Family-Friendly Guide to Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Long before its current incarnation as one of New York City’s top destinations for family fun, Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens welcomed nearly 100 million visitors from all over the globe as the site of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs.
(NYCGO.com, Sept. 2022)
Timber salvaged from New York City buildings reveals ancient climate
Old-growth forests once covered the eastern United States, but they were almost entirely decimated by the early 1900s after centuries of commercial logging. Yet wood from those forests survives, much of it tucked behind the walls of New York City buildings. The tree rings on these timbers are sources of historical climate data, which is why researchers are working to recover them.
(National Geographic, Oct. 2021)
Steven Handel is Bringing Nature Back to the City
On a sunny July afternoon at Brooklyn Bridge Park, amid ice-cream toting children, tour groups and wedding parties posing for photos, Steven Handel ’66 stops along the promenade of Pier 1 to contemplate the salt spray roses facing the East River. Where the casual observer might perceive a delicate bloom, however, Handel sees a hearty species chosen for the site because it tolerates salty air and water.
(Columbia College Today, Winter 2014-15)
Nick Anderer ’99 Offers Taste of Rome
A passion for art drove Nick Anderer ’99 to spend his junior year of college in Rome but it was “the rustic food of the people” he discovered there that cemented his ties with the city. The connection has since shaped his career, and today he is executive chef and partner at two restaurants inspired by the Italian capital: Maialino and Marta.
(Columbia College Today, Spring 2015)
On the Day Shift with Pastry Cook Mercedes Vargas ’99
It’s just before 10 a.m. on a December Monday at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, and pastry cook Mercedes Vargas ’99 is in her work clothes: a white chef jacket embroidered with the hotel name, an apron that shows faint evidence of encounters with chocolate and loose pants with a fine black-and-white checkerboard pattern. Her dark hair is tucked into a pillbox hat.
(Columbia College Today, Spring 2015)
Youngest Son of “The First Family of Fine Dining,” Keeps Making Food Lovers Smile
It’s lunchtime on a humid summer Tuesday and a suit-and-tied Mauro Maccioni ’95 is seated in a harlequin-patterned chair in the dining room of Osteria del Circo, the Midtown West restaurant inspired by his mother Egidiana’s Tuscan home cooking.
(Columbia College Today, Summer 2014)
Chimney Sweet
On the ground floor of a Jackson Avenue condominium complex in Long Island City, a centuries-old Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding treat has become a Queens novelty.
(Edible Queens, Spring 2012)
Citywide hotel boom hits LIC
Though not traditionally associated with tourism, Long Island City is proving fertile ground for new hotels because of its proximity to Midtown Manhattan.
(Queens Chronicle, Nov. 2011)
Explore Queens’ Subway Art Scene
It’s an often overlooked art scene that is — sometimes literally — underground.
(Queens Chronicle, May 2008)