Tag: Long Island City

It's the late 19th century, and the Great Hunger (aka Potato Famine) is ravaging Ireland. The Brit...

Irish eyes won't be the only ones smiling! On July 30, Christel Rice, Tony DeMarco and Siobhán B...

The ironic thing is that you can't catch a train here. Yet. The Sunnyside Yard opened in 1910, an...

The 1919 factory building found at 37-18 Northern Boulevard, the Standard Motor Products Building,...

  His birth name is Nasir Bin Olu-Dara Jones, and he grew up a huge Mets fan in the rough-an...

What do you call someone from Queens? There are Staten Islanders, Brooklynites, Manhattanites. Th...

Put on your dancing alpargatas and get ready for a magical night of Ecuadorian music and choreogra...

Long Island City never ceases to amaze. As its name suggests, it was formed as a city in 1870 befo...

The entire reason that an independent municipality called Long Island City was created in the firs...

It's U-shaped, surrounded by tall concrete walls and within earshot of the 7 train -- and it's the...