunnel between Grand Central Terminal and Sunnyside, Queens. The tunnel is part of the MTA’s $8.24 billion East Side Access project, scheduled to finish in 2019. The ambitious plan features […]
Sandhogs join MTA tunnels in Queens and Manhattan
Sandhogs working on the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s East Side Access megaproject broke through the final piece of reinforced concrete separating newly built tunnels in Queens from newly built tunnels in Manhattan. In so doing, they created a continuous tunnel running more than 3.5 miles from a cavern 12 stories underneath Grand Central Terminal […]
Astoria CSA Forced To Move Out of Community Center
ASTORIA — A program distributing farm fresh food in Astoria has been forced to move out of a field house at a local community center where it has been located for years and will now operate outdoors, members and officials said. The Astoria Community Supported Agriculture program had been using the space at the ARROW […]
Suffering Staten Island school brings PCBs to spotlight
As its profile increases, the New York City Board of Education has to deal with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in public schools whether they like it or not. Last week, a student at P.S. 41 on Staten Island had a PCB ballast leak directly onto her. Once her teacher noticed, she alerted the authorities who, after […]
A Chance to Dine with the Chef of M. Wells
M. Wells, the celebrated diner in Long Island City with a menu that read “like a drawn-out dare,” shuttered in 2011, when the owners weren’t able to reach a lease agreement. Since then, Hugue Dufour, the chef of M. Wells and before that, of Montreal’s “temple of meat” Au Pied du Cochon, along with his […]