Coming this summer, a new NYC Ferry route will be added connecting Long Island City directly to the East Village, Lower East Side, and Wall St.

The Lower East Side Route, the name of the new line, will have terminal points at the 46th Avenue and Center Boulevard landing at the LIC waterfront, and end at Wall St./Pier 11 in Manhattan. Stops in between include East 34th St., Stuyvesant Town, and Corlears Hook. The total travel time is expected to take 32 minutes, with no more than a 10 minute trip between each stop of the new line.

Attempting to relieve subway pressure, the City has drastically increased ferry service by shortening wait times and adding more lines over the past few years. Also coming later this year is a planned Bronx to Upper East Side ferry line called the "Soundview Route."

Looking for sime interesting things to do this weekend, February 23rd through 25th? From the Chinese New Year Parade to the Illuminati Ball, our friends at Time Out New York have put together this shortlist of the City's most interesting events and attractions coming up.

You’ve been working hard all week, so let loose and try our awesome recommendations for the best things to do in NYC this weekend.

Local historical blog Forgotten NY recently dug up this great vintage map from 1852 showing the rural town of Woodside in Queens County. The accompanying article talks about how it went from farmlands to the neighborhood of the same name today.

It was first settled by Europeans in the 1640s, but remained largely rural in nature until 1869, when developer Benjamin Hitchcock purchased the estate of John A. Kelly, divided it into lots, laid out streets, and brought in other developers and industry. Kelly, for his part, had already given Woodside its name from a series of letters written from his room, which had a view of the woods out the window. The LIRR arrived in 1895, trolleys plied the main routes, and Woodside, which has somewhat nebulous boundaries (Woodside Avenue on the west, Northern Boulevard on the north, Mount Zion Cemetery and 51st Avenue on the south and the New York Connecting Railroad on the east, was folded into Queens’ overall numerical street nomenclature in the 1920s.