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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?
Even Vernon Boulevard can't fight the state of impermanence. A recent walk by the storefront of Delta Force Army & Navy revealed it's formerly stuffed-to-the-gills/can't-walk-in/probable-fire-hazard completely cleared out. This is not the first … [Continue reading] about Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes IN LIC
It won't be too long before people refer to Manhattan as the "old neighborhood," and visit it nostalgically like Italians to Bensonhurst and Jews to the Lower East Side ((yeah, yeah, I know the LES is Manhattan)). Like both those ethnic enclaves, … [Continue reading] about THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD