Astoria Watch a LIVE Tour of Blooming Astoria Trees This Friday with NYC Parks by Claire Leaden As we all try to stay indoors as much as possible, it’s still turning into spring on the New York City streets. Luckily, you can still get a taste of (…)
Astoria Arrivals Featured Food and Drink Mexican News UPDATE: Chipotle on Steinway to Open Tomorrow, March 26 (Takeout & Delivery only) by Claire Leaden After much anticipation and heartache, almost one year after it was originally supposed to open, the Steinway Street Chipotle will officially open this Thursday, March 26 (TOMORROW!). Due to the (…)
Community Event Featured News Queens Bus Network Redesign Receives Record Level of Public Feedback, MTA Adds More Public Workshops by Claire Leaden Earlier this month, the MTA released the first drafts of the new and improved Queens Bus Network, a redesign of bus routes that haven’t been touched in a century, when (…)
Arts and Culture Comedy Community Featured Free Small Business Owners Spotlight POD SAVE ASTORIA WEEK: The History of Podcasting with ‘Keith and The Girl’ by Claire Leaden When we started looking into local podcasts a few weeks back for story ideas, there were so many good opportunities for content that we decided to make it a week-long (…)
Art Arts and Culture Astoria Community Featured Neighborhood Astoria Interiors: Modern, Eclectic and Cozy on 34th Ave by Claire Leaden BY: ANNA DORE Welcome back to another edition of Astoria Interiors, a series where we go inside neighborhood homes to showcase design on the most local level. Today, we’re going (…)
Astoria Best Of Astoria Boutiques Community Featured Neighborhood Shopping 5 Years in Astoria: Q.E.D. & The Brass Owl by Claire Leaden With 2019 coming to an end ever so swiftly, we decided it would be nice to highlight some of the amazing local businesses celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. Each day (…)
Astoria Christmas Community Event Featured Free Holidays Jackson Heights Parks Sunnyside Weekend Tree Lightings in Astoria (& Nearby) That Will Get You in the Holiday Spirit by Claire Leaden One of the nicest parts of the holiday season each year is the variety of tree lightings (and post office lightings? see below!). Here’s our roundup for this year—we’ll add (…)
Astoria Community Event Featured Holidays Shopping Weekend Reminder: Support Local Biz This Weekend With Shop Small Astoria! by Claire Leaden Tomorrow, November 30 is Small Business Saturday! The tradition was started 10 years ago by American Express, in order to “bring communities together in support of their favorite small businesses.” (…)
Astoria Community Featured Free Living Neighborhood News Parks Recreation FIRST LOOK: Astoria Park Track and Field Back Open Today! by Claire Leaden If you’ve been missing the Astoria Park track and soccer field, get excited, because the totally renovated facilities are OPEN—seven months ahead of schedule! The reconstruction project began last fall, (…)
Art Arts and Culture Astoria Community Dance Event Featured Neighborhood Parks Weekend See Completed Summer Sculptures at Socrates Park This Weekend by Claire Leaden Every summer artists are hard at work in Socrates Sculpture Park producing work for the Fall exhibit. They are part of the Park’s Annual Fellowship Program, an artist residency that (…)
Astoria Astoria Arrivals Astoria Closings Community Featured Food and Drink Long Island City Neighborhood News Openings, Closings and Rumors: Early Fall 2019 by Claire Leaden What’s in, what’s out in the neighborhood lately… OPENINGS New Yorkers used to have to take a bus, train and ferry to outfit their apartments with affordable minimalist furniture while (…)
Astoria catering Community Event Featured Jackson Heights Long Island City Museums and Galleries Neighborhood Sunnyside WHA Wedding Week: How Four Astoria Locals Did Their Big Day by Claire Leaden Now that you have all the details from venues to photography to food to design, see it all come together with four local Queens-based weddings! Who:Â Dan McNamara and Tabitha Vidaurri (…)
Art Astoria Community Event Featured Neighborhood WHA Wedding Week: The Creative (Including Beauty) by Claire Leaden There are so many details and aspects of a wedding, we could easily have done multiple weeks’ worth of posts! So today we’re doing double duty: the creative aspects, including (…)
Astoria Community Event Featured Neighborhood WHA Wedding Week: Photographers by Claire Leaden Welcome to WHA Wedding Week! With wedding season in full swing, we’re so excited to bring you a full week of Queens-focused wedding content. We have interviews with locals about (…)
Astoria Astoria Arrivals Astoria Closings Community Featured Neighborhood News Openings, Closings & Rumors Early Summer 2019 by Claire Leaden Here’s our intermittent roundup of openings/closing/rumors in the neighborhood that are too small for posts of their own. As usual, let us know if there’s anything you’ve noticed on your (…)