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MoMA’s ‘Meta-Monumental Garage Sale’ Will Take All Of New York City’s Junk …
Like this, but way, way bigger. Attention New York City hoarders, packrats and anyone doing a little spring cleaning: there’s a place where they’ll turn your extra junk into art, your trash into treasure, your detritus into dreams! Bring your “good art and bad art. Clothing, jewelry, records, plastic fruit, containers, and costumes. Literature high, […]
Gianaris Honors Lewandowski
State Senator Michael Gianaris honored Sheila Lewandowski of Long Island City’s The Chocolate Factory Theater as part of the state senate’s 15th annual Women of Distinction celebration on May 15 in Albany. Lewandowski was recognized for her ongoing dedication to local businesses, community improvement and the development of the arts in Long Island City. “I […]
Congressman, state senator express doubts about South Bronx development
Two more elected officials have expressed doubts about the use of state-owned land on the South Bronx waterfront for online grocer FreshDirect and other businesses that use trucks. But they lauded the recent announcement that FreshDirect will deliver to all borough ZIP codes as “a positive step.” Rep. Jose E. Serrano and state Sen. Jose […]
Isamu Noguchi ‘HAMMER, CHISEL, DRILL’ Exhibition Opens in Long Island City, 10/3
Hammer, Chisel, Drill: Noguchi’s Studio Practice, an exhibition that explores Isamu Noguchi‘s working methods, opens at The Noguchi Museum on October 3, 2012. Featuring a variety of hand- and industrial tools, along with photographs, select sculptures, and film footage, the exhibition will illuminate Noguchi’s practice in six of the studios he used during the course […]
Follow a Hungry Chef and See Where It Takes You
DANIEL BOULUD is inevitably drawn to an intense but basic roast chicken in the West Village. Missy Robbins craves East Village ramen. And for Hugue Dufour, only those pristine oysters in Grand Central Terminal will do. At their stoves, New York’s starred chefs are very different from you and me. But when they’re ready to […]
Guiding Hundreds of Trains, a Junction Named Harold
For decades, a standard response to delays and disruptions on passenger trains in New York City has been to blame it on Harold. That would be the Harold Interlocking, a century-old intersection of 14 train tracks in Queens, where hundreds of trains traveling between Pennsylvania Station and points east and north are sorted out each […]
Queens comedian competes for comedy crown
Comedian Andrew Hendrickson took second place in the final round at the Laughing Devil Comedy Festival. Comedian Andrew Hendrickson stepped into the spotlight on the makeshift stage at The Bread Box, a Long Island City eatery just off hip, bustling Vernon Boulevard. The restaurant was packed with locals and comedy junkies looking for a laugh […]
Do You Refer To Manhattan As "The City"?
Photo via RBudhu’s Flickr Recently a friend residing in Williamsburg said he was going to “the city” for the evening—meaning, of course, Manhattan—which raised some eyebrows when the terminology was brought to the table at Gothamist HQ. According to some fast and loose corners of The Internet, the reason that some people call it “the […]
City Islanders-Long Island to collide in second round of Lamar Hunt US Open Cup
ON DECK FOR THE CITY ISLANDERS WHO: Long Island Rough Riders. WHERE: Skyline Sports Complex, City Island. WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday. THE LOWDOWN After failing to qualify for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup each of its first three seasons, the City Islanders Tuesday night will begin play in American soccer’s national tournament for the sixth […]
Hi-tech manufacturing plant coming to Queens
Jeanne Noonan for New York Daily News Kegan Fisher, director of industrial engineering for Shapeways, which makes products using 3D printing technology and is opening a plant in Long Island City this summer. The golden age of New York City manufacturing may long be over, but that isn’t stopping one enterprising company from setting up […]
MTA: ‘Fastrack’ maintenance is coming to Brooklyn and Queens in 2013
5/21/12 news By Marc Beja MTA: ‘Fastrack’ maintenance is coming to Brooklyn and Queens in 2013 Photo credit: Atlantic Terminal Pavilion in Brooklyn. (Getty Images) Weeknight subway shutdowns are coming to the outer boroughs. MTA officials said Monday that they would bring the “Fastrack” maintenance program, which cancels large chunks of service overnight for four […]
The Lesbian Whose Dreams Are Much Dirtier Than Her Sex Life
Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Lesbian Whose Dreams Are Much Dirtier Than Her Sex Life: Female, 29, Long Island City, PR professional, lesbian, in a relationship. DAY ONE 8 a.m. In my dream, I commission my partner to make love to me in a park. […]
A New Home for an Endangered Yiddish Bookstore
However bleak is the prognosis for the language itself, the last secular Yiddish bookstore in New York City has survived a near-death experience and found a new home in the distinctly unfamiliar soil of Long Island City, Queens. The 75-year-old shop, run by the nonprofit Central Yiddish Cultural Organization, faced extinction two years ago when […]
KSW, Inc. Awarded Projects Totaling 26 Million Dollars – SYS
By Marketwire . Article Rating: May 21, 2012 08:00 AM EDT LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — (Marketwire) — 05/21/12 — KSW, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSW) today announced that it has recently been awarded two very prestigious projects, totaling approximately $26 million. The first project is the Baccarat Hotel Residences New York, a Starwood Flagship […]
New Jacks head to iS8 semis
May 21, 2012 Ravi RozierNYCHoops.net TweetLONG ISLAND CITY, NY – The best game of the day was the last one of the day at the 2012 iS8/Nike Spring H.S. Classic. The Panthers were matched up against The Rens Juniors and what started out slow turned out to be a dandy. The Panthers had the top […]
Clashing Underground
By TED MANN Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal A view of the cavernous area that has been opened many stories below Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project. On a recent Saturday, after weeks of planning, works crews were set to converge on a Queens train yard to […]
i.S.8 quarterfinals roundup: Sheppard beats Panthers, buzzer; Juice moves on
There is foul trouble and there is the scenario the New York Panthers found itself in Sunday afternoon. After guards Tarik Phillip and Melvin Johnson fouled out late in the fourth quarter, the Panthers were down to four players in the i.S. 8/Nike Spring Classic quarterfinals at the Variety Boys Girls Club in Long Island […]
Urbanite Mitchell Moss on sidewalks, subways and gentrification
3:07 PM By Sheila Anne Feeney Urbanite Mitchell Moss on sidewalks, subways and gentrification Mitchell Moss, 63, the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy Planning at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, is also the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. A member of the NYU faculty since 1973, he was raised […]
Fresh Direct Will Take Food Stamps, Deliver to the Bronx
Online Grocer Fresh Direct is expanding its delivery area to include all of the Bronx — and not just the more affluent parts. The company says it will also accept food stamps at a few select locations as part of a pilot program. Fresh Direct said it was still working out the details of the […]
CUNY Law School to Open New Location in June
This June, the CUNY School of Law will have its grand opening for its new building in Court Square, in Long Island City. The construction was announced in 2009 and it will provide the school with an extra 70,000-square-feet of space that is just steps from the MTA subway and bus lines, the New […]