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Just like in Manhattan, it looks like the very, very top of the apartment market here in Queens is not quite flying out the door as it was say, six months ago. The two most expensive residential properties being offered in Queens, an $8 million townhouse in Hunters Point and a $5.388 million condo in The View, had both been marked down last week to [Read more…] about ARE HOME PRICES DROPPING IN LONG ISLAND CITY?
Tonight’s MoMA PS1’s Halloween party is bringing back from the dead the downtown club scene from the 80’s and 90’s. Looking over the “hosted by” list, I vaguely recognize a lot of the names, many of which have a euro-trashy pronunciation and an avant garde connotation indicating that once the umm, …digestifs kick in, there should be a lot of nudity. Entitled “HalloQueens,” the invite requests “all guests come dressed for a royal celebration of all things Queens” such as Royal Queens, Queens of Mean, Rock Queens, Queen of Hearts. etc. That theme, combined with the fact that it’s only fifteen bucks to attend and within stumbling distance of most readers homes, gets my vote for Best Halloween Party option of 2014.
Now onto sex toys. [Read more…] about RISQUE PARTY AND SEX TOYS FOR HALLOWEEN
Two years ago I entitled a story “The Best Week to Be a New Yorker,” which was all about the week encompassing Halloween and The New York Marathon. Wouldn’t you know it, Sandy rolls in [Read more…] about THE BEST WEEK TO LIVE IN LIC: TAKE TWO
Hey LICsters, the 7-train is down this weekend so you’re stranded like Gilligan and the Captain. Now if you had Ginger and Mary Ann, [Read more…] about STRANDED IN LIC
“Enjoy every sandwich” Warren Zevon ((Letterman asked Zevon if his condition (terminal cancer) had taught him anything about life and death. ”How much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich,” Zevon answered.
Weeks later, Letterman was still struck by the reply. ”Here’s a guy looking right down the barrel of the gun,” he said. ”And if a guy wanted to indulge himself in great hyperbole in that circumstance, who wouldn’t forgive him? But that was perfect, the simplicity of that. If this guy is not a poet, who is?”))
So the news desk has been getting a lot of queries from new LIC mothers regarding trick-or-treating and other local Halloween events for kids. Fear not, because as veteran parents in the neighborhood know, everything is rolled up into one during the Annual Kids Halloween Parade along Vernon Boulevard. Where/when/how will it occur? [Read more…] about HAVE NO FEAR, HALLOWEEN IS NEAR