by Audrey Dimola We know how easy it is to slip into sweet, sweet hibernation mode when you’re faced with freezing rain, apocalyptic snowfall, or just plain cold – but not this time! Here’s a few fun local reasons to see something besides your laptop, television screen, or apartment walls this winter, and maybe, just [...]
For years, manufacturing jobs have been leaving the city, and in many cases those grand spaces of a forgotten industrial age were replaced by luxury housing. For over a decade, that was the prediction for Long Island City, and while there has been considerable residential development, it has never completed dominated the neighborhood. Now, a [...]
by Kathleen Lees From the outside, 19-33 37th Street looks like just another warehouse, but inside it’s producing the borough’s newest brew. Richard Buceta left the job security and comfort of an almost 20-year career in the advertising world to start SingleCut Beersmiths. It was December 2007 and Buceta was on a two-week Christmas vacation [...]
“There’s this terrific untapped potential particularly in Western Queens,” Gustavo Rodriguez says, perched on a piano bench in a private room of the Gibson Guitar Showroom in NYC, which just so happens to be the former famous Hit Factory recording studio where Michael Jackson recorded Bad and Bruce Springsteen recorded Born in the USA, just [...]
It’s Queens spoke with Major League Soccer Commissioner and Queens native Don Garber about the league’s vision for a pro soccer franchise and new stadium in the borough. Don Garber is no stranger to Queens. The commissioner of Major League Soccer was born and raised in Flushing, where his grandfather owned a store on Main [...]
Kaitlin Monte talks about her journey, life in Astoria and anti- bullying By Cynthia Via Calm and often humorous, Kaitlin Monte was hardly bothered that most cafes were closed one early humid morning when the recently crowned Miss New York sat down for an interview with It’s Queens. She even joked about going to a [...]
After giving Queens a championship in 1986, Darryl Strawberry is now serving his Alma mater borough barbecue and beer on tap. By Heather Senison Strawberry chose to open Strawberry’s Sports Grill in Queens “because Queens is a family place,” he said. “The Mets fans are here and you know I’m a true Met.” Strawberry’s, which [...]
Beekeeper harvests honey from a rooftop hive By Heather Senison Chase Emmons is buzzing around Queens spreading the word on an often-misjudged form of urban farming: beekeeping. Emmons is the Chief Beekeeper and Director of Business Development for Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farm in Long Island City. After growing up in Greenwich Village where he [...]
In this issue of It’s Queens, we rank the Top 15 Kickstarters in the borough. What exactly is a Kickstarter? It’s a person who takes an idea – whether it be for a nonprofit, a worthwhile after-school program, or a community minded business – and takes it upon themselves to get the proverbial ball rolling. [...]
