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PETITION, LETTER, & NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INCUBATION

January 25, 2018 by editor 2 Comments

While I wrote recently that I might expound on the rationale for adding a rec center in Hunters Point, I’ve decided I would provide an excerpt that I wrote to Robert Dobruskin, the director in the NYC Planning Dept. who is collecting community comments on the Anable Basin rezoning. The excerpt is below. More importantly, if you haven’t already please sign the petition being circulated to bring a community center to Hunters Point.

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//YESTERDAY the little information fairies were asked to distribute a memorandum to their parents announcing a meeting about a new District Elementary School to be incubated in Long Island City in the [Read more…] about PETITION, LETTER, & NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INCUBATION

SHOW PALACE DENUDED, QUEENSBRIDGE HOUSES VERMINIZED

January 22, 2018 by editor Leave a Comment

Ridin' that train... — There’s a train now entering the Hunters Point Avenue station?

Show Palace strip club, located on 21st St. across from the exit ramp of the Queensboro Bridge was closed down Friday night by the NYPD in light of prostitution allegations according to The Daily News. No surprise there, but locals may be disappointed because now they will have to order their beef tenderloin, nachos supreme, and cheesecake from somewhere else this Superbowl. Nearby, a family living in the Queensbridge Houses [Read more…] about SHOW PALACE DENUDED, QUEENSBRIDGE HOUSES VERMINIZED

DesiBowl TO BRING INDIAN-MEXICAN CUISINE TO LONG ISLAND CITY

January 2, 2018 by editor 3 Comments

It looks like nothing now, but soon a cornucopia of culinary delights

A new restaurant serving Indian-Mexican fusion cuisine expects to open on Vernon Boulevard by the end of January. Named DesiBowl, it will be located in the space formerly occupied by the Paris Health Cafe next to St. Mary’s Church. The owner is Sabiha, who is currently a manager at OptimEyes Vision in LIC, and she told us to envision an Indian-style Chipotle, with burritos, tacos, rice bowls, paratha rolls, and Indian sandwiches, whereby the consumer chooses the rice, meat, toppings, etc. The restaurant will be spice-friendly as well as have a kid-friendly menu. This will be Sabiha’s first time opening her own restaurant, though her family owns ten pizzerias in the city.

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LIC JUST SAY NO TO THE COMPANY HOLIDAY PARTY & DO THIS

December 14, 2017 by editor 1 Comment

Company holiday parties are fraught with danger. Making a drunken fool of oneself in front of people you see Mon-Fri from 9-5 for the next 365, telling your superior what you really think of her, not to mention the possibility of infidelity, rejection, and in 2017 sexual harassment. Handicapping the company holiday party as a prospective investment, which in some ways it is, there is no upside, other than free drinks and food, and massive downside. So as your adviser ((spiritual, not financial)), I recommend [Read more…] about LIC JUST SAY NO TO THE COMPANY HOLIDAY PARTY & DO THIS

CRIME AND REAL ESTATE …IN LONG ISLAND CITY

December 8, 2017 by editor 1 Comment

CRIME and real estate, that’s what we have for you today. The latter is ubiquitous the former quite rare in Long Island City. Well the part of LIC that most readers live in. Nevertheless it’s a reminder during this Holiday season that [Read more…] about CRIME AND REAL ESTATE …IN LONG ISLAND CITY