JetBlue's fancy new Queens headquarters is just missing one thing: a massive illuminated sign letting everyone for miles around know about JetBlue.
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JetBlue Wants To Slap Giant Sign On Queens HQ That Would Be Visible From Manhattan
"Dutch Kills Green" And JetBlue HQ Ready To Go At Revamped Queens Plaza
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the $45 million Queens Plaza Improvement Plaza has wrapped up. The result is a newly landscaped 1.5 acre park with 489 newly planted trees, and the mayor's office says it's got non-invasive and drought-tolerant native plantings, wetlands, artist-designed benches and interlocking / permeable pavers to direct storm water to these plantings. This new open space is now called "Dutch Kills Green," which was one of 600 entries submitted in a naming contest. Translation: the goal was to transform Queens Plaza into a place people where people don't hate being.
Cyclist Struck & Killed By Livery Cab In LIC
A livery cab struck and killed a pedestrian in Long Island City early this morning around 5:22 a.m. According to the NYPD, a man in his 30s was biking south on Greenpoint Avenue crossing the street when he was hit by a 2007 Toyota Camry traveling east on Borden Avenue. The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Ch-Ch-Chiapas! Long Island City Gets A Taste At Casa Enrique
Long Island City, Queens, is getting a little more Mexican this week. That's because the guys behind Bar Henry have branched out to the borough to open a 40-seat spot there, Casa Enrique, focusing on the regional cuisine of Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state. Why Chiapas? That just happens to be where the chef and the general manager hail from.
Jittery Neighbors Want To Nix JetBlue's Giant LIC Sign
Thanks to some sweet tax breaks, JetBlue is staying in the Big Apple and moving to Long Island City. But when they move into their new home next month, they'd really like to make sure nobody misses it. So the company is working the community boards trying to get approval for a giant, 40-foot sign above their 27-01 Queens Plaza North headquarters. You can guess how that is going.
PS1's Summer Art Installation Will Use Nanoparticles To Clean The Air
Today MoMA PS1 announced the winner of their 13th annual Young Architects Program (YAP), in which an up-and-coming design company is picked to transform the museum's courtyard during the summer. This year's winner is HWKN (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner); their installation is called Wendy and will double as a sort of air filter to cancel out motor vehicle pollution. If you're a fan of PS1's popular Saturday dance parties, here's a look at where you'll be partying this summer.
Sweet Government Subsidies Keep Fresh Direct In NYC
Though for a second it looked like it might move to New Jersey, the popular grocery delivery service Fresh Direct is staying in town. Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and Bronx Beep Ruben Diaz Jr. today announced that, thanks to some hefty financial incentives from the city, state and borough, FD is moving from Long Island City to the Bronx. And it's planning on adding 1,000 jobs or so in the next few years to boot.
More New Yorkers Complaining About Hollywood Takeovers In Their Neighborhood
It's New Yorkers versus Hollywood, once again. Locals have sounded off against film crews invading their neighborhoods in the past, and now Crain's NY has the latest from the front lines, which have moved from Brooklyn to Queens for the latest battle.
Inside Bear, Bringing Hearty Eastern European-Influenced Fare To LIC
When temperatures drop, few foods are more satisfying than the hearty flavors of Eastern Europe, ripe as they are with slow-cooked meats and root vegetables. So it's appropriate that Bear, a new European-accented spot in Long Island City, is opening up this Friday, just as winter starts to settle in.
Queens Woman Pleads Guilty To Killing Sister On Victim's Birthday
A Long Island City woman pleaded guilty to shooting and killing her sister the night of her sister's 27th birthday party. Melanie Webb, 25, admitted to fatally shooting her sister Tara Webb, as well as non-fatally shooting her sister's boyfriend Terrell Carmichael on March 26 in the Long Island City apartment they all shared. No motive was given for the shooting.
Queens Groping Suspect Nabbed After Biking Through Red Light
Police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting women while bicycling in Long Island City. According to the Daily News, "Police collared the man after they spotted him pedaling away from a screaming woman at Broadway and 31st St. in Astoria Tuesday morning, police said. He was captured after he rode through a red light at the intersection," cops said.
Queens Cops Investigate Two Sexual Assault Patterns
Over the weekend, investigators issued a warning to women in Long Island City, Queens, where six women have been assaulted by a bike-riding groper since September. Now, another disturbing attempted sexual assault in the borough has one City Council member vowing payback.
M. Wells Applies For A New Liquor License In LIC
[Update below] Until it suddenly closed in August due to lease problems the foodie favorite in a former diner M. Wells could seemingly do no wrong (unless you were GQ's Alan Richman). Luckily, when it shut its doors owners Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis promised that they would be back. And hey! Somebody calling themselves M. Wells Diner has gone and applied for a liquor license in Long Island City!
Queens Bodybuilder Accused Of Fatally Throwing Dog Out Window
A Queens bodybuilder is accused of fatally throwing his dog out the third story window of his apartment. Witnesses say that they saw Brooklyn, a Chinese Shar-Pei, thrown out the window of the Long Island City apartment around 8:30 p.m Monday. "I saw it coming out the window. I heard the yelp when it hit the ground. I heard the thud. It just missed a woman," a witness told the News. The dog's owner, bodybuilder Milan Rysa, later claimed to police that he had been sleeping the whole time. Below, you can see a very sad picture of the dog in the aftermath of the incident.
Last Weekend To Partake In "Clothing Optional Dumpster Pools" At The Palms
It seems like just yesterday that we were telling you about this pop-up paradise in Long Island City, replete with booze, music, food, dancing, and pools made out of dumpsters. But The Palms, 3rd Ward's version of Boca Raton, comes to an end this Saturday, and they have some rules for closing night.
