Terrone Restaurant And Butterfield Market Coming to LIC

THEY build the towers, the people come, and they open the restaurants to feed all the new people. A virtuous circle if ever there was and no place is more virtuous than Long Island City.

The first piece of news is that Terrone Restaurant & Pizzeria is coming to 52-03 Center Boulevard across from the Oval in Hunters Point South Park. It’s brought to you by the owner of Santa Chiara Caffe next door. In addition to pizza, the tagline is ‘Italian Farm to American Table,’ whose meaning should be better understood when the restaurant opens, which looks to be any day now.

Next comes the headline that Butterfield Market is opening a 10k square expansion at 29-17 40th Avenue in Dutch Kills. Butterfield is a pretty upscale store, yet despite the gentrification going on in this section of LIC, it seems a little higher end than the local folk are accustomed to, even the newer ones. Well who am I to say? (Equally perplexing is Shake Shack coming to Sunnyside?!?)

Okay, maybe we gave you the egg before the chicken, as NY Mag’s Curbed declares “Everything’s Bigger in Long Island City Right Now,” which then goes on to describe the incredible building and demographic growth of the neighborhood the past decade. Nothing really revelatory there.

Of much greater interest to LIC news-junkies, is a reprint of a City Limits story from 1985 that discusses early development plans for Hunters Point and what the neighbors think of the plans. It contains details like there were public baths on 47th Avenue, the population of LIC shrunk from 20k in the 1940’s to 5k in 1985, and a great old pic of Dorian’s restaurant.

Butterfield Market To Expand to LIC

Shake Shack Coming to Sunnyside

Everything’s Bigger In LIC Right Now

From The Archives: Queens Billion Dollar View 1985

Visiting Places That No Longer Exist – and if you weren’t around when Dorian’s was on Vernon, then you definitely weren’t around for 5Pointz