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SOMETIMES I think I should just write for Eater. The owners of Fer Restaurant in LIC located north of the bridge, will be taking their culinary skills south of the bridge. Way south, having just signed a lease in the new Malt Drive development at the bottom of Hunters Point.
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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.1 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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WESTVILLE, a small local chain of fast casual restaurants, is opening a location at 43-12 Hunter Street in the heart of Court Square. If 43-12 Hunter Street doesn’t ring a bell or conjure up an image denoting it to be the heart of Court Square, then how does directly across from Food Cellar on Crescent Street strike you? Down the street from M Wells? Half a block from the tower fka as the Citi Building?
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THE final week of summer comes with some good news, and some less than good. First off, following in the footsteps of LICtalk, Florence Fabricant of The New York Times gives a shout out to ‘Oh Calcutta,’ the new Indian restaurant on Jackson Avenue.
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