The Times takes you to culinary Flushing -- just another 30 minutes on Le 7.

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The Queensbridge Theater. Dinner, dancing. Etc.

We can hardly wait.

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PS1's Warm Up installation this year -- Public Farm One -- is amazing and you have to see it. It's easily the best in 5 years. Live chickens!

Here is the Times on their visit.

Saturday September 6th is the final performance of the year -- the 10th series. Performing:
Lisa Shaw (live)
Bing Ji Ling (live)
Neil Aline (Chez Music)
Jerome Derradji (Still Music)

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Despite the C-Town on 21st and the shockingly huge Korean on Vernon...and, well, hometown heroes Fresh Direct's trucks idling in front of every big building every day...there has been the persistent "no supermarkets" rap on LIC for some time.

No longer.

The Amish Market owners have opened a very Whole-Foods-inspired Food Cellars near 5th Street at the Queens West buildings. It's a great supermarket!

Cheese counter, butcher, lots of vegetables and so forth. Very few major brands -- particularly "alterna market" in that sense with lots of Bob's Red Mills and Kashi etc.

And many prepared foods (Antipasti Bar?) along with a seating area to eat them.

And, by the way, a Duane Reade is in effect now too. Sayonara to the poorly-stocked, rarely-opened Vernon Pharmacy and LIC Pharmacy, sez LICNYC.

More from Crain's

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Brooklyn and Queens waterfront has got lots of artful bombers running around.

See more images from the gallery of some of the creative graffiti running lately.

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There are a number of big projects progressing at the intersection of Jackson Ave and 11th Street -- where the Pulaski lets off its Brooklyn traffic.

There is this interesting boutique site which has a nifty red-and-steel building coming

There is this combo of Hunters Point and L

And this guy on the corner where Silver Star auto repair used to be, next to Vine Wine

And of course the completed Echelon, the in progress 1063, and the nearly complete 47th road project

There's the new little coffee shop there too.

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The waterfront is changing fast. Here's a snapshot for your archives.

More from the LICNYC gallery

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Behind the entry to the Pulaski Bridge, kind of near that goliath green construction for the "L" condos, is the best kept little secret park in LIC: handball, basketball, with the soothing hum of the LIE behind you.

But the true champ for best kept secret park (with the best view bar-none) is this one below

Can you guess where it is? Say so in the forums

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