The restaurant bounty keeps coming in 2014. Only a month after LICtalk published it’s industry-renowned annual LIC Restaurant Round-Up, we have news of two more previously unannounced restaurant openings. [Read more…] about TWO NEW RESTAURANTS COMING TO LIC
HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!
This Sunday, March 9, LICtalk turns two years old1. Though we’ve come to view ourselves as literary virtuosos, others might think that we’re still wearing diapers. The one thing that can’t be debated, is the massive amount of change that has occurred in this town over those two years. [Read more…] about HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!
- which is like a decade in “LIC years” [↩]
SHOW PALACE UNDER ATTACK
Who knew that in addition to everything else we have in Long Island City, there is a defender of freedom? Ok, that title may be a bit of a stretch, but this weekend in The New York Times there was an article about strip clubs in New York, [Read more…] about SHOW PALACE UNDER ATTACK
TENANTKING: BORN AND BRED IN LONG ISLAND CITY
Every six months or so, my little prodigy Spalding, grows out of his Armani, and I have to have him chauffeured to Barneys for a new fitting. That leaves the problem of what to do with his barely used cast-offs? Do I really want to put them on Craigslist and have the masses calling and coming to my door? And since I’ve calculated that I earn $18,247 an hour based on a 24/7 clock, is it even worth my time? Plus I’d have to negotiate it all with his baby-mama in Tribeca, but that’s a whole other mess.
There is probably some relevance in my quandary for the rest of Long Island City, albeit on a less exalted and dramatic scale: What do I do with used clothing, toys, books, etc., that my child …umm, or myself, has grown out of? And how can I do it in a simpler manner than the trials and tribulations of Craigslist? [Read more…] about TENANTKING: BORN AND BRED IN LONG ISLAND CITY
NEW FRENCH BAKERY, CANNELLE PATISSERIE, COMING TO HUNTERS POINT IN SPRING
When it rains it pours. Or as they say in France “quand il pleut, il verse.”1 Today we bring you word of a new french bakery scheduled to open in Hunters Point in the late spring. It will be the first expansion for Cannelle Patisserie, and will be located on [Read more…] about NEW FRENCH BAKERY, CANNELLE PATISSERIE, COMING TO HUNTERS POINT IN SPRING
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