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FOR some people in Long Island City, a monumental change came last week. For others, a bigger change will occur this week. I calculate the breakdown between these two distinct groups to be roughly 50% to 48%, with the remaining two percent delusional. 50-48 is a really close game if we were talking football or high school basketball. Certainly not a blowout. I digress.
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YOU want retail LIC, you got retail. Sephora is coming to 22-44 Jackson Avenue, aka the building fka and cka 5Pointz, but not Printz or Prince. What is Sephora? What planet do you live on? (And Sephora is not a planet, or a star, or the name of a movie star).
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Such a long, long time to be gone
And a short time to be there
MY favorite week in NYC is upon us. On the platform at VJ this morning is a foreign family (British, I presume) in tracksuits, ready to tour the city before they run the city on Sunday, as well as a smattering of costumed commuters. When I get to midtown there’s many more of the same motley mix. Motley only if you’re not from NYC. And the weather, need I say more?((random disclosure about global warming))
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OVERFLOW Coffee has opened at 46-36 Vernon Boulevard in Hunters Point. Formerly the home of Matted LIC, there’s a long exposed brick wall, simple clean design, and standard coffeehouse offerings and nibbles. According to a post I saw it bills itself as family-owned, and there doesn’t seem to be any other locations in NYC/ROW. ((Rest of World)) We like independents, check it out!
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THE restaurant hits just keep on coming to Hunters Point and the greater Long Island City Metropolitan Area (population 63,000). Frankie’s Brooklyn Pizza and Matsuzuki Sakura have been announced as tenants of the new rental building Jasper located on 5th Street between 49th and 50th Avenues.
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