News

There seems to be a theme to today’s LIC news: Unlike the straightforward photo above, most of what’s reported on is not visible to the casual observer.  Starting off we have a high tech 3D laser manufacturing plant opening here in the summer.  At the complete other end of the spectrum is the arrival of the last Yiddish bookstore in NYC.  It’s right by the LIE so you can pick up an opus on your way back from the Hamptons.  Next up is a story on the $8 billion dollar underground Queens version of the Big Dig going on in the no-man’s land of LIC.  Finally, in the “These Are the People In Your Neighborhood” column, comes the sexual dreams, fantasies, and doings of a 29 year old LIC lesbian, in case you always pondered “Hmm, I wonder what’s going on in say, apartment 909”   Sorry no pictures.

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High-Tech Manufacturing Plant to open In LIC This Summer

A New Home For An Endangered Yiddish Bookstore

Clashing Underground – Competing Agendas Push Back – and Add to Costs of-East Side Access Project

The Lesbian Whose Dreams Are Much Dirtier Than Her Sex Life

Someone in the Malkin family, the owners of the Empire State Building, is a hardcore Dead-head!  Every time the post-Jerry Garcia spin-off band plays NYC, which is quite frequent,  they get top billing in the Manhattan skyline, an honor not given to any other band.  In case you are curious what the colors on the ESB mean on any given night, I have provided a link, though you may be somewhat disappointed to find that it’s “In honor of the Baby Buggy 10th Anniversary.”  In fact you might be disappointed with the dearth of relevant LIC-centric news this week, or maybe not if unlike myself you have a real life.

What Color is The Empire State Building Tonite?

“Girls” First Season Shot In LIC, Alas No More

Pols Look to Block New Trash Tax

Wife of Sudanese Diplomat Struck By Gunfire in LIC

Nope, you are not going to find any easter eggs in this picture, no spring flowers either.   With what might be an oil derrick in the back right of the photo, this could be a desert somewhere in the Middle East …or Texas, if it weren’t for the Manhattan skyline at the top.  Instead it is an empty lot slated to be the LIC Library(sponsor’s name tbd).  Now I don’t know about you, but all I’m reading these days is about municipal budget cuts, the brunt of which seem to be falling on perceived “discretionary” spending such as libraries.  I think the average New York City library is open about 3 1/2 hours a month if I’ve been reading correctly.  But not here in LIC!  We’re getting a brand-spanking new library on the water with drop dead views of Manhattan.  Why us?  Because in case you haven’t read my other posts, LIC is becoming the center of the universe.  Anyway who really cares why as long as they stock Playboy.  In other LIC news, we have two more new openings, and surprise surprise: the articles make no mention of Chuck Schumer attending the ribbon-cutting!  Actually he was there but his attendance at these press conferences has become the default position for the media so only his absence warrants a mention.  Happy Easter and Passover, go get them eggs!

Easter Egg Hunt in Gantry Park this Saturday from 10am – 12pm

JetBlueHQ and Dutch Kills Park openings