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LIC’s Pepsi sign and almost a hundred other sites may lose their no-tear-down status.  In a year end rush to take things off its plate, the Landmarks Preservation Committee is taking a page from municipal pension plans by simply removing these locations from its calendar, instead of actually rendering a decision.

You can read all about this legerdemain in the lengthy (but newsworthy) article from DNA Info below.  My guess is that [Read more…] about PEPSI SIGN COULD LOSE LANDMARK DESIGNATION

Two years ago I entitled a story “The Best Week to Be a New Yorker,” which was all about the week encompassing Halloween and The New York Marathon.  Wouldn’t you know it, Sandy rolls in [Read more…] about THE BEST WEEK TO LIVE IN LIC: TAKE TWO

Hey LICsters, the 7-train is down this weekend so you’re stranded like Gilligan and the Captain.  Now if you had Ginger and Mary Ann, [Read more…] about STRANDED IN LIC

I really, really, really wanted to write about the menage-a-trois that a 16-year old male in Louisiana had with his 20-something and 30-something female teachers, as all these years later I still find the female teacher/male HS student combo tantalizing and questionably illegal.  The fact that there were two female teachers in the same school willing to conspire and collaborate, I’d guesstimate is probably a five-standard deviation occurrence, …maybe ten.

Sadly, I am constrained by my mandate to focus on local news, whether it is real or not, and no matter how mundane.  Sometimes though, fate intervenes and I am handed a consolation prize.  In this case [Read more…] about MENAGE A TROIS LIC-STYLE