Archive for the ‘Long Island City News’ Category
August 11th, 2010
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A new way of incorporating pineapple into architecture, LIC –photo
Hello liQcity readers – August posting will be light. Even we have to go on vacation sometimes, especially when it’s 100 degrees. Or so. We’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to send us your local events, especially if they are [...]
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August 3rd, 2010
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Chillin at QCA’s ‘Live at the Gantries’ Summer Music Festival 2010, LIC
Tuesday 8/3
Live at the Gantries, LIC’s only outdoor summer music festival sponsored by the QCA, continues on Tuesday, Aug 3rd with the St. Paul AME Church Mass Choir, “Powerful Gospel Music”. 7pm at the Gantry State Park, LIC waterfront. 50th Ave & the [...]
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August 3rd, 2010
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Still life in Long Island City. — photo by Newtown Pentacle
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A slice of old school LIC [Newtown Pentacle]
LIC deli gets NYC Health Dept’s first Grade A [Crains]
All you can eat Gnocchi at LIC’s Testaccio [Foodista]
Man accused of burglarizing LIC businesses [Your Nabe]
LIC summer camp gets city girls in touch with city nature [Your Nabe]
Review [...]
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July 26th, 2010
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From Crains:
Plans for a 20,000-square-foot library in Long Island City, Queens, along the East River, are moving ahead in a timely fashion, despite a possible lawsuit involving who should pay for the clean-up of the site.
The state’s Queens West Development Corp. said it plans to sue Honeywell International to pay for the $5 million to [...]
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July 24th, 2010
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Queens Plaza in the beginning stages of a complete makeover, Long Island City.
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Queens Plaza renovations a boon for bicyclists [Streetsblog]
LIC’s old school fireboxes crumbling [Newtown Pentacle]
LIC’s Dutch Kills’ residents gather to discuss future of their hood [Your Nabe]
A Quebec touch to LIC’s new M.Wells Diner [WSJ]
More noise in LIC [Queenscrap]
Roundup of the QCA local [...]
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July 22nd, 2010
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Ten10 Studios host opening party tonight for ‘Excerpts’, Long Island City
Thursday 7/22
Ten10 Studios hosts the opening of its fifth exhibition of the summer, “Excerpts” by Daniel Acker, tonight from 6-10:10pm. The show will highlight Acker’s personal photographs made locally and abroad during the past decade. 1010 47th Rd, LIC, 646.271.5353
Court Square Wine & Spirits hosts [...]
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July 21st, 2010
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Welcome to the Local Project, Gallery & Studio in 5pointz building, LIC
Long Island City has for a long time now been known for hosting NYC’s largest artist colony outside of Manhattan (where is it now, Chelsea?). We haven’t heard much about LIC’s artist community in a while, since the Crane Street Studios closed due to [...]
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July 19th, 2010
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Long Island City’s Gantry Park part of ‘Play Me I’m Yours NYC’ exhibit. –photo
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Profile of the latest exhibit at Sculpture Center [Art Info]
CSA options for Long Island City [LICNYC]
The story of LIC’s Fresh Direct [MinyAnville]
LIC’s M.Wells Diner now serving lunch [Foodista]
Humans and dogs co-existing in NYC [Queens Chronicle]
LIC’s cupcake factories fare well with NYC [...]
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July 15th, 2010
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Long Island City Community Boathouse 2010, Anable Basin, LIC waterfront
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Queens Drinks & LIC Community Boathouse waterfront party tonight [LICCB]
LIC’s Brooklyn Grange Farm joins forces with Astoria’s Vesta [Foodista]
Gossip girl cast strolling around LIC [Celebrity Gossip]
MIA fights the power at PS1 MoMA [Art Info]
LIC’s Flux Factory offers ‘adventure as performance art’ [Ode Magazine]
Queens through the ages [...]
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July 14th, 2010
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Hunters Point Greenmarket, Long Island City –photo:Jesse Winter
Wednesday 7/14
The LIC Greenmarket happens every Wednesday now, starting July 7, from 8am-7pm (!). 48th Ave & Vernon Blvd, Hunters Point, LIC
Socrates Sculpture Park’s Outdoor International Film Series 2010 runs Wednesday evenings in July & August. Pre-screening performances begin at 7pm, films begin at sunset. [...]
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July 13th, 2010
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Breakfast at the M. Wells Diner. Long Island City — photo:Jesse Winter
Ok Long Island City, you’re going to love this place. There’s been many a request by liQcity commenters for more independently operated specialty restaurants, hold the fusion please. Well, it’s fusion, but not anything anyone in LIC could have even known to [...]
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July 12th, 2010
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Long Island City’s classic architectural mish-mosh.
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LIC waterfront proposal by Green Shores [Queens Gazette]
Queens Plaza improvements outlined at LICBID annual meeting [Queens Gazette]
Live storytelling in LIC [Queens Courier]
Apples, Bannas & Pears, Oh My…??? Hilariousness in LIC. [Find Jobs in NY]
JetBlue keeping LIC cool [Your Nabe]
The City won’t fix LIC’s broken seawall [Your Nabe]
LIC Solar Energy company [...]
