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As part of the Bringing the World into the World program, the Queens Museum is hosting a 1.5-hour kid and family friendly walking tour and planet hunt around Chris Burden‘s Scale Model of the Solar System today from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The tour will be led by educator and curator PJ Gubatina Policarpio and begins inside the Queens Museum where the 13-inch sun is located. The outer edge of the solar system lies about a mile away at Leo’s Latticini in Corona.
The event is free, but space is limited.
The folks at Flushing Town Hall continue their jazz tradition this evening with a night of Latin jazz featuring Grammy-winning pianist, composer and educator Arturo O’Farrill tonight at 8 p.m.
He will perform with his quartet, featuring Zack O’Farrill on drums, Adam O’Farrill on trumpet and Walter Stinson on bass.
If you’re looking to see the show for free, FTH has reintroduced #TweetSeats, offering free admission to anyone who is willing to tweet at least five times before, during and after the concert with their honest opinion of what’s happening onstage. To participate, follow @FlushingTownHall on Twitter if you don’t already, then tweet “I want Arturo O’Farrill Quartet #tweetseats @FlushingTwnHall” and wait for a direct Twitter message with details on how to claim your free tickets.
Otherwise, general admission tickets are $25, or $20 for members and $10 for students. For $90 (or $72 for members) a table for two can be reserved complete with wine and snacks.
In partnership with the Queens Museum‘s Open A.I.R. Artist Services program, Immigrant Movement International (IMI) will host a legal clinic for immigrant artists on Sat., September 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The event will be facilitated by Unlocal: Community Immigration Legal Services.
Topics of discussion will include how to apply for an O-1, or artists visa, and how to apply for permanent status once an O-1 visa is secured.
All who wish to attend must RSVP.
This Friday from 7 to 11 p.m., Flushing House is combining two of New York’s favorite pastimes – jazz music and hanging out on rooftops – with its Jazz Up In The Sky event at
Cost of entry is $100, or $150 for couples, and proceeds of the night will benefit the 300 senior residents of the Flushing House through the Flushing House endowment fund.
For the price, guests can expect a gourmet dinner, wine and beer, world-class musical performances and an open-air dance floor with uninterrupted skyline views.
Musicians of the night include Hernan Romero, Michael Feinberg and Isamu McGregor.
Thanks to a generous donation by the Citi Foundation, the Queens Economic Development Group is offering $10,000 grants to new businesses in the borough.
The QEDC will be hosting an information session for its new StartUP! program, which is funding the grants, at the Flushing branch of the Queens Library from 3 to 6 p.m. on Mon., September 15.
At the session, attendees will learn the ins and outs of the Startup Business Plan Competition, which will decide who the grant winners will be.
As part of the Queens Museum‘s Community Partnership Exhibition Program series, the Sadhana Coalition of Progressive Hindus presents Sacred Waters: A Collection of Hindu Offerings from Jamaica Bay, a new exhibition that opens today.
The opening reception will be held from 3 to 6 p.m., and features items discovered through Sadhana’s Project Prithvi, a green initiative that aims to honor the Hindu tradition of Ganja puja, which worships the waters, while at the same time promoting contemporary environmental justice. As part of its real-world environmental efforts, Sadhana hosts monthly cleanups of Jamaica Bay.
The exhibit will be on display through September 28.
The Shops at Queens Crossing, situated at Main Street and 39th Avenue, is once again seeking proposal submissions for its 2014 Christmas Public Art Project to be placed at the shopping center during the holiday season.
Since 2009, the public art project has featured the submissions of local artists, with previous projects including Benjamin S. Jones’ Home for the Holidays, Lin Shih Pao’s Relight Your Recyclables, Isaac Aden’s Radiant Christmas: Pink Gothic, Jason Krugman’s Holiday Helpers and Mark Salinas’ X-Mas X-ing.
Anyone interested in submitting a proposal for consideration by the Shops should send an email with a couple of sentences outlining the general details of the project, their artistic CV and a budget to info@crossingart.com.
The MTA’s Mets-Willets Point Long Island Railroad station is set to receive a $9.7 million station renovation that will see it becoming fully accessible to the disabled by 2016.
