The smallest house in Long Island City - Courthouse Sq, Hunters Point

Good Monday morning liQcity readers. Some interesting tidbits in recent LIC news…did you know the Noguchi Museum is sinking? Well, apparently so. In other topographical news, the Newtown Creek, site of the potentially (ahem) largest oil spill in the world, is finally getting some money thrown at it for cleanup. We haven’t even touched the topic of toxicity in Long Island City, and you can bet that’s coming.

• Sinking Noguchi Museum gets $8M [Daily News]

• State Targets Brooklyn’s Ultra-Polluted Newtown Creek With $625G Grant [Brooklyn Eagle]

• Signs of Spring: Putting the ‘Beach’ into Water Taxi Beach [Eater]

• The end nears for Kosciuszko Bridge [Daily News]

• Artisan bakery mixes tradition with social activism [AM NY]

• CurbedWire: Fifth Street Lofts Price Madness [Curbed]

New is Beautiful in Long Island City. (?)

So Citi’s (are they not called Citicorp or Citibank anymore?) Two Court Square clocks in as LIC’s first official green building. There were other contenders, but TCS seems to have nailed the title. Interesting - they’re using 100% wind energy to power the building.

And the CUNY dorm site that can’t stay out of the news. That’s back in the mix - two articles reporting on a meeting held between the architects and some local artists. Is there any way to find out about these meetings before they happen?

Incidentally, the CUNY dorm proposal is on the table for the Community Board meeting on April 3rd. Here’s the deets.

• Two Court Square by Citi is a green building! [Power Online]

• Second phase of Noguchi restoration has begun [Zwire]

• CUNY Dorm Architects meet with local artists [Zwire]

• CUNY’s LIC dorm gets tentative praise [Times Ledger]

• The 11101 page on Everyblock [nyc.everyblock]