Once again The Editor will concede the space here to other LIC residents with happenings/ideas/news/reminiscences etc. First of all a happening you should know about:
I wanted to make you aware of a Valentine’s Pop Up Shop at the Irish Center next Sunday 2/10 2-5p. The event is being organized by local artisans and vendors. We will be selling handmade jewelry, handmade knits, toys, puzzles & games and other handmade gifts and crafts just in time for Valentine’s Day. We will also be selling children’s books & CDs. It would be great if you could post about it on your blog! The 7 train is not running so why not come out and support your local artisans!
OK, now to more contentious items, here is a suggestion from another reader regarding the proposed Alternate Side of the Street Parking implementation:
One quick thought about the current dispute about street cleaning: maybe the opponents of street cleaning could be helped by introducing a LIC parking decal handed out only to local residents: that way you could only park in the side streets if you were a LIC resident. This would prevent people from outside the neighborhood to store their cars in our streets for weeks on end. A parking decal would lead to an increase in the number of available spots which would make it easier for the opponents of street cleaning to park in the streets despite street cleaning.
I know, for example from police officers, that the number of spots taken up by people who store their cars in LIC or of people who come in and jump on the 7 train is really high. Most of the reserved police parking spots near Borden Avenue, for example, are NOT used by employees of our local precinct as intended but by people with a permit from other parts of Queens who are going into the city and who want a free parking space close to a subway station.
By creating more spots for locals by preventing commuters from other neighborhoods to store their cars for free on our streets in LIC it would become easier to find street parking for locals which would then render opposition to street cleaning unnecessary.
And now for other LIC news:
LIC Developer Allegedly Swindled Property Owners – we told you about Wissak’s octogenarian dad last year in “The Millionaire Next Door”
Long Island City Building Gets $120 Million Financing – 120 mil here, 120 there, next thing you know there’s a city
Queens Wizards of Light Share Their Craftsmanship – Krypton Neon in LIC open up their studio
Time Out New York’s Take on the Best of LIC
Massive Rock Climbing Gym Coming to LIC This Spring – scheduled to open late April on 44th Drive between 11th and 21st Streets
Queensie says
February 6, 2013 at 9:59 amThank you for all the local real estate news and insight. It is a great help in assessing the landscape and making what is a pretty big decision in my life.
Neighbor says
February 6, 2013 at 4:40 pmThe LIC street parking decal is an excellent solution for the alternate side of the street parking divide. This has been a very rancorous issue for the neighborhood and heretofore there had not been any middle ground. Kudos!
Big Al says
February 7, 2013 at 9:23 amHuzzahs for LIC parking decals!
Mitchell says
February 7, 2013 at 10:48 amparking decals are a very nice idea except it would need approval from the city council (maybe even the state). It is clear that every neighborhood would like the same thing.
The street cleaning would not enforce alternate side parking like in Manhattan. Moving your car once a week is not a burden.