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The LIC Partnership held their annual real estate breakfast this morning. Like last year’s event, it was a full house shortly after the doors opened, despite moving to a larger venue. It’s still the place to be for anyone involved in Long Island City real estate. Yet I couldn’t help but feel that something had changed over the course of the year, and if I had to pinpoint why, I would have to say [Read more…] about LIC PARTNERSHIP REAL ESTATE BREAKFAST 2014
Three articles over the last few days, summarize what the LICtalk juggernaut has been saying for the last two years. The first, in The New York Times ((a little name dropping)) talks about the compression in the discount that Queens typically receives in residential real estate pricing. The second, also in The New York Times ((a little more)), acts proactively ((something LICtalk is renowned for)) in pitching a street car along the East River waterfront that runs from Red Hook to Astoria. The third, talks about what current apartment buyers and renters are looking for in LIC. It’s a little weaker than the first two articles, and doesn’t have the same journalistic pedigree, but does contain this nugget, which justifies it’s inclusion: [Read more…] about LIC & QUEENS: THE PRESS IS CATCHING UP
Good Friday: before I retired it was the only day that the stock markets were closed and the bond markets were open. Nowadays everyone gets it off, so how does one use the time if they’re staying in town? [Read more…] about A LONG EASTER WEEKEND IN LIC
The old real estate gentrification trajectory was that artists moved into a a rundown and/or industrial, and definitely inexpensive neighborhood, fixed things up and created a community, only to eventually be priced out by wealthier non-artists hoping to have a little of that artistic funk bleed into their persona. In the 21st century, where things move at the speed of light, that conversion from rundown/industrial to artistic to gentrified has been compressed into one step. As soon as even a hint of any traction by artists to claim a neighborhood is documented, [Read more…] about NEW YORK TIMES FINDS NEW DEMOGRAPHIC MOVING TO LIC
We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout,
We’ve been talkin’ ’bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.
I’m goin’ to Jackson, I’m gonna mess around,
Yeah, I’m goin’ to Jackson,
Look out Jackson town.
How’s that for a twisted pairing? Eggs for the kids, beer for the ‘rents, sounds good to me. We’ve documented the explosion of the Queens beer scene over the last 24 months, but who knew there was a burgeoning Easter Egg Hunt frenzy in LIC? [Read more…] about QUEENS BEER WEEK AND LIC EASTER EGG HUNT NEXT WEEK