A thousand reasons to love Long Island City. Tips: Editor@LICtalk.com
Part of my job as the editor of this rag, is to curate all the happenings in Long Island City, as I can’t write about everything. After my lengthy rant about HPS earlier in the week, I’ve decided to highlight only one event today. While it doesn’t occur for another month, it requires you to sign-up and possibly prepare. [Read more…] about LIC WEEKEND: ONE SIMPLE RECOMMENDATION
Nothing drives website traffic better than sex and nudity. I was compelled to rip a headline from Murdoch because there really isn’t much news since my last update. So I could use a little help. Do you have an interesting story you would like to pursue? [Read more…] about LICTALK CENTERFOLD CONTEST
New York’s got the ways and means; but just won’t let you be, oh no
No New Yorker would ever think of partying in Times Square. In the not-too-distant future, I think it will be fair to say that no New Yorker would actually want to live in Manhattan. It’s where the tourists live. For the last decade, Brooklyn has been the place to which NY’ers have decamped to in order to 1) get more for their money and 2) retain their hipness. Recently though, real estate prices in select parts of Brooklyn have eclipsed those in certain areas of Manhattan ((Williamsburg vs. the UES for example)). Moreover, being hip is overrated, especially after one changes their first dozen baby diapers.
That leaves Queens as the new, new thing. First off, it’s the last place within very close proximity to midtown where real estate is still inexpensive. Second [Read more…] about I’D RATHER LIVE HERE THAN THERE
Good Friday: before I retired it was the only day that the stock markets were closed and the bond markets were open. Nowadays everyone gets it off, so how does one use the time if they’re staying in town? [Read more…] about A LONG EASTER WEEKEND IN LIC
The old real estate gentrification trajectory was that artists moved into a a rundown and/or industrial, and definitely inexpensive neighborhood, fixed things up and created a community, only to eventually be priced out by wealthier non-artists hoping to have a little of that artistic funk bleed into their persona. In the 21st century, where things move at the speed of light, that conversion from rundown/industrial to artistic to gentrified has been compressed into one step. As soon as even a hint of any traction by artists to claim a neighborhood is documented, [Read more…] about NEW YORK TIMES FINDS NEW DEMOGRAPHIC MOVING TO LIC