FROM mid-April to mid-June one can typically purchase Haitian mangoes from the produce vendor on 49th Avenue by Vernon Boulevard. This is when the fruit from this region is in season and available. For those in the know, which includes the Hunters Point West Indian Nanny Posse and The Editor, there is no better delicacy in the world.
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Memorial Day Weekend 2023 in Long Island City
In the summertime, when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather’s fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
HERE we are, Memorial Day Weekend 2023. It’s going to be a beauty. Cue the bbq’s in Queensbridge Park, the crowded outdoor pool scene at Avalon North, the lines jutting from Center Boulevard in front of the ice cream trucks. Enjoy a cold and FRESH beer at one of our many local breweries. Make it an extra long one by “WFH” on Friday and Tuesday.
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Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
C’mon, you know where this is from
WE can hint it, they can say it, either way it’s out there: LIC is the new Chinatown according to Mahira Rivers at New York Magazine. Though in theory we’ve been saying it for quite awhile.
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DEAR Readers, it is with the utmost regret that I must inform you that ‘The Editor’ will be permanently moving to Palm Beach. I have been summoned there by the Hearst Organization to oversee their Florida outpost in the burgeoning Sunshine State. Thus this will be the last post for LICtalk.
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March 1, 2023 in Long Island City. Nothing to report on the ground, but in the skies…
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