Once again, the heat won’t be the only thing warming up Long Island City this summer. The 16th edition of MoMA PS1’s Warm Up summer music series and dance party will kick off June 29 and take place every Saturday through September 7. More than entertainment, the series also acts as an architectural exhibit. The [...]
Making his way to Long Island City from the Upper East Side, self-taught photographer Chad Weisser looked for a location where he could immerse himself in the arts and get away from the new Second Avenue subway line. “I wanted to be in an art-friendly area,” said Weisser. “After lots of searching, LIC was a [...]
Saturday, June 15 Come get your hands dirty at the MillionTreesNYC Tree Care Workshop and Care Day and learn about the stewardship and care it takes to keep our city green. The workshop focuses on caring for and watering the 80,000 newly planted street trees around NYC and meets at the intersection of Putnam and [...]
Tony Award-nominated actor Tony Lo Bianco will transport a Queens audience back to 1945 and three–term mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s last days in office. Lo Bianco’s one-man show, “The Little Flower,” will take the stage at Queens Theatre on Thursday, June 20. Lo Bianco has starred in an Academy Award-winning film and acted in television and [...]
Queens youngsters took the borough’s first roller coaster for a spin last week during the grand opening of a new amusement park at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The park “has been one of Queens’ premier recreation destinations ever since its creation for the 1939 World’s Fair,” said Park Administrator Janice Melnick. Fantasy Forest opened up its [...]
Saturday, June 1 Starting at 8 a.m., the Socrates Sculpture Park Greenmarket will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park, located at 36-01 Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City. This market will serve the Long Island City and Astoria communities with farm-fresh fruits and vegetables and family-friendly activities. EBT/food Stamps, debit/credit, and WIC & senior FMNP checks accepted. [...]
BY ANTHONY O’REILLY The diversity of Astoria is the focus of a new photography exhibit that kicked off at LaGuardia Community College. “The Astoria Project,” a collection of photographs snapped and curated by students of LaGuardia enrolled in photography classes, focuses on how people of different backgrounds interact within the neighborhood. The idea for the [...]
Take advantage of the longer days and warmer nights of summer with free outdoor movies in parks across Queens. Beginning on Friday, May 31, there are options for every age and taste, from kid-friendly animated features, such as “Wreck-It Ralph,” to the Oscar-winning “Les Miserables,” and the Hitchcock classic ”North by Northwest.” Captain Tilly Park Friday, May 31, 7:30 [...]
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) is opening its doors to the city, inviting other cultural organizations and working artists to use any of its many available performance spaces. “We began to realize that we had untapped resources that weren’t being utilized,” said JCAL’s Executive Director Carl Fields. “A lot of folks go [...]
The Free Synagogue of Flushing Community Theatre Group (FSFCTG) celebrated the diversity and uniqueness of Queens in a multimedia musical highlighting the borough from well-known landmarks to home-grown celebrities. FSFCTG started in 1973 and has since showcased fall productions at the Free Synagogue of Flushing. The group has also produced a number of spring shows, [...]
