Long-Island-City News

Long Island City contracting firm Remy Building Corporation, which was hired to perform masonry work at 13 New York City Housing Authority buildings, and its owner have been indicted for defrauding its employees out of $484,000 in wages and benefits, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced today.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sunnyside Post The New York State Senate rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made New York the sixth state to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates such as Jimmy Van Bramer, the NYC councilman-elect who represents Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City.

In a video clip posted at Tournesol 's website, owner and French native Pascal Escriout shares with a local TV news reporter his first impressions of Long Island City, the community where he opened his restau rant in 2002.

The blueprint for Hunters Point South's waterfront park was unveiled to the public last Thursday to mostly positive reviews, although plans for an artificial turf common area were met with skepticism.

Studio Square on 36th Street in Long Island City brings together food and the German beer garden in a very diverse urban landscape.

Free 12oz Stumptown Coffee at Sweetleaf in Long Island City 12/7-12/13/09 No BS! Sweetleaf is giving away a 12oz Stumptown Coffee to everybody from 12/7-12/13! It's one coffee per person once per day.

From the moment the doors opened last week at Bar Henry , the restauranta TMs antique mahogany bar was packed with patrons.

Clarence Eckerson sends these shots of DOT street safety improvements taken on a recent ride near the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront.

Gerardo Sanchez, the man who allegedly stabbed a fellow passenger to death on the D train this weekend, was either obviously crazy and scary or shockingly un-crazy-seeming and thus scarier.

Police tape hangs on a railing at the entrance to the D train station at 7 Ave. and 53rd St.

Housing flourished in the westernmost part of Queens, as it did in few other areas of the city from 2002 to 2008, according to a new economic snapshot of the neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Housing in Long Island City and Astoria grew faster between 2002 and 2008 than it did in the city as a whole, according to a new state comptroller's report.

Residential growth in Long Island City and Astoria has outpaced the city as a whole, with the area's housing stock rising 4.8 percent from 2002 to 2008, compared to the citywide rate of 3.6 percent.

Meeting to preserve the Queens Plaza millstones The Greater Astoria Historical Society and the community of Long Island City/Astoria, are concerned about the safety of the historic millstones located at Queens Plaza.

An embittered ex-boyfriend doused a pregnant woman with gasoline and set her on fire in the doorway of her Queens apartment yesterday as her horrified children looked on, officials and neighbors said.

Khenan Clarke, accused of setting ex-lover and kids on fire, gets treated for burns.

Pickles are the trendy food du jour , with demand rising in stores across New York.

The trend toward outer borough hotel development in New York City continues. A new Country Inn & Suites that opened last week in Long Island City joins a number of other branded properties in the Queens neighborhood.

Because of low demand among parents of school-age children, city health officials are opening their swine flu vaccination clinics to a broader group of people this weekend, city officials said.

Marc Lewis, president of Century 21 NY Metro and 575 Madison Avenue In a continuing bid for aggressive expansion, Century 21 NY Metro told The Real Deal today that it has acquired Queens-based sales and rental firm MQ Realty.