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East River Ferry reaches 1M passenger mark
It’s a popular ride. Just a year after opening, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the East River ferry has ferried 1 million passengers since launching last June. This doubles the city’s projection, which expected to serve about 400,000 annual riders. In the coming weeks, the city will launch a survey to ask passengers what […]
Long Island City Rises To Top For Bakers
by Amanda Fung, Crain’s New York Business Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012 at 2:59PM EDT Decades after the hulking Silvercup Bakery was transformed into a major film and television studio and the famed Fink Bakery was vacated due to bankruptcy, Long Island City is back in business as New York City’s breadbasket, a place where […]
Crescent Club launches in Long Island City
A collection of 130 rentals with condo-style interiors and Manhattan skyline views has launched at the Crescent Club in Long Island City, Queens. Crescent Club, a luxury building in Long Island City developed by Meadow Partners and Simon Development Group, has launched a collection of 130 rentals with condo-style interiors and Manhattan skyline views. […]
Emily Stedman – Watercolor Paintings – "Relationships Undressed" – M55 ART
Figurative paintings exploring the physical and emotional relationships between people is the theme of Emily Stedman’s first solo show at M55 Art in Long Island City, Queens, New York. New York, NY, July 16, 2012 –(PR.com)– In this exhibition of large watercolor paintings, entitled “Relationships Undressed,” nude figures posed erotically or pensively seem engaged in […]
‘Individual Spirit’: Joel Shapiro on His Sculpture for the US Consulate in …
A rendering of the bronze sculpture outside the consulate. (© Joel Shapiro/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) “Four and eight are bad in China,” Joel Shapiro explained late last month in his studio in Long Island City, just south of the Queensboro Bridge. The symbol for that number sounds like the symbol for death. “I […]
Summer Fashionistas Get Ahead With Stylish Fedoras Updated July 16, 2012 7 …
ASTORIA — It’s hats off to fedoras in New York this summer. The accessory, which decades ago was associated with detectives and gangsters, can be spotted across the city, fashionably shielding New Yorkers from the sweltering summer sun. “They don’t have a big brim in the back so I can wear it while sitting in […]
Bronx site could become city’s first outlet mall
A Manhattan real estate company is planning a Woodbury Commons-like outlet mall at the Whitestone Multiplex Cinemas site in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx, borough officials say. If those plans bear fruit, the product would be the first such mall anywhere in the city. The Lightstone Group, which paid $30 million for the […]
Summer in the City: Unique Rooftop Experiences
Bars and restaurants are popping up on rooftops all over the city, giving locals a plethora of entertaining ways to spend their summer evenings. While we love a great rooftop bar, we thought we’d give you some other options that can take your rooftop experience to new heights. 1. Brooklyn Grange is a one-acre farm […]
Long Island City Food Truck Lot Forced to Scale Back
LONG ISLAND CITY – The Long Island City food truck lot is starving for business. The lot near the CitiCorp building, which generated buzz and operated five days a week during its first season in 2011, has dramatically scaled back its hours and offerings — leaving workers, who complained about a lack of food options […]
Summer Fashionistas Get Ahead With Sylish Fedoras
ASTORIA — It’s hats off to fedoras in New York this summer. The accessory, which decades ago was associated with detectives and gangsters, can be spotted across the city, fashionably shielding New Yorkers from the sweltering summer sun. “They don’t have a big brim in the back so I can wear it while sitting in […]
Curtain: A project by Jerome W Haferd and K Brandt Knapp organized by …
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League present Folly, a new residency and commission for emerging architects and designers to produce and exhibit a full-scale project at Socrates Sculpture Park. Socrates, in partnership with the League, established the residency to explore the intersections between architecture and sculpture and the increasing overlaps […]
The year the Olympics didn’t come to Houston
One of my first assignments in the spring of 2000 upon returning to writing after seven years as an assistant sports editor was to cover the Houston 2012 Olympics bid. It was hardly the worst assignment I’ve had, if for no other reason that I was able to take a couple of trips to the […]
Queens: LI City rises to top for bakers
Decades after the hulking Silvercup Bakery was transformed into a major film and television studio and the famed Fink Bakery was vacated due to bankruptcy, Long Island City is back in business as New York City’s breadbasket, a place where the air is heavy with yeasty aromas. This summer, Amy’s Bread, the outfit that elevated […]
In New York City, farms take root on roofs
Back in the 1960s, Lisa Douglas, the Manhattan socialite played by Eva Gabor in the television sitcom “Green Acres,” had to give up her ” penthouse view” to indulge her husband’s desire for “farm livin’ .” Today, she could have had both. New York City (the stores!) is suddenly a farming kind of town (the […]
Cops hunt fish filcher
A sushi stealing ninja is on the loose in Queens. The fish fiend ripped off $1,600 in raw fish from a Long Island City Japanese restaurant on July 6, cops said yesterday. The suspected sushi swiper snuck in through the backdoor of Sushi X Restaurant near 47th Street on Northern Boulevard at 10:40 p.m. and […]
Answers to Questions About New York
Q. Scattered throughout Long Island City and Astoria, Queens, are small circular street signs that read, “Hike New York Long Island City.” The signs show a cuffed trouser leg and black dress shoe in midstride. The choices of clothing and footwear seem odd for a sign promoting a hike, at least for today’s sensibilities. Do […]
City Rooftop Gardening is Gaining Popularity
With consumers more interested in fresh and local produce, rooftop and hydroponic farms are having their moment in New York City, says the New York Times. “In terms of rooftop commercial agriculture, New York is definitely a leader at this moment,” Joe Nasr, co-author of “Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture” and a researcher […]
Astoria Lawyer Indicted for First-Degree Murder in Death of Girlfriend
ASTORIA — A grand jury has charged an Ivy League-educated lawyer with first degree murder for beating and strangling his financial executive girlfriend to death in their Astoria home after subjecting her to an unrelenting campaign of abuse, the Queens District attorney’s office said Friday. Jason Bohn, 33, already facing a second degree murder count […]
Noguchi Museum Offers Free Summer Nighttime Films
LONG ISLAND CITY — The first Friday of each month may be the best time to visit the Noguchi Museum this summer, as it is offering extended hours, free admission and films for the first time. During “Free Fridays: Summer Nights in the Garden,” visitors — apart from exploring the permanent collection galleries — can […]
Free family fun at New York City parks
Eyewitness News NEW YORK (WABC) — A fun family day is even better when you don’t have to spend a dime. Eyewitness News has details on some outdoor fun that’s absolutely free. New York City has some of the best parks and public gardens in the country, and visiting many of them can be a […]