KIDS in LIC get a trick for Halloween this year, as a hallowed tradition seems to have laid fallow in 2023. We’re talking about the Annual Halloween Parade along Vernon Boulevard. Not sure what happened or why, maybe the powers-that-be deemed the kids unworthy this year?
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THE Super Bowl is this Sunday at 1pm and a local team is guaranteed to win. Well actually it’s NYC’s version of the Super Bowl, whereby both teams have firmly established by Week 7 their inability to make the play-offs, so this will be the highlight of their seasons. Worse, neither team is actually from New York – Let’s Go Jersey! What’s left for us on this side of the river, on this side of the island? In addition to a slew of building updates, which at this point have become ubiquitous in LIC, we bring you another local business story.
[Read more…] about LIC Startup Transforming Service Provider Search Market‘Side Hustle Pub’ In Court Square Opens This Wednesday
She claps her hands and snaps her fingers
Knows my name but calls me Ginger
It’s been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie
Side Hustle Pub at 43-01 Dutch Kills Street in Court Square opens this Wednesday according to The New York Times.
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THE headline above is a surefire way to deter clicks. The innocuity of once again announcing rezoning plans for Long Island City, is the equivalent of Situational Awareness Day (Sept. 26, sorry you missed it). Especially in 2023. We’ll get to the ‘Why’ in a moment, as for the Who/What/Where here we go.
[Read more…] about New Rezoning Plan Slated For Long Island CityConstruction Trailers Using 48th Avenue As Staging Area
TRAILERS holding precast concrete planks have been using the center lane(s) of 48th Avenue between Vernon Boulevard and 5th Street, as a staging area for a building being constructed two blocks away.
This has been going on for over two months, and recently what had been 3-4 trailers has turned into 7-8 trailers which are now parked double-width, as you can see from the photo above. Furthermore, “these trailers don’t have the cabs attached, so there are two stanchions that come down and sit on the pavement and the compression weight of the material on the trailers is making big dents into the brand new street” according to a post on a building website. Some of these stanchions have wood blocks underneath to spread out the load – an acknowledgment, I guess, that the weight can potentially damage the roadbed – but some do not. And as mentioned, this street was newly paved 8 weeks ago!
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