Long-Island-City News

"Coffee and booze are two of the world's oldest vices. So why would we not put them together," muses Colin Bryson, bartender at the second outpost of Long Island City coffee shrine, Sweetleaf .

Cops are looking for three subway performers they say assaulted a man on an F Train in Long Island City earlier this month.

As to the question of whether Ray Kelly is running for mayor, only silence emanated from One Police Plaza yesterday.

Condos in Long Island City are so hot real estate companies may need to hire bouncers for upcoming building openings.

MoMA PS1 's summer music series will return to New York's Long Island City museum beginning the last weekend of June, and is set to bring an impressive roster of top-notch DJ, producers, and performers-some who come a bit more experimental and plenty who know their way around a dancefloor-to its weekly outdoor party.

A plan to replace Queens graffiti mecca 5Pointz with a pair of high-rise luxury apartment towers was blasted by critics at a contentious public hearing Wednesday night, as opponents accused the developers of ripping the iconic art center from the hands of the local creative community.

Liars, Caribou, J. Cole, Majical Cloudz, and Ryan Hemsworth have all been tapped to perform at this year's Warm Up concert series, taking place at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York.

MoMA PS1 just announced the full schedule for their 2013 summer music series. They'll be celebrating 16 years of the annual "Warm Up" event and, once again, the fun takes place in the courtyard of the Long Island City museum every Saturday from June 29-September 17.

Authorities say three men kidnapped an Ecuadorean national in Queens and held him for over a month, demanding $3 million from his family in Ecuador as ransom.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly abducting a Woodside resident and holding him ransom in a Long Island City warehouse, the Queens District Attorney's office said Wednesday.

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday.

THE two Bronx-bred heads of a program that puts mentors in public school classrooms say their formative years in the borough helped spur their careers in education.

Magnetic Analysis Corp. is celebrating 85 years of designing and supplying innovative inspection instruments and systems for metal manufacturers throughout the world.

Jerry Wolkoff and his son David Wolkoff, owners of 5Pointz, the iconic graffiti-splashed old factory in Long Island City want to tear down the building for a luxury development.

Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught duets in a lobby restroom at the Gershwin Hotel.

The rain may have shut down The Great GoogaMooga on Sunday, but it didn't keep the crowd from showing off their best summer styles on Saturday.

Ring 8 will pay tribute to the late, great matchmaker Johnny Bos tomorrow night at historic Waterfront Crabhouse, in Long Island City, New York.

Citi Bike's rollout to Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant was delayed by damage from Hurricane Sandy.

An apartment in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City that was padlocked after a sweeping drug bust in which dozens of alleged drug dealers were arrested.

Mike Wolfert, who's developing a massive indoor rock-climbing center in Queens, allegedly asked Van Bramer to pull strings for him after he was slapped with a stop-work order for doing construction work without a permit.