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METS boo, Jets and Giants woo-hoo. The ebbs keep ebbing and the flows keep flowing in sports and on Vernon Boulevard.
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THE Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens (VBGCQ) revealed the details and blueprints of their new clubhouse and the adjoining residential tower that will pay for all that newness. The local news headlines took the bait of the Variety press release and focused on the project’s environmentally friendly attributes by regurgitating terms such as: carbon-neutral, solar photovoltaic system, LEED rating, and bioretention planter boxes.
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Well, I was stranded in the jungle trying to take in all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalk’s bright and lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner, things got real quiet real fast
IN speaking with members of Plaxall regarding the closing of their plastics business and what should go into the vacated space, a suggestion was put forth.
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SUMMER came to a crashing halt yesterday, when the NYC DOE ordered kids back to school (BTS). In addition, diplomats and their hangers-on will converge on NYC next week for the opening of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, to prep for all the world leaders coming here the following week (Putin?). Now you know in advance why there will be an armada of police boats anchored in the East River: to protect LIC.
[Read more…] about Bazooka’s! Fall 2022 Hits Long Island CityA hit & run driver who severely injured a scooter rider last week near Vernon Boulevard has turned himself in according to The New York Daily News.
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