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Breaking Ground at Year End 2009. $222 Million in NYC Budget + $92 Million for Hunters Point South Housing Subsidies

Rendering: Arial View of Hunters Point South from the East River

Long Island City, NY March, 25, 2009 - While addressing a gathering of business and community leaders, gathered at a meeting of Long Island City Business Development Corporation, Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation, discussed a NYC plan to implement a three part "WORK" strategy to stimulate the economy.

Making Government WORK more efficiently and effectively
Creating WORK Opportunities for New Yorkers
Investment in Public WORKS infrastructure

Pinsky also announced that NYC was about to close on the Hunters Point South project and had $220 million in the capital budget plus $92 million in housing subsidies. The City recently purchased the property from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Expecting development to take 10 years, it intends to break ground at the end of 2009. Additional projects presented included Gotham Center, Queens Plaza, Jackson Avenue, and Willet's Point

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Jimmy Van Bramer, Candidate for City Council, 26th District, Discusses his Commitments on Earth Day

Jimmy Van Bramer

Long Island City, NY April 16, 2009 - Jimmy Van Bramer, candidate for City Council, 26th District, met with a group of about 100 people at The Creek Restaurant on Earth Day to discuss his views and commitments to issues relating to the environment, mass transit, parks, greenways, re-use and re-cycling, and marriage quality. As a member of the Community Board, he supported Bike Lanes as part of his belief in livable sustainable neighborhoods that are friendly to bike lanes.

Jimmy Van Bramer is Chief External Affairs Officer at the Queens Borough Public Library.

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United Auto Workers Endorse Jimmy Van Bramer for City Council

Hunters Point Community Partners Announces New Mission for 'Smart Progress'

Long Island City, NY April 29, 2009 - The Leadership Team of Hunters Point Community Partners, a non-profit organization, announced its new Mission Statement and Plan during a meeting at The Foundry attended by over 40 community business leaders, banks, organizations, and two Candidates for City Council.

Dr. Angelo Ippolito, President of the organization and owner of Art of Health; Allison Du Val, The Foundry; and Paul Salas, Bigcitygraph-x announced that the Mission of HPCP would shift to meet the growing needs of a rapidly developing community.

During a presentation on "Smart Progress" by Arthur Rosenfield, OurLIC.com, HPCP defined its new Mission:

"To act as a Voice, a Catalyst, and a Conduit so that the Hunters Point community of business people and residents have an effective relationship with government agencies, institutions, and developers that are planning for the future of Long Island City."

The Leadership Team also announced that it would be offering a new internet platform to provide enhanced Member communication and promotion based on the technology and formats made possible through an agreement with OurLIC.com. Its new website will be developing at HuntersPointCommunityPartners.org, providing Members with community networking tools that support "consociation", as well as a directory of its members.

HPCP Leadership Team. Left to Right: Dr. Angelo Ippolito, Art of Health; Allison Du Val, The Foundry; and Paul Salas, Bigcitygraph-x

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Photographer Tony Vaccaro Filming PBS Special on D-Day, June 6, 1944

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Artist - Tony Vaccaro
Title - The kiss of liberation
Medium - Gelatin Silver Print
Size - 23.8 x 17.6 in. / 60.5 x 44.8 cm.
Year - 1945
Misc. - Signed, Inscribed

Long Island City, NY May 1, 2009 - Favorite son of Hunters Point, and world famous photograph, Tony Vaccaro left for Europe with a PBS Production crew.

PBS is filming a TV Special to mark the 65th Anniversary of D-Day and the beginning of the end of World War II. Vaccaro will be landing on Omaha Beach to re-enact the US and Allied Troops liberation of France in 1944; and, ultimately the end of WWII

Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the main landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6 1944, during World War II. Vaccaro is author of a book and photo journal Entering Germany: 1944-1949 (Hardcover)

The PBS Special will air in November

Tony Vaccaro (b. December 20, 1922), is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War II. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for U.S. magazines.€

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May 28 thru July 31, 2009: TRANS-POSITIONS along the Queensboro Bridge: Contemporary art production bridging the boroughs

Long Island City, NY May 14, 2009 - TRANS-POSITIONS Along the Queensboro Bridge presents a wide range of contemporary and traditional artwork, including video. Concerned with the notion of spanning, the work explores the place of the artist as well as where art is made. Conjuring a wide range of seeing and knowing, the exhibition features many artists new to exhibiting in the immediate area. In addition to the artwork, the exhibition has prompted new partnerships within the business community.

Judith Tolnick Champa is an Independent Curator with considerable expertise in modern and contemporary art curating, including working in public and private academic settings. She is a member of ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts and IKT, the international association of contemporary art curators.

Long Island City Artists, Inc. has a 23 year history as a high-visibility organization of professional visual artists working in the Long Island City area, actively creating and promoting public art events and projects for the cultural enrichment of the Queens community. The Centennial anniversary of the Queensboro Bridge is a major event focus this spring for The Queens Council on the Arts, whose mission is to foster the arts in the County.

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world....'Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge,' I thought; 'anything at all...'"
From THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright (C) 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an Imprint of Simon &Schuster, Inc, NY.

Above art by Kristina Nazarevskaia - KNSTUDIOS, Karen Fitzgerald Art, and Sculptor Lilian Engel

For more information, please contact Karen Fitzgerald, 646.369.7184 or kbfitzgerald@gmail.com. Please also visit www.LICArtists.org

Opening Reception the evening of May 30, 6 P.M. - 8 p.m. at these venues:

Clocktower Building, 29-27 Queens Plaza North, ground floor
Holiday Inn; 39-05 29th St., 718.77.3700
Packard Square Lobby, 41-34 Crescent Street, LIC, 718.707.9449
Space Realty Group; 29-09 39th Avenue, LIC 718.606.2947
Press Reception the evening of May 28, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. at
Henry DeFord III Gallery at Citi, Jackson Avenue and 44th Drive
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday, 9a.m. - 5p.m. at all five venues

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Open Studios: May 30-31, 1:00PM - 6:00 PM Over 150 artists at multiple studio complexes open their studios to the public in conjunction with Borough-wide Centennial Celebrations.

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View examples of artist's work.