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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Jungly To Open In Bierocracy Location On Jackson Ave
‘WHAT lurks behind the papered windows of the former Bierocracy space1 at 12-23 Jackson Avenue?’ has been a close second to ‘Will Trump run in 2024?’ as the question on everyone’s mind this summer in LIC. Now, LICtalk can reveal that the answer to this question is ‘Jungly.’ Leading to the question ‘What is Jungly?’
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Dun Huang Northwestern Chinese Cuisine Coming To LIC
Catch the Detroit Lightning
Out of Santa Fe
Great Northern out of Cheyenne
From sea to shining sea
DUN HUANG, a restaurant specializing in Northwestern Chinese cuisine, is opening a location at 27-25 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City. What is Northwestern Chinese cuisine?
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THE legendary Mu Ramen has closed its doors in Long Island City and ‘Kuku Chicken’ has opened in the space. What began as a night-time pop-up in Bricktown Bagels and would take the city by storm has come to a very quiet end.
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Real estate recaptures the headlines for LIC this week. Within 24 hours, two different websites put out stories marveling at all the construction going on along Jackson Avenue. Curbed’s methodically walks through every single project, while Yimby’s focuses on the potential of a two-block stretch. All I can think is LIC Glut.
Two other little stories add anecdotal fuel to this fire. The first is about a 3-unit condo project off Vernon, that utilizes a new source of mezzanine financing: the retail investor – always the last guy in! The second details a 7-story 20-unit development being built along the elevated subway on the LIC/Astoria border, where every building around it is low-rise and fairly gritty (Enterprise Rent-a-car, Halal Live Poultry). The developer is the owner of the lot, which currently has an empty, graffiti-laden three-story house on it, and they’ve owned it since 1984.
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