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CAPITALISM fills the void as the wave of change continues in Long Island City. No sooner had Chinese take-out New City Kitchen closed and morphed into The Sandwich King, that we hear from an inside source that [Read more…] about CHINESE RESTAURANT COMING TO VERNON BOULEVARD
SATURDAY night I walked down Vernon Boulevard around 9pm and found all of it’s dining and drinking establishments more packed than not – a big change from numerous other strolls I’ve taken along the same path in the past year. Maybe it [Read more…] about VERNON BOULEVARD’S NIGHT SCENE HITS CRITICAL MASS
“Enjoy every sandwich” ((in an interview the musician Warren Zevon did on the Late Show with David Letterman following Zevon’s having been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Letterman asked Zevon if there was anything he understood now, facing his own mortality, that he didn’t before. Zevon replied, “Just how much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich.”))
A whole lotta news happened here while I was guzzling away on the beach during Spring Break. There’s no craft beer where I went, just Bud Light during the day and Fireball at night. With heavy doses of that combo you don’t even need a motel room. Would you like to see pictures? No? Well then let’s talk sandwiches! [Read more…] about THE SANDWICH KING IS COMING TO VERNON BOULEVARD!
BULBS planted in Fall begin to show themselves in March. So it is with Bellwether restaurant on Vernon Boulevard, where the scaffolding has been removed and there is a sign in the window mentioning they will be opening in a few weeks. Further details were revealed [Read more…] about BELLWETHER RESTAURANT IN LONG ISLAND CITY CLOSE TO OPENING
So what’s with the recently painted gold-lettered “Mona Coal-Ice” on Vernon Boulevard? Is it an olde-tymey steam-punk themed haberdashery? Is it a spin-off from the ice cream store next door? Or maybe we should take it literally and get our ice for parties and coal for umm, you know, like burning? No. no, thanks to a little sleuthing from my desktop [Read more…] about MONA COAL-ICE ON VERNON BOULEVARD