Long Island City crisp Thursday morning linkage

Silvercup Studios hosts ‘Made in NY’ production training program, LIC

“Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting Commissioner Katherine Oliver, and “Law & Order” actor Anthony Anderson today launched the “Made in NY” Production Crafts Training Program to help women, minority and struggling New Yorkers prepare for and get jobs in film and television production. The City selected Brooklyn Workforce Innovations to administer the pilot program. Classes, which will begin in the spring, will take place at Brooklyn Workforce Innovations on Degraw Street in Brooklyn and Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens.“

• TV/Film production training to begin at LIC’s Silvercup Studios [Epoch Times]

• Pilot Program for TV/Film production announced for Silvercup Studios in LIC [Shoot Online]

• Art Shuttle connecting to LIC hotspots [Queens Courier]

• Alleged LIC resident data scammer swallows flash drive at Secret Service office [NBC]

• LIC resident swallows flash drive [Gothamist]

• The media loves this swallowing the flash drive story [The Register UK]

• More on the swallowing the flash drive [The Smoking Gun]

• LIC & Astoria under-served medical resources mentioned by Congresswoman Maloney [Queens Gazette]

• Review of LIC’s Testaccio [Gothamist]

• Profile of yesterday’s Chocolate Factory theatre production [TONY]

• VIDEO: Astoria rallies against proposed MTA subway & bus closures [NY1]