Check out this great shot from the LIC Partnership of students from the Frank Sinatra High School singing at today’s celebration of the Kaufman Arts District! Today the city, neighborhood organizations and local pols declared ... Read More

Astoria is ready for the world to know it’s the place to be for the arts. The western Queens neighborhood gathered Friday to celebrate the announcement of the designation of the Kaufman Arts District, the first ... Read More

There’s no shortage of neighborhoods teeming with amazing culture in New York City, but to date, only two areas—along 4th Street on the Lower East Side and the amorphous Fort Greene–Downtown Brooklyn hub that’s anchored ... Read More

Astoria is getting its own official arts district this week, in hopes of creating a "world-class vibrant cultural destination and home for creative industries." The brunch line at Queens Comfort is about to get a ... Read More

The neighborhood surrounding the Kaufman Astoria Studios has been known as the Cultural Campus, home to seven institutions like The Museum of the Moving Image, The Queens Council on the Arts and the Frank Sinatra ... Read More

QUEENS — A section of Astoria, known for its numerous cultural venues and the famed Kaufman Astoria Studios, will be named a new arts district on Friday — the first such district in the borough ... Read More

A new arts district in Queens will promote Astoria to visitors and potential new venues, local elected officials will announce Friday at the Kaufman Astoria Studios. The 94-year-old film studio, which once set the stage for ... Read More

New York City neighborhoods can wax and wane in popularity like a boy band: hot one minute, not the next, and maybe hot again. On Friday, a once-gritty pocket of Astoria, Queens, where a steady ... Read More

The set for the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black” is dark now, so only shadows and dim shapes hover in its warren of prison cells and other rooms built on the main soundstage ... Read More