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July 9th, 2010
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Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm, Long Island City –photo:Jesse Winter
Standard Motors has a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O… Long Island City celebrated the success of its first rooftop farm this week, with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by local press & politicians. The farmers, Brooklyn Grange, jumped through many hoops to sow their rooftop farm [...]
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July 7th, 2010
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Hang in there Big Allis. Ravenswood, Long Island City
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LIC’s Con Ed bracing for power demands during heat wave [NYT]
Record breaking heat wave testing LIC’s Con Ed [NYT]
M.Wells diner is open in LIC, from 7am – noon [Foodista]
Lots of love for M.Wells diner, opened yesterday (bfast only) [ChrisAbraham]
Harnessing the power of rye in LIC [Village Voice]
Reviewing [...]
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July 6th, 2010
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PS1 MoMA Summer WarmUp 2010, Long Island City — photo: Jesse Winter
It was a HOT Independence Day weekend, probably one of the hottest in a while. And Long Island City, with its mostly low-to-the-ground industrial landscape really just bakes in the inferno. (El infierno is more like it.) Well our favorite, world-reknowned contemporary [...]
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July 6th, 2010
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Socrates Sculpture Park’s Outdoor International Film festival, Long Island City
Tuesday 7/6
Live at the Gantries, LIC’s only outdoor summer music festival sponsored by the QCA, continues on Tuesday, July 6th with Jia-Yi He, “A world-class harmonica virtuoso”. 7pm at the Gantry State Park, LIC waterfront. 50th Ave & the East River
Wednesday 7/7
The LIC Greenmarket happens [...]
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July 2nd, 2010
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The Laughing Budda is tripping out! 5pointz detail, Long Island City -photo
Actually, we’re tripping out a bit also, at how much LIC news there is this morning. You might want a cup of coffee on hand… this could take a while.
PHOTOS: Miss Heather prowls around 5pointz [NY Sh*tty]
LIC High School targeted [...]
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July 1st, 2010
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Filming is hard work. Vernon Blvd & 47th Rd, Long Island City. –Jesse Winter
If you’ve ever driven, biked, skateboarded, or walked down Vernon Blvd in LIC, chances are you’ve run into a few potholes… well no more! At least not on the blocks between 47th & 48th Aves. Hallejulah and praise a non-denominational [...]
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July 1st, 2010
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New ball-field at Murray Park, 11th St & 45th Rd/Ave, Long Island City
With all the hoopla surrounding the opening of LIC’s new fancy waterfront playground, we forgot all about the City’s renovation of Murray Park, which we noticed a long time ago. It’s a city project, so for a long time there wasn’t really [...]
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June 30th, 2010
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Summertime at Long Island City’s Gantry State Park.
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A peek at the amazing looking M. Wells Diner (Quebeco-American) opening next week in LIC [NYT]
LIC’s Firehouse #116 is officially OFF the chopping block [Queens Gazette]
Some unfortunate public illiteracy in LIC [Queenscrap]
LIC jazz drummer merges music with activism [Your Nabe]
Latest photos of Newtown Creek & LIC [Newtown Pentacle]
LIC [...]
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June 28th, 2010
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The scaffolding around LIC Citylights building is finally coming down. Woah.
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LIC High School on City’s list of lowest acheivement [Cityroom NYT]
LIC wins the real estate ‘Hunt’ again [NYT]
LIC’s Film Biz Recycling now open on Sundays [Film Biz]
Cheese, Glorious Cheese in LIC [Daily News]
LIC’s Gantry Park the backdrop for all sorts of stuff [Actors Connect]
Love [...]
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June 28th, 2010
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The new subway routes impacting Long Island City, courtesy of MTA
It’s alphabet soup for us this morning, as our favorite transportation authority (yes, that’s you MTA) has cut and pasted a few letter trains, effective yesterday. The V train is out, replaced by the M train (though not entirely) and the G train now [...]
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June 28th, 2010
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Artist Goowon Kang exhibits at the Space Womb this week in Long Island City
Monday 6/28
Slow Food NYC is hosting ‘The Queens Slur‘ at Dutch Kills Bar from 7-9pm.
“Dutch Kills will have a drink special for all Slur attendees. As an extra treat, we will also have hors d’œuvre celebrating all things bacon (Baby B.L.T.’s [...]
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June 24th, 2010
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All Long Island City gets this 4th of July is the bright lights of TV production.
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No July 4th fireworks for LIC again this year [Queens Gazette]
Review of LIC’s Secret Theatre’s ‘Ortonesque’ [Queens Courier]
LIC Pearson St. construction site is still a dump [Queenscrap]
LIC ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ piano exhibit coverage [Queens Gazette]
City sanitation desperately seeking garage [...]
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June 24th, 2010
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This weekend, Long Island City’s Ethereal Boutique is holding the second installation of their open air market, ‘Fashion Al Fresco’, featuring independent designers selling handmade fashion in Ethereal’s lovely backyard patio. Selling one-of-a-kind pieces will include »
This weekend, Long Island City’s Ethereal Boutique is holding the second installation of their open air market, ‘Fashion [...]
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