Long Island City

Community celebrates LIC FLEA & FOOD announcement
Community celebrates LIC FLEA & FOOD announcement
Top Stories Angy Altamirano 4/30/2013 at 5:03PM

Get ready, LIC. With just a month to go, organizers, Long Island City elected officials, Borough President Helen Marshall, community members and some vendors gathered to celebrate the announcement of LIC FLEA & FOOD. On Tuesday, Joshua Schneps LIC FLEA & FOOD president, introduced the community to what LIC FLEA & FOOD has to offer: [...]

LIC’s Alobar petitions for outdoor seating
LIC’s Alobar petitions for outdoor seating
West Angy Altamirano 4/26/2013 at 1:42PM

With summer just around the corner, Alobar in Hunters Point is seeking permission to serve patrons outdoors. The popular restaurant at 46-42 Vernon Boulevard is not allowed to offer its customers backyard seating as a stipulation of its liquor license. Alobar’s owner Jeff Blath said when customers see his outdoor seating area, they often request [...]

LIC-based sculptor Karen Dimit carves truth behind the beauty
LIC-based sculptor Karen Dimit carves truth behind the beauty
Arts & Music Angy Altamirano 4/22/2013 at 12:25PM

Feeling like she was never good at art, Karen Dimit started her career as an opera singer. Yet when the perfect stone sang to her, she decided to begin chiseling her outlook on the dualities of life. “I physically felt something hit me in the gut and say ‘Karen, you’ve got to do something with [...]

Long Island City park secures funding for Sandy repairs
Long Island City park secures funding for Sandy repairs
Top Stories Angy Altamirano 4/19/2013 at 11:07AM

A beloved Long Island City park, nicknamed “Shady Park” for its signature tall trees, will finally regain some of the shade Sandy took away. Working together with the Friends of Shady Park — a group of neighbors advocating for the repair of Andrews Grove Playground – Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer’s office has secured $10,000 in [...]

New outdoor market coming to Long Island City
New outdoor market coming to Long Island City
Top Stories Angy Altamirano 4/17/2013 at 4:00PM

A new outdoor market overlooking the Midtown Manhattan skyline will be coming to Long Island City this June, bringing the community the best in food vendors, antiques, collectibles, art, crafts, fashion and much more. Located in a 24,000-square-foot lot at the corner of 5th Street and 46th Avenue, LIC FLEA & FOOD will operate every [...]

‘Sopranos’ actor curates new LIC art exhibit
‘Sopranos’ actor curates new LIC art exhibit
Arts & Music Angy Altamirano 4/16/2013 at 5:11PM

To fans of the HBO series “The Sopranos,” he is Furio Giunta. Yet to the artistic world, Federico Castelluccio has come to be known as a prominent realist painter. On Thursday, April 4 the art collector, connoisseur of old master Baroque paintings and Naples native presented the opening of “Diverse Visions of Reality.” Along with [...]

Officer from Queens precinct kills child, boyfriend in apparent murder-suicide
Officer from Queens precinct kills child, boyfriend in apparent murder-suicide
Police Angy Altamirano 4/15/2013 at 1:06PM

An off-duty police officer who was recently assigned to a Queens precinct shot her boyfriend and their one-year-old son before killing herself at their home in Brooklyn, according to published reports. The officer, identified as Rosette M. Samuel, 43, had reportedly become part of the police force in September 2000 and was currently working at the 108th Precinct, [...]

15 new schools to open in Queens next fall
15 new schools to open in Queens next fall
Education & Kids Maggie Hayes 4/08/2013 at 12:59PM

Education is expanding throughout the borough with 15 new schools opening this fall, announced Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “With our new schools and school leaders, we’ll continue to provide our children with the opportunities they deserve,” said Bloomberg. Of the 15, two will be elementary schools, six middle schools, one school [...]

Landscapes of industrial life in Long Island City
Landscapes of industrial life in Long Island City
Arts & Music Angy Altamirano 4/06/2013 at 10:28AM

Looking out every window in her life, Diane Sipprelle finds life, beauty and inspiration. Born in Knoxville, Tennesse, the young southern artist made her way to the big apple in the early 1980s to chase her dreams of being an artist. After a few years of traveling, Sipprelle made her way into Long Island City [...]