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LaGuardia Community College President Named to Homeland Security Panel
Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, will serve on a new panel advising homeland security officials. (LaGuardia Community College) LONG ISLAND CITY — LaGuardia Community College President Gail Mellow has been tapped for a new homeland security panel. Mellow will serve on the new council of college leaders who […]
Aereo’s online TV service infringes copyright, networks say
Aereo’s service that will allow subscribers in New York City to watch broadcast television programs on personal computers and smartphones violates copyright laws, television networks said. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC and other networks said in two separate complaints filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan that Aereo has no right to any of the programs […]
Aereo’s online TV service infringes copyright, networks say
Aereo’s service that will allow subscribers in New York City to watch broadcast television programs on personal computers and smartphones violates copyright laws, television networks said. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC and other networks said in two separate complaints filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan that Aereo has no right to any of the programs […]
PSAL boys basketball playoff roundup: CSI/McCown tops Global Studies …
Before the year began, CSI/McCown had not only failed to reach the playoffs, but it had never enjoyed a winning season. What a difference a few months can make. The 10th-seeded Dolphins finished third in Staten Island A, picked up their first playoff win earlier in the week and on Friday rallied past Brooklyn A […]
Homes, Parks and Schools are Bayside Draw
By MELANIE LEFKOWITZ Enlarge Image Claudio Papapietro for The Wall Street Journal Bell Boulevard, the main commercial strip in Bayside, Queens. Bayside, a vibrant residential neighborhood in northeastern Queens, combines the access and advantages of city living with the ease and open spaces of the suburbs. Bayside is “a little bit country, a little bit […]
Forever Cheese Sets the Bar for Carbonfund.org’s Earth Day 2012 Promotion
BETHESDA, Md. and LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., March 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Carbonfund.org Foundation is proud to announce Forever Cheese as the launch partner for our Earth Day 2012 Promotion. With Carbonfund.org’s plant two-get one free tree planting promotion, 7,500 trees have already been planted. Earth Day 2012 can be one of the most […]
Read All About It! Kids Vex Titans!
Right. And next: “Eight Is Enough,” a murder-mystery musical about a maiden living with seven Smurf-like men who won’t stop whistling. But here’s the thing. That strike? It happened, ya mug. It happened. There really was a newsboy strike in 1899 that unsettled the empires of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. There really were […]
At some turnaround schools, city is telling principals they’re out
The city has begun telling principals at some of the schools slated for a controversial overhaul process that they won’t be part of the changes. The city is moving forward with plans to overhaul 33 struggling schools according to a federally prescribed school improvement strategy known as “turnaround.” Turnaround requires that schools replace at least […]
When Old School Was New: Nas’ ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’
Enlarge Courtesy of the artist Nas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Courtesy of the artist Nas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Since the heyday of hip-hop, one man has been broadcasting the music videos, the culture and the people in the community all throughout New York City. His name is Ralph McDaniels, and […]
Forever Cheese Sets the Bar for Carbonfund.org’s Earth Day 2012 Promotion
BETHESDA, Md. and LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., March 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Carbonfund.org Foundation is proud to announce Forever Cheese as the launch partner for our Earth Day 2012 Promotion. With Carbonfund.org’s plant two-get one free tree planting promotion, 7,500 trees have already been planted. Earth Day 2012 can be one of the most successful yet […]
Queens Plaza cooking up hot new lunch scene
Queens Plaza’s facelift is entering a new phase — beckoning a new batch of eateries seeking to cash in on the traffic hub’s new caché. Once known for its traffic jams, adult entertainment and prostitutes, the borough’s gateway off the Queensboro Bridge is beginning to draw a new lunch scene. The city Health Department recently […]
Forever Cheese Sets the Bar for Carbonfund.org’s Earth Day 2012 Promotion
BETHESDA, Md. and LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Carbonfund.org Foundation is proud to announce Forever Cheese as the launch partner for our Earth Day 2012 Promotion. With Carbonfund.org’s plant two-get one free tree planting promotion, 7,500 trees have already been planted. Earth Day 2012 can be one of the most successful […]
Vignettes through the Ages
Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Adventurous photographer and former Queens resident Audrey Gottlieb whose best-known images of multicultural America have been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Jewish Museum and Ellis Island Immigration Museum, describes […]
Museum and Gallery Listings for March 2-8
Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums ★ American Folk Art Museum: ‘Jubilation | Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined’ (through Sept. 2) Having escaped the ugly, West 53rd Street tomb of a building it inhabited from 2001 to 2011, the American Folk Art Museum has […]
Bank robber sought
The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man wanted for one robbery and two attempted robberies at Chase branches on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, Long Island City and Forest Hills. The first took place at 10:15 a.m. on Feb 3 at 95-38 Queens Blvd., where the man passed a note and […]
Aereo’s Online TV Service Infringes Copyright, Networks Say
Aereo Inc.’s service that will allow subscribers in New York City to watch broadcast television programs on personal computers and smartphones violates copyright laws, television networks said. Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s ABC and other networks said in two separate complaints filed today in federal court in Manhattan that Aereo has no right to any of […]
Borough EDC forms new tourism council
The Queens Economic Development Corporation has established a new Tourism Council to promote the borough. At their first-ever meeting on Monday, held at Long Island City’s Z Hotel, the 23-member group voted on who would form its executive committee, according to Rob MacKay, the QEDC’s tourism director. MacKay said he was hired in August in […]
Queens questions teacher data
Queens parents, educators and legislators gave mixed reviews of the controversial rankings of about 18,000 public school teachers that the city released last week, with some citing concerns about the fairness and accuracy of the numbers and others saying they’re important tools for parents. The city Department of Education released what are known as teacher […]
M. Wells Owners Plan a Steakhouse
Evan Sung for The New York Times Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis, the married couple who owned M. Wells — the wildly popular diner-style restaurant in Long Island City, Queens, that lost its lease and closed last summer — plan to open a new restaurant in the same neighborhood in late fall. But it will […]
FedEx To Develop $56M Facility in Long Island City
Deutsche Bank, Guggenheim in Talks for RREEF Sale NEW YORK CITY-Discussions over a possible sale of RREEF, DB Advisors and other asset management units follow Deutsche Banks review of the business this past fall. NAR: Commercial Real Estate Has Turned the Corner Index Shows Its Déjà vu All Over Again for CRE Industry Six Questions […]