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BRONX MAN PURSUES HELL
GATE'S TREASURE AND A DREAM
Is a fortune in gold and silver buried within the remains of a sunken
British frigate lying in the clay beneath the murky waters of the
Hell Gate channel? One man, Joseph Govornali, believes so. The story
of the HMS Hussar was the subject of his lecture at the Astoria
Historical Society on Monday night.
DESTINATION:
MOMA
Matisse and Picasso are not the only notable new residents of Long
Island City
"THE
CREATIVE ENGINE" BY NEIL SCOTT KLEINMAN, ET ALI
“More recently, with the help of a large city incentive
package, Metropolitan Life moved 1,500 employees from Manhattan
to a 400,000 square foot converted factory building on Queens Plaza
North. If locals thought the arrival of MetLife would usher in a
new wave of cultural development and mixed-use retail activity,
they were wrong. MetLife received a hefty $26.2 million in discretionary
tax and energy incentives over the next 20 years from the city,
and the state kicked in $4.3 million in grants and loans for worker
training and renovation costs. But like the Citicorp tower down
the street, the MetLife building wasn’t developed in a way
that encourages the firms’ employees to participate in the
surrounding neighborhood. It has all the 'comforts of home' with
a gym, cafeteria, ATM, and stamp vendors. The company is currently
floating the idea of a pedestrian tunnel from the 7 train right
into their building. If this happens, not a single worker will actually
have to set foot in Long Island City.”
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