Oct. 4, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Oct. 4, 2024 By Jessica Militello Furry friends in the neighborhood have a new business to drool over with the grand opening of La Pet House in Long Island City. The shop officially opened its doors over the summer, and with services like grooming, boarding, and doggy daycare, the… Read more »
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Council Member Won co-chairs hearing investigating New York school bus inefficiency
Oct. 4, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 4, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Queens Council Member Julie Won co-chaired a joint oversight hearing on Monday exploring how to improve school transportation services, which suffered from a cumulative 80,312 delays during the 2023/24 academic year. Won, the chair of the New York City Council’s Committee on Contracts, and… Read more »
Tech-driven dental studio Tend opens in Long Island City
Oct. 3, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 3, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Tend, a new-era dental company seeking to reinvent a dentist’s office using technology, has opened a new location in Long Island City. Tend LIC opened its doors at 10-64 Jackson Ave. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, becoming the 13th Tend location in New York City… Read more »
Council Member Won announces waterfront walking tour to kick off public engagement for One LIC plan
Oct. 3, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 3, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Julie Won has announced a new season of public engagement for the One LIC neighborhood plan, starting with a waterfront walking tour on Sunday, Oct. 20. Won and Department of City Planning (DCP) Director Dan Garodnick announced Monday that the waterfront tour… Read more »
Astoria-born Chip City Cookies to launch limited-edition Pop-Tarts cookie
Oct. 3, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Chip City Cookies, the rapidly expanding cookie chain originally founded in Astoria, has announced a new collaboration with Kellanova’s iconic Pop-Tarts brand. The two companies are introducing a limited-edition “Strawberry Poppable Pop-Tarts® Cookie,” available for a select period in October and November across Chip City’s 40-plus locations. The cookie, inspired… Read more »
Vandal sought for destroying Pride flag, harassing staff at Astoria pub with anti-gay rhetoric: NYPD
Oct. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Unit has joined the search for a vandal who allegedly tore down a Pride flag at a popular Astoria sports bar and was caught on camera pulling out a knife and slicing it to pieces as he and a friend walked up 23rd Avenue…. Read more »
Westchester man busted for robbing $250K at gunpoint from gambler at East Elmhurst hotel in June: NYPD
Oct. 2, 2024 By bparry Oct. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry Members of the NYPD’s warrant squad arrested a Yonkers man and delivered him to the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights on Sept. 23, where he was booked in connection to an armed robbery of an out-of-town gambler who was in the borough for a… Read more »
Hunters Point South community left shaken following Borden Avenue shooting on Sunday night: NYPD
Oct. 1, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_81701" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Location of the incident near the intersection of Borden Avenue and Center Boulevard in LIC. Photo by James Edstrom[/caption]
Oct.1, 2024 By Bill Parry
Service held in Astoria’s Chappetto Memorial Park honoring WW ll Vet
Sept. 30, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Thursday, Sept. 26, marked the 75th anniversary of the naming of Chappetto Memorial Park in Astoria and the 80th anniversary of the death of the World War ll veteran it was named after. Members of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn gathered at the greenspace on the corner of Hoyt… Read more »
DOI probes NYC Sheriff’s office; Miranda denies reports of raid at LIC headquarters
Sep. 27, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_81586" align="aligncenter" width="700"] NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda angrily denies his Long Island City offices were searched as part of a probe by the city’s Department of Investigations. Photo by Todd Maisel[/caption]
Sept. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry