Excellent map of Long Island City and Astoria neighborhoods in New York City borough of Queens, plus attraction listings.
Within days after the Wall Street district erupted in flames and fallout, thousands of traders were back at their desks--but in midtown Manhattan, New Jersey and Long Island City (a part of New York City).
Bridgeport is a working class city of 130, 000 on Long Island Sound, 66 miles northeast of New York City.
In 1951, when Rudy was seven, Harold moved the family to the Long Island town of Garden City South, settling in a neighborhood of neat new houses, near a new Catholic grade school that had been built to accommodate the city exodus.
More than 400 kiosks holding 7, 000 blue CitiBikes will be part of the initial deployment for the launch of bike sharing in New York City next month, dotting Manhattan below 69th Street, a quadrant of Brooklyn and a bit of Long Island City, Queens.
Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.
One of Long Island City's best-known landmarks is a bright red Pepsi-Cola sign on the waterfront, visible from across the river in Manhattan.
While Long Island City and the adjacent neighborhood of Astoria offer many attractions, including waterfront parks, museums and good restaurants, industrial heritage remains a vibrant part of the local identity.
"It's as if we've been a little bit behind the curve, but now we're really taking off, " said Gayle Baron, president of the Long Island City Partnership, an economic-advocacy group.
Power was shut off along the line and service has been halted -- westbound past Bridgeport, which is about 60 miles northeast of New York City on the Long Island Sound, and eastbound beyond South Norwalk -- because of the derailment.
Still, the implications of the Rutgers project unnerve residents of Surf City, on Long Beach Island, where the map shows water pouring over nearly all of the barrier island's six municipalities with a 6-foot increase in sea levels.
Life on the five-mile long island contrasted greatly with the hustle of city living.
Many points of interest in Long Island City and neighboring Astoria are related to the area's industrial heritage.
S. 1, in Long Island City hails the latest star of this tradition.
The notion that New York's tech scene is really heating up has been with us for years, sort of the way Long Island City is always poised to be the next hot neighborhood.
These premises, plus the hangarlike 11, 000-square-foot workspace Wilner maintains for his brigade of restorers in Long Island City, are a far cry from the walk-up apartment where he first lived and sold frames back in 1983.
Sections of the city and Long Island without power were left with much-needed gas in underground pumps, but no way to get it into vehicles.
Tom Swozzi, mayor of the city of Glen Cove on Long Island, New York, ordered high-speed ferries put to use to transport paramedics, emergency medical technicians, nurses and doctors to relieve New York doctors.
On August 17th Block Island, an idyllic spot on Long Island Sound north-east of New York city, will be graced by a holiday visit from one William Jefferson Clinton, plus 200 of his closest friends (Secret Service men and reporters, mostly).
The home has views of the sunset over the mountains in the west, all the way south to Long Beach and Catalina Island as well as of the city lights of downtown Los Angeles and easterly views of the sunrise over the San Gabriel Mountains.
John Azzata, chief of the Nassau County homicide squad, said he alerted Suffolk County colleagues that an as-yet unidentified body was found on Monday afternoon by a woman walking her dog in Lattingtown, an affluent community on Long Island Sound about 35 miles east of New York City.
Campaign finance reform provided the most dramatic moment in the candidates' last encounter, held in the upstate city of Buffalo in September, when Long Island congressman Lazio confronted Clinton with demands she sign a deal to eliminate the use of soft money in their campaigns.
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In January Allstate stopped issuing new homeowner policies in parts of New York including Long Island, New York City and southern Westchester County.
"I've found myself sending people to Long Island City and Roosevelt Island, " two less-desirable neighborhoods outside of Manhattan.
While it lacks the amenities of Union Square, waterfront development has made Long Island City more appealing to some technology entrepreneurs.
The new Long Island City facility is being built from the ground up with state-of-the-art security systems, fire protection and climate controls.
Another major destination for art-lovers is MoMA PS1, part of the Museum of Modern Art, located in a former Long Island City public school.
"When we moved here, there wasn't a local supermarket or a drugstore, " said Elias Roman, co-founder and chief executive of Songza, a digital music business based in Long Island City since 2007.
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is expected to create 3, 500 jobs, but one issue is that much of the job creation happens in already wealthy areas of the state such as New York City and Long Island.
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There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.
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