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1-Million Square Foot Office Tower To Be Part Of LIC Waterfront Plan

February 15, 2020 by editor 2 Comments

Anable Basin — How about a lil office tower on the crick Elon?

A one million square foot office tower will be part of the LIC Waterfront Master Plan according to Tom Elghanayan, the co-founder of TF Cornerstone. This is the first salient detail revealed about what the developers are contemplating for the 28-acre assemblage, and is an indication they are open to compiling a whole new playbook for the area. I say contemplating because they are still in the process of gathering community input prior to putting forth their initial proposal.

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Happy ? Day Long Island City

February 14, 2020 by editor Leave a Comment

Today is Valentine’s Day, except if you live in Long Island City where it’s better known as Break-Up Day. Which might be a good thing, but usually not for the person being dumped.

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The Best Menu Items in Long Island City

February 7, 2020 by editor 18 Comments

Mothership Meat Company LIC — Por ejemplo, anything ‘veggie’ from this joint

Last month LICtalk published our annual Long Island City Restaurant Round-Up. Today we are going to feature a derivative of that concept and add a twist by asking you our readers to participate.

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Free Shakespeare Play At Hunters Point Library This Saturday

February 5, 2020 by editor 1 Comment

American Brass LIC — American Brass, will green beer flow in 2020?

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

SHAKESPEARE’S ‘Troilus & Cressida’ will be performed this Saturday at the Hunters Point Library. The starting time is 2pm, the price is free, and best of all it is a production of the Hip to Hip Theatre Company. Other than that I know nothing about this play, surprise me!

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Super Bowl LIC-style & R40 Restaurant Opens

January 31, 2020 by editor 1 Comment

My usual Super Bowl routine is a Swanson Salisbury Steak Dinner washed down with a quartet of cosmopolitans. According to the label this meal provides 43% of the saturated fat and 31% of the sodium that my body requires every day and a lesson in chemistry I didn’t pass in high school.

Or I could amble down to John Brown Smokehouse where …Whoa, this place is jam-packed with crazed football fans decked out in red and white, didn’t realize this was the NYC meeting place for Niner fans! Looks like I will be trekking back to my ground floor hovel in an unglamorous stretch of LIC near the Mongolian border to watch the Bay City Niners battle Shakira ‘KC’ Lopez.

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