The Badge Building. Looking nice and finished. Big windows. Nice design.

Hunters Point Condos on Jackson near Pulaski. Going up and up.

Jackson Ave project at 47th. Next to the increasingly ugly rental building that is the new home of M&T Bank and across from Chase.

Ten63 project. Named after the cafe, but looking like one big empty lot. Anything happening here?

Casa Viscaya, weirdly named and lower-rise. Have a closer look and see their very odd plans for an outdoor space pinched behind the building and next to the neighboring lots.

The Foundry. Interesting name since it rips off the supercool "The Foundry LIC" event space that used to be an iron foundry. But the design of this thing screams....mid-level "luxury" sheathed in the same boring look of 1000 condos in Queens and Brooklyn.

The other Hunters Point Condos site. Also going up fast. Big concrete floor plates. They appear to be marketing these already.

The homeless trio that live in and pee on their crappy little van where the HPC building is going up -- under those billboars at 50th and Vernon.

The Power House. That goldy-bronzey tower keeps rising. And they appear to be tearing down about half of the old original factory.

The gallery -- see all the pics, and bigger

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Art-O-Mat this Thursday launches the residency of the collection from The Space. The reception is Thursday night at 7pm at Art-O-Mat on Vernon Blvd near Communitea.

Friday evening at 7pm, Socrates shows "City of Water" -- doc about NY waterfront. This is your future, LIC....!

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The venerable itinerant museum will be getting a permanent non-LIC home soon, and Spitzer just added another $12 MM to the kitty. Nice digs...

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As we head into Autumn, looks like the Hunters Point guys are going to make opening day Sep 29th. A few condo-watchers passed on the news. Strangely -- invitation only! Apparently you'll have to sign up in advance at their website. (Check out the models looking serious at the art gallery while you are there. They definitely made an effort to go beyond the stock pictures of Tournesol to tell the story... :)

Meanwhile, the Crescent Club building on Queens Plaza, in the somewhat more "edgy" North LIC is coming due soon as well. Keep a look out.

Post in the forums if you have visited them.

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Look out your window. 10 minutes of fireworks on the East River...

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Our favorite destination in North LIC is having an start-of-season fall opening with a group of young artists and performers.

Saturday, September 22, 2007
8:00pm - late
Fall-time group show featuring

ARTWORK BY

Adriane Schramm
Nathan Skiles
Jon Read
Gary F. Cullen
Frank Perreco
Nina Craig
Crystal Hernandez
Lance Scott Walker

AND PERFORMANCES BY

Andrew Hurst
The Wiggins

DJ sets by
Porkchop (Excepter)
Matt Radune
Jeremy Campbell

More

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The Space is an excellent artists' space near the Queensboro Bridge plaza (details - they have a much improved website!).

The fundraiser is October 3rd, Wed, at Court Square Wine and Spirits with food by Sage. Call (718) 707-9911 to save $5 and tell 'em LICNYC sent you.

PS you should check out their film series

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Wow are those chairs comfy. Bricktown takes the prize of "most comfortable cafe in the neighborhood". And they even have food. It could be better -- they got our "bagel with cheese order" wrong two times and the broccoli cheese soup was awfully cheesy. But hey, it was alright.

Bring on some more cafes. We have enough liquor stores...

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Long Island City manhole cover

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Coming any day now, I'm told. Start getting pre-approved for those
mortgages!

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As posted in the forums, there is a park design in the works for this little street-end

Could become a reality. That's a really cool, quiet spot by the way in case you've never walked over there.

More about it

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There is a great NYT article about the elite coffee hounds and it mentions nearby Greenpoint-based Cafe Grumpy (also with a location in Chelsea) as a place to get the good stuff.

Head over to Meserole and Diamond -- about 15 minutes walk from the Pulaski Bridge. You'll enjoy the views as you walk. Grumpy's site

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The sixth mongo luxury residential tower is on the way up. Prepare. (In
case you are worried about LIC real estate, you can bet these guys are
confident...!)

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LIC's modern parks have modern amenities, like convenient power plugs at
the waterfront and refreshing sprinkling mid-day. But they've closed the
lawn at Gantry for all of September. Don't they know that global warming
means it is still summer?

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The main church in LIC, since 1907

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Free. Barber's chair on Pearson Street.

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Residents of Long Island City, Queens, can also have the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop, but most of the high-rises on the water are rentals. Citylights, a 10-year-old building at 4-74 48th Avenue, has a two-bedroom, two-bath co-op on the 38th floor on the market for $560,000. The living room looks out on the United Nations.

Less familiar but perhaps even more breathtaking are the views from the bedrooms and the terrace, stretching east onto Long Island, north toward the Bronx and south into Brooklyn.

More

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Apparently, the show is awful...

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