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FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD IN LONG ISLAND CITY

September 18, 2018 by editor Leave a Comment

What timing, it’s Yom Kippur!

Food, glorious food!
We’re anxious to try it
Three banquets a day —
Our favourite diet!

In our last post we shared the news about the opening of Adda, an Indian restaurant, near LaGuardia College. Today NY Magazine conjectures that Adda could be the most exciting new Indian restaurant in NYC.

The 2018 Vendy Awards is next week, and the WSJ profiles one of the finalists Burmese Bites which serves their fare at [Read more…] about FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD IN LONG ISLAND CITY

NEW INDIAN RESTAURANT ‘ADDA’ COMES TO LONG ISLAND CITY

September 13, 2018 by editor Leave a Comment

A new Indian restaurant named Adda has opened in Long Island City according to Eater. Located at 31-31 Thomson Ave across from LaGuardia College, it is owned and operated by some of the same people who ran the previous restaurant, Unicos Tacos, at the same site. Despite that establishment’s brief tenure, this less-eclectic concept looks promising [Read more…] about NEW INDIAN RESTAURANT ‘ADDA’ COMES TO LONG ISLAND CITY

THE TIDE IS HIGH IN LONG ISLAND CITY

September 11, 2018 by editor Leave a Comment

Wish, I was back on the bayou
Rollin’ with some Cajun Queen
Wishin’ I were a fast freight train
Just a chooglin’ on down to New Orleans

IT wasn’t the wind and rain that made Hurricane Sandy so destructive to LIC and NYC, but the unusual surge of the coastal waters, which in our case meant the East River. In a small redux, we got a taste of that yesterday around 11am in Gantry Park per the photo above. Unlike Sandy, this flooding occurred when the moon phase was not full, which traditionally causes higher tides. Not to be alarmist, but you may want to get the rafts ready, or at least the skim boards.

//NEW music school opening in Long Island City. [Read more…] about THE TIDE IS HIGH IN LONG ISLAND CITY

LIC IN 2023

September 7, 2018 by editor 1 Comment

You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

If God’s a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself and say
Guess it’s time for the judgment day

It’s crystal ball time here at LICtalk, as we take a look at what can be expected here in Long Island City come 2023.

Packed subway cars will be the least of the mass-transit problems our logistics experts anticipate. More worrisome will be [Read more…] about LIC IN 2023

SCHOOL’S UP IN LIC

September 5, 2018 by editor Leave a Comment

Mister Softee - the final vestige of summer — Mister Softee – the final vestige of summer

What’s up in LIC? School, [Read more…] about SCHOOL’S UP IN LIC