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Man Beaten to Death in Long Island City a Block from Precinct Stationhouse
Investigators combed the scene where they said a man was fatally beaten in Long Island City. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Trevor Kapp QUEENS — A man was beaten to death outside a Long Island City bodega Friday morning just steps from the 108th Precinct stationhouse and his own home, police said. After the brawl, bystanders ran […]
Oh Look, More Residential Towers for Long Island City
Thursday, February 19, 2015, by Jessica Dailey Renderings have surface for a pair of residential tower planned for Jackson Avenue near Queens Plaza, where they will have lots of company. These towers will be designed by architect Raymond Chan and developed by the Queens-based Lions Group, according to 6sqft. They’ll sit across the street from […]
38-Year-Old LIC Holdout Waterfront Crab House Has Closed
Waterfront Crab House, an old school seafood restaurant tucked between Long Island City’s growing army of shiny high-rises and an LIRR rail yard, has closed. The 38-year-old business, which began serving oysters on the half shell, shrimp scampi and prime rib in 1977, closed its doors for good three weeks after longtime owner Tony Mazzarella […]
LIC Industrial Business Zone gets increase in funding
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Industrial Business Zone in Long Island City is getting an increase in City Council funding. The $100,000 grant will allow the LIC Partnership to continue to help companies obtain financing, energy efficiency consultation, tax credits and abatements […]
A million pieces of presidential memorabilia locked away in Long Island
Undated photo of original campaign buttons from the collection of Jordan Wright Austin Wright Watch this story on the CBS Evening News Monday night at 6:30 p.m. with Scott Pelley. What may be the world’s largest collection of presidential campaign memorabilia – buttons, brochures, hats, posters, stickers — over a million items in total — […]
Long Island City May Get Another Rezoning, Even More Towers
Friday, January 16, 2015, by Jeremiah Budin [Photo via Photo Pool/Adrian Cabrero] A 2001 rezoning of 34 blocks of Long Island City allowed for the current development boom sweeping through the Queens neighborhood. Its purpose was, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “to spur residential high-rises while looking to maintain a mix of […]
Organic Avenue is getting squeezed
Updated: January 26, 2015 11:15 a.m. Fresh juice company Organic Avenue is getting squeezed. The 15-year-old retailer this week filed a notice with the State Department of Labor, warning of 38 layoffs in its 15,000-square-foot Long Island City, Queens, commissary kitchen, where all juices, and some food, are prepared. The notice cited “economic” as the […]
LIC Industrial Business Zone Gets $100K in Funding
The city is invested $100,000 into the Long Island City Industrial Business Zone, a 25 percent increase from last year. View Full Caption Facebook/FalchiBuilding LONG ISLAND CITY — The manufacturing sector in Western Queens is getting a financial boost. The city is investing $100,000 this year into the Long Island City Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), […]
NYC tourism records driving Queens hotel boom
By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Big Apple is booming. The city’s tourism industry shattered the all-time high with 56.4 million visitors in 2014, generating a record $61.3 billion in economic impact while supporting 359,000 jobs and $21 billion in wages. “From Soho […]
Here Are the Highlights of de Blasio’s State of the City Speech
Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio gave his second State of the City address. The more than an hour-long speech took place at Baruch College and mainly focused on de Blasio’s plans for creating more affordable housing throughout New York City. “If we fail to be a city for everyone, we risk […]
Long Island City Mourns Anthony ‘Tony’ Mazzarella
Tony Mazzarella with Congressmember Carolyn Maloney in 2011 in front of the Waterfront Crabhouse. Longtime Long Island City restaurateur Anthony “Tony” Mazzarella, whose background as a boxer and countless charitable efforts made him a standout in the community passed away on January 25 after a long illness. Mazzarella, 77, opened the iconic Waterfront Crabhouse in […]
7 Train Resumes With ‘Limited Service,’ MTA Says
The 7 train resumed service, but only local, on Tuesday, Feb. 3 after being shut down Feb. 2 due to the weather. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan QUEENS — The 7 train resumed with “limited service” in time for Tuesday morning’s rush-hour commute a day after ice on the third rail knocked out the subway […]
Affiliate of Equator Capital Management Plans Self-Storage Development in … – Inside Self
An affiliate company of investment-management firm Equator Capital Management has acquired an industrial property in Long Island City, N.Y., on which it intends to develop a self-storage facility. The project is expected to break ground before the end of March, and Extra Space Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust, will manage the facility, […]
Rezoning could mean more tall buildings for Long Island City
Rezoning could mean more tall buildings for Long Island City City looks to bring additional affordable housing to the area January 16, 2015 08:09AM Rendering of new developments in Long Island City’s Court Square neighborhood Long Island City, one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in the city, could see even more residential development as City Hall considers […]
On Long Island, a Different Scene
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City Living: Astoria/Long Island City border has great food, affordable digs …
Affordable rents and a 10-minute commute to Midtown are making Astoria and Long Island City increasingly desirable places to live. The southern portion of the Astoria, which in some circles is considered the northern tip of Long Island City, is ideal for a growing population of young people and creative types who are priced out […]
US snowstorm: Long Island and Massachusetts buried in two feet of snow, but …
“The result is much less snow than previously predicted for the western half of our region,” the weather service wrote on its Facebook page. Some New York and New England residents took to Twitter to questions whether the snowstorm warnings had been overblown. By 06.00am ET (11am GMT) 6.3 inches of snow had fallen on […]
Eager to accommodate: 50 hotels coming to Queens by 2019
Eager to accommodate: 50 hotels coming to Queens by 2019 About half of the properties slated for Long Island City: STR January 27, 2015 04:11PM From left: Renderings of Xu Hotel Residences (credit: Raymond Chan Architect) and Eastern Mirage in Flushing (credit: Fleet Architects via New York YIMBY) Queens is expected to add almost 50 […]
LIC to be rezoned for more building taking onus off Sunnyside railyards
Courtesy of NYC Dept of Planning The Department of City Planning looks to rezone nearly 100 blocks in Queens Plaza and Court Square in Long Island City. By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The building boom in Long Island City is expected to increase […]
Storm Threatens Heavy Snowfall for the Weekend
The National Weather Service forecasts snow on Wednesday afternoon, then far more on Saturday. View Full Caption Twitter/Ted Berg NEW YORK CITY — Wednesday afternoon’s snow could just be a teaser for what’s to come. The National Weather Service is warning a nor’easter could hit late Friday night, threatening to dump more than 6 inches. Light […]