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WELL we endured two weeks of Madness only to achieve the fully predictable, as this year’s Final Four is composed of Duke, Carolina, Kansas and ‘Nova. Which is kind of like the news for LIC this week.
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TODAY is St. Patty’s Day, Purim, and the opening day of March Madness. Like Brigadoon this happens only once every hundred years, and since the NCAA Tournament has been in existence for less than a century this is the inaugural one. You were there!
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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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