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This Saturday, the dichotomy of Long Island City will be on display in two Halloween parties. The first, ‘Halloween on The Waterfront’ sponsored by Hunters Point Parks Conservancy in conjunction with PS78Q and PS384Q will be a family-friendly affair. ‘Trick or Treating’ and ‘Kids Activities’ such as pumpkin painting and costume contests, culminating with a showing of Beetlejuice.
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WELL it’s about time Long Island City had a song written about it. Not just any song, but an anthem by ‘America’s Most Thrilling Young Rock Band.’
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BACK in the 20th Century, man had to hunt to find food. Upstate graduates shared insider knowledge of where to find the mighty Buffalo… wings, in New York City. In the late 80’s it was Aeillo’s Pizza on lower 2nd Avenue (28th St. if memory serves me). Come the early 90’s it was the Entourage Sports Cafe on the Upper East Side – back when not only chicken wings were rare in NYC, but sports bars were a novelty too. And then, in a burst of light, a supernova if you will, came the chicken wing explosion of the mid-90’s: Atomic, Blondie’s, Fat Guys, the heyday of the regional chicken wing mini-chain. Where local fry-cooks were the Batali’s and Bourdain’s of their era. Or at least received minimum plus $2. As you may very well ascertain from this intro, The Editor majored in Chicken Wing History in college.
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IT was a five birthday party day in Shady Park on the last Saturday of Summer. That’s a testament to all the kids and new parents filling Hunters Point. Not surprising given all the massive residential buildings completed in the past few years in the southern part of this family-friendly neighborhood: the 800-unit 52-03 Center Boulevard and 400-unit 52-41 Center boulevard in 2022, 1132-unit Gotham Point and an adjacent massive tower whose name I can’t recall in 2023, 1386-units in Malt Drive during 2024-5, and the 500-unit Jasper currently filling up. It’s a shame all the kids at all these birthday parties will never learn to swim.
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IN the somberness of the 9/11 anniversary, a lot of man-induced unusually terrible things have been happening nationally, and internationally, in the past week, that very well may have serious implications for how our world looks in the future. Yet sometimes it’s the small things that happen locally that make us ask “What is going on?”
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