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New Mayor, Old (but good) Idea for Long Island City

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Now that we’ve gotten the snide quotes out of the way, it is time to reconciliate. The people have spoken, and the unquestionable majority have voted for Mamdani. With 50.4% of the vote, he beat both Cuomo and Sliwa combined. Hopefully the reality of ruling (and budgeting) will temper some of his idealistic instincts.

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Now that we’ve gotten the snide quotes out of the way, it is time to reconciliate. The people have spoken, and the unquestionable majority have voted for Mamdani. With 50.4% of the vote, he beat both Cuomo and Sliwa combined. Hopefully the reality of ruling (and budgeting) will temper some of his idealistic instincts.

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“The people have spoken, they must be punished” Ed Koch after losing Mayoral election in 1989

Now that we’ve gotten the snide quotes out of the way, it is time to reconciliate. The people have spoken, and the unquestionable majority have voted for Mamdani. With 50.4% of the vote, he beat both Cuomo and Sliwa combined. Hopefully the reality of ruling (and budgeting) will temper some of his idealistic instincts.

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LIC Halloween Parade is ON (for) Halloween!

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Seventy-six trombones hit the counterpoint
While a hundred and ten coronets blazed the way
To the rhythm of “Harch! Harch! Harch!”
All the kids began to march
And they’re marching still, right today

OK people, and little people, the moment we hinted at is here, and I am happy to confirm that the 2025 Long Island City Halloween Parade will actually take place on Halloween! Yes, this Friday, October 31 (for foreigners sakes!) Vernon Boulevard will be closed from 4:30pm to 6:30pm for kids to trick or treat while their parents flout NYC open-container laws – provided they are costumed! For those new to the neighborhood, or parenthood, I highly recommend you prepare yourselves for this extravaganza by diligently reading the LICtalk Halloween Parade archives. Don’t say you were not forewarned!

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A Tale of Two Halloween Fetes In LIC

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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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Buffalo Wild Wings GO Coming to Vernon Boulevard

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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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