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Eleven years ago today, I received a note from the main office at my school in Los Angeles, California. When I arrived at the office, I was told to return a phone call from a family friend who was watching my sister and me while my mother was away at a wedding. She was scheduled […]

Join M. Wells’s Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, in conversation with Adam Gopnik, for a one-night-only multi-course meal with wine. Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis opened the Quebeco-American diner M. Wells, in Long Island City, in 2010. The restaurant was named one of the top new restaurants of 2011 by the Times and Bon Appetit, […]

LONG ISLAND CITY — Summer may be ending, but that doesn’t mean the party’s over. Lunch Beat LIC — the lunchtime dance fest that gives office workers the chance to bust a move during their midday break — is returning to Long Island City with a new spot and a new DJ. Bulgarian-born Joro-Boro will […]

Photo courtesy Jimmy Van Bramer Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer throws the first pitch for the Long Island City YMCA’s Youth Basketball League. The councilman gave $50,714 to the YMCA of Greater New York for its sport programs through his discretionary funding. Photo courtesy Van Bramer By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer […]

NEW YORK CITY BALLET The season opens with a celebration of a partnership that transformed dance—the collaboration of Balanchine and Stravinsky. On opening night, Sept. 18, the company performs three pieces that display the two artists’ unity of vision: “Apollo” (1928), “Orpheus” (1948), and “Agon” (1957). “Apollo,” originally made for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a […]

<!– [component:byline] –> Ever wonder how people from other places got to your town to live or work, or both. There’s an interesting couple who can be found every day but Sunday at 540 Winsted Rd., Torrington — Nelson and Ginger Gonzalez. There is nothing at all wrong with Harwinton but the rural setting and […]

Tonight on HGTV Home By Novogratz the husband and wife team transform a plain Long Island City living room into an amazing space for the family. Tonight HGTV Home By Novogratz visited Long Island City to maximize the living room space in a two-bedroom Queens apartment. The Koch family wanted to turn their squared off […]

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LONG ISLAND CITY — It’s going to be a beauty salon like no other — with painters giving manicures, sculptors doing hair and conceptual artists applying makeup. There will also be body painting and tattoos during the first-of-a-kind Pearly’s Beauty Shop, a pop-up salon and fundraising party that Brooklyn-based artist Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, […]

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (PIX11)— Detectives try to figure out if the second fatal encounter in less than three days at New York City gas stations was a brutal beatdown, or if it was an act of self defense.   The latest incident was at a Gulf station on Van Dam Street in Long Island […]