News

The story gods start tippling the eggnog and begin putting work aside come mid-December.  Like the overly hyped Fed move today, there’s not a lot of meat in this weeks articles linked to below, and even I have started relying on filler and regurgitation per my previous post.   So a few announcements, and then the snewze. [Read more…] about LIC MISHMASH

A frozen East River was how we kicked off 2015 in LIC, only to end it with a balmy December finish.  The unusual weather was a direct contrast to a fairly quiet, or at least well telegraphed, news year locally.  Now I wish I could recap it all in a brilliantly quippy manner like the annual “Greetings, Friends!” poem in the New Yorker, and I really wish I could tell you that I won’t be able to do that because I don’t have the time to do so, but the reality is I just don’t have the skill set.  So in more prosaic words, here are the highlights: [Read more…] about 2015 LONG ISLAND CITY NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

So where were we before we got so rudely interrupted?  Oh yes, nowhere.  The news situation in LIC remains static, which given current events and the adage “No news is good news,” is probably for the best.

Instead, this past week we were provided with a panoply of ‘news analysis’ that when all brought together, hones in on the changing nature of Western Queens.  Oh, plus we get a naughty follow-up.  Read for yourself.

//The top middle school in the city is right here in LIC – [Read more…] about THE CHANGING FACE OF WESTERN QUEENS

And by break, I mean there really isn’t any.  As in the news is taking a rest, siesta, maybe even a hiatus.  Oh sure, I could write about something very mundane or stir up a trivial controversy, but I’ll happily leave that fodder for others who come in from outside the neighborhood and don’t have a handle on what really matters in LIC.

Here’s an example of something that may have been overlooked but would be invaluable to those in need of such a thing. [Read more…] about LIC NEWS BREAK

Last night on the ABC and CBS 11 o’clock news, the mother of the girl who was mauled by a dog on Center Boulevard was interviewed.  In one of the lead stories on both channels ((it was the lead story on CBS – good thing the Mets were off last night)), she gave an account of the incident and made a plea to the authorities to help find the dogs owner.  Now we will share with you the details of her frustrating ordeal. [Read more…] about MOTHER OF DOG MAUL VICTIM SPEAKS OUT