The station overhaul includes plans for installation of an elevator as well as tactile warning strips at platform edges and new, fully compliant guard rails and hand rails on the staircases inside the station.
“The MTA and the Long Island Rail Road are committed to doing our part so LIRR customers with disabilities can attend the U.S. Open, Mets games and other special events that come to Flushing Meadows Park,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast in a press release announcing the station overhaul. “A design firm with expertise in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) is drawing up the plans right now and construction is scheduled to begin next year.”
The scope of the renovation also includes extension of the platform to accommodate 12-car trains, a new canopy to fully cover the extended platform, and modernized communications and lighting systems.
The Mets-Willets Point station was constructed in 1964 to accommodate the Worlds Fair, and continues to be classified as a special events station, since most of the traffic at the station occurs during Mets games and other special events in the park, including the U.S. Open.
Currently, 105 of the total 124 LIRR stations are fully ADA accessible, including the Woodside station, which also services Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Along with the Mets-Willets Point ADA upgrade, four other similar projects are in the design phase.
The MTA says that the station will remain open throughout the construction.
To address the problem of litter in his district, Councilman Peter Koo hosted a volunteer cleanup day in Flushing last Friday.
A little more than a dozen teens gathered to take part in the clean up, using simple tools including straw brooms, dust pans and gardening gloves to clean Prince Street.
Wayne Lam, a 16-year-old volunteer with Koo’s office who lives in Ridgewood, said he volunteered for the project because “it’s really a good experience.”
“Flushing has a lot of garbage everywhere, and I want to keep [the neighborhood] clean,” Lam said.
Koo hoped that the effort would draw the attention of the thousands of commuters who use the streets of Flushing as a dumping ground.
“When you dump garbage out into the streets, you affect everybody,” he said. “It’s a public health issue.”
Beyond health concerns, Koo said that the trash problem is creating image issues for Flushing, and making it less desirable as a destination for business, shopping and nightlife.
While Manhattan receives the five-star treatment from the Department of Sanitation, Koo said he feels his district is getting the shaft.
“Actually, we pay more taxes than Manhattan in Flushing,” he said. “We provide the city with much more revenue than other places. Proportionately we need more resources.”
Koo said that while the effort made by his small team of volunteers was just a drop in the bucket compared to the cleanup needs of the neighborhood, he hopes it will set a good example and inspire others to do their part.
“Of course, we cannot in one day clean up Flushing,” Koo said. “Its cleanliness depends on everyone,” Koo said.
Read more:Queens Examiner – Koo hosts annual street cleanup in Downtown Flushing
The City Parks Foundation has announced that its six-week CityParks Seniors Fitness program will begin on Mon., September 22.
This year, Airbnb.com is a proud program sponsor.
“Every day, New York City parks provide a place for residents and visitors from all five boroughs and around the world to gather, be active, and experience all that this great city has to offer,” said Airbnb’s New York City Manager Wrede Petersmeyer. “The Airbnb community is committed to making New York a better place to live, work, and visit – and we are thrilled to support City Parks Foundation and all of the important resources they provide.”
The program is open to any and all seniors 60+ years old, and will offer free tennis lessons, yoga instruction and fitness walking, according to a recent announcement by the organization.
All program activities will take place once or twice per week at 14 parks around the city. As part of the citywide program, several parks in Queens will be hosting events.
Here is the schedule:
Astoria Park
Tennis – Mondays/Wednesdays at 10AM – 12 PM Tennis Courts 21st St & Hoyt Ave S
Cunningham Park
Tennis – Tuesdays/Thursdays at 9AM – Tennis Courts Union Turnpike & 193rd St
Yoga – Tuesdays/Thursdays at 10AM – Tennis Courts Union Turnpike & 193rd St
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Tennis – Mondays/Wednesdays at 10 AM – 12 PM – Tennis Courts Meridian Rd
Roy Wilkins Park
Tennis- Tuesdays/Thursdays at 10AM – Tennis Courts Baisley Blvd & 177th St
Yoga – Tuesdays/Thursdays at 9AM – Tennis Courts Baisley Blvd & 177th St
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