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JetBlue wants to build 40-ft. sign on LIC location
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Despite some push back from Community Board 2 at its last monthly meeting, the airline JetBlue said it is confident the city will pass a zoning amendment to allow it to install a 40-foot sign at its new headquarters in Long […]
JetBlue wants to build 40-ft. sign on LIC location
Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Despite some push back from Community Board 2 at its last monthly meeting, the airline JetBlue said it is confident the city will pass a zoning amendment to allow it to install a 40-foot sign at its new headquarters in Long […]
PSAL Class A&B boys basketball playoff roundup: CSI/McCown nets first playoff …
Joseph Ojo and Brandon O’Keefe each scored 15 points, Chris Frank had 11 and Schwartzen Jarmond had 10 as No. 10 CSI/McCown (16-9) topped 23rd-seeded FDA, 65-49, in the opening round of the PSAL Class A playoffs on Wednesday. It was the Dolphins’ first playoff win in program history and improved their record to 16-9. […]
Local leaders unhappy with city plan to close 8 Queens high schools
Local leaders and parents are spitting mad over the city’s plan to close eight Queens high schools at the end of the school year. The city put out proposals this week to shutter William Cullen Bryant High School, in Long Island City, and Grover Cleveland High School, in Ridgewood. Plans to turn around the rest […]
Elevator Invention Could Have Saved Suzanne Hart’s Life, Expert Says
A memorial plaque for Suzanne Hart has been put up in the lobby of 285 Madison Avenue, the building where she was killed in an elevator accident on Dec. 19, 2011. (DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) MANHATTAN — As a city report blames worker oversight for the death of Suzanne Hart, one New York-based elevator expert claims he has […]
Old World Literary Salon Meets Co-Working Space In Long Island City
The Oracle Club is a collaboration between novelist Julian Tepper and painter Jenna Gribbon, who hope to draw like-minded writers and artists. The recently opened members-only salon in Long Island City is a meeting (and working) place for writers, artists and intellectuals. The three-room space includes a library, a living room and an art studio, […]
Councilman Vallone Pans Graffiti Art Show as ‘Glorifying Crime’
PLAY VIDEO (DNAinfo/Nick Hirshon) LONG ISLAND CITY — The writing’s on the wall — and Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. does not approve. Vallone’s campaign against the glorification of graffiti has a new target — an ex-subway vandal who began tagging walls as “KR.ONE” while he was a fifth-grader at P.S. 166 in Long Island […]
City plans to close 8 Queens high schools
Local leaders and parents are spitting mad over the city’s plan to close eight Queens high schools at the end of the school year. The city put out proposals this week to shutter William Cullen Bryant High School, in Long Island City, and Grover Cleveland High School, in Ridgewood. Plans to turn around the rest […]
FedEx Ground will move to Long Island City in 2013
FedEx Ground will shutter its Maspeth distribution center and move to a sprawling Long Island City facility next year, company officials said. The new 140,000-square-foot plant on Borden Ave. will cost an estimated $56 million to construct and could be completed by spring 2013, FedEx spokesman David Westrick told the Daily News on Tuesday. The […]
Elevator Expert Invents Device He Says Could Have Saved Suzanne Hart’s Life
A memorial plaque for Suzanne Hart has been put up in the lobby of 285 Madison Avenue, the building where she was killed in an elevator accident on Dec. 19, 2011. (DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) MANHATTAN — As a city report blames worker oversight for the death of Suzanne Hart, one New York-based elevator expert claims he has […]
FiOS dropping Muslim TV station begun by Hassans in Orchard Park
Verizon FiOS is dropping Bridges TV from its regular lineup, putting in further jeopardy the Muslim lifestyle network that was founded in Orchard Park in 2004. The network moved last summer to the New York City area from the Orchard Park office park where its co-founder Aasiya Zubair Hassan was brutally killed by the other […]
Projects to Add Wind Power for City Gain Momentum
But that is about to change. This spring, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection will solicit plans for the first major wind project, the installation of turbines atop the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. And city planners are working on zoning changes, now under review by the City Planning Commission, to allow turbines up […]
Tuskegee Airman Gains Newfound Fame Thanks to ‘Red Tails’ Movie
Dabney Montgomery, 88, often wears a hat honoring the Tuskegee Airmen. He is also seen here with a Congressional Medal around his neck. (DNAinfo/Jill Colvin) LONG ISLAND CITY — For nearly 70 years, Dabney Montgomery’s wartime heroics had gone almost unnoticed. But the 88-year-old Harlem man, who is one of the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen, […]
One of state’s largest abortion clinics to open in Jamaica
After four decades of death threats, picket lines and evictions, a leading women’s health crusader is set to open one of the state’s largest, licensed abortion clinics this week in southeast Queens. Choices Women’s Medical Center, which also provides gynecological, prenatal and counseling services, is moving from its current Long Island City location to a […]
Farms eye rooftop space in outer boroughs
Brooklyn Grange’s farm at 37-18 Northern Boulevard in Queens There are thousands of acres of rooftop space in New York City where growing farm operations are looking to expand. According to the New York Daily News, groups such as Gotham Greens, Brooklyn Grange and BrightFarms are looking for elevated space where they can grow crops […]
Save the Mary A. Whalen; Public Arts Advisor Named for WTC
[Photo via Photo of Chiclet the cat aboard the Mary A. Whalen by Carolyn Salguero] RED HOOKThere will be an emergency meeting tonight [Long Island City Hospital, corner of Atlantic Ave Hicks Street, Brooklyn; 6:30-8:30p] to plot a course of action to save the retired tanker and homeless historic ship the Mary A. Whalen. Security […]
NY’s Adelphi University gets $9.5M gift
Associated Press GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Long Island’s Adelphi University has received a $9.5 million gift from financial executive Robert Willumstad. Its business school will be named the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business. Willumstad is co-founder and senior adviser of the private equity firm Brysam Global Partners. The university said his gift is equal […]
LIC businesses hope Fresh Direct is replaced quickly
Long Island City businesses that thrived off of Fresh Direct’s presence in the neighborhood fear life after the grocer’s departure and are hopefully a new business takes the 300,000-square-foot space soon, Crain’s reported. New York Deli on Borden Avenue, which sold lunch to many Fresh Direct employees, vendors and financiers, Public Service Truck Renting, which […]
Long dormant Queens tourism group is revived
A local business group is reviving a long-dormant association to help Queens shake its suburban image and attract more visitors. The Queens Tourism Council, which has existed mostly in name only since the late 1980s, is getting a fresh set of members to reflect the infusion of new businesses and attractions. Queens Economic Development Corp. […]
Rooftop farms to expand in Queens and Brooklyn
The bucolic farms of middle America are getting some stiff competition from the rooftops of New York City. A growing number of commercial farms housed several stories high throughout the city are producing crops year-round — in many cases without even using dirt. Several city farms are looking for more rooftop space to grow their […]