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Long-Island-City, New York is located in Queens County. Zip codes in Long-Island-City, NY include 11109, 11101, and 11120.

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1 hr ago | Paper Magazine

Cocktail of the Week: The Long Island City Special at Sweetleaf

"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 .

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2 hrs ago | DNAInfo.com

Subway Dancers Beat Man on Queens F Train, Cops Say

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

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7 hrs ago | The Village Voice

Ray Kelly's Secret Mayoral Poll?

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

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Thu May 23, 2013

New York Daily News

Prospective buyer bum-rushes door to new Long Island City condo

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

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XLR8R

Juan Atkins, Kode9, Caribou, Julio Bashmore, Ben UFO, MK, and More Announced for MoMA PS1 Warm Up

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.

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Silicon Alley Insider

Locals Are Irate Over Plans To Turn A New York City Art Mecca Into Luxury Apartments

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.

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Spin

Caribou, Liars, and Ryan Hemsworth Lead MoMA PS1's Warm Up 2013 Concert Series

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.

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Paper Magazine

PS1 Has a New 'Party Wall,' Announces Its Warm Up 2013 Music Schedule

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.

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CBS News

Pedro Portugal, N.Y. man, rescued after being held for ransom for more than a month, authorities say

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.

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NY1

Three Men Arrested For Allegedly Abducting, Holding Queens Resident For 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.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Detroit News

Muppets ready to take Queens, too

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.

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New York Daily News

City Year bigs recall Bronx roots

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.

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Quality

Magnetic Analysis Corp. Celebrates 85 Years

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

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New York Daily News

Graffiti icon to be torn down in Queens

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.

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Tue May 21, 2013

The Village Voice

Summer Guide: Dance

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

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Park Slope Stoop

Great GoogaMooga Style: A Festival Lookbook

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.

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Mon May 20, 2013

The Sweet Science

Ring 8 Will Pay Tribute To Johnny Bos TUESDAY

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

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StreetsBlog.org

NYC: Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Stations Come to Williamsburg

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

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New York Daily News

Dozens of drug dealing suspects nabbed in Queens housing projects

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.

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Sat May 18, 2013

New York Post

Shocker! Post finds honest NY politician

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.

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