Artists enjoy their most private moments in their studios, where the creative energies flow and the demons emerge in full force. Artist studios--backstage to the galleries, museums and other places of public art displays--are sadly, so little explored by the public.

NEW YORK -- A hotel boom is luring tourists out of Manhattan and across the East River to the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, where 15 hotels...

NEW YORK — With the popping of cables and the snapping of metal, a crane collapsed onto a building under construction near the East River waterf...

LONG ISLAND CITY — We're not in Kansas anymore. The annual Halloween Harvest Festival will be returning to Socrates Sculpture Park, complete with...

Alobar in Long Island City played host to Mayor Bloomberg this week, where he and a female friend dined on the restaurant's locally farmed spreads. ...

By Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer LONG ISLAND CITY -- When Mark di Suvero, a well-known abstract sculptor, moved his studio to th...

The 7 train, that vital artery connecting Times Square and midtown to Queensboro plaza and Queens, will be shut down for 11 consecutive weekends, The ...

Suzi, who looks like a runway model, was born in Hawaii right before it became a state in 1960; Jeff was raised in Kansas City, Mo. It was fate that brought them together and sent them to New York City.

It turns out being stuck in the city for Labor Day weekend isn't so bad after all. I started Saturday evening at the West Village outpost of Flex Mussels, a mini-chain from Canada's Prince Edward Island.

The highly-anticipated East River Ferry, took its maiden voyage this morning and most tweets suggest it's a good, quick alternative to overcrowded tra...

For Greenpoint residents tired of relying on the infrequent G train for transportation, the city has a ferry good idea. The city plans to run a seven...

Alfred C. Ronzoni Jr. arrives at the Greater Astoria Historical Society right on the dot. Al, in case you didn't know, is one of the pasta-making Ronzonis.

Garo Apanian opens his candy-apple-red laptop. "Let me show you the apartment where I was born," he says. "It's a beautiful building." The image that appears is of Beirut.

In the 5th installment of PS1's Warm Up concert series, Animal Collective's Deakin and Avey Tare played a ninety-minute DJ set to more than a thousa...

Since its inception in 1997, MoMA P.S.1's Warm Up summer performance series has seen acts from "hip-hop to electronica to lounge/easy listening to p...

If you're one of those Manhattanites skeptical of the contemporary art scene in Long Island City, then you can easily recognize the incredible fea...

Long Island City's best-known art museum and its community board stand divided - by a 16-foot concrete wall. Community Board 2 members are up in arms...

"Clothing is like art," says Kristie Foster. "It's to admire." The statuesque Kristie, does, indeed, look like a gallery work. The owner of KrisTEES is a live billboard for her chic boutique.

Over the weekend, P.S.1 in Long Island City housed Brooklyn Is Burning, an event curated by Sarvia Jasso and Andres Bedoya that promotes and embraces ...

Review of The Open: an exhibition of thirty works by thirty-one emerging artists at Jeffrey Deitch's satellite location in Long Island City