The Queens Gazette is reporting that the owners of a parcel at [Read more…] about BJ’S WAREHOUSE COMING TO LONG ISLAND CITY?
BREAD BOX CLOSES, THE GREEN STREET BECOMING KOREAN BBQ?
“If you look at where the good food is in New York, it’s really in Manhattan and Queens, I’m sorry, other boroughs, I’m sorry.”
-Pete Wells, the restaurant critic for The New York Times, from a profile in the New Yorker last week
The Bread Box on 11th Street has closed. According to a pic sent to us by LICtalk reader Jeremy Swillinger of Level Group, a sign in the window reads:
“Dear customers due to renovations the Bread Box will be closed. Sorry for the inconvenience we will update you shortly”
Not sure what exactly to make of that, but as we reported a little over a year ago, the lot that it rests upon, as well as the adjacent service station, were put up for sale as a development site.
In other restaurant news, [Read more…] about BREAD BOX CLOSES, THE GREEN STREET BECOMING KOREAN BBQ?
SCHOOL, HIP-HOP, LIGHTS, STARS, PIRATES
Two days of public school and then a long weekend ((this Monday, Sept. 12 kids are off for Eid al Adha)) – I like those hours! But then no more breaks until October when every child will have to make do with only a pair of three-day workweeks. Forget about daycare, these kids should be getting an internship.
//In the real world, my guess is most of you never made it to one of MoMA PS1’s Saturday Warm-Up parties this summer. Me too, because it’s so convenient I kept saying ‘No problem, I’ll just go next week,’ and then Labor Day arrived. Unfortunately in doing so we all missed out on a performance by a guy The New York Times says has blown up big and is saving hip-hop. Let that gall you through the long winter months, and remember to make it a point to go next year.
//Of greater permanence, I was tipped off from someone in attendance at last nights CB2 meeting that [Read more…] about SCHOOL, HIP-HOP, LIGHTS, STARS, PIRATES
SEPTEMBER BRINGS FISH N MEAT TO LIC
It was a quiet Labor Day weekend in town, though given the heavy police presence in the waterfront parks – probably in light of a recent incident – one may have thought there was a J’Ouvert “celebration” occurring. That and construction noise/crews pouring concrete for the new pre-K center were the only stirrings.
September is now here, and we have a new fish market, a new deli/cafe coming to Court Square, the closing of the Beer Closet (again), a new bbq joint, and [Read more…] about SEPTEMBER BRINGS FISH N MEAT TO LIC
RAMEN SHACK, LEMONS FROM LEMONADE, DEPRIVATION TANKS
Even in the final days of summer, when all eyes and bodies should be at the beach, the news is dominated by real estate in LIC. Lots of development updates, topping offs, and new renderings. One data point, indicative of nothing really, is how the highest priced “home” ((it’s currently cut up into multi-apartments, but at just under 5,000 square really comes across as a single-family home for any respectable person w/ help and all, right?)) ever offered in Long Island City, or Queens for that matter, listed exactly two years ago at $8 million, has gone through three sets of brokers and can be had today for $4.65 million. In a similar vein, [Read more…] about RAMEN SHACK, LEMONS FROM LEMONADE, DEPRIVATION TANKS