Two days into winter and it feels like …anything but winter. Nevertheless [Read more…] about MERRY NEW YEAR LIC
MERRY NEW YEAR LIC
SOCCER STADIUM TO ANCHOR SUNNYSIDE YARDS PROJECT?
A new article written in a soccer publication, makes a well-thought-out case that Sunnyside Yards could be the optimal location to build a stadium for the NYCFC. That would be the NYC Football Club for the bulk of us not familiar with the acronym, but don’t let this new professional soccer team’s relative obscurity make you relegate the stadium idea as a lark.
That is because [Read more…] about SOCCER STADIUM TO ANCHOR SUNNYSIDE YARDS PROJECT?
LIC MISHMASH
The story gods start tippling the eggnog and begin putting work aside come mid-December. Like the overly hyped Fed move today, there’s not a lot of meat in this weeks articles linked to below, and even I have started relying on filler and regurgitation per my previous post. So a few announcements, and then the snewze. [Read more…] about LIC MISHMASH
2015 LONG ISLAND CITY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
A frozen East River was how we kicked off 2015 in LIC, only to end it with a balmy December finish. The unusual weather was a direct contrast to a fairly quiet, or at least well telegraphed, news year locally. Now I wish I could recap it all in a brilliantly quippy manner like the annual “Greetings, Friends!” poem in the New Yorker, and I really wish I could tell you that I won’t be able to do that because I don’t have the time to do so, but the reality is I just don’t have the skill set. So in more prosaic words, here are the highlights: [Read more…] about 2015 LONG ISLAND CITY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
THE RIVERHEAD GENTLEMEN’S CLUB – THE LAST OF A DYING BREED
Recently, I accompanied a group of intrepid explorers from Hunters Point on an expedition to the Riverhead Gentlemen’s Club. Though this segment of Vernon Boulevard is occasionally traversed in daylight hours, once the sun goes down it’s a no-mans land. With the Riverhead the sole establishment open for business, its neon temptations act like a beacon for sailors ((and journalists)), wary or not. Yet despite its proximity, few from the South have ever strayed into this barren wasteland …or at least none have admitted to it. With that as a background and a belly full of grog from a local watering hole, these men set off to see whether they would qualify as gentlemen in the 21st Century.
And what did they find? [Read more…] about THE RIVERHEAD GENTLEMEN’S CLUB – THE LAST OF A DYING BREED