IT’S that time of year when we take the measure of the preceding 365, and 3650. And a recently installed traffic sign encapsulated the weariness of LIC in the 2020’s in the wizened eyes of The Editor. Exhibited all the way to the right in the photo above, its placement indicates that this one block stretch of 5th Street in Hunters Point is no longer 2-way. Back in the day, when everything was fresh, that actually would have been newsworthy in Long Island City. Lesser publications may have even devoted a whole article to it. Today it is just a street sign.
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