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FedEx Packing For Move To LIC
Officials at the FedEx plant in Maspeth are making preparations for one large shipment. The international shipping giant is planning to shut down its Maspeth Ground distribution center and move it to a new, 14,000-square-foot facility on Borden Avenue in Long Island City. Construction of the new plant will cost an estimated $56 million, including […]
Hearings Scheduled For Queens High Schools Facing Closing
After a relatively quiet March 1 meeting, the Panel for Educational Policy has taken steps toward closing 33 schools at the end of the school year, including William Cullen Bryant and Long Island City High Schools. A final vote is scheduled at the April 26 PEP meeting. Public hearings for the eight high schools in […]
LICP Hears Details Of Roosevelt Island Science Campus
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel. On March 7, the Long Island City Partnership welcomed Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel to its business breakfast. In the Queensboro Room of the MetLife Building on Queens Plaza North, Steel told a large audience about the Cornell University graduate science campus that is […]
Rooftop farm for B’klyn Navy yard
From shipyard to industrial park — and now farm. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is taking “going green” to heart, opening a 45,000-square-foot rooftop farm to supply local restaurants, shops and foodies with fresh, organic produce. Brooklyn Grange — which, oddly, is based in Long Island City, Queens — is expanding the operations of its first-ever […]
A Greener Strategy for New York’s Runaway Sewage
Department of Environmental ProtectionA green roof in Long Island City, Queens helps keep storm water out of the sewage system. New York State and city officials announced Tuesday that they had wrapped up an agreement under which the city would commit more than $2 billion in public and private investment to new environmental techniques to […]
Rooftop farm for Bklyn Navy yard
From shipyard to industrial park — and now farm. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is taking “going green” to heart, opening a 45,000-square-foot rooftop farm to supply local restaurants, shops and foodies with fresh, organic produce. Brooklyn Grange — which, oddly, is based in Long Island City, Queens — is expanding the operations of its first-ever […]
IAC Chairman Diller Sees Aereo TV Service in Up to 100 Cities Within Year
Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InteractiveCorp. (IACI), expects his Aereo Inc. Web- based television service to be in 75 to 100 cities within a year after making its debut this week in New York. Aereo, a $12-per-month service that lets users access broadcast TV on mobile devices, will begin telecasting on March 14. The […]
Reporter killed in Syria remembered at funeral
By Mark Lennihan, AP Rosemarie Colvin, second from right, mother of journalist Marie Colvin, watches as her daughter’s casket is taken from St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church after her funeral Monday in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Reporter killed in Syria remembered at funeral
By Mark Lennihan, AP Rosemarie Colvin, second from right, mother of journalist Marie Colvin, watches as her daughter’s casket is taken from St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church after her funeral Monday in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
KSW Reports 2011 Profits and Revenue
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY–(Marketwire – Mar 12, 2012) – KSW, Inc. (NASDAQ: KSW) today reported preliminary year-end financial results for 2011. Net income for 2011 was $1,550,000, or $.24 per share (basic and diluted), compared to 2010 net income of $1,968,000, or $.31 per share (basic and diluted). For the fourth quarter of 2011, net […]
Stories From Main Street: Long Island City, Yonkers Reveal New Wave Of Irish …
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Irish in New York. The story pre-dates the founding of the United States and it is still being written today. WCBS 880′s Sean Adams On The Story “We implement the ancient Irish spirit of welcome, which is the Gaelic word failte, so everyone is welcome here,” said Paul Finnegan, executive director […]
POST GAMES TO WATCH: March 12-March 18
The Post’s high school staff looks ahead to the most intriguing matchups in boys basketball and girls basketball for the week of March 5 through March 11. BOYS BASKETBALL Thomas Jefferson vs. Boys Girls, PSAL Class AA final (Saturday, 12 p.m. @ Madison Square Garden) For the fourth time, it will be Bed Stuy against […]
Spurred on by stifling defense, BK Collegiate reaches first boys hoops final
Brooklyn Collegiate produced its lowest scoring output of the playoffs. Its top gun, Ervin Mitchell, managed just nine points, close to a season-low. Yet the third-seeded Lions are headed to their first city championship game of any kind. How, you ask? Defense, rebounding, defense and more defense. Brooklyn Collegiate stymied No. 2 Long Island City’s […]
Gay Guide to Long Island City, New York
Located just over the Ed Koch (aka Queensboro or 59th Street) Bridge, Long Island City (LIC) is a thriving cultural center with the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutes and studio space of any New York City neighborhood. Pink Pavilions shares their take on the Far East Side! History LIC, with its close proximity […]
Diller Sees Aereo TV Service Coming to as Many As 100 Cities Within a Year
Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InteractiveCorp. (IACI), expects his Aereo Inc. Web- based television service to be in 75 to 100 cities within a year after making its debut this week in New York. Aereo, a $12-per-month service that lets users access broadcast TV on mobile devices, will begin telecasting on March 14. The […]
Building heats up down by the East River
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Hertz acquires in NY
March 12, 2012 | Comments (0) Hertz Equipment Rental has acquired New York based general rental company Arpielle Equipment. Terms of the deal have not yet been released. Arpielle, founded in 2004, is based in Long Island City and serves New York City and part of New Jersey. It runs a diverse fleet of equipment […]
Ira Rosenblum and Kenneth Karpel
Ira Rosenblum and Kenneth Karpel are to be married Sunday at Water’s Edge, an event space in Long Island City, Queens. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is to officiate. Mr. Rosenblum (left), 59, is the director of publications at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, from which he received a Master of Music in piano performance. He graduated […]
PSAL Class A boys basketball semifinals preview
NYPost.com PSAL boys basketball beat writer breaks down Sunday’s Class AA semifinals at CCNY in Harlem. For real-time Twitter updates, click here. SCHEDULE 3 p.m. – No. 2 Long Island City vs. No. 3 Brooklyn Collegiate 5 p.m. – No. 1 Mott Haven vs. No. 4 Bedford Academy No. 2 Long Island City Bulldogs Head […]
MLS Still Set On A Soccer Stadium Somewhere In NYC
From the Cosmos documentary, “Once in a Lifetime” On Thursday afternoon, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber held his annual teleconference to speak about the league in advance of the 17th season, which kicks off Saturday afternoon. As expected, a number of the questions revolved around what has become known as “NY2”: the league’s continued […]