AS if we needed another reminder that summer is almost over, Starbucks brought back pumpkin spiced latte’s yesterday. Talk about stealing the thunder from Taylor Quick and Travis Chelsea! Alas life moves on, and upwards. Soothr Thai Restaurant looks ready to open their doors in LIC.
It’s jutting location in an old-school two-story peninsula-like building at 25-20 43rd Avenue in Court Square, gives its exterior a ‘secret club’ feel. Anyway this will be the second location of this East Village Michelin-noted Thai restaurant.
Adding further fire to the ‘Little Asia’ claim in Court Square/Queensboro Plaza, FER LIC restaurant will be moving from their quiet Dutch Kills corner location into an expanded modern one at the base of the massive Jackson Park buildings at 28-10 Jackson Avenue in Queens Plaza. This after just two years or so in their humble current location and adding a branch in Hunters Point. ‘Artisanal Chinese Soul Food’ is what they’ll continue dishing.
//A few gripes to end the summer. The first coming from a lady claiming dog owners don’t clean up after their dogs in LIC. I can’t say it seems any worse here than other parts of NYC, but I do recognize there are definitely rude dog owners everywhere and the 1-2% of those types ruin it for the rest of the dog-owners. Kudos to those willing to confront the bad ones like this woman does.
Finally, an anecdote/warning to those looking to further tax the wealthy in NYC. Per a recent issue of The New Yorker:
“(Billy) Joel is a full-time Florida resident now, which causes him some embarrassment. (“I will have Floridian children … ,” he wrote me recently, with a clown-face emoji.) He’s been trying to sell his mansion on Oyster Bay, after an expensive and litigious renovation. But on Friday night the parents of a friend of mine found themselves sitting at a table next to one occupied by Joel and his daughter Alexa Ray at a restaurant not far from a motorcycle shop he owns there (and which he is now closing).”
Billy Joel, aka The Piano Man, aka the writer of “New York State of Mind.” He’s moved down to Florida, BUT he spends a lot of time in NY anyway. WHY? Because he can – and you won’t be seeing him on Spirit Air to go back n forth, not Billy. AND, he’s willing to sacrifice his children’s upbringing to avoid paying NY State Income Tax. AND, he’s a little sheepish about the move, but taxes…
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