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In Which the City Views Become a Must, Fresh Air Less So
If reading The Hunt stokes your deepest hopes that someday everything in life could work out, then you, too, are obsessed with the New York Times Sunday Real Estate section. Join us as we venture into the depths of this weekend’s installment. Sharon and Michael Newman lived upstate, but when a medical condition arose, along […]
Escape to Long Island City Hotel and Enjoy a Great Location Minutes From Manhattan
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY, Feb 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Visit New York from March 2 – 4, 2012 for great soccer and affordable hotel rates. During early March, the Manhattan Soccer Club (MSC) holds its fourth and very popular Manhattan Kickoff Classic. When planning a trip, guests will want a convenient and affordable […]
Alobar: A bit of ‘Portlandia’ in Long Island City
Get over your Brooklyn envy. Locavore artisanal restaurants, passionate about their food and drink, are popping up around western Queens like fungi after a rainy spring. Not only that, but they’ve breached the final barrier to restaurant wonderfulness: service. We’ve previously lamented, usually to ourselves, the undeniable resemblance of Queens’ wait staff to extras […]
LIC upsets rallying Bayside to earn spot in borough final
Bayside thought Cantrell Barker had tied the game in the waning seconds with a rainbow 3-pointer, completing an epic comeback. Head referee Derek Maddrey, the only opinion that matterered, thought he was out of bounds. The shot was waived off and Queens A West champion Long Island City, the fifth seed, escaped with a 59-55 […]
Trading a Mountain View for an Urban View
About six years ago, his vision failing because of macular degeneration, Dr. Newman was forced to retire from his job at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y. They decided to move. The Newmans had always enjoyed their visits to Manhattan, but figured that living there was a dream for an unspecified someday. In the meantime, they […]
Doing Time on the River
But the island had yet another career. For a century, it housed a grim penitentiary, where inmates passed their sentences along the banks of the East River, within tempting sight of freedom on the nearby shores. The penitentiary, a long gray arcaded structure, was completed in 1832 on what was then Blackwell’s Island. Castlelike crenelations […]
In Long Island City, Pepsi Sign Gets More Company
The rental towers are part of East Coast, a project being developed by one of the city’s most prolific builders, TF Cornerstone. When completed in early 2014, East Coast will consist of six skyscrapers clustered around the giant Pepsi sign on the East River waterfront, with almost 2,800 units. The East Coast collection already includes […]
AGs Near Settlement With Big Banks
(Source: Jimmy Vielkind Times Union, Albany, N.Y.) – Good morning! Gov. Andrew Cuomo is at the Capitol today, while his cabinet fans out around the state to spread his budgetary message. This means Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy is on Long Island. Sam Hoyt is in Palmyra. Here are this morning’s headlines… State attorneys general — […]
FreshDirect to leave LIC
FreshDirect, the fast-growing online grocer whose expansion plans sparked a border war between New York and New Jersey, isn’t checking out of New York City, but it will be leaving Long Island City, which it has called home since 1999. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the grocer, which has outgrown the Queens […]
Urban art unveiled in Long Island City
A new photo exhibit has turned a lifeless, gray corrugated barrier under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into an outdoor art installation. Six color photographs titled “When it opens like this, up is not over,” by sculptor and photographer Rena Leinberger, were unveiled to the public on a walkway under the bridge, where Queens Plaza […]
Fresh start in the Bronx
Here’s what it takes to keep a thriving, homegrown business with good -paying jobs in the five boroughs when the company is looking to expand: $128 million worth of state and city tax breaks, grants and other financing. Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg vowed to pony up that amount in a successful effort to beat […]
Jersey City construction company fined more than $46000 by OSHA for serious … – The Jersey Journal
Jersey City-based Clara Construction has been fined more than $46,000 by U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for alleged safety violations at a local work site. A Clara Construction work site at 109 Christopher Columbus Drive in Jersey City had 10 serious safety violations and one repeat violation, OSHA officials stated […]
Fresh Direct leaving LIC for the Bronx
Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend While online grocer Fresh Direct decided not to set up shop in the Garden State, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the Long Island City-grown business would be moving to the Bronx. “I’m disappointed they couldn’t find a way to […]
City Ballet Commissions Two Works From One of its Dancers
New York City Ballet has bestowed a rare honor on a member of its corps, commissioning two works from Justin Peck, the company said on Wednesday. One of the works, set to the music of Philip Glass, is to have its first performance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this summer. The second will have […]
Air-Cleansing Nylon Star Wins MoMA PS 1 Courtyard Competition
An architectural installation meant to clean the air to a degree equivalent to removing 260 cars from the road has been selected as the winning design in a competition to transform the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, this summer. The New York-based architecture and design firm behind the proposal, HWKN, won […]
Crowley, Maloney Push Mortgage Taxpayer Aid Measures
Democratic lawmakers in Washington last week, who are up for re-election this year, pushed legislation to help homeowners and get the economy on track. Congressmember Joseph Crowley (Queens/The Bronx) extolled the program unveiled by President Barack Obama to aid troubled homeowners by enabling them to refinance their mortgages at today’s more attractive rates. Congressmember Carolyn […]
Basketball, Bowling And Police Chases In 1906 Queens
The first basketball court: Springfield College. Get into a conversation with a long time Queens resident and you’re likely to discover a subscriber of the Long Island Star- Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. A banner across the Star-Journal masthead reminded readers that […]
Boomtime For LIC, Astoria
Gazette country is growing by leaps and bounds, with seven new towers planned for Hallets Point in Astoria and a dizzying array of developments underway in Long Island City. Major relocations will bring the offices of the federal Social Security Administration (SSA) and JetBlue Airlines to Dutch Kills, while the City University of New York […]
Fresh Direct Checks In
By JOSEPH DE AVILA The online grocer FreshDirect has decided to remain in the city, announcing Tuesday that it plans to move its headquarters and 2,000 employees to the South Bronx from Long Island City. The company had been weighing a relocation to New Jersey, which offered about $100 million in tax breaks and other […]
Steve Madden Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End 2011 Earnings …
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Steve Madden (Nasdaq: SHOO), a leading designer and marketer of fashion footwear and accessories for women, men and children, today announced that the Company’s conference call to review fourth quarter and fiscal year end 2011 financial results will be broadcast live over the Internet on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, […]