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Space Shuttle Enterprise Flying Over New York City (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into New York on an 747 Friday. The Shuttle soared over the Hudson River, looped back down around the Tappan Zee Bridge all the way to the Statue of Liberty, and then circled back towards Queens before making its descent into Kennedy airport. Eventually New York will house the Shuttle, […]
City votes to close seven Queens schools
After thousands of students, parents and teachers protested Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to close 24 schools across the city, including seven in Queens, the city Panel for Educational Policy voted 8-4 Thursday night to shutter the institutions. Seven of the mayor’s appointees, and the Staten Island borough president’s representative, voted to approve the plan to close […]
A Final Decision for 24 City Schools
A bit before midnight, more than three months after the idea was proposed, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to reconstitute two dozen city schools by closing them, replacing most of their staff members and reopening them with new names. Come summer, Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical High School, Herbert H. Lehman High School, […]
Space Shuttle Enterprise Flying Over New York City (VIDEO)
The Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into New York on an 747 Friday. The Shuttle soared over the Hudson River, looped back down around the Tappan Zee Bridge all the way to the Statue of Liberty, and then circled back towards Queens before making its descent into Kennedy airport. Eventually New York will house the Shuttle, […]
Seven Queens high schools to close
Seven Queens high schools had their fates sealed and doors closed by a Panel of Educational Policy (PEP) vote last night in Brooklyn. The schools — August Martin, Bryant, Flushing, John Adams, Long Island City, Newtown and Richmond Hill — will close at the end of this semester and reopen in the fall under a […]
Long Island City developer to build 7-story commercial complex at 30-30 …
Score one more for Long Island City and its transformation from gritty factory town into a live, work and play neighborhood. A long vacant building at 30-30 Northern Blvd., now just a concrete shell, will become a seven-story commercial complex by this time next year, according to the project’s developer. And a university campus could […]
JetBlue Moves Forward With Plans for Sign Overlooking East River
advertisement The Queens skyline is on track for a transformation. New rules are in the works that would allow more businesses to build soaring neon signs on nonresidential buildings in parts of the borough near the East River. The move is being led by JetBlue, which is planning the design for its new corporate headquarters […]
Two schools get reprieves before DOE approves two dozen closures
The Department of Education gave last minute reprieves to two politically-backed schools this morning – just hours before its policy panel is set to approve the closure of two dozen other schools. Queens’ Grover Cleveland HS – where state Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan is an alum – and Bushwick Community HS in Brooklyn […]
REBNY Backs Bloomberg’s Prevailing Wage Veto, But Unions Balk
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Volunteers plant 100 trees in LIC
Photo by JOSEY BARTLETT Volunteers plant 100 trees in LIC1 Volunteers plant a tree in the Queensbridge Houses complex on Earth Day, April 21, as part of the fifth annual One Thing That’s Green event. Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:00 pm | Updated: 2:41 pm, Thu Apr 26, 2012. Volunteers plant 100 trees in […]
LIC shops sue after two cars slam storefronts
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Two Long Island City stores that were destroyed in two eerily identical car crashes near the Ed Koch-Queensborough Bridge a year ago have filed suit against multiple city agencies and the drivers for damages they estimate to be in excess of […]
Jury convicts man for killing Mayor of LIC
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend A Queens Supreme Court jury found Eric Cherry, 47, guilty Monday of the September 2008 killing of Long Island City community leader Nicolas Nowillo, known as “The Mayor of Long Island City.” “The justice system did its work,” […]
Giant Rooftop Signs Move Closer to a Reality in Queens
Now, a corner of the borough is trying to find a new way to compete, vertically: giant, glowing signs visible across the East River. In response to a push from the airline JetBlue, which opened a new headquarters in Long Island City this month, proposed zoning changes are moving forward to allow the company and […]
It’s an Absurd World, So Send in the Clowns
Mr. Aziz and Mr. Cucher then perform their own folk dance, holding hands for the camera, before knocking off for the day and heading down the street toward the Manhattan skyline. Throughout, they’re dressed as clowns. The costumes, they say, are part of their attempt to wrestle with the madness they perceive underlying everyday life […]
For skeptical parents, ‘turnaround’ principal change brings hope
Vivian Selenikas, right, sits with Long Island City High School principal Maria Mamo-Vacacela, left, at the school’s closure hearing. Last week, hundreds of parents, teachers, and students crowded Long Island City High School’s auditorium for a hearing about the school’s planned “turnaround.” ON Tuesday evening, just a dozen parents attended a meeting to hear directly […]
MoMA PS1 Gets Liquor License Nod Despite Local Noise Issues
MoMA PS1 in Long Island City (DNAinfo/Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska) LONG ISLAND CITY – Hunters Point may be saturated with bars and restaurants, but local residents and members of Community Board 2 showed overwhelming support for booze being served at MoMA PS1. A joint liquor license application submitted by PS1 and the owners of M. Wells […]
Energy Use Reviewed At LICP Breakfast
The Long Island City Partnership April breakfast meeting was a forum on reduction of energy use in New York buildings. It featured a panel of speakers, overseen by Ann Kayman and George Crawford, principals of New York Grant Co. Green Partners. Since the energy-use directives initiated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration have gone into effect, […]
School Board 30: Closing High Schools ‘A Crime’
Community District Education Council 30, which oversaw public hearings on the proposed closings of William Cullen Bryant and Long Island City High Schools, two of eight Queens schools slated for “turnaround”, passed a strongly worded resolution in opposition to the proposal at its April 19 meeting held at I.S. 230 in Jackson Heights. A final […]
Citi’s Team USA shows Olympic pride in LIC
Olympic pride was on full display in Long Island City last week. To commemorate the 100-day countdown to this summer’s Olympic Games in London, Citi’s Team USA Flag Tour visited the bank’s site in L.I.C. on April 18. Paralympian Kari Miller, who plays sitting volleyball, and Olympian swimmer Cullen Jones – both members of Team […]
LIC HS Students, Faculty, Elected Officials Decry School Closings
Long Island City and Bryant High Schools are slated for closure at the end of the school year. The sentiment of the student body regarding the future of Long Island City H.S. was clear at the April 17 public hearing concerning the school’s possible closing and reopening under a different name with different faculty: the […]