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Open-Air Status Symbols
There are all kinds of envy in this town. There’s money envy against those who have more, often obscenely more, of the stuff than you do. There’s apartment envy, which often correlates closely with money envy. There’s career envy, relationship envy, school envy; indeed, New York has devised an almost infinite variety of ways to […]
NYSDOT Invites Minority And Women Owned Business Enterprises To Certification …
ALBANY, NY (05/14/2012)(readMedia)– New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald today invited Minority- and Women Owned-Business enterprises (M/WBE) to participate in a certification workshop hosted by NYSDOT in connection with the Kosciuszko Bridge replacement project. The workshop will be held Tuesday, May 15, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the 5th floor […]
Itskowitch, Woods To Speak At Ring 8
NEW YORK, NY (May 14, 2012) – Tomorrow night’s (Tuesday, May 15, 7 PM / ET) special guest speakers at the Ring 8 monthly meeting, held at the historic Waterfront Crabhouse in Long Island City, will be David Itskowitch, COO of Golden Boy Promotions, and award-winning boxing writer Mike Woods. In 2007, Itskowitch was selected […]
Real Rosie the Riveters recall WWII’s home front
With her rolled-up, ready-to-go sleeves, Esther Horne recalls the famous Rosie herself. Horne helped keep the U.S. working during the war at Gossack’s Machine Shop in Queens. Esther Horne clearly remembers the smell. “We worked in a constant spray of turpentine and we stank,” she says of her time in a Queens machine shop while […]
Despite lawsuits, DOT work, off-ramp still unsafe
Two cars crashed into storefronts near the Ed Koch-Queensborough Bridge within nine days of each other last year. A stretch of street – proven unsafe for cars, pedestrians and even storefronts – has “struck” again. Following three crashes in as many months in 2011, another car accident occurred on May 1 at the off-ramp of […]
MAP: New York City Sites 420 Bike Share Locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and …
New York City has made live its draft maps of bike share stations. The stations dot all of Manhattan south of Central Park, Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, and Clinton Hill. (See here, for why they won’t be in other neighborhoods.) The full maps are here and explanation of costs here. The […]
Sweetleaf Expands to Brooklyn
May 14, 2012, 11:40 am OLIVER STRAND Sweetleaf opened a coffee shop Monday on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. It’s the second location for Sweetleaf, which has a devoted audience in Long Island City, and the latest addition to the growing Williamsburg coffee scene: Blue Bottle Coffee, Toby’s Estate Coffee and a number of other serious […]
Drunk Driver Charged in Sunnyside Pedestrian Death
SUNNYSIDE — Police have arrested and charged a driver they believe struck and killed a young man while driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning in Queens. Sayesh Avedis, 58, of East New York in Brooklyn, faces charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and driving while intoxicated, police said. Cops responded to a call […]
Raimondi’s PSAL softball seeding reaction
1:40 AM, May 13, 2012 ι By MARC RAIMONDI Softball wasn’t on my mind Saturday afternoon. I was at York College covering the PSAL boys volleyball quarterfinals. Then my phone blew up. Calls. Texts. Tweets. E-mails. All PSAL softball coaches upset with the seeding following the meeting held Saturday morning. Two said it was the […]
FreshDirect’s rotten Bronx deal
SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS FreshDirect will get $127.8 million to come to the Bronx, but it won’t deliver to most of the borough. I recently moved to Crown Heights. FreshDirect delivers to my apartment, and I was offered a promotion to try the online grocery service that has become popular since starting to serve New York in […]
Sarah Thein, Owen Weber
Sarah Perla Thein and Owen William Weber are to be married Sunday evening at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City, Queens. Cantor Miriam Eskenasy is to officiate. The bride, 29, is the executive assistant to the director of the Frick Collection in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College and received […]
Long Island Native John Tesh Returns Home with Big Band in Tow
Mention John Tesh’s name to anyone outside of Long Island and you would probably get a quizzical look. The Long Island born, Garden City-reared musician has had stints on Entertainment Tonight, as a newscaster and a fieldman at numerous Olympics games before giving it all up to pursue a career in music – snagging a […]
‘Hipster’ influx pulls city gaze westward
Inspectors from the city Department of Buildings inspect the damage done by a car that crashed through a Howard Beach Blockbuster. Photo courtesy Nat Roe By Joe Anuta TimesLedger Newspapers Hipsters who are moving into the neighborhoods of western Queens are pulling inspectors from the city Department of Buildings away from their usual hot spots […]
PSAL baseball roundup: Tottenville tops MSIT, clinches 28th straight division …
Tottenville still owns Staten Island A – despite starting in a major hole. The Pirates, who were handed down three forfeits early in the year for using players not on the active roster, clinched a 28th straight division title on Friday with a 6-2 win at McKee/Staten Island. Matt Tanzi went the distance, struck out […]
What $1700 Can Rent You Around New York City
Friday, May 11, 2012, by Jeremiah Budin Welcome back to Curbed Comparisons, a column that explores what one can rent for a set dollar amount in various New York City neighborhoods. Is one man’s studio another man’s townhouse? Let’s find out! Today’s price: $1,700/month. You asked for it, and now you’re going to get it. […]
British attorney held on $2M bail on NY tax charge
NEW YORK — Bail was set at $2 million and home detention with electronic monitoring was ordered Friday for a British attorney arrested and accused of advising the family of a former top Fidelity Investments executive how to dodge U.S. taxes by hiding millions of dollars overseas. Michael Little, 61, of Hampshire, England, was likely […]
Cork Association in New York hold Titanic memorial
The County Cork Association of New York hosted a commemoration and fundraising event of the Titanic on Sunday April 29th, at the Cork Hall, in Long Island City, Queens. The event memorialized the passengers who boarded the Titanic at Cobh/Queenstown, mostly emigrants who came from all over Ireland. Approximately 75 per cent were lost […]
Queens Pop-Up Market Features Award-Winning Delicacies
Katrina Schultz Richter is the founder of the Queens County pop-up market. (Alexander Richter) SUNNYSIDE — Get your sweet — and savory — tooth ready. A pop-up food market is coming to Sunnyside this weekend, just in time for Mother’s Day, featuring a smorgasbord of artisanal foods and delectable offerings, including the winner of the “Best Dessert” […]
LIC Arts Open Fest to Celebrate Local Talent
Donna Levinstone in her Long Island City studio. (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY — More than 300 Long Island City artists will show off their work at 55 local venues during the second annual LIC Arts Open, a festival that aims to emphasize the neighborhood’s place on New York’s art map. The festival, which runs […]
INSIDE LACROSSE: Farrell unbeaten in league, eye NYCHSAA crownon
Monsignor Farrell set a few lofty yet simple goals when the season began: go undefeated in league and win a city title. “We put a big star on our regular-season games,” coach Steve Lyman said. “Anytime we are playing our league games we want to win them. … That really drives us.” The Lions still […]