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At M. Wells Steakhouse in Long Island City, Too Much is Just Enough
Bradley Hawks Hugue Dufour continues his madcap cooking. At some point during the nearly 30 minutes spent waiting for a repeat order of Hugue Dufour’s gargantuan foie gras-stuffed gnocchi, the diners in my party realized we were reaching our limit. Bulbous and burnished, the mashed potato filling surrounding creamy liver made the dumplings taste similar […]
Hunters Point ‘Inundated’ With Film and TV Shoots, CB2 Says
A “No Parking” sign at the site of a television shoot in Brooklyn last year. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Janet Upadhye LONG ISLAND CITY — Hunters Point is getting a little too Hollywood, local leaders say. Queens Community Board 2 wants the city to cut the number of film and television shoots approved for the neighborhood, […]
Protesters hang “gentrification in progress” sign on 5 Pointz
Protesters hang “gentrification in progress” sign on 5 Pointz Demolition of iconic LIC site to give way to two residential buildings March 10, 2014 08:39AM 45-46 Davis Street in Queens (Credit: Jowy/Instagram) Civil rights activists By Any Means Necessary and Brooklyn street artist group gilf! teamed up to make a banner that was wrapped around […]
Studio with a view in Long Island City
Violet Baxter’s painting “Bridge in Yellow Light” shows Steinway Storage and Moving, Mason Tenders Training Center and the roadway leading to the Queensboro Bridge. Photo courtesy Violet Baxter By Allison Plitt TimesLedger Newspapers Painter Violet Baxter has spent most of her artistic career painting scenes outside her different studios’ windows. “There are drawings and paintings […]
Cops: Hit-And-Run Driver Strikes Pedestrian In Long Island City
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — Police are looking for an alleged hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a man in Queens on Friday night. According to officials, police responded to a call of a pedestrian struck on Northern Boulevard and 41st Avenue in Long Island […]
Cops: Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver In Long Island City
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — Police are looking for an alleged hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a man in Queens on Friday night. According to officials, police responded to a call of a pedestrian struck on Northern Boulevard and 41st Avenue in Long Island […]
Man in coma after Long Island City hit and run
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — With only one witness, and so far no solid leads, the NYPD is asking for the public’s help to find the person who hit and killed 64-year-old Kumar Ragunath. On Saturday night, officers made their request in neon lights, setting up a digital sign at the intersection where Ragunath was […]
Grandfather killed in Long Island City hit and run
LONG ISLAND CITY (WABC) — With only one witness, and so far no solid leads, the NYPD is asking for the public’s help to find the person who hit and killed 64-year-old Kumar Ragunath. On Saturday night, officers made their request in neon lights, setting up a digital sign at the intersection where Ragunath was […]
El Ay Si, popular Vernon Blvd restaurant, for sale
March 6, By Christian Murray El Ay Si, the popular restaurant located at 47-38 Vernon Blvd., is for sale. Xerxes Novoa, the owner, has listed the business for $175,000. Novoa opened El Ay Si (phonetically LIC) at the end of 2009 and his restaurant is best known for its chicken fried chicken, nachos and pulled […]
Gianaris Celebrates Long Island City HS Victory
State Senator Gianaris spoke in opposition to the Department of Education’s colocation plan at their hearing in October, 2013 at Long Island City H.S. State Senator Michael Gianaris, a proud graduate of Long Island City H.S. (LICHS), joined students, teachers and parents in celebrating the reversal of a Department of Education (DOE) colocation plan that […]
Long Island City Condos Sell Out in Less Than Year – Multi
Mar. 5, 2014 By Dees Stribling, Contributing Writer New York—The Bindery, a condo development by NY Lions Group and Craig Axelrod at 47-34 11th St. in the Long Island City district of Queens, has completely sold out, according to Modern Spaces, which took the units to market. The 20-unit residential building, which is a new-construction […]
Local Art Installations Coming to Revamped Falchi Building
The Falchi Building, a former warehouse at 31-00 47th Ave. in Long Island City. View Full Caption Facebook/FalchiBuilding LONG ISLAND CITY — Local artists are set to create installations for the the Falchi Building, a former Long Island City warehouse owned by the developer of Chelsea Market that has undergone a multimillion-dollar overhaul in recent […]
Train Station-Themed Bar Pulling Into Watering Hole Featured in ‘Cocktail’
A new bar and restaurant, Station LIC, will open at Jackson Avenue and 50th Avenue. The long-vacant building was once a bar where a scene from the Tom Cruise movie “Cocktail” was filmed. View Full Caption Youtube/Mark Nicholls; DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly HUNTERS POINT — This gives new meaning to the term bar car. Station LIC, a […]
Long Island City’s Giant 421-Unit Tower Gets Jazzy Terraces
Monday, March 3, 2014, by Zoe Rosenberg Another glassy tower is coming to Long Island City, it seems, but this time with red terraces to differentiate it from pretty much every other new construction going up in the booming ‘hood. New York YIMBY’s Nikolai Fedak reports that an updated set of renderings have been revealed […]
Japanese restaurant Hibino opens on Jackson Avenue
Hibino LIC (Photo: Dana Frankel) March 2, By Christian Murray A Japanese restaurant opened on Thursday at 10-70 Jackson Avenue– where Los Amigos deli used to be located. The restaurant, Hibino LIC, is being run by the husband and wife team of Masaur and Shuko Fukuda. The restaurant was expected to open in September but […]
Long Island City’s ‘E -Space’ Turns 3 In Style
Showcases Growing Small Business Elected officials and other distinguished guests at the Entrepreneur Space’s third birthday party in Long Island City feast their eyes on a special Belgian waffle cake cut by Mariepaule Vermersch, who worked at her family’s Belgian waffle stand during the 1964-65 World’s Fair. Shown with Vermersch are (from left to right) […]
Hundreds Of UPS Drivers Strike In Queens
TRI-STATE NEWS HEADLINES From our newsroom to your inbox weekday mornings at 9AM. Sign Up NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Hundreds of UPS delivery drivers walked off the job in Queens on Wednesday morning. The drivers from Teamsters Local 804 in Long Island City stood in the snow to protest working conditions. Some chanted, “Stop the […]
Avonte Oquendo’s Cause of Death Undetermined, Medical Examiner Says
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said the cause of Avonte Oquendo’s death cannot be determined. View Full Caption NYPD and DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly MANHATTAN — The city Medical Examiner cannot determine what killed Avonte Oquendo, the autistic Queens teen who sparked a citywide manhunt after he fled out of a city school, a spokeswoman […]
Hate crimes unit investigates assault on No. 7 train
Feb. 26, Staff Report A Hispanic man was attacked on a No. 7 train in Queens in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Police say the 43-year-old victim was on the Queens-bound train around 4 p.m. on Sunday when he was punched in the face by the suspect, described as a black […]
Long Island City toy maker creates out of Sandy’s wrath
Long Island City business owners Milan (l.) and Jarka Uherik sell toys made from trees destroyed in Superstorm Sandy. Photo courtesy Milan Uherik By Tammy Scileppi TimesLedger Newspapers Post-Sandy fallen Shady Park trees have undergone a metamorphosis, becoming hand-carved wooden toys and puzzles that put smiles on kids’ faces. Milan Uherik is originally from Slovakia […]