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Three Questions: NobleStrategy CEO built a business and then wrote a book about it – The Star-Ledger
William Parrish achieved more in 500 days with his construction management firm than most companies do in years. Parrish, of Maplewood, is president and CEO of NobleStrategy. The firm serves as an owner’s representative on construction projects. It focuses on program and project management, sustainable design and construction practices, and emerging contractor development and mentoring, […]
$7M pension HQ running on empty
EXCLUSIVE It’s a $7 million waste of space — and taxpayers are picking up the tab. The city’s largest pension system has blown $2.5 million on rent for an emergency backup office that has sat empty and unusable for six years. And it’s sinking another $4.7 million into renovating the 27,000-square-foot “disaster recovery site” in […]
Sara Friedlander, Matthew Siegel
Opinion » Draft: Readers’ Sentence Selections In response to an essay on subjects and predicates, readers sent in some of their favorite sentences.
Want a Cab? He Owns the Keys
By 4 a.m., Mr. Wissak is on duty, working as the dispatcher within the gritty confines of 55 Stan, his yellow-cab company on Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens. With 140 medallion cabs, 55 Stan is one of the larger fleets in the city, and under a less-experienced dispatcher, the busy pre-sunrise shift change […]
Spaghetti Alla Carbonara at Testaccio Ristorante
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — This week, we take you out for some Italian food at Testaccio in Long Island City on Long Island. Carlo Bordone opened Testaccio with his partners in 2009. The menu features Italian dishes such as pastas, pizza and seafood as well as Roman specialties like oxtail, artichokes, and Spaghetti Alla […]
News: Seldin vs Hall; Ocasio-Sosa; Joe DeGuardia
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (March 22, 2012) “The Hebrew Hammer” Cletus Seldin heads back to the ring on Saturday, March 31st at Star Boxing’s ROCKIN’ FIGHTS 3, at The Paramount in Huntington, Long Island. The 25-year-old Seldin has turned heads in the New York City area with his stunning knockouts in his last three bouts, […]
M. Wells Returns to LIC at MoMA PS1 in May
Escargot and bone marrow, with shallots and red wine puree at M. Wells Diner. (Flickr/Wally Gobetz) QUEENS — When the cult favorite M. Wells Diner closed in Long Island City at the end of August, foodies across the city lamented the loss of its escargot and bone marrow, foie gras grilled cheese and tortilla espanola […]
NYS Federation Class A boys tournament preview
ALBANY — NYPost.com boys basketball beat writer Zach Braziller breaks down this weekend’s New York State Federation Class A tournament at the Times Union Center in Albany. To follow our interactive live blog, click here. SCHEDULE Friday 6:45 p.m. – Brooklyn Collegiate vs. Long Island Lutheran 8:30 p.m. – Iona Prep vs. Harborfields Saturday 7:30 […]
$3M from HUD to help ‘green’ up older NYC housing
Energy experts will test new, energy-saving approaches in older multifamily housing developments in the New York City region with a $3 million, two-year grant. The project is led by the not-for-profit Community Environmental Center (CEC) of Long Island City, and in partnership with Cornell and Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City (CUCE-NYC), and other organizations. […]
Cletus Seldin vs. Marcus Hall on 3/31
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (March 22, 2012) “The Hebrew Hammer” Cletus Seldin heads back to the ring on Saturday, March 31st at Star Boxing’s ROCKIN’ FIGHTS 3, at The Paramount in Huntington, Long Island. The 25-year-old Seldin has turned heads in the New York City area with his stunning knockouts in his last three bouts, […]
All Hailing the G’s Five
The much-maligned G train is getting an awful lot of lovin’ these days. Defenders of the G, famed for being the city’s only subway line that doesn’t enter the center of the universe that is Manhattan, are out in full force. Forget that it’s only four cars long. Forget that there’s no conductor sometimes. Forget […]
$3M from HUD to help ‘green’ up older NYC housing
Energy experts will test new, energy-saving approaches in older multifamily housing developments in the New York City region with a $3 million, two-year grant. The project is led by the not-for-profit Community Environmental Center (CEC) of Long Island City, and in partnership with Cornell and Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City (CUCE-NYC), and other organizations. […]
Van Bramer talks schools, LIC’s growth
In a conversation with the Queens Chronicle’s editorial staff this month, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) focused on the rapid development of Long Island City and the need for more schools as major issues facing his district now and in the future. The councilman, who worked as the chief external affairs officer for the Queens […]
MS-13 and Latin King violence stirs in the inner city
After making a murderous run out on Long Island, city authorities are very leery of MS-13’s movements, as the San Salvador-based clan has been active in places like Corona, Queens, and Parkchester in the Bronx, though they have yet to venture into the ’hood. An afternoon drive-by earlier this month—in which three alleged MS-13 members […]
M. Wells Is Dead, Long Live M. Wells Dinette!
The restaurant in its old digs (ChrisGoldNY‘s flickr). When it first opened in Long Island City the “diner” M. Wells made quite the splash. Critics, with one notable exception, couldn’t stop gushing about it. But then it closed after losing its lease and, despite our hopes, has yet to return. Until now! Sort of! Though […]
Gridlock Sam’s Grand Fix: How to Sell the City on Tolls
By Ted Mann Associated Press Morning rush hour traffic headed into Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge last year. Sam Schwartz, the former New York City traffic commissioner known as “Gridlock Sam,” is on a multi-year crusade to revive a left-for-dead idea: installing new tolls on the East River bridges and across 60th Street, the northern boundary […]
NY’s DiNapoli Audits Long Beach Amid City’s Fiscal Crisis
New York (STONY1) state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is conducting an audit of Long Beach (9309MF), the Long Island city whose credit rating was cut five levels in December. The audit, requested by the city, is focusing on “policies and procedures related to internal controls over cash transactions in various summer seasonal departments,” according to a […]
A greener Queens, one postcard at a time
slideshow Do you wish you can take a sponge and erase layers of smog to unveil sunny skies? Do you pass that cement-and-asphalt sprawl en route to work, and envision its potential as a landscaped area for trees and recreation? Well, your wishes may be fulfilled, as our younger generations will have some say to […]
Did Elliman arrive in LIC too late?
From left: Rick Rosa, manager of the forthcoming LIC office, 47-37 Vernon Boulevard, Adrian Lupu, manager of NestSeekers’ LIC office and Modern Spaces CEO Eric Benaim In beating the other major Manhattan brokerages to Long Island City, Prudential Douglas Elliman says it’s ahead of the curve, but at least one existing firm in the area […]
3D-Printer Shapeways Opens a US Distribution Center in Queens: Next Step …
Ms. Fisher, in her native Shapeways habitat. Shapeways, the Dutch 3D printing startup that moved out to New York after a $5.1 million investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures, has been on a steady crusade to introduce the future-facing practice of 3D-printing to the mainstream. After a year in New York, the Esty […]