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Documentary exposes homophobia in Jamaica
It took four years, cost her friends and family and almost the roof over her head, but Queens based documentary filmmaker Selena Blake got her latest project done. The film, “Taboo Yardies,” about homophobia in Jamaica, West Indies, and its costs to the island nation, is well worth the wait. It’s a powerful collection of […]
An open and shut case
The list of America’s best high schools by US News World Report puts New York City smack on top of the academic heap. There’s a lesson here for United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew. Seven of the top 10 high schools in the state are located in the five boroughs, all at the very […]
Festivals Are the Newest Thing for New Music
A fistful of festivals dedicated to new music have just finished, are happening now or are coming up. Two take place this weekend: the Queens New Music Festival in Long Island City and Look Listen at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in Chelsea. The traditional classical-music festival circuit is vast, including famous brand names like Mostly […]
Eminent domain is off the table
Willets Point business owners who refuse to leave the area are cheering the decision announced last week by the city that it will no longer use eminent domain to remove them. The Mayor’s Office told the court it was dropping the condemnation process shortly before a case was to be heard in state Appellate Court […]
Long Island small biz owners to be honored by SBA
by Claude Solnik Published: May 10, 2012 Tags: business owners, Long Island, SBA, Small Busines Week, Small Business, Small Business Administration The New York office of the Small Business Administration is honoring three Long Island business people and their firms, as well as one government employee as part of its annual Small Business Week awards. […]
LIC festival showcases a bit of everything
Long Island City art galleries and studios open their doors this Saturday for a week-long festival called the LIC Arts Open. Each day of the second annual event holds a diverse selection of art events including comedy festivals; kids arts contests; and improvisation, pottery, painting, sculpture and photography shows. One such gallery that will swing […]
At IS 204, a lesson in changing the world
Tired of drunk loiterers plaguing their neighborhood —intimidating elderly shoppers and keeping children out of parks —students at IS 204 in Long Island City recently decided it was time to take action. For the past three and a half months, 31 students from the middle school have worked with the nonprofit Generation Citizen to curb […]
Unions sue city to stop school closures
The United Federation of Teachers and the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators filed a lawsuit this week to stop the city’s plan to shutter and restaff 24 city schools by next September, including seven in Queens, saying it amounts to “sham closings” and violates labor contracts. The Panel for Educational Policy voted last week […]
Cornell Thinks Big As Well As Bold for Roosevelt Island Campus
For now, he’s focused on the challenge of conceiving a place where geniuses can hang out and swap eurekas. Mayne has plenty of experience building for rarefied thinkers: the curvy lockbox of Cooper Union, an astrophysics building for Cal Tech, a satellite control center in suburban Maryland, where a great steel truss, bristling with dishes, […]
Queens misses out on bike share plan
Banking giant Citi will be sponsoring the city’s bike share program when it begins in July, with the bank’s logo going on the bicycles and the docking stations where they can be rented. Mayor Bloomberg, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, other officials and Citi CEO Vikram Pandit announced the deal today at City Hall Plaza. The […]
Susan Bates/for New York Daily News
Goodbye, Flushing High School. Hello, Rupert B. Thomas Academy at the Flushing Campus. The city is steamrolling forward with plans to close then reopen 24 struggling schools, shedding their old familiar names and selecting new ones. Some names that have been city fixtures for decades would disappear, like Bread Roses Integrated Arts High School, which […]
Cornell Thinks Big as Well as Bold for Roosevelt Island Campus
For now, he’s focused on the challenge of conceiving a place where geniuses can hang out and swap eurekas. Mayne has plenty of experience building for rarefied thinkers: the curvy lockbox of Cooper Union, an astrophysics building for Cal Tech, a satellite control center in suburban Maryland, where a great steel truss, bristling with dishes, […]
Tenth Annual Queens Taste Held At Citi Field
More than a thousand people enjoyed Queens Taste 2012 at Citi Field’s Caesars Club which featured food and beverages from 47 vendors. Hosted by the Queens Economic Development Corporation (QEDC), the tenth annual extravaganza also included an art exhibit by Jackson Heights-based curator Zoescope, a stand up routine by Steve Hofstetter of the Laughing Devil […]
M83, Mick Taylor and Regina Spektor Play New York City
SEE MORE PHOTOS By Daniel Jumpertz Special to DNAinfo Wednesday May 9Although born and raised in Michigan, Glenn Frey made his fame and fortune as a founding member of LA folk rockers the Eagles. As their guitarist and songwriter, Frey wrote or co-wrote (often with Don Henley) many of the group’s songs, and sang lead […]
KSW, Inc. Declares Cash Dividend – SYS
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — (Marketwire) — 05/09/12 — KSW, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSW) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $.20 per share, payable on May 24, 2012 to shareholders of record as of May 18, 2012. About KSW KSW, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary KSW Mechanical Services, Inc., […]
Free and Cheap in NYC for Wednesday, May 9
‘HOME’ IS WHERE THE HEART IS. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison discusses her new novel, “Home,” with author Russel Banks at Symphony Space. The book tells the story of a traumatized Korean War veteran struggling with his return home. 7:30 p.m. $25; 30 and under, $15. 2537 Broadway, at 95th St. (212) 864-5400. YOU HEARD […]
Fourth Car Crashes Off Troubled Bridge Exit Ramp
This time it wasn’t a Volkswagen. Another car sped off the troubled exit ramp on the Ed Koch-Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City on May 1, careening across three lanes of traffic, slamming into scaffolding in front of a row of shops on Queens Plaza South and nearly striking a pedestrian before it came to […]
Two Bronx City Council members ask delay on FreshDirect deal
The food fight over FreshDirect is still raging. Two months after the Bloomberg administration approved $82 million in subsidies for the company to move to the South Bronx, two City Council members have asked the Cuomo administration to halt the deal. Melissa Mark-Viverito and Maria del Carmen Arroyo want Albany to delay the move pending […]
Seven Queens high schools to close
Some of the oldest high schools in Queens, including several that date back the turn of the 20th century, are slated to close their doors this summer. Educators said they worry the most successful programs from the seven struggling schools marked for closure will be lost when the city opens new schools in the same […]
Volleyball Preview: The Second Round of the PSAL Playoffs
The first round of the Public Schools Athletic League’s boys volleyball playoffs served up few surprises. However, the competition and possibility for upsets is sure to pick up in round two. Here’s a preview of some of the second-round games, which are scheduled for Thursday, May 10th. No. 1 American Studies vs. No. 17 Francis […]