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Breakfast forum focuses on Long Island City’s business and real …
During Thursday’s 12th annual Long Island City Partnership Real Estate Breakfast, leaders in real estate discussed the exploding growth of the neighborhood and some challenges it needs to overcome. Hosted at The Learning Center on Vernon Boulevard, four panelists discussed their upcoming projects and the real estate market in the waterfront neighborhood. The panelists included […]
DOT looking to add as many as 10 Citi Bike stations in Long Island City this summer, seeks feedback
March 16, By Hannah Wulkan As the Citi Bike program prepares to expand in western Queens, the Department of Transportation is looking for community input where to place the bike stations. The DOT and Community Board 2 will host two community workshops next Thursday, March 23 to give community members a chance to offer input […]
LargaVista picks up LIC warehouse for $27M
LargaVista picks up LIC warehouse for $27M Property sits a short walk from Tishman Speyer’s planned 1.1M sf office complex By Rich Bockmann | March 16, 2017 11:35AM Marcello Porcelli and 30-12 41st Avenue (Credit: Google Maps) UPDATED, March 16, 2017, 3:42 p.m.: Marcello Porcelli’s LargaVista Companies bought a 50,000-square-foot warehouse in the Queens Plaza North […]
LIC man who threw dog out of window sentenced to a year in prison …
Quezada’s dog (Facebook) March 16, By Hannah Wulkan A man who lives on the border of Long Island City and Astoria was sentenced to a year in prison for dropping his dog out of a third story window last summer, announced Queens District Attorney Richard Brown today. According to Brown, 21-year-old Dorian Quezada of 43rd […]
Breakfast forum focuses on Long Island City’s business and real estate boom
During Thursday’s 12th annual Long Island City Partnership Real Estate Breakfast, leaders in real estate discussed the exploding growth of the neighborhood and some challenges it needs to overcome. Hosted at The Learning Center on Vernon Boulevard, four panelists discussed their upcoming projects and the real estate market in the waterfront neighborhood. The panelists included […]
Long Island City family-sized units to go for $7,000 per month | Long …
Rendering by Newman Design Architects via YIMBY March 14, By Hannah Wulkan A developer is building townhouses in Long Island City with units large enough for families. Developer GDC Properties is in the process of building a 76-unit complex that consists of 38 four-story town houses with two duplexes in each. The development will take up half […]
Off-Duty EMT Attacks Girlfriend in Long Island City, NYPD Says …
QUEENS — An off-duty FDNY EMT was arrested after he assaulted his girlfriend in Long Island City Tuesday afternoon, police said. Peter Matura, 31, was in a home on 50th Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. when he attacked his girlfriend, stabbing her in the abdomen and then stealing her phone, according to an NYPD spokesman. He was […]
Off-Duty EMT Attacks Girlfriend in Long Island City, NYPD Says
QUEENS — An off-duty FDNY EMT was arrested after he assaulted his girlfriend in Long Island City Tuesday afternoon, police said. Peter Matura, 31, was in a home on 50th Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. when he attacked his girlfriend, stabbing her in the abdomen and then stealing her phone, according to an NYPD spokesman. He was […]
Pilates studio to open on Jackson Avenue next month
March 14, By Hannah Wulkan A new Pilates studio will open up in Long Island City next month, bringing a classical approach to the exercise classes. LIC Pilates will open up on the second floor of 12-17 Jackson Avenue on April 4, offering a variety of classes with a focus on improving flexibility and building […]
Long Island City family-sized units to go for $7000 per month
Rendering by Newman Design Architects via YIMBY March 14, By Hannah Wulkan A developer is building townhouses in Long Island City with units large enough for families. Developer GDC Properties is in the process of building a 76-unit complex that consists of 38 four-story town houses with two duplexes in each. The development will take up half […]
NYCHA Worries Drive Doubts About Long Island City Rezoning
Abigail Savitch-Lew DCP Planner Nick Guertin introducing the Long Island City study at the Jacob Riis Community Center, Queensbridge Houses. On Monday night, public-housing residents and other Long Island City and Astoria stakeholders expressed strong skepticism about the city’s rezoning study for Long Island City, with many attendees expressing concern that a potential rezoning would […]
5 story building planned to go up by The PowerHouse
March 13, By Hannah Wulkan A developer filed plans last week to build a new five story mixed use building in Long Island City. According to the plans, the building at 2-22 51st Avenue would stand about 50 feet tall, and would have ten residential units on the second through fifth floors with 11,507 square […]
Long Island City will get 38 townhouse rentals targeting young families
There’s not exactly a shortage of new developments in Long Island City, but while it is easy enough to find a place with a dog-grooming center or 42-foot rock climbing wall, YIMBY points out that a good family-sized unit is hard to find. But GDC Properties is hoping to change that with a new batch […]
Queens mom, 75, mauled to death by mastiff mix – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX
Please enable Javascript to watch this video LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens — A 75-year-old Long Island City woman was mauled to death early Monday by her dog, police said. The woman, identified as Louise Hermida, went into the basement of her 27th Street home and was attacked by the mastiff-great dane mix, Hermida’s neighbor Rosa Lopez said. Hermida […]
Blizzard Watch Issued for New York City, Long Island Ahead of Nor’easter
What to Know Arctic chills and black ice cover the tri-state as temperatures struggle to crack the freezing mark this weekend Temperature highs will hover around the 30s, though it will feel more like the teens or single digits with the wind chill Storm Team 4 is also tracking potential major snowfall to the region […]
Masked bandit busts into Queens mosque and steals $1500 from donation box, office
A cold-hearted crook wielding a crowbar stole $1,500 from a Queens mosque after cracking open a donation box and breaking into an office, cops said Friday. The masked man snuck into the Islamic Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Crescent St. near 38th Ave. in Long Island City about 9 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. He […]
Tacos from around the world at ‘Unico Global Tacos’ in Long Island City – WABC
LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens (WABC) — The Tacos at Unico Global Tacos are not your typical tacos. Instead, the owner, Roni Mazum calls on cuisine from around the world to fill the tacos – like Peru for a ‘Lima Taco/ with shrimp and jicama mango-cabbage slaw, or Mississippi for the ‘Oxford Taco’ with fried chicken […]
ICE grabs Brazilian man off the streets on Long Island City
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. A Brazilian national wanted for armed robbery in his home country was arrested in late February in Long Island City, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. Anderson Hickman, 33, was captured at an undisclosed location by […]
Queens senator wants to shutter Long Island City strip club Aces, a hotbed for ‘troubling activity’
A Queens politician is aiming to shut down a trouble-prone jiggle joint. State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) wants to boot Long Island City’s Aces Gentleman’s Club, which he says is teeming with criminal activity. He is asking the State Liquor Authority not to renew the club’s cabaret license. “Recent reports from the NYPD’s 114th Precinct […]
City talks LIC study at CB 2 meeting
An ongoing study of the needs for infrastructure, affordable housing, business and economic opportunity in Long Island City was the focus of a Department of City Planning presentation at the monthly meeting of Community Board 2 on March 2. According to the DCP’s Penny Lee, the ultimate proposals will support the area’s mixed-use character by […]