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The 2019 Long Island City Kids Halloween Parade will occur next Saturday, October 26 on Vernon Boulevard. All children shall convene, in costume, on 50th Avenue in front of the 108th Precinct at 12:30pm.
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I gave you a brand-new Ford
You said I want a Cadillac
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
You said thanks for the snack
I just saw ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ on Broadway and really wanted to create a freestyle rap tying together all of today’s disparate local news stories. Unfortunately I quickly discovered I’m as bad at rapping as I am at writing. So I’ll fallback on snark and hone in on critiquing a listicle that’s equally, umm, not good.
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Though it is wildly successful now, the story of Shi Restaurant on Center Boulevard in Long Island City exemplifies the humble origins, lengthy struggles, and risk-it-all mentality of many entrepreneurs in this country. Let’s start at the beginning.
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The morning commute was bad all around today. A westbound 7-train struck a person in the Steinway Tunnel to Manhattan around 8:30am, halting service on that line until midday. Then around 10am there was a 3-car crash in the Midtown Tunnel requiring medical attention for a serious injury and halting traffic for 90 minutes.
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Omne trium perfectum
A new Chinese restaurant called “Hana Noodle Station” is coming to 10-39 47th Road in Long Island City according to The Court Square Blog. It will be located in the former home of Korean eatery Green Street, which closed last year. Hana Noodle has been operating a stall for the past two years or so out of the DeKalb Market Place in Brooklyn. Eater’s Robert Sietsema had very positive things to say about it’s signature Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup and Google reviews were mainly favorable. This will be the third Chinese restaurant to open in Hunters Point since the summer, after a lengthy drought of there being zero. Don’t let anyone tell you that bad news come in three’s.
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