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Beautiful weather, moderate temperatures and no wind, set the tone for a perfect return of the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks to Long Island City. Groups started trickling in around 3pm and by six pm there was [Read more…] about MACY’S FIREWORKS IN LIC: WHAT IT WAS LIKE LAST NIGHT
Red and white, blue suede shoes, I’m Uncle Sam, how do you do?
Gimme five, I’m still alive, ain’t no luck, I learned to duck.
Check my pulse, it don’t change. Stay seventy-two come shine or rain.
Wave the flag, pop the bag, rock the boat, skin the goat.
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my
The porta potties and news vans have arrived, now all they need is the raw material to confirm their existence. The LIC Fourth of July festivities kicked off last night in Hunters Point Park with a, …well I wouldn’t quite call it a concert, more like a [Read more…] about PREPPING FOR THE BIG SHOW
Correction: previously it may have been inferred from my wording that Murasaki was only doing takeout. The restaurant itself is now open for diners as well.
Long Island City finally gets it’s first dedicated sushi restaurant with the grand opening of Murasaki Sushi today. Yes, we we have had numerous ‘fusion’ restaurants for years that made sushi along side various other Asian cuisines. Plus Hibino’s opening a year ago gave us our first solely-dedicated Japanese restaurant. Yet it specializes in Obanzai, or Japanese tapas, and sushi is a secondary consideration. So at last we get what every other neighborhood from Inwood to the Rockaways has long viewed as a staple: raw fish, on rice and solo.
According to an employee at the restaurant, the sushi chef has [Read more…] about MURASAKI SUSHI OPENS TODAY ON VERNON BOULEVARD
We have lots of little local throwaways to end the week. Or maybe they’re actually really significant if you spin it right. I’ll take The Editor’s prerogative and lead with something I consider more than worthy by announcing that [Read more…] about MORE NEW NEWS FOR LIC
The LIC Partnership held its 2nd Annual LIC Summit today. A few interesting tidbits were gleaned, but there’s not much left to say about LIC that hasn’t been said or isn’t really known. There was a lot of jawboning about residential edging out office space, and thus office space displacing light manufacturing, and hazy solutions for it, all of which require government subsidies, tax breaks, zoning changes, and variances. As if letting capitalism take its course combined with good regulation aren’t enough of a panacea.
Plus there was a lot of well trodden ground such as [Read more…] about WHERE ARE THE CURRENT RESIDENTS’ YACHTS?