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What’s up with rezoning upzoning of LIC? What’s the latest on the founder of the Long Island City Academy of Music? What really happens behind the walls of MoMA PS1 during a summer Warm-up? When is the CVS in Hunters Point opening? [Read more…] about AUGUST UPDATES JUST FOR YOU LIC
We mothballed this tired title last year after using it for four in a row, so I guess that makes it a [Read more…] about SPRING HAS SPRUNG 2017
WHAT a day in LIC. It started early this morning at the Queensboro Correctional Facility where a guard who worked there ran down the street firing shots at her ex-boyfriend before turning the gun on herself. Due to bullets splaying all over the place and the eventual dramatic suicide, the story was widely reported on by NYC media within hours of its occurring.
More interesting to local readers, is a) the existence of this prison, and b) its location. The latter can best [Read more…] about FATAL SHOOTING AND LIBRARY DELAYS IN LIC
I’d like to say that nothing happened in LIC during my two week absence, because that would be the truth. But I’m in the ink moving business, have lots of other things to catch up on, and the truth is [Read more…] about NEW LIC NEWS
One of the good things about living in a multicultural borough, and writing for a backwater little-read publication, is the liberties one can take with language. Take the headline above, I was one letter over the maximum that Google search allows for a headline and fretting over what to eliminate, when I realized I could change “& More” to “Y Mas” and it would easily be acceptable to the enlightened readers I cultivate. It’s a fitting tribute and bridge to the embattled workers at Tom Cat Bakery, who are predominantly Hispanic. Plus I think it allows me to write off my Spring Break trip to Cancun as a continuing education expense in Spanglish.
Anyway, according to The Daily News, the Department of Homeland Security audit at Tom Cat was [Read more…] about NEW BARBER, ELKS DEMOLISHED, TOM CAT BAKERY UPDATE Y MAS