The New York Times has written another love letter to Queens with an article touting the borough as a hot tourist destination. The gist of the story is a follow-up to Lonely Planet’s naming of Queens as its #1 pick in the U.S. for 2015, and doesn’t really reveal anything new to anyone who’s clicked on every link I’ve shared with you in the last year. Basically it reads like a late-August ‘filler’ assignment, especially since the paper did a similarly themed but more prescient and insideresque tourist piece/love letter almost three years ago. The good news is that since the Times provided the content, it allowed me to remain in Nantucket for a final week of summer vacation.
For those of you not spending the summer at your 8,000 square foot ‘cottage’ this weekend, perhaps you’d like to make like a master of your estate by helping out with a little gentlemanly gardening? Come support ‘Friends of Murray Park’ this Sunday, August 29, from 8:30am – 10am for the Murray Park clean-up. In addition to giving a little TLC to this great park, you’ll meet your neighbors and coffee and donuts will be provided! If you have gardening tools please bring them, for more info contact Jeremy @ 646-423-8168 or jswillinger@levelgroup.com
Tourists Have Landed in Queens. They’re Staying – “Queens deserves to be — and is finally becoming — a significant tourist destination in its own right, not just a doormat for air travelers bound for Manhattan or, perhaps more vexing for Queens loyalists, Brooklyn.”
City Hall Responds Cautiously to LIC Mega-Project – the bargaining and jawboning begin in a fight for concessions. Here’s what we want: a school, a community center, of a scale with the rest of the waterfront buildings – not 20-40 stories higher to add ultra-deluxe affordable housing
$300 Million in Roof Repairs Begin at City Housing Projects – RAZE Queensbridge! Qnsbridge Houses will be the first to get the fix – at a cost of $87 million!
PS111Q on State’s ‘Most Dangerous’ List – right in the heart of the Queensbridge Houses – what’s the point of isolating the poor like this any longer?
Silent Disco Returns to Hunters Point South Park – in conjunction w/ Lincoln Center, on Thursday Sept. 3 @ 6:30pm
Smoke Near the Water: Brickman Buys ex-LIC Cigar Factory – a fire in the sky, $30 mil’s worth
Floating Lantern Festival Comes to LIC – on East River waterfront, traditional Japanese remembrance ceremony revamped w/ an eco-theme
Jeremy Swillinger says
August 27, 2015 at 9:26 amCorrection: Friends of Murray Park’ is being held this Sunday, August 30th, from 8:30am – 10am for the Murray Park clean-up.