Kids

48TH AVE BBALL COURTS RE-OPENING W/ BIG CELEBRATION SATURDAY

September 15, 2016 by editor Leave a Comment

The basketball courts on 48th Avenue at Gantry Plaza State Park will be re-opening this Saturday, September 17, with a Grand Celebration. The NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation and the Long Island City Youth Sports League (LICYSL) will be holding youth clinics and games overseen by Coach N, aka Nnamdi Amen, who said about the event:

“Though I love my home at the gymnasium at PS78Q, I’m really excited to finally get a chance to teach and play with the kids of Long Island City on the beautiful new 48th Avenue courts at Gantry Plaza State Park. I’ve got some new drills and games especially for the occasion.”

LICtalk says: “We love the new fiberglass backboards, it does wonders for my two-handed set shot”

For more information on this event and to join the fun click here, or email licyouthsports@gmail.com.

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RAMEN SHACK, LEMONS FROM LEMONADE, DEPRIVATION TANKS

August 25, 2016 by editor 2 Comments

You can't have construction without concrte — You can’t have construction without concrete

Even in the final days of summer, when all eyes and bodies should be at the beach, the news is dominated by real estate in LIC. Lots of development updates, topping offs, and new renderings. One data point, indicative of nothing really, is how the highest priced “home”1 ever offered in Long Island City, or Queens for that matter, listed exactly two years ago at $8 million, has gone through three sets of brokers and can be had today for $4.65 million. In a similar vein, [Read more…] about RAMEN SHACK, LEMONS FROM LEMONADE, DEPRIVATION TANKS

it’s currently cut up into multi-apartments, but at just under 5,000 square really comes across as a single-family home for any respectable person w/ help and all, right? [↩]

OVERREACTIONS & CONCESSIONS IN LIC

June 6, 2016 by editor Leave a Comment

There won't always be a rainbow — There won’t always be a rainbow

In a follow-up to last week’s Berlin playground snippet on selbstständigkeit, the need to inculcate self-sufficiency in kids, I laughed very hard at a recent Simpson’s episode transcribed in Lenore Skenazy’s website Free Range Kids. Especially because it’s probably funnier and more biting in the reading of it: [Read more…] about OVERREACTIONS & CONCESSIONS IN LIC

EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS LIC

March 22, 2016 by editor 1 Comment

Christmas isn’t all about gifts, and Easter isn’t all about eggs. There’s chocolate bunnies too, and those cute yellow chick marshmallows that taste like styrofoam and take centuries to decompose – Little Peeps! As for Good Friday, it wasn’t really a very ‘good’ day for the main participant involved. Yet in aggregate, both holidays, or holy days actually, add up to a three-day weekend. For those not taking the G-5 down to Bermuda, these two holidays bookend a huge event on the Spring social calendar here in Long Island City: the annual Trinity Grace Church Easter Egg Hunt in Gantry Park.

This is the seventh year of the hunt, and though we have written previously about the juvenile frenzy – in adults – that the hunt evinces, I’m going to bring you up to date on the latest scientific data: [Read more…] about EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS LIC

THE LIC BIRTHDAY PARTY CIRCUIT

November 30, 2015 by editor Leave a Comment

Recently the mother of a two-year old wrote to ask me how she could get more involved in community affairs, especially vis-a-vis her child. Though I found it somewhat ironic that of all people she should be asking The Editor, I also let it go to my head. Therefore I have decided to offer new parents throughout LIC some unsolicited parenting advice1. Though it won’t in anyway advance your kid’s career prospects, it won’t hurt them, …I think, and it might be helpful to you. Today’s subject is [Read more…] about THE LIC BIRTHDAY PARTY CIRCUIT

Warning: the adjunct to its being unsolicited is that it’s also free [↩]