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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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ANYONE who’s walked to the Vernon/Jackson subway station during work hours this week could not have missed the renewed construction on the empty lot on 50th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard. In addition to a new fence, there was briefly a freshly printed permit and rendering with an expected completion date of Fall 2025. Will this come to pass? Who knows?!? Why was it delayed all these years and suddenly sprung to life? Ahh, if these walls could talk, but I don’t think it had anything to do with political prodding. Will Hunters Point get a new Starbucks, other national chain, or a ‘homegrown’ purveyor? Yah Mon, I already told you I do not know. But progress…
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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.
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PLAXALL has closed down its plastics manufacturing business and is looking for new ideas for its existing space.
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Ok readers, it’s time for our latest segment of ‘Meet The People In Your Neighborhood.’ When it comes to fixing and taking care of your car, like many services there are three main criteria when assessing a repair shop: are they knowledgeable, reasonably priced, and convenient? Based on my experience over the years, Rick at KNR AutoRepairs has always done me right, but that’s for you to decide.
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