28 The Courier sun • OCTOBER 30, 2014 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com LIC Flea indoor holiday market grand opening BY QUEENS COURIER STAF [email protected] Even as the weather gets colder, the LIC Flea & Food will continue to bring the fun to Long Island City. The popular flea market, which was located at the outdoor lot on the corner of Fifth Street and 46th Avenue, will move indoors this weekend to the warehouse connected to the lot in order to launch the LIC Flea Holiday Market. For the opening weekend, guests will be able to enjoy live jazz music by Dandy Wellington and His Band and spinning tunes by DJ Johnny Seriuss. Every Saturday and Sunday through Dec. 21, the indoor holiday market will include a mix of LIC Flea favorite vendors with new faces offering local, handmade and uniquely curated items. Vendors will also be selling delicious treats and drinks. The LIC Flea Beer Garden will remain open, offering selections from local breweries SingleCut Beersmiths, Queens Brewery, Finback Brewery and Rockaway Brewing Company. There will be great events in the weekends to come such as Lego building, cupcake making, pictures with Santa Claus and much more. The LIC Flea Holiday Market is open every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information visit www.licflea.com or www.facebook.com/licflea. YORK COLLEGE RENAMES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AFTER FORMER SCHOOL PRESIDENT BY SALVATORE LICATA [email protected]/@Sal_Licata1 The York College community came together to honor a man who was vital to the process of creating the campus in southeast Queens. Milton G. Bassin, who was president of the college for 20 years, began his legacy at the institution in 1971. He was a staunch advocate for creating a school campus for students of humble beginnings and wanted to have it in a “neglected part of NYC,” according to Carlisle Towery, president of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation. For his dedication to the college, Bassin, who passed away in 2012, was honored on Oct. 22 as school officials renamed the college’s performing arts center “The Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center.” “This school would never have survived without his leadership,” said Marcia Keiz, current president of the college. “With this dedication, his legacy continues.” The performing arts center, built in 1990 and located at 95-45 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., is home to a 1,437-seat main stage theater and a 152-seat small theater. It has also hosted performers such as Bill Cosby. Bassin, who was a Russian immigrant and moved to Brooklyn in 1923, was credited by local elected officials for molding York College as a top-flight institution in the city. “He had the boldness to spearhead the campaign to build a state-of-the-art campus here in downtown Jamaica,” U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks said. “His dream and commitment made it happen. It is only appropriate that the performing arts center is being named after him.” Congressman Gregory Meeks speaks at the unveiling ceremony. THE COURIER/Photo by Salvatore Licata
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