I hope you enjoyed the April Fools Day excitement stirred up last week. That’s because it’s probably the only rousing local news, real or not, that you’ll be seeing this week. We can only [Read more…] about APRIL SHOWERS…
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ST. MARY’S CHURCH ON VERNON BLVD TO BE DEMOLISHED FOR TOWER
The iconic St. Mary’s Church on Vernon Boulevard will be knocked down to make way for a luxury residential tower according to plans filed with the NYC Department of Buildings yesterday. The proposal calls for a 62-story “pinner” building – one that’s very tall and very narrow – with many of the apartments full-floor 4-bedrooms with keyed access. According to the developer [Read more…] about ST. MARY’S CHURCH ON VERNON BLVD TO BE DEMOLISHED FOR TOWER
THE PIRANHAS OF LONG ISLAND CITY
Like piranhas to a cow in the Amazon River, the children of LIC picked the grass in Gantry Park clean of eggs in under a minute. In three waves they came. in three waves they conquered. Sure, there was some jostling, and an occasional [Read more…] about THE PIRANHAS OF LONG ISLAND CITY
HAPPY FOURTH BIRTHDAY LICTALK!
“I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me.” – Sally Field ((“You like me, you really like me.” Sally Field did not actually say this line in her acceptance speech for Best Actress at the 1984 Oscars, it’s a common misquote. Instead, her verbatim quote from onstage is the one I used))
Tomorrow, March 9, LICtalk will be four years old. Though still in its infancy, we are wise beyond our age – I mean that’s like 23 in dog years. Since our inception we have held nothing back, and in return we have earned and received your unconditional love. In fact, just recently we [Read more…] about HAPPY FOURTH BIRTHDAY LICTALK!
LOOKING BACK ON: LONG ISLAND CITY IN 1980
Given the void of local news, now is a good opportunity to get out the time machine and take a look back at the recent past of LIC. In lieu of a time machine, we’re going to use another contraption called Google. It has unearthed a gem of an article from New York Magazine written back in August of 1980, titled “The Next Neighborhood: Long Island City.”
It didn’t quite work according to plan, and the timing was off by over 20 years, but the two constants throughout all the fits and starts and hopes and dreams, were [Read more…] about LOOKING BACK ON: LONG ISLAND CITY IN 1980