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A huge development with something for everyone including a pedestrian bridge to Roosevelt Island, is being proposed by a group of investors according to POLITICO New York.
The site is on [Read more…] about MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH FOOTBRIDGE TO CORNELL TECHNION PROPOSED FOR LIC WATERFRONT
In light of the local LIC school hubbub, focused around the almost sure death of the PS78 middle school, there have been a lot of suggestions going around on a large email chain as to how to secure more capacity/another school, and possibly stave off the elimination.
As I am wont to do, I proposed another option to this email chain: [Read more…] about IF YOU ZONE IT, YOU OWN IT
LIC is getting a new bikeway thanks to it’s winning an allocation of $500,000 from the participatory budgeting process. Didn’t know this was such a great need, but maybe you can discern more from the blurb advocating it on the ballot:
Long Island City Bikeway – elements of a bike path exist already, an improved safe and reliable bike way system would increase the level of bike use, reduce cars using path for parking and enhance the neighborhood.
//Moving on to what really matters, schools, several resident-hatched proposals have been put forth and elaborated on in great detail: [Read more…] about NEW BIKE PATH COMING TO LIC, AS FOR SCHOOLS…
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About a year ago I was on the subway with an acquaintance of mine when the talk turned to schools. His oldest was in 4th or 5th grade, and he and his wife were frantic/frazzled/worried over and about where she would be attending middle school. Being in my own kid triage bubble, I thought to myself ‘Gee, I never really realized what a hassle/headache/nightmare it is to apply to NYC public middle schools, and all the fuss over a 10-year old!’
Which quickly got me thinking ‘Wow, we have it really good in Long Island City, because our school is one of the very few in the whole city that runs K-8.’ And for the next year I added it to my list of plusses in touting LIC to all my friends considering moving here.
Fortunately none of them took me up on it, because [Read more…] about PS78 TO ELIMINATE MIDDLE SCHOOL, UNLESS NEW SCHOOL BUILT
I’ve used that tired headline for four years in a row now. It’s the gift that keeps on giving to lazy journalists everywhere. Spring has sprung, yeah so what? Whatever the season, we promise to use recycled material only 50% of the time, and we also promise to be correct 50% of the time. That means you have a 1 in 4 chance of reading up-to-date and accurate information. I think those odds are a lot better than [Read more…] about SPRING HAS SPRUNG IN 2015