Jan. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A 7-train rider was assaulted by a group of strangers while he waited on the Flushing-bound platform at the Queensboro Plaza subway station in Long Island City last month. The 31-year-old man was standing alone at around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16 when he was approached by three… Read more »
Dec. 29, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn teenager was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, petit larceny and other crimes in the gunpoint theft of a French Bulldog from another teen at the NYCHA Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City on Christmas Day. The teenage defendant, of Sheffield Avenue in Brooklyn, allegedly pointed… Read more »
Dec. 26, 2023 By Bill Parry The new chair of Community Board 2 was less than two weeks into his tenure when disaster struck in the heart of Sunnyside. A massive 5-alarm fire just five days before Christmas displaced nearly 450 people from their apartment complex at 43-07 47th Ave. on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and… Read more »
Dec. 22, 2023 By Bill Parry The name of an Astoria scooter rider who was fatally struck in a head-on collision with a taxi in Long Island City last month was released by the NYPD Friday. Antonios Spyropoulos, 59, of 29th Street, was named as the victim of the Nov. 27 crash after an… Read more »
Dec. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry TF Cornerstone, the real estate development company, has provided the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy with a grant to help fund educational and environmental classes and programming at a boathouse that recently opened in Long Island City. The boathouse, called the Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center, opened in… Read more »
Dec. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry Following an international search for a new leader, the Board of Trustees of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announced on Dec. 8 the appointment of Astoria native Amy Hau as its next director. Hau has a long history with the Long Island City cultural institution, having… Read more »
Dec. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry An E train rider’s AirPods were stolen as she waited on a platform at the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City last week. Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and transit cops are looking for three strangers who approached the woman, 27, as… Read more »
Dec. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry While Long Island City became one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the nation with a population that nearly doubled since 2010, and a building boom continuing into its second decade, locals gathered for the sixth annual tree and menorah lighting ceremony on Dec. 7 to kick off the… Read more »
Dec. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry New York’s fast-growing tech sector has become the city’s most consistent source of new middle- and high-wage jobs, but much work remains to be done — both citywide and in communities across the five boroughs — to ensure that far more New Yorkers of color are able to access… Read more »
Dec. 5, 2023 By Bill Parry While Long Island City became one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the nation over the past decade, locals warned that infrastructure was not keeping pace with development. On Nov. 29, elected leaders, city officials and safe streets advocates gathered at Murray Park to celebrate the opening of a… Read more »