Long-Island-City News

Train stations in Rye and Port Chester are next up for renovations in a $9.5 million project that will include the restoration of an 1890 station house.

A 30-acre section of land in Long Island City is on track to become the largest affordable housing development the City has seen in decades.

What makes Long Island City awesome, dear readers, is not that architects merely draw up plans for turning neighborhood auto shops into bakeries sporting facades lined with wooden rolling pins , but that in Long Island City, these plans are actually possible .

Here's the word from OTBKB fave Richard Grayson author of I Hate All of You On This L Train.

The finished product looks a bit like the shopping list got mixed up sometime after the pre-party. Instead of the tube-like structure skinned in thatch-or as P.S. 1 put it, "tall hut-like 'chimneys' with dark thatched skin "-it's been lined with what looks like raw material for Wookie costumes.

Madeline "Maggie" , of Merrick, NY , formerly of Long Island City , on July 1, 2009.

It's a big day for Long Island City, as the Queens West waterfront takes a step from casually-accepted planned community to, dare we say, desired urban oasis .

Wiener never quits: Korean war veteran Gene Stanziale soldiers on with hot dog cart, despite having to spend $5,000 a year to rent permit.

VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management software that allows organizations to resolve business and security situations in real time, today announced that the Joint Transportation Management Center , which leverages VidSys PSIM software as its common operating platform, was recognized with the Project of the Year - ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE a ' June 27, 2009 a ' City Baking LLC, of Long island City, NY is recalling 781 individually wrapped City Baking brand Apple Crumb Cakes, because they contain Walnuts, which were inadvertently omitted from the label.

Now via ArchPaper we're seeing some new Hunters Point South renderings, not of the towers that will be built on the barren strip of industrial land-those can be glimpsed right here -but of the planned 11 acres of waterfront open space .

The Bicycle and Pedestrian Landscape Improvement Project of Queens Plaza is intended to create a gateway to Long Island City.

A 30-acre piece of Queens waterfront property is one step closer to development.

New York City took a big step toward creating the largest middle-income housing developments since the 1970s.

NEW YORK, NY June 25, 2009 a 'A new Queens neighborhood is officially in the works.

"The Highline Ballroom, along with Liberty Event Management & Water Taxi Beach, is proud to announce the Beach on Governors Island.

UNION WORKERS threatening to strike at the city's biggest power plant at midnight tomorrow plan to ask a federal mediator to jump-start stalled contract talks.

Mattress retailer Sleepy's has bid $25 million for 1800mattress.com, a multichannel retailer that sells mattresses online, through a call center and in brick-and-mortar stores.

A decade after Giuliani pushed the strip clubs out of Time Square, the good people of a gentrifying Long Island City are trying to get rid of their seasoned undesirables : " Scandals , at 24-03 Queens Plaza North, is suing the city and the Department of Buildings to stop the government from trying to change the club's certificate of occupancy, ...

An off-duty cop has been arrested for suspicion of shoplifting from a Queens athletics store, The Post has learned.