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4 unusual facts about Long Island City


Long Island City

Ice hockey forward Zenon Konopka is a resident of Long Island City during the hockey season.

Luke Halpin

Halpin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City to parents, Helen and Eugene Halpin, and grew up with his family in Long Island City.

Red Maps

The New Yorker set lays out detailed block by block shopping guides and restaurants of SoHo, Nolita, Chelsea, Meatpacking District, Greenwich Village, Midtown, Brooklyn and Long Island City.

Serious Business Records

In April 2003 the label moved into another tiny one room shack, this time in Long Island City, Queens.


Eric Gioia

He was elected to two year terms in 2001 and 2003 and to a four year term in 2005, representing the Queens neighborhoods of Woodside, Sunnyside, Maspeth, and Long Island City.

Ilan Averbuch

Averbuch lives and works in a former factory building in Long Island City (Queens) in New York.

Lynne Serpe

She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.

Michael Gianaris

He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.

The Son of No One

Filming took place from February 2010 to April in Astoria, Queens, NY, with several scenes shot in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City.

WQEW

The transmitter, which used a homemade antenna mounted on a wooden pole, was located in a garage in Long Island City, near the Queensborough Bridge, and its 250 watts provided just enough power to reach midtown Manhattan and parts of Queens.


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Caroline O'Donnell

As CODA she won the PS1 MoMA Young Architects Program in 2013 and built "Party Wall" at PS1 in Long Island City, New York.

Chase Manhattan

Chase Manhattan Bank Building, a 1927 building located at Queens Plaza in Long Island City, Queens, New York City

Face Off Unlimited

In 2010 Face Off Unlimited opened Face Off University at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, New York, offering classes on improvisation and their approach to the art form.

LaGuardia Community College

Along with the Long Island City Business Coalition, the college occupies the historic Sunshine Biscuits Building, building "C" on their main campus.

Martha Greenblatt

In January 1962 she received a BSc (cum laude) in Chemistry from Brooklyn College and she chose to work for the Chiclets Chewing Gum Company in Long Island City as a chemist.

Pearl Street Station

The models still exist and are on display at the Smithsonian Institution Behring Center in Washington, at the Consolidated Edison Learning Center in Long Island City, New York and at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Secret Theatre

The Secret Theatre is an off off Broadway house that was established in The Long Island City Art Center in July 2007 by Actor/Director Richard Mazda.