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How to make your neighbors envy your pad for more than its space
How to make your neighbors envy your pad for more than its space Photo credit: Use color to designate an area of a loft, like here on Hope Street in Williamsburg. (Betsey Helmuth) In a city of 8 million people seemingly living on top of each other, it’s hard to believe that anyone has more […]
LIC/Astoria Chamber Sets Schedule, Hears Halloran
The Long Island City/Astoria Chamber of Commerce, in operation for more than a year, took another step toward becoming an official organization when at the August 16 luncheon meeting at the Waterfront Crabhouse, President Arthur Rosenfield announced the official filing of the chamber’s certificate of incorporation and insurance. At the same meeting, members discussed a […]
LIC Partnership Exec Director Gayle Baron To Be Honored
On September 13 at Anable Basin Bar and Grill, Gayle Baron will be presented an award and honored at Long Island City YMCA’s annual Frank Tempone Service Leader Award. Baron is the executive director of the Long Island City Business Improvement District, and the President of the Long Island City Business Development Corporation (LICBDC). She […]
LIC Pathmark Shutters; 130 Jobs Affected
With Pathmark in Long Island City due to close on Saturday, August 25, parent company Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (AP) has offered coupons to shoppers in an effort to induce them to try another AP store. AP has sent coupons valued at $5 off on a $50 or more purchase and several single-item […]
Long Island City Pet Photographers Make Canines Shine
LONG ISLAND CITY — Strike a paws! Long Island City dogs — who already have plenty of canine day care centers and dog-friendly restaurants — now have their very own photographers. Two animal lovers, Junenoire Mitchell, 32, and Arianys Wilson, 27, founded KiKi LIC Photography, which specializes in pet photography (Kiki was the name of […]
New York Premiere of Multilingual Musical Rent A White Guy Will Feature Holly …
New York Premiere of Multilingual Musical Rent A White Guy Will Feature Holly Chou, Mara Measor and More By Michael Gioia22 Aug 2012 Fish Out of Water Productions, which features works from Americans living abroad, will present the New York premiere of Rent A White Guy, a multilingual musical fable about the life of foreigners […]
Union Leaders Unite to Help Wantagh Girl’s Battle with Terminal Disease
Sophia’s Cure Foundation, a local charity dedicated to finding a cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a terminal and aggressive disease that affects young children, raised nearly $100,000 at a fundraiser in Long Island City last Thursday. The event, which was attended by many from the area’s real estate industry, was the latest by the […]
Astoria Residents To Try Out Pedestrian Plaza For One Day
ASTORIA — A Department of Transportation plan to build a pedestrian plaza on busy strip of Newtown Avenue in Astoria has been drawing both fierce opposition from local business owners and praise from residents. So this Saturday, DOT wants Astorians to see what it would be like if the plaza – designed in part to […]
Pet Photographers Make LIC Canines Shine
LONG ISLAND CITY — Strike a paws! Long Island City dogs — who already have plenty of canine day care centers and dog-friendly restaurants — now have their very own photographers. Two animal lovers, Junenoire Mitchell, 32, and Arianys Wilson, 27, founded KiKi LIC Photography, which specializes in pet photography (Kiki was the name of […]
‘Floating Garden’ Coming to Long Island City
LONG ISLAND CITY — Corn stalks and pear trees growing in the middle of the East River? One New Yorker says it’s possible — and he is building what he calls a “floating garden” off Long Island City to prove it. This weekend, Karim Ahmed, 22, an architecture student at The Cooper Union, will plant sunflowers, kale […]
New York graffiti haven braces for gentrification
by Sebastian Smith NEW YORK, Aug 22, 2012 (AFP) – Graffiti artists are used to escaping cops, jumping from roofs, and dodging trains, but New York painters who turned an abandoned factory into a street art legend now face their real nemesis: gentrification. 5Pointz in the borough of Queens is one of the city’s most […]
RENT A WHITE GUY Receives NY Premiere This September
Rent A White Guy, a new multilingual musical fable about life for laowai (foreigners) living in China, will get its New York premiere at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City this September. Rent A White Guy chronicles firsthand fish-out-of-water experiences through scenes and songs in English and Chinese (with English supertitles) and will be […]
Queens Music Startup Shares Playlists Picked by Celebs
LONG ISLAND CITY — It’s a high note for Songza. The free LIC-based Internet music startup that streams playlists matching listeners’ moods and activities recently sparked the interest of some of the biggest names in the biz, including Justin Bieber and Ke$ha who have created playlists for its listeners. Songza, owned by a group of […]
Made in Harlem? City College Gets an Incubator Devoted to Devices
Grove grad shells out $1M. to make it happen. Mr. Zahn. (Photo: CCNY) We thought manufacturing had departed New York for the foreseeable future, and yet suddenly there’s a building boom right here in the five boroughs. Shapeways is building a factory out in Long Island City; now City College’s Grove School of Engineering is getting […]
LIC Woman Sentenced for $1.3 Million Ponzi Scheme
LONG ISLAND CITY — A Long Island City woman was sentenced Monday to three to nine years in prison for stealing more than $1.3 million from 30 people in a “Ponzi” scheme that cost some residents their life savings. Between 2003 and 2008, Ibis Febles, 66, targeted the Latino community in Queens, with the help […]
Youth Cycling Programs Mix Health, Empowerment and Advocacy
Last January, over 200 bicyclists and bicycle advocates gathered in Manhattan to discuss the future of youth bicycle advocacy, education and safety. Not only was the second annual Youth Bike Summit about young people and bikes, most of its participants, including its keynote speaker, were young people themselves. The youth weren’t just swapping stories about […]
LIC incubator home to healthy dog treats
Nicole Townsend’s business out of Long Island City’s Entrepreneur Space, Spoil Me Rotten Dog Biscuit Co., sells organic and healthy treats for canines wholesale to stores and online. Photo by Yinghao Luo By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers Manhattanite Nicole Townsend has two furry friends to thank for her business, out of Long Island City’s Entrepreneur […]
PSAL set to launch redesigned, user-friendly website
The PSAL website is undergoing an overhaul that will make the league’s (WWW.PSAL.org) more user friendly than its current version. The largest high school sports organization in the country unveiled a beta version of the new site Monday morning at its Long Island City offices. It is expected to go live to the public in […]
Fancy Revel Hotel & Casino Floundering In Atlantic City
Monday, August 20, 2012, by Scott Solish Things aren’t looking so rosy for the Revel Hotel and Casino, which features restaurants and nightclubs from some of New York’s biggest players. Just a few months after its glitzy launch, the hotel is missing its revenue expectations by a large margin, ranking 8th among Atlantic City resorts […]
Man Fatally Struck by Bus Near BQE in Queens Updated August 20, 2012 4:27pm
QUEENS — A veteran Brooklyn truck driver and grandfather of five was struck and killed by a bus on a Woodside street near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Monday morning, officials said. The victim, Thackoo “Tony” Hargobin, 52, of Canarsie, was struck at 25-60 Borough Pl., near 50th Street just before 9:30 a.m., the FDNY said. Witnesses […]