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Ribs, Ramen & The CHONUT All Big Hits At Smorgasburg Queens
Opening day yesterday at Smorgasburg Queens was a huge success, with many of the 25 or so vendors selling out their entire stock by mid-afternoon. Among the first to go: the CHONUT at Kim Chi Smoke, a cheese-glazed donut filled with pulled pork, brisket, smoked kimchee. If you got there after 1 p.m. like me, […]
Meet PeeWee, a ‘Spunky’ Senior Dachshund Looking for a Home
PeeWee is a 12-year-old Dachshund looking for a home. View Full Caption LIC Ferals and Friends LONG ISLAND CITY — PeeWee is a 12-year-old dachshund who’s persevered through some health problems and is now back on track, and looking for a loving home where he can enjoy his golden years. A pair of animal rescue […]
Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City
Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City 1 Looking west from the LIRR Hunters Point station pedestrian bridge, with a subway train at the left, on April 9, 1948. Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:30 am Riding the rails, above and below Long Island City by Ron Marzlock, Chronicle Contributor Queens Chronicle | […]
LIC’s Silvercup Studios expanding to the Bronx
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Long Island City-based Silvercup Studios is so successful that a $1 billion expansion project, approved by Community Board 1 in 2014, still does not give it enough space. The Northeast’s leading independent film and production facility announced plans […]
25-21 43rd Avenue
A nine-story, 86-condo building is on the rise at the corner of 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street in Long Island City. Developer Ekstein tapped architecture and design firm GF55 Partners to create a building for the site that sits on top of a subway tunnel. Because of the site’s limitations, GF55 developed an exterior brace […]
ODA’s Stack of Boxes in Long Island City Almost Done
Friday, July 10, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Left: rendering; Right: reality, via The Court Square Blog] 22-22 Jackson Avenue, ODA’s boxy building next to the 5Pointz site, has risen, and is now over 95 percent glassed, according to an update from The Court Square Blog. It looks like the building will be completed by the […]
Nine-Story, 86-Unit Condo Building Heads to LIC
CO-OP/CONDO BUYERS July 9, 2015 — While it would be nice to score a luxury condo on Billionaires’ Row, not everyone can afford it. The Upper East Side is more expensive than all of The Bronx. Tribeca has some of the priciest zip codes in Manhattan. And Brooklyn is getting so expensive that people are […]
Citigroup sells LIC site to Queens developer for $143M
Citigroup sells LIC site to Queens developer for $143M Parcels north of One Court Square offer 780K buildable square feet July 08, 2015 12:15PM By Claire Moses From left: Court Square development site and the surrounding area Citigroup sold a huge Long Island City development site just north of One Court Square to Flushing-based developer […]
Silvercup Studios will build a production facility in the Port Morris section …
Photo: Buck Ennis Sivercup Studios will be expanding into the South Bronx. A new film and TV production studio will be built in the South Bronx. Silvercup Studios is going ahead with its plan to build a 120,000-square-foot facility in the Port Morris section, according to The Wall Street Journal. It will be the Long […]
New Looks at Long Island City’s Exoskeleton-Touting Condos
Tuesday, July 7, 2015, by Zoe Rosenberg A nine-story, 86-condo building is on the rise at the corner of 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street in Long Island City. Developer Ekstein tapped architecture and design firm GF55 Partners to create a building for the site that sits on top of a subway tunnel. Because of the […]
Artist paints pretty as a picture
By Allison Plitt TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. When you look at any of Sharon Florin’s oil paintings, you could easily mistake them for photographs. In fact, Florin walks through the neighborhoods of Long Island City and Manhattan taking photos of the city, using them as […]
What To Do in Long Island City This Fourth of July
American flags in Hunters Point South Park in Long Island City, where crowds are expected Friday night to celebrate the Fourth of July. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly LONG ISLAND CITY — The neighborhood is expected to get its best views in years of the Macy’s fireworks this Fourth of July, with the show set […]
Man on wheelchair robs US bank in Long Island City, makes getaway
Not the fastest getaway but a wheelchair-bound man in the US robbed a bank and rolled away with more than $1,200 in cash. Not the fastest getaway but a wheelchair-bound man in the US robbed a bank and rolled away with more than $1,200 in cash. The unidentified suspect, believed to be in his 20s, […]
Summit speakers look to the future and what Long Island City can become
The booming Long Island City real estate market could provide a template for successful urban development, according to speakers at Long Island City Partnership’s second annual LIC Summit: Priorities Plans. “In many ways, Long Island City offers a microcosm of all of the great things that are happening in New York City, as well as […]
NYPD: Man In Wheelchair Robbed Queens Bank
A man in a wheelchair is accused of robbing a Long Island City bank yesterday afternoon. According to the NYPD, the incident occurred at 2:10 p.m. at the Santander Bank, located at 37-10 Broadway: The suspect “passed a note to the teller demanding cash. The suspect removed $1,212 in cash and fled westbound on Broadway […]
Where to Watch the 4th of July Fireworks in NYC, 2015 Edition
Monday, June 29, 2015, by Curbed Staff [Photo of the 2014 fireworks by Oscar/Curbed Flickr pool] Once again, the annual 4th of July fireworks show will take place on the East River, but this year, the 25-minute Macy’s spectacular will shoot off from two locations, not just one. A double barge will be placed just […]
Adam America, MSD Partners buy $43.5 million Long Island City development site
The real estate development firm Adam America, in partnership with investment firm MSD Partners, has acquired a large residential development site in Long Island City, Queens, for $43.5 million. The pair, who announced the deal Monday, plan to build an 11-story, 210,000-square-foot residential building with 186 units at 22-12 Jackson Ave. The building will include […]
LIC Arts Group Offers Free Wedding Ceremony for Gay Couple
Local Project will offer up its space for a free wedding ceremony, complete with a DJ and photographer. View Full Caption Local Project LONG ISLAND CITY — A Queens arts organization is offering to pay for a gay couple’s wedding — complete with a minister, photographer and DJ — in light of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide. […]
LIC Summit discusses changing landscape of dynamic neighborhood
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. Several hundred business leaders, city and state officials, residents and stakeholders gathered Tuesday at the Museum of the Moving Image for the 2nd annual LIC Summit to hear panel discussions on such issues as real estate, transportation, tourism […]
Expect taller towers, more affordable housing in Long Island City
Photo: Buck Ennis The city wants to build more affordable housing in Long Island City. Despite a flurry of new construction in Long Island City that will most likely shift housing in the Queens neighborhood from rental to luxury condominiums, the de Blasio administration is pushing for greater density and more affordable units there, a […]