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The East River came over the edge at Gantry Park yesterday morning, creating a small pool on the promenade just north of the final pier, as pictured above. Newsworthy? … [Continue reading] about GANTRY PARK FLOODS AND 80-STORY TOWER IN COURT SQUARE?
Mayor de Blasio has proposed a new streetcar line that will run near the East River and link Brooklyn to Queens. More specifically, it would start in Sunset Park and end in northern Astoria. Tentative plans in Long Island City have it … [Continue reading] about A STREETCAR NAMED DE BLASIO
January is over, the days are getting longer and sometimes it's now light out when I leave work. Who cares about some groundhog's prediction, here in LIC we have our own harbinger of Spring: the fruit guy has re-appeared on 49th Avenue. Which given … [Continue reading] about THE TOWNHOUSE ECONOMICS OF LIC
Twas not the snow that kept me buried and quiet this week, it was an interview request. No green room for me, these days it's all done electronically. So I put on my Beats - Beethoven's 9th ((come on movie fans, what's the reference?)) - put all … [Continue reading] about THE DEFINITIVE LONG ISLAND CITY
Will it, won't it, snow that is. That's the big story here in LIC at this moment. Will we, won't we, get a new school? That's a big story here in LIC for the long term, but two educators from other parts are looking to possibly change that, or at … [Continue reading] about SNOWMESS?