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FOR some people in Long Island City, a monumental change came last week. For others, a bigger change will occur this week. I calculate the breakdown between these two distinct groups to be roughly 50% to 48%, with the remaining two percent delusional. 50-48 is a really close game if we were talking football or high school basketball. Certainly not a blowout. I digress.
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ABOUT two weeks ago, the windows were papered over at 10-01 50th Avenue. Previously the brief home of Juice n Bagels/Black Star Bakery, and for a much longer period Dorian’s Diner, this highly visible and well-trafficked location on Vernon Boulevard and on top of the Vernon/Jackson Manhattan-bound subway station, has been vacant since January. Curiosity got the best of me and in snooping around the premises on the way to work, I asked a construction worker ‘What’s coming in here?’
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