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Rye, Port Chester train stations to get repairs

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.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Queens Tribune

Affordable Housing Comes To LIC

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.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Curbed

From Fixing a Flat to Making Us Fat in Long Island City

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 .

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

G Train from Park Slope to Williamsburg, Greenpoint and LI City

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

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Curbed

P.S. 1 Courtyard's Afterparty is Dressed for Winter

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.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

New York Daily News

Fri. 7/3 Death Notices

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

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Curbed

Hammocks Run Amok on Long Island City Waterfront

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 .

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SILive

City system rigged against Staten Island vendors

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.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Market Wire

VidSys Recognized in ITS-NY's Project of the Year Award

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 - ...

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Food and Drug Administration

City Baking LLC

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.

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Curbed

Long Island City Utopia Maps Out Its Garden of Eden

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 .

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

PLANetizen

Gateway to Long Island City

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

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WINS-AM New York

30-Acre Long Island City Site Set for Development

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

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Housingfinance

NYC Announces $100 Million Property Purchase

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

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WNYC-AM New York

City Buys 30 Acres at Hunter's Point South

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

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Brooklynvegan

concerts on the Beach on Governors Island - Erykah Badu, the B-52s & more Tba ++ Punk Island happened

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

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New York Daily News

Power workers threatening to strike at the city's biggest power plant

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.

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Bed Times

1800mattress.com sale delayed

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.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Eater

Cleaning Up: A decade after Giuliani pushed the...

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, ...

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

New York Post

Cop Busted as 'Sandal Swiper'

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

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