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Astoria Power Plant
A coalition of community leaders and residents is pushing the state to support an Astoria power plant in its quest to replace its decades-old, dirty generators with newer, cleaner ones. Smart Power NY was created to support NRG’s bid for a power purchasing contract, which will enable the company to fund its $1.5 billion repowering [...]
Read More >>Pedestrian and cycle path run from LIC to Flushing
The first phase of a bike and pedestrian trail that will connect waterfront parks in western Queens is slated to be completed this fall. The 10.6-mile Queens East River and North Shore Greenway will eventually run from Long Island City to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The first phase will link Queensbridge Park, in Long Island City, [...]
Read More >>Long Island City Lobbied for Cornell
• Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute — Before Cornell University and the Technion Institute of Technology won the city Economic Development Corp.’s contest to build a higher education tech campus in the city, Long Island City legislators and business leaders lobbied successfully for Roosevelt Island to become the chosen site. A subway stop away, the school is [...]
Read More >>Food business training for entrepreneurs in LIC
The Queens Chamber of Commerce is offering a free Restaurant Boot Camp in Spanish on Monday in Astoria to help aspiring entrepreneurs navigate often confusing city regulations, secure funding and avoid costly fines. The Entrepreneur Space, a business incubator in Long Island City, also has five-week courses on how to set up food businesses on [...]
Read More >>Seasonal Maintenance
Spring & Summer Seasonal Maintenance Guide — Northeast Certain home maintenance tasks should be completed each season to prevent structural damage, save energy, and keep all your home’s systems running properly. These maintenance tasks are most important for the Northeast in spring and summer. For a comprehensive list of tasks by season, refer to [...]
Read More >>U.S. new single-family home sales slip
U.S. new single-family home sales slip to lowest on record since October March 23, 2012 01:00PM Based on last months’ new homes sales data, the housing recovery is still on shaky ground. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, sales of new single-family homes fell 1.6 percent between January and February to a seasonally adjusted annual [...]
Read More >>Astoria Condos Heat Up
Astoria draws homebuyers even as LIC cools off March 16, 2012 10:00AM The Santorini in at 35-40 30th Street in Astoria While Long Island City dominates the Queens development landscape, nearby Astoria has quietly flourished, according to the Wall Street Journal. While average home prices in LIC and New York City as a whole declined [...]
Read More >>Astoria Outdoor Theater
Diving Board Is Set to Begin a Second Career in the Theater By SARAH MASLIN NIR Juliet’s balcony may never be the same. Astoria, Queens, is about to get its first outdoor amphitheater, situated where an Art Deco diving pool, built in the 1930s, fell into disuse decades ago. Plans call for filling the pool, [...]
Read More >>A quieter video exhibit opens in Astoria
A quieter video exhibit opens in Astoria by Paula Neudorf, Associate Editor | Posted: Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:00 pm Last weekend the wildly popular Jim Henson show at the Museum of the Moving Image officially closed, while an exhibit of a very different sort opened on the floor below it. “Restless: Films and Other [...]
Read More >>Mount Sinai seeking to expand in Astoria
Mount Sinai hospital seeking green light for expansion $113 million project would bolster emergency room and add beds By Irving Dejohn / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 6:00 AM Christie M. Farriella for New York Daily News Mount Sinai Hospital Queens at 25-10 30th Ave. in Astoria. A western Queens hospital [...]
Read More >>Astoria gets MP Taverna !
Michael Psilakis to Open MP Taverna in Astoria Wednesday, March 7, 2012, by Amanda Kludt [Photo of Mezzo Mezzo via Adam Kuban] It only makes sense than Michael Psilakis, arguably the most well-known Greek chef in New York would open a restaurant in the city’s largest Greek community, years after he established himself by serving [...]
Read More >>The Well: Brooklyn’s Largest Beer Garden Grows In Bushwick
The Well: Brooklyn’s Largest Beer Garden Grows In Bushwick Gabrielle Sierra | February 16, 2012 (Photo: Owner, Joshua Richholt, via Meredith Hoffman for DNAinfo) It used to be hard to find a beer garden in New York, but nowadays you can’t go three blocks without running into one. Of course you’ll find no complaints from [...]
Read More >>FedEx Ground to move to Long Island City
FedEx Ground to move to Long Island City VERA CHINESE Wednesday, February 29, 2012 FedEx Ground will shutter its Maspeth distribution center and move to a sprawling Long Island City facility next year, company officials said. The new 140,000-square-foot plant on Borden Ave. will cost an estimated $56 million to construct and could be completed [...]
Read More >>In Long Island City, Pepsi Sign Gets More Company
In Long Island City, Pepsi Sign Gets More Company By ALISON GREGOR TWO more glass skyscrapers are being added to the growing collection of towers on the waterfront in Long Island City in Queens. The rental towers are part of East Coast, a project being developed by one of the city’s most prolific builders, TF [...]
Read More >>Families Stake a Claim to Long Island City
Families Stake a Claim to Long Island City By ANTHONIA AKITUNDE THE third wave of gentrification is just now being felt in Long Island City, Queens. Artists and other creative types colonized the area’s warehouses several decades ago, followed by a burst of high-rise development aimed at singles and couples who wanted a lower-cost alternative [...]
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