I’m gonna lay down my sword and shield,
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
I’m gonna lay down my sword and shield,
Down by the riverside
Ain’t gonna study war no more
Back in the 60’s, a happening on the river usually was for some righteous cause. Fast forward 40-50 years and we get unbridled consumption with a small nod to altruism. That’s right folks, as if everything that I have been writing about the spectacular emergence of Long Island City wasn’t enough, now comes word that the famous Brooklyn Flea Market is coming here in June. We are happy to be the first to report that it will be located on 46th Avenue and 5th Street, and will have a large Smorgasburg component to it. That way you can eat a slow-cooked line-caught porgy pupusa slathered in homemade pickled wormjam, and drink an iced-chai-latte made with unpasteurized llama milk and tea leaves picked by a remote Himalayan tribe provided with access to the Mayo Clinic and a full pension at age 45, before you pay $2,600 for an art-deco foot stool replica. No really, after this arrival, will there be any need to ever leave LIC???
What else new is happening in the neighborhood? Alot of new building everywhere. I hear that the first 11 floors of the third and soon-to-be completed TF Cornerstone building have already been leased, and the first eight floors on the fourth final building have been built. Also, two notes from Jimmy Van Bramer’s office 1) He procured $10,000 for new trees in Shady Park and 2) They plan to open a Greenmarket on Vernon Blvd. and 48th Avenue “GrowNYC will be working with the LIC YMCA to recruit and train teens from LIC to operate the Youthmarket, a program of GrowNYC. The proposed market would operate on Saturdays from 8am to 4pm from July 13th until November 23rd.”
Finally we come to schools, specifically PS78 and kindergarten. LICtalk is holding off on writing anything in order to not disrupt the current channels of communication now occurring. But for those interested, there are two items you should know about. First is a meeting being held this Wednesday, April 10th, at 7pm in the Riverview Avalon building(south) lounge regarding transportation options to St. Stans in Greenpoint. The second is the link to a New York Times Q&A with Robert Sanft, the chief executive of the Office of Student Enrollment in the city’s Education Department, which is open for questions right now!
LIC Flea – it’s arrival to these shores is confirmation of LIC’s predominance in the world
LIC Flea Coming to LIC in June
How Do I Get My Child Into – this is an open solicitation for questions to Robert Sanft, CEO of the Office of Student Enrollment In the DOE
Sweetleaf’s New LIC Location Puts the Bar in Coffeebar – a review
LIC Artist Turns to Nature For Inspiration – has been in the ‘hood for 20 years
Landscapes Of Industrial Life in LIC – from an artist who left awhile ago
Spring Style In LIC – a video from the NYT
Adam David Custom Obtains Production Facility in LIC – another biz moves to LIC
