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The basketball courts on 48th Avenue at Gantry Plaza State Park will be re-opening this Saturday, September 17, with a Grand Celebration. The NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation and the Long Island City Youth Sports League … [Continue reading] about 48TH AVE BBALL COURTS RE-OPENING W/ BIG CELEBRATION SATURDAY
The Queens Gazette is reporting that the owners of a parcel at … [Continue reading] about BJ’S WAREHOUSE COMING TO LONG ISLAND CITY?
“If you look at where the good food is in New York, it’s really in Manhattan and Queens, I’m sorry, other boroughs, I’m sorry." -Pete Wells, the restaurant critic for The New York Times, from a profile in the New Yorker … [Continue reading] about BREAD BOX CLOSES, THE GREEN STREET BECOMING KOREAN BBQ?
Two days of public school and then a long weekend ((this Monday, Sept. 12 kids are off for Eid al Adha)) - I like those hours! But then no more breaks until October when every child will have to make do with only a pair of three-day … [Continue reading] about SCHOOL, HIP-HOP, LIGHTS, STARS, PIRATES
It was a quiet Labor Day weekend in town, though given the heavy police presence in the waterfront parks - probably in light of a recent incident - one may have thought there was a J'Ouvert "celebration" occurring. That and construction noise/crews … [Continue reading] about SEPTEMBER BRINGS FISH N MEAT TO LIC