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GYMNASTICS IS LIFE, IN LONG ISLAND CITY AND BEYOND
Coach Ken on the right, doing what he loves Sometimes I write stories that I know are more derivative of LIC than the usual drivel I scratch out. That’s my prerogative and this is one of those...
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PETITION, LETTER, & NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INCUBATION
Down by the river While I wrote recently that I might expound on the rationale for adding a rec center in Hunters Point, I’ve decided I would provide an excerpt that I wrote to Robert Dobruskin, the...
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HI SCHOOL? BRIDGE TOLLS? XI’AN FAMOUS FOODS COMING TO LIC!
No toll, but where are we heading? It’s deja vu all over again when it comes to schools in Hunters Point. Over half-a-decade ago, which in LIC-years is two generations, LICtalk wrote about similar...
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#LICUnited
The battle for increased school capacity has been waged by parents for several years now, many of whom won’t be the beneficiaries of the new schools. Though most ultimately were unscathed by the...
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NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE INCUBATED IN LIC, NOT WOODSIDE
The new hangout after dropping the kids off When a problem comes along You must whip it Before the cream sits out too long You must whip it When something’s going wrong You must whip it DON’T let...
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Back to Shul
floating lady “And just remember, the best thing about kids… is making them!”“Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes.”Thornton...
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DOE Proposes New Zoning Format For LIC Schools
There I was trying to drum up an angle to this weeks story grasping on random thoughts such as ‘Gee, with the 7-train Express not running this week pushing everyone onto the 7-train local, the subway...
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Margaritas in May or Pina Colada’s in January LIC?
… So I wrote to the paperTook out a personal adAnd though I’m nobody’s poetI thought it wasn’t half bad The children at the local public schools in Long Island City will not be getting off for Cinco...
View ArticlePols & Schools, Schools & Pols Disrupt Long Island City
WELL now it seems that we have come full circle in less than a week. First I was tipped off by a reader last Wednesday that the local School Superintendent Dr. Philip Composto was let go, and that...
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Gantry View School Opens In Long Island City
WHAT is that new school that suddenly popped up last month on 50th Avenue in the heart of Hunters Point? Well it’s not exactly new, but the Gantry View School at 5-36 50th Avenue is in a brand new...
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