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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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EVERY morning I awake at the crack of noon to the worry of whether I will find something truly newsworthy to share with the well read citizens of LIC. Frequently, like many renowned writers, I am forced to conjure something out of an idea: Melville had his whale, Hemingway a marlin, and Benchley a shark. For The Editor it is a butterfly.
Because today the news gods are smiling on me, as I am happy to announce that E&I Deli on Vernon Boulevard has cast off its chrysalis and metamorphosed [Read more…] about E&I DELI RE-OPENS WITH A NU LOOK
The pizza oven has been installed, the bar has been constructed, the brick walls fully exposed, and the upper two stories gutted of floors and stripped to the beams to reveal striking 30′ plus ceilings. Though there’s still a lot of work to be done, Levante at 26-21 Jackson Avenue hopes to open sometime in April. We met with one of the partners, Tony D’Aiuto, and toured the bustling construction site this morning.
The first thing to note is that despite the prominently displayed pizza oven, [Read more…] about LEVANTE ON JACKSON AVE IS GETTING CLOSER AND TOBY’S ARRIVES
OH my, even with no snow there’s been a flurry of local news that’s come to pass in the last week. To start, as always, is more residential real estate development. There are five short articles on local slightly-off-the-radar projects – which basically means they’re under 30-stories:
6 flrs/94 units in Dutch Kills
A pair of 7-story buildings totaling 80 units in Dutch Kills
9 flrs/30 units in Queensboro Plaza
23 flrs/117 units in Queens Plaza South
15 flrs/99 units in Queensboro Plaza
While the total # of units of these five projects are fewer than say a single Rockrose tower, and while most of these projects are already accounted for in previous tallies of all the residences being added in LIC, these “infill” developments will hasten the lowering of rents in the neighborhood. This is not solely because of the additional supply, which we’ve noted is not much in aggregate, but because of the diversity of offerings and the competitive market they’ll create – versus say the three-player oligopoly on Center Boulevard. But who am I, the owner of a lean-to, to question the rationale of those with the ability to borrow 7-9 figure sums of OPM with zero recourse?
//UNLIKE the majority of Americans, or at least an electoral majority of them, I’m not a big fan of Mac & Cheese. Despite attempts by many a renowned chef to doctor it up and pass it off as haute cuisine in the 21st century, my continental upbringing (aka semester abroad) inculcated me with DNA that has an aversion to pasta not served al dente, and dairy products whose [Read more…] about JANUARY ROOSTERS AND FEBRUARY DELIVERS
APRIL showers bring May flowers. Oh wait, it’s December! Enjoy it while you can. As I stated earlier in the week, this time of the year the news takes a snooze. Yet due to the mild weather construction keeps charging ahead. Buildings quickly add more floors, and ground continues to be broken.
A nice new facade appeared on [Read more…] about DECEMBER FLOWERS IN LIC