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So, Astoria is getting a $1 million dog run and Woodside is getting a $1.8 million renovation of their Big Bush Park. Kudos to them. Both projects seem to be much needed, even if there’s some question about the sizeable price tag on the dog park. What they also received was a lot of community input on these two projects. According to The New York Times article on the Astoria project: [Read more…] about ASTORIA & WOODSIDE GET IT, BUT NOT LIC
According to numerous tips we received this afternoon, an 8-year old Hunters Point girl was mauled by a dog in a vicious attack across from the Riverview restaurant on Center Boulevard a month ago. Per the mother’s posting on Facebook today: [Read more…] about 8-YEAR OLD LOCAL GIRL SEVERELY MAULED BY DOG ON CENTER BOULEVARD
This Sunday brings the pivotal Week 4 match-ups of NFL action. It’s no more pivotal than week 3 or week 5, nor 2, 8, or 12 for that matter, but no less pivotal than week 11.
In other news, specifically that of the LIC and non-football genre… [Read more…] about PIVOTAL LIC NEWS
Back in the Mad Men days of say 1964, in addition to working in advertising, nothing was hipper than knowing a diplomat and attending parties at foreign embassies. In a very straight, conservative, monochrome country, any accent, the more exotic the better, was accorded a certain cachet in Manhattan circles. Feeling those choppers late yesterday afternoon as they hovered just above Gantry Park, and the omnipresence of the UN Building for anyone visiting the waterfront, reminded us once again that LIC is at the center of the universe.
At the very other end of the scale, is [Read more…] about COMMUNITEA RE-OPENS, DANNY BROWN’S WILL NOT
The Fall Equinox brings police boats to the East River for UN week, the Jets teasing their fans as if this is the year, a good yontif to the pontiff, and best of all Oktoberfest in full swing ((it is a 16-day festival running from mid or late September to the first weekend in October)). It did not [Read more…] about HOLY AUTUMN TREMORS FROM ACROSS THE RIVER