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“The people here are a little more relaxed than Manhattan or Brooklyn. They don’t get into fights in lines. Maybe it’s because they can see the sky.”
Jason Sheftell in April 2013
TEN years ago this publication pushed through the birth canal, shot to the stars and made a simple declaration. Life has never been the same for all those living in Long Island City.
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WITH all that is going on in the world today we bring you the headline that a new gourmet market and deli called Luminescence will be opening up on 2nd St. just south of Borden Avenue in a new mega-tower along the waterfront. With a name like that I’d be hesitant to refer to it as a bodega, though these days they both probably sell more units of high alcohol beer in larger container sizes than the 12oz cans I used to swill back in the 20th Century.
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I remember having a conversation with a portfolio manager at a big mutual fund and when asking him why he owned XYZ Insurance Corp. in his fund he casually responded that it was “filler.” He went on to describe that term as a company whose stock was reasonably priced but whose prospects were ‘Mehh,’ yet he needed something to fill out his portfolio to get to 25-30 different stocks. Filler is also how I would describe a lot of local news, whereby instead of stocks we get stories of little consequence, or about somewhere other than LIC, in order to make print. I try to avoid filler amap, even if it means posting inconsistently and getting dinged for it by Google’s SEO algorithm. My readers and their valuable time are more important than AI generated adulation.
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Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
OK we’ve got the solemn out of the way, let’s bring on the festive. Not so fast, because we here at LICtalk are always thinking about the long game. So before we sit down to our figgy pudding and roast beast followed by port and cigars, a suggestion about the future ((immediate future preferably)) via a post from the past.
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A balmy mid-December combined with a surge in Covid makes for a very strange holiday season. All the planning from last week could be off by next week, yet here we are.
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