May 9, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Parks Department has removed a fountain in Court Square Park as part of planned renovation work, just one week after hundreds of local residents signed a petition calling for its preservation. The fountain was removed on Thursday as part of a planned $4 million development first outlined in 2019…. Read more »
May 6, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Hundreds of Long Island City residents have signed an online petition calling on elected officials and city agencies to halt the planned demolition of the fountain in Court Square Park. The half-acre park, located directly in front of the ornate Long Island City courthouse at 25-10 Court Square, is… Read more »
May 5, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather ideas and gauge interest in the potential redevelopment of the 672,000-square-foot Department of Education building at 44-36 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City—a property that has long been a focal point in… Read more »
May. 2, 2025 By sobrien May 2, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Julie Won has announced the return of movies in the park in Council District 26, with six free family-friendly movie events set to take place across Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside throughout May and June. The free Movies Under the…
May 1, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC) will host a community volunteering event at Gantry Plaza State Park this Saturday as part of a state-wide volunteer initiative for I Love My Park Day, which encourages people to help out at their local state parks. HPPC will host the volunteering event from 9… Read more »
April 28, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Elected officials, community leaders and members of the Queensbridge Houses community gathered in Long Island City on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the co-naming of 12th Street and 40th Avenue in honor of former Queensbridge Houses Residents Association President April Simpson-Taylor. Simpson-Taylor, who died in March 2024 at the age… Read more »
April 18, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Long Island City Partnership (LICP) held its 20th-annual Real Estate Breakfast last week, celebrating how the neighborhood has “surged ahead” from an industrial hub to a “thriving mixed-use destination” over the past two decades. More than 350 business leaders and policymakers attended the Real Estate Breakfast, which took… Read more »
April 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Julie Won and State Sen. Mike Gianaris joined Transportation Alternatives Saturday for a “people’s ribbon-cutting” at the Queensboro Bridge to demand that Mayor Eric Adams opens the now-completed Pedestrian Path across the bridge. Gianaris, Won and Transportation Alternatives representatives raised concerns Saturday that pedestrians and cyclists are still… Read more »
April 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Elected officials in Queens and Manhattan have penned an open letter to Mayor Eric Adams and Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez to express concerns over delays in opening a dedicated pedestrian walkway across the Queensboro Bridge. State Senators Mike Gianaris, Kristen Gonzalez and Liz Krueger, Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani and… Read more »
Apr. 9, 2025 By sobrien April 9, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Community Education Council 30 (CEC 30) is set to introduce a resolution calling for more opportunities for communities in local school districts to push back against planned charter schools. CEC 30 co-presidents Whitney Thomas Toussaint and Victoria Medelius signaled that they will introduce…