Tag: QUEENS
Queens’s Broad Channel neighborhood is plagued by floods, and not just when an epochal storm like Sandy rolls around–about twice a month, water from Jamaica Bay takes over the streets. To combat that, the city has set aside $22 million dollars for a plan that would literally raise the streets and sidewalks of the area […]
The New York State Pavilion, a vestige of the 1964 World’s Fair, looks like a dying spaceship sitting in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, or maybe an airport left behind by some forgotten civilization. Once a a vibrant attraction that hosted tourists from all over, the pavilion has been mostly forgotten, unused since the 1970s. One New Yorker, a […]
If you’re a cyclist resident of a neighborhood that won’t be serviced by the city’s new bike share program, it’s hard not to feel a little slighted and hope the project’s territory will eventually expand. Stations will cover all of Manhattan below 59th street, a large swath of northwest Brooklyn, and Long Island City in […]
Poor Santiago Munoz. The 14-year-old from Queens is a student at the Bronx High School of Science. Munoz, who lives in Far Rockaway, wakes up at 5 a.m. each school day, taking two hours and twenty minutes to get to school and usually two hours and forty minutes to get back. The trek requires two […]
A Bulgarian couple in Queens with dreams of grad school are generating income by giving people the opportunity to rent out their faces to say whatever you want. For $99 a day, you tell Lou Milonov or Vessy Angelova what you want them to paint on their cheeks. (You can choose to buy Milonov’s or […]
