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ASTORIA — A budding financial exec who came to New York to pursue a dream job ended up in a nightmare of domestic abuse at the hands of her boyfriend who allegedly beat and strangled her in their Astoria apartment earlier this week, her friends and cops said. Danielle Thomas, 27, started her job as […]

FedEx broke ground on its $56 million distribution center in Long Island City on June 22. The 140,000-square-foot automated distribution center is scheduled to open in August 2013. “This is an encouraging trend of businesses moving to Long Island City,” Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) said. The new facility, which has been in the works […]

QUEENS — Police are investigating the killing of a 27-year-old woman who was found with severe head trauma inside an Astoria apartment Tuesday night, the NYPD said. Cops discovered the body of Danielle Thomas at 28-25 33rd St. about 7:30 p.m., after police received a report of an unconscious female at that location. Thomas was […]

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Queens police officials this week issued a reminder to the public that, again this year, they will not be able to view the annual Macy’s fireworks display from sites along the East River in Long Island City.NYPD Queens North Borough Commander, Assistant Chief Diana Pizzuti, is reminding residents that the annual Macy’s July 4th fireworks […]

Garden City’s official village historian, John Ellis Kordes, has been named one of “Long Island’s Top Advocates for Historic Preservation and Education” by the Oyster Bay Historical Society. The Historical Society will honor Kordes at its inaugural awards reception on July 10, which will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Woodlands in […]

The Long Island City Partnership’s LICBID Annual Meeting, held last week in the Queensborough Room of the MetLife Building on Queens Plaza North, heard George Fertitta of NYC Company as its guest speaker and went through yearly elections and a financial report.  There were also civic awards for a local activist and three businesspersons. The […]

Napoli Pizza and Pasta has done it again, with its new, second location in Long Island City. Located on 36th Avenue, just at the foot of the Roosevelt Island Bridge, Napoli opened just three weeks ago to the delight of the folks in the neighborhood. Partners Antonio Petito and cousin Jerry use their family’s own […]

Sprawling across SculptureCenter’s main gallery right now is an ordinary chain-link fence that lies flat for nearly the length of the space, rises to a torqued wave, and then lies flat again. You may feel foolish to have trekked all the way out to Long Island City to see such a workaday object, but you […]

Alas, the 5 Pointz potential demolition saga looks like it’s finally nearing its unhappy conclusion. This week, David Wolkoff, whose family owns the Long Island City graffiti mecca, announced plans at a Community Board 2 meeting to knock the warehouse down by September 2013 and replace it with two high-rise towers filled with pricey residential […]