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On Day 2 of the new season, I really really wanted to write an Ode to Spring, with sonnets and poems and crocuses and newborn foals running free in Gantry Park. Instead we got a SNOW DAY!!! Sure, I’m now a grown getting paid by the hour word, but when our Mayor waved his magic wand I felt obliged to obey. So instead of ballads and verse, I offer ye a limerick [Read more…] about SNOW DAY LONG ISLAND CITY
Last year’s ‘it’ food was poke, which came and left Long Island City with barely a trace. Crabs have vanished too. In previous years I speculated baby food and roadkill might gain traction in LIC. 2018 looks to be [Read more…] about LONG ISLAND CITY 2018 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP
A movement has begun for a Rec Center in Hunters Point. Spearheaded by Brent O’Leary, President of the Hunters Point Civic Association, and Eric Malinowski, a local father of two, the tandem, with backing from several other neighborhood organizations, has created an online petition calling for a recreation center to be included in any large development granted a rezoning or variance (Aka #1 Anable Basin; #2 Water’s Edge). The petition cites many [Read more…] about A MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN IN HUNTERS POINT
Were you upset that the Jessica Lang Dance Studio never came to fruition in Long Island City? Well here’s a substitute [Read more…] about KIDS HIP-HOP CLASS(ES) COMING TO LONG ISLAND CITY
In the perfect world of The Editor there would be fewer humans taxing the earth’s resources and fewer still straining those of Queens and NYC. Regrettably someone else from this borough was recently elected monarch so I won’t be able to impose my will until 2020 and thus will be required to accept compromises, just like everyone else. That will entail watching large swaths of Long Island City towered up to the sky, much of which has already transpired.
Despite my anti-growth leanings, [Read more…] about MUSINGS ON GENTRIFICATION IN LIC AND DEVELOPING WATER’S EDGE