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Savor local brews at the LIC Flea’s Queens Beer Festival this weekend
Th e Queens Beer Festival
and Tunnel, Finback,
returns this weekend to the
SingleCut BeerSmiths,
LIC Flea and Food market in
Brooklyn Brewery, Sixpoint,
Long Island City on Saturday
Coney Island Brewing Co.,
and Sunday, Oct. 14-15.
Greenport Harbor Brewing
Th e unlimited beer tasting
Company, Blue Point,
event will welcome the best
Great South Bay Brewery,
local craft breweries in New
Montauk Brewing Company
York including breweries
and many more.
based in Queens, Brooklyn,
Grab your tickets for
Th e Bronx, Long Island and
this special event at www.
upstate New York. Ticket
QueensBeerFestival.com.
holders will enjoy unlimited
In addition to live music,
beer tastings and live music.
food and fl ea vendors will
Close to 50 diff erent beers
also be on hand from LIC
will be available to try all
Flea. Th e festival is open
weekend long from local
from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
brewers including Rockaway
each day at the LIC Flea &
Brewing Company, Big
Food market, located at 5-25
aLICe, ICONYC, Bridge
46th Ave., Long Island City.
Check out Tiff any collection at Qns. Museum
BY ANGELA MATUA
amatua@qns.com / @AngelaMatua
Egon and Hildegard Neustadt, Austrian
immigrants who began collecting Tiff any
glass lamps in 1935 to decorate their
Flushing home, have amassed the largest
collection of the rare pieces, and Queens
residents can now see them in Long
Island City.
Th e couple amassed hundreds of
lamps, leaded-glass windows and bronze
desk sets from 1935 to 1984 when Egon
Hildegard died. Th e Queens Museum displays
a portion of the collection, including
glass jewels that Neustadt bought when
the Tiff any studio closed in the 1930s.
In 1969, Egon Neustadt founded the
Neustadt Collection of Tiff any Glass and
his collection has been shared with the
Corning Museum of Glass and other
institutions. A piece of the couple’s collection
is also stored in a warehouse in
Long Island City and Open House New
York (OHNY) is giving people access to
the space on Oct. 14 and 15.
OHNY gives New Yorkers access to
the city’s most impressive architectural
spaces. Th e Long Island City warehouse,
which houses the nonprofi t Neustadt
Collection of Tiff any Glass at 5-26 46th
Ave., holds the couple’s archive of more
Photos courtesy of Neustadt Collection of Tiff any Glass
than a quarter of a million pieces of
Tiff any sheet glass.
Th ough the OHNY tour recently
sold out, interested parties can visit the
Queens Museum or make a
reservation at the Long Island
City warehouse by contacting
info@theneustadt.org.
Louis C. Tiff any, the son of
Charles Tiff any who founded
Tiff any & Co., created
much of the pieces that the
Neustadt’s collected in a glasshouse
in Corona. He opened
the factory in the 1890s and
revolutionized the look of
stained glass. Tiff any was able
to create opalescent glass, “a
unique American phenomenon
that featured a milky,
opaque, and sometimes rainbow
hued appearance with
the introduction of light,”
according to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
The Neustadt’s collection
started with a stainedglass
daff odil lampshade that
they found in a thrift store for $12.50.
Hildegard Neustadt convinced her husband
to purchase the lamp and the collection
grew from there.
The largest collection of Tiff any glass is located in Queens.