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DOES Spring sprung in LIC if LICtalk has yet to declareth so? Ahh the existential questions of our times, but most say ‘No’ it doesn’t, and many mark their internal body clocks upon the release of the headline. Some even choose to revisit every ‘Sprung’ post, longing for the nostalgia of LIC past. While others, we’ll call them the ‘cynics,’ view this title as an attempt to make news out of nothing.
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SEBASTIAN Morel-Ferreira, a well-known fitness coach in Long Island City, passed away on Thursday at the age of 39 from the effects of a sudden heart attack suffered last week. Sebastian was a ubiquitous presence along the waterfront whose enthusiasm attracted a large following to his outdoor classes. Those classes swelled in size during the pandemic, and by all appearances he was the maestro of the Oval. His success reached the point that everyone in LIC knew, or knew of, Sebastian the fitness guru.
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FLOODING, shooting, the plagues are upon us in LIC. Pestilence anyone? No, that’s been temporarily superseded by Gamestop this week.1 Yet the real story for the large majority of residents is the increasing evidence of significant rent reductions here in Long Island City. According to a recent report by real estate firm MNS, rents here are down 14.42% year over year. Of course readers of LICtalk won’t find this overly surprising, as that’s the exact percentage we predicted back in May.
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THERE’S not much for me to add in terms of discourse to today and the events of the past few weeks. No local spin, other than maybe the picture above and what the numbers signify. At the time LICtalk first broke the story the number read 1237, a span which felt like an eternity, especially considering that there was a better than even chance another 1400+ could have been tacked onto it.
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WHILE politics dominates the national news landscape in the very beginning of this New Year, crime took precedence locally as we exited 2020. In addition to shootings and beatings there was even a little white collar varietal thrown into the mix with the SEC charging an LIC man with insider trading for a cool mil.
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