Tag: QUEENS
Willets Point will be gone soon. The area near Citi Field in Queens long been slated for redevelopment, and soon, its rows of auto repair shops and junkyards will be replaced with shiny new hotels, shops, restaurants, and apartments. Photographer Thomas Prior has been documenting the site since 2012, and has work featured in the […]
As if a tiny wall on Elizabeth Street wasn’t enough to keep the majesty of 5 Pointz alive, now, a Long Island City gallery is carrying the torch as well. “Whitewash,” a show of artists involved in running the formerly graffiti-covered warehouse complex, opens April 5 at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, and aims to “explore the […]
Could the 3.5-miles of the abandoned, rusty, trash and tree-covered Rockaway Rail Line become the new High Line? Eh, they’re working on it. The latest “QueensWay” update is a series of proposals for the imagined “pedestrian and bicycle pathway” connecting Rego Park, Forest Hills, Richmond Hill and Ozone Park. They are: – a zip line – a dog […]
What will become of the New York State Pavilion? The hulking structure in Flushing Meadows Corona Park was first built for the 1964 World’s Fair but has sat unused for decades. Recently, the New York City parks department has been trying to figure out what exactly to do with it. The cheapest option is to […]
In the above grainy surveillance footage, a New York City snow plow drives down Austin Street, in Forest Hills, Queens, past the Exo Cafe, and all hell breaks loose. It looks like a small bomb going off. According to police, the plow struck a garbage can and sent it through the restaurant’s windows, sending three […]
The Triumph of Civic Virtue — a statue that has been called everything from “crumbling eyesore” to “sexist eyesore” — will not be returned to Queens any time soon, according to new borough president Melinda Katz. Katz told DNAinfo “there are a lot of ideas in the works” for what to do with the spot where the statue […]
As originally reported on Gothamist, what appears to be a new Banksy has popped up in Queens. Heidi Trenholm, 24, was walking through near the Woodside-Elmhurst border when she “saw a man wearing construction gear loading something into a rental truck,” then noticed the piece, partially obscured by a blue tarp on the wall. UPDATE: Banksy has confirmed […]
Good news for Rockaways straphangers and those stranded by service suspensions on R train. The Rockaway ferry, which recently began making a stop in Sunset Park on its way to Manhattan, will continue service until January. Ferry service was initially supposed to end this month, but was extended thanks in part to a push from […]
All you naysayers of the recent metro card fare increase, rest assured: those extra 25 cents per ride might help save clean scalps all over Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens from the perils of pigeon shit. The MTA plans to invest $250,000 in a brand new “state-of-the-art pigeon poop mitigation system,” consisting of low-voltage wires, spikes […]
It’s no secret that Michael Bloomberg hates the Community Safety Act–the package of bills recently passed by the City Council that would institute an inspector general to oversee the NYPD and expand the definition of police profiling. The mayor vocally opposed the Act in the lead-up to the vote, and promised a veto and individual […]
