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The ‘It’ Trend In LIC For 2022

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Covid testing line Long Island City Dec 2021

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 future1 via a post from the past.

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  1. immediate future preferably [↩]

‘Meanwhile Up In QueensBridge’

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“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.”

Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot

IN between breaking news about restaurant opening’s and musing on the direction of local real estate markets, it’s not unusual that I include a link to a violent crime that recently occurred with the comment “meanwhile up in Queensbridge” if that’s where it took place.

The flippancy of this comment has nothing to do with the lack of gravity over the act, and everything to do with the exasperation of it’s recurrence and inability to change this state of affairs. In reading the headline about the shooting death of a 37-year old man several weeks ago, I was about to cut and paste the link and my usual comment once again1, but the frequency has increased to a level of desperation. The fact is that nothing short of a major overhaul will curtail this violence.

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Bierocracy Closing, Lupo Rosso Pizzeria Opening, & Asia LIC

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Queensboro Bridge LIC
with traffic like Bangkok

THE New York Times has declared Long Island City is now ‘Little Asia,’ or maybe it’s ‘Asiatown?’ Well they didn’t really declare it, but they might as well have given a prominent story they published this week noting the exploding Asian population in LIC.

You can read it if you want, but given the article’s strong focus on all the new Asian eateries that have popped up recently in the neighborhood it should come as no surprise to readers of LICtalk. Every third week it seems we break the story of a new Asian food-related business opening locally, and have noted the regional trend in cuisine. You could say we pointed the way!

//Bierocracy is closing. According to their website it has to do with their landlord. In the meantime all drinks are 50% off until their last hurrah this Sunday, October 24.

//Lupo Rosso Pizzeria is coming to 43-67 11th Street next to ICONYC Brewing Company. Lupo is wolf, rosso is red, and pizzeria… well that’s all I know about this place, but looks close to opening.

Inside The NYC Neighborhood With The Fastest Growing Asian Population – now comprises 34% of LIC

Bierocracy Web Site – announcing closure

TF Cornerstone Welcomes Organic Market To Waterfront Tower – & deli too coming to 4545 Center Blvd in January

Permits Filed For 45-19 Davis St. In LIC – 21 story tower slated across the street from 5Pointz

Video Equipment Company Snags LIC HQ – took the whole 42k sq ft 3-story bldg on the border w/ Sunnyside, welcome