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“I used to work on Wall Street. Don’t throw stones at me,” joked former business analyst Alexis Goldstein at a demonstration outside the Citigroup building in Long Island City, on June 25. Goldstein, a keynote speaker in the Occupy Wall Street movement and former vice president at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank,addressed a small crowd […]

Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. Joseph Arthur (Saturday) His Lonely Astronaut record label is well named: Mr. Arthur’s spare folk songwriting shares a solemn yet roving bend. His latest record, “The Graduation Ceremony,” is certainly more elegantly wounded than his laissez-faire alt-folk supergroup Fistful of Mercy […]

A new generation of travel-sharing Web sites matches travelers with knowledgeable locals for offbeat, authentic and mostly very economical experiences — across the globe or across town. Witness, for example, Kieren Wuest, a business analyst from Sydney, Australia, who was in San Francisco not long ago for work. On his one morning off, Mr. Wuest, […]

Efforts at prevention of West Nile Virus in Queens by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) are under way. Larviciding at standing water sites began in June and will take place again from July 9 through 11. A third larviciding is scheduled for August 7 through 9. Last year, larvicides […]

BY GREGORY BRESIGER Part three Glossy color postcard of Long Island railroad depot, 5th Avenue Station, Rockaway Park, New York. Published by S. Hirshberg, Rockaway Beach, before 1914; postmarked August 2, 1913. Image public domain “The greatest project envisioned by Austin Corbin was the plan to turn Fort Pond Bay at Montauk into a transoceanic […]

Photo by Christina Santucci An arbitrator has put the breaks on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to close seven high schools in Queens, including Long Island City High School. By Rich Bockmann TimesLedger Newspapers An arbitrator ruled last week that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial plan to close seven Queens high schools was in violation of the […]

Unionized workers with Consolidated Edison in the city were picketing outside the utility’s Manhattan headquarters Monday, as both sides planned to resume negotiations on Thursday, following failed contract talks and a lockout. About 200 union members were outside Con Ed’s Manhattan headquarters, eliciting cheers, whistles and honks from drivers passing by. Many union members wore T-shirts reading, […]

QUEENS — Firefighters rescued a construction worker left dangling five storeys high after a scaffold collapsed outside a Sunnyside building Monday, officials said. Stalyn Suauzhanay, 27, was doing facade work on a scaffold at 41-15 45th Street about 11 a.m. when the motor mechanism that supports the lift apparently malfunctioned. That’s when the scaffold collapsed, […]

Some western Queens residents are turning their noses at a plan that they say will increase the number of foul-smelling freight trains rumbling through their neighborhood. Waste Management of New York, which operates the waste transfer station on Review Ave. in Long Island City, received state approval last month to expand the facility and more […]

FILE- In this Aug, 20, 2989 file photo, a Consolidated Edison crew works to repair a steam pipe that had exploded in New York City. Consolidated Edison and its unionized workers are facing a midnight, July 1, 2012, deadline as their contract negotiations continue. (AP Photo/David A. Cantor, File David A. Cantor — AP NEW […]