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New boro coalition holds second tech meetup in LIC
Photo by Rebecca Henely Participants in the second Queens Tech Meetup in Long Island City participate in a tug-of-war. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers The nonprofit Coalition for Queens once sought to bring an applied sciences campus to the borough. Now it is teaching people about the technology already here. Queens Tech Meetup, the coalition’s […]
New division of LI PR firm to focus on NYC restaurants
Get the latest news and trends on Long Island companies and the people behind them. Long Island PR guru Steve Haweeli is packaging his company’s expertise and making it more affordable to restaurateurs in New York City. Haweeli’s East Hampton company, WordHampton Public Relations, is launching a new division called Metro Restaurant Marketing, the company […]
Janitor Offers Teen $100 To Suck Her Toes, Gets Fired
Harley Joseph (pictured) has been canned from his job as a high school janitor after allegedly offering a high school student “as much money as she wanted” to suck on her toes, the New York Daily News reports. The 29-year-old maintenance man at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, was canned in February. […]
College Janitor Fired After Repeated Attempts to Suck High School Girl’s Toes
The 29-year-old maintenance man first tried to get a lunch date with a girl from a high school on LaGuardia Community College‘s campus in Long Island City, Queens. The girl declined, but investigators said Harley Joseph persisted earlier this year when he approached the girl and told her she had “nice feet,” and then offered […]
Aerial Yoga Brings Workout Enthusiasts to New Heights
ASTORIA — It’s downward-facing dog — only up in the air. Aerial yoga, which features students contorting their bodies in fabric hammocks while dangling above the ground, is gaining popularity among yoga practitioners in the city, enthusiasts said. “The interest is growing, and people really like it,” said Kristina Santos, manager at OM Factory, a […]
Free and Cheap in New York City for August 5, 2012
AROUND AND AROUND WE GO . Bring the kids to “Children’s Day at the Carousel” at the Staten Island Greenbelt. Featuring free games and entertainment. 2 p.m.-5 p.m. $1.50/ride. 2 Eton Place, Staten Island. (718) 477-0605. SKATE YOUR GROOVE THING . Dust off your John Travolta-esque suit and head down to the Brooklyn Lyceum for […]
The Jonah Lehrer scandal makes us question journalistic ethics in a mash-up …
Listen Now [22 min 37 sec] Thos Robinson/Getty Images Science writer and contributer to Radio Lab, Jonah Lehrer attends the “You and Your Irrational Brain” panel discussion at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City in conjunction with the World Science Festival on May 29, 2008 in New York City. Best selling author and journalist […]
Dianna Cohen, Daniel Irom
Dianna Sue Cohen and Daniel Jacob Irom are to be married Sunday at the Foundry, an events center in Long Island City, Queens. Rabbi Robert Muhlbauer is to officiate. The bride, 29, works at American Express in New York, as a senior manager in consumer travel in the marketing department. She graduated cum laude from […]
College janitor booted in foot fetish
Ken Murray/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Fired LaGuarida Community College janitor Harley Joseph. A colege janitor offered a high school student “as much money as she wanted” to allow him to suck her toes — a perverse incident that led to his firing, city investigators said. Harley Joseph, a 29-year-old maintenance man at LaGuardia Community College […]
What are Staten Island’s Must-Try Restaurants?
Friday, August 3, 2012, by Greg Morabito [Joe Pat’s, a venerable Staten Island institution. Photo: Bess Adler]For this week’s Open Thread, Eater wants to hear about the must-try restaurants on Staten Island, a borough that doesn’t get written about on this site very much. Of course, there are tons of delicious things to eat out […]
Queens Teen With Olympic Dreams Represents NY at National Athletics Event
ASTORIA — When Jeshley Jimenez, a 14-year old from Astoria, watches the Olympics on TV, she can’t stop dreaming that she will be one of the athletes representing the U.S. in 2016 in Brazil. But for now, the slim, shy teen is focusing on another challenge — competing in the Hershey’s North American Track Field […]
‘Nerd Bus’ Proposed to Connect Tech Hubs Around New York
LONG ISLAND CITY — Hipsters have the Rockabus to shuttle them from Brooklyn to the Rockaways and now nerds might have a bus all of their own. With new tech hubs developing around the city, Sen. Charles Schumer wants the MTA to create a “nerd bus” that would connect them. The new bus would drive […]
KSW Reports Second Quarter Results – SYS
By Marketwire . Article Rating: August 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — (Marketwire) — 08/03/12 — KSW, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSW) today reported preliminary financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $619,000, or $.10 per share (basic and diluted), compared […]
Long Island City’s 21st Century Transformation
“For decades, everyone said Long Island City has enormous potential,” said Dan Miner, SVP of Business Services for Long Island City Partnership. “After years of effort on the part of the business community and the Bloomberg Administration, it’s clear that Long Island City has finally arrived.” PK Metals is an active member of the Long […]
Marriage equality embodied
The big day arrived last Saturday for City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), above center, and Dan Hendrick, spokesman for the New York League of Conservation Voters and a former Queens Chronicle editor-in-chief. After more than 13 years together, the couple was married at Studio Square in Long Island City. The ceremony was performed by […]
A look at New York’s biggest rooftop farm
Take a photo tour of the largest rooftop farm in New York City: Brooklyn Grange sits on top of 43,000 square of feet of space on two buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Brooklyn Grange has been running a rooftop farm in Long Island City since 2010, but Thursday’s was the first look at their […]
De Blasio is right to defend small business
Ticket first, ask questions later. Thatís city policy when it comes to minor code violations at small businesses, according to Public Advocate Bill deBlasio óand other officials, civic leaders and mom-and-pop shopkeepers themselves. It makes you wonder if the Bloomberg administration is actively trying to destroy small business in the city. Bloomberg gave Goldman Sachs […]
That’s one big ass fan
I was intrigued by news of an exhibit being displayed this summer in the courtyard of the Long Island City museum. Wendy is a 56-foot wide, 45-foot tall spiky, blue starburst structure sprayed with pollution-fighting chemicals. It was conceived by New York-based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and won MoMA PS1’s 13th-annual Young Architects Program, in […]
LIRR line is one tunnel closer
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority crossed the river on July 16 hundreds of feet underground and came one step closer to the completion of the East Side Access line. “We’re literally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel on completing East Side Access, the largest mass transit project under construction anywhere in […]
Nerd Alert: Schumer Calls On MTA To Create "Nerd Bus"
With Cornell set to open a high-tech campus on Roosevelt Island in a few years (with a multi-year stopover in Google HQ first) good old U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is worried that the geeks won’t be able to handle the tram or the F train. Because there is nothing really important going on in Washington, […]