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Thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to participate in the 3rd Annual Sunnyside Post Mile Run/Walk, benefiting Sunnyside Community Services. Special thanks to our Race Directors, the Woodside – Sunnyside Runners, and all our incredible sponsors who made this event possible. Click below to see your time results. http://my4.raceresult.com/84410/#1_22DCB0“ GOLD SPONSORS: The DOG […]

PhotoA group of artists filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn in 2013 after the developer, Jerry Wolkoff, had their work at 5Pointz in Long Island City, Queens, erased before the building was demolished. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times Graffiti has come a long way since the 1970s when fly-by-night taggers sprayed […]

Emmeline Yang and Eric Alter first met on a triple date when they were set up with other people! After brunch with their perspective matches in Hoboken, New Jersey, Emily made her move to switch dates over a game of Pictionary at their mutual friend’s apartment. It worked—and just over three years later, on May […]

Elizabeth Lusskin, Long Island City Partnership The only truly mixed-use “city within New York City,” Long Island City, Queens, located directly across from Midtown Manhattan, is undergoing a period of explosive transformation. Indeed, it has recently been labeled as the fastest growing neighborhood in the U.S. Some of the city’s key corporations already have their […]

Everyone’s a critic, but only eight Brooklyn federal jurors will get the unprecedented job of deciding if graffiti sprayed on a Queens building complex was protected art. Jury selection starts Monday in a case where more than 20 artists argue a developer wrongly whitewashed and destroyed a graffiti paradise at the Long Island City spot […]

The display, affixed to a building on the Long Island City waterfront, is a clock counting down the time left in Donald Trump’s presidency. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly LONG ISLAND CITY — New Yorkers with views of the East River may have spotted a row of bright-red digital numbers affixed to a building on the Queens waterfront.  The […]

Fifth Hammer Brewery and Taproom. Photo by Juren David via Fifth Hammer Brewery Company on Facebook. Oct. 12, by Nathaly Pesantez The Fifth Hammer Brewing Company has opened up its facilities and taproom to the public, a little over a year since the owners moved into a former industrial space in Long Island City. The […]

Long Island City (3-1) and Automotive (1-3) are set to face off this Saturday at 12:00 PM. Long Island City is coming into the game hot, having won three in a row. Long Island City didn’t have too much trouble with Mott Haven in its last game, where Long Island City won 35 – 18. […]

Vorea Holdings buying LIC dev site Company plans to turn one-story warehouse into residential rental building 45-57 Davis Street (Credit: Preuss Group) Vorea Holdings will spend $21 million to buy a development site in Queens and turn it into a residential building, according to a source familiar with the deal. The Long Island City site […]

The menu at the new food cart will include Keema Palata, a grilled palata stuffed with minced chicken, onion and egg and topped with a cucumber yogurt sauce (left); and Ohno Kaukswe (right), a coconut chicken noodle soup. View Full Caption Instagram/Burmese Bites LONG ISLAND CITY — Burmese Bites, a popular food vendor that draws long lines each weekend […]