I’M penning this dispatch whilst hobnobbing in Davos. While we don’t like to talk politics at LICtalk, we love composing lengthy discourses on economics, which have proven to be correct 50% of the time! We also love hobnobbing.
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Chipping Away In Long Island City And Queens
THANKSGIVING 2022 is here, yet another marker of the passage of time. And with that passage comes the inevitable changes to, and growth of, a neighborhood’s structures. Every neighborhood. Typifying these changes is the news that a 1940’s wood-frame house in Astoria is set to be bulldozed to create a 7-story, 27-unit apartment building.
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SKYLINE Tower is an easy comparison for the state of LIC’s residential real estate. Too easy, and anyone familiar with the nuances of the local scene know why it’s an outlier. Nevertheless, given it’s size and the scope of it’s audaciousness – 802 condo units offered at a significant premium per-square-foot to other new-builds in central LIC – it makes for interesting real estate porn fodder.
Plaxall Closes Plastics Biz, What’s Next For The Space?
PLAXALL has closed down its plastics manufacturing business and is looking for new ideas for its existing space.
[Read more…] about Plaxall Closes Plastics Biz, What’s Next For The Space?Penny Bridge Restaurant Closing Next Week
PENNY Bridge, a restaurant opened by chef Dan Kluger in January of 2021, will be closing its doors a week from today. Located at street level in the JACX building at the northern end of Jackson Avenue, the restaurant serves seasonal market-driven comfort food in a light, airy and high-ceilinged room.
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