Is GQ's Food Critic An Ass Grabber, Or Is M. Wells Just Arrogant?
M. Wells, the much-hyped, long-lined and about to close (for now) Long Island City destination restaurant has many fans. Like the Times' Sam Sifton: He not only gave it two stars, he just wrote a glowing piece on one of the restaurant's farewell dinners. But at least one critic is over the place. In the September issue of GQ Alan Richman tells how one unpleasant dinner (and an accusation of sexual harassment) soured him on the spot.
Bank Of America Branch Transformed Into Art Deco Florida Nightclub The Palms
We told you last week that 3rd Ward, Chashama, Artists Wanted, and The Danger crowd were opening The Palms in Long Island City, a temporary outdoor nightclub with DJs, dumpster pools, food trucks, and lounge chairs. What we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that the venue has risen out of the ashes of a shuttered Bank of America branch. Outside in the parking lot is where you can go swimming, dance, and play ping pong—inside, bartenders serve drinks from where tellers once issued withdrawals. A toast: To the bailout!
Food Truck Sanctuary Opens In Long Island City
Food trucks getting chased out of midtown by The Man can look east for opportunity now that a new food truck oasis has opened on privately-owned land in Long Island City, in a prime location in the shadow of the Citicorp buildings. Opened yesterday in an 11,000-square-foot parking lot owned by Rockrose Development, the food truck court is open for lunch weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. On weekends, starting Friday, the Rockrose lot across the street will be transformed into the 3rd Ward dance/art party called The Palms, which features dumpster pools.
Drinking, Dining, Dancing, And Dumpster Pools: The Palms Opens In LIC
Creative Brooklynites: it's time to temporarily retire in Queens! 3rd Ward has built what they're calling their own version of Boca Raton in Long Island City, dubbed The Palms... but it sounds a little young to us. They say their month long project is "one part open-air dance party, one part ode to the Boca Raton pools of a bygone era." Sadly, no shuffleboard... but there will be lounge chairs, lobster rolls, music, and the three Ds: drinks, dumpster pools, and a dance floor.
Area Woman: My Sleepy's Mattress Pad Came With Free Bedbugs!
We've got bedbugs in our schools, our Reebok sports clubs and in our brains, but we thought we had dealt with the bed situation. But reader Annie M. wrote us today to relate her bedbug tale of woe—she claims that a mattress protector pad from Sleepy's came with the added bonus of two bedbugs, and Sleepy's has been uncooperative in her appeals to pay for fumigating her apartment. Read it below:
Corner Bistro Opening A Branch In Long Island City!
For all those sick of hearing about yet another new Shake Shack, we bring word of one of the original remaining New York burger institutions expanding after half a century: The Corner Bistro is opening a second outpost in Queens. Long Island City, to be exact.
Fancy Bakery Gets $1 Million Tax Break To Stay In Town
Good news for fans of fancy breads! Though the city couldn't keep Hostess from taking Wonder Bread from us earlier this year, it is, we guess, nice to know that it will still be a bargain to keep smaller bakeries around. Well, smaller bakeries that deliver to fancy restaurants, hotels and markets, at least!
Some Pro Tips On How To Properly Run A Strip Club
Gallagher's 2000 in Long Island City has been under the microscope in federal court by prosecutors who think the club has been sketchy with paying their taxes. But as "pistol-packing" owner Robert Potenza testified, "They didn't seem like they knew much about my business." And thus, some trade secrets of the strip club game were revealed in court as Potenza defended his legitimate business.
First Ever Private Food Truck Court Coming To Queens!
With all the drama between food trucks and cops, local restaurants, and cranky old women, it looks like the trucks have finally found a safe haven. The city's first-ever privately owned food truck court is set to open in Long Island City in about two weeks, and at least a half a dozen food trucks are preparing to park it there.
Ex-Con Cross-Examines Woman He Allegedly Stabbed While Cycling In Long Island City
Back in 1994, Eli Granger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for going on a bicycling stabbing spree, plunging a knife into three men as he rode around on his bike. Having repaid his debt to society, Granger was released. But the temptation to stab-while-cycling seemingly proved too great for Granger to endure, and prosecutors say he stabbed 37-year-old Eduarda Olivia in the chest as she walked with her 13-year-old daughter in Long Island City in June 2008. Yesterday, Granger came face-to-face with his alleged victim in open court.
New LIC Court Square Subway Station Connects 7 To G, E, M Trains
Subway riders: Here, at long last, is your new Court Square Subway Station Complex! Until now, those who wanted to transfer between the 7 line and the G, E, and M lines in Long Island City were reduced to vulgarly venturing out onto the street. That's right, the street! Now you'll be able to do it all without once leaving the warm bosom of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Passenger Dies From Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Car Crash
The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge's recently renovated off-ramp has claimed another life: Beatriz Rodriguez, who was a passenger in a car that crashed into a Long Island City beauty salon after careening from the bridge on Wednesday, died yesterday. Last week, a 68-year-old pedestrian standing in front of the salon was killed when a car, also careening from the off-ramp, slammed into him. Rodriguez's sister-in-law told the Post, "They should definitely fix that bridge exit. I think she would be alive today if they would have fixed it."
Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Crash Driver Didn't Have License
Early yesterday morning, a car careened off an Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge ramp and into a Long Island City building, resulting in injuries for the driver and passenger. This was the second accident off the ramp in nine days—and the car hit the same store, a beauty salon. Business owners declared the recently-renovated ramp a "death trap" as cops arrested the driver for aggravated unlicensed driving.
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