Once a predominately industrial nabe, Long Island City (a.k. LIC) has quickly become a popular home for artists and professionals looking to live close to Manhattan without the many stresses of the big city. Notable art spaces include MOMA P.S. 1 and ScupltureCenter. Be prepared for big spaces here: Real estate in Long Island City includes many warehouses and newly developed condominiums, most of which enjoy views of the East River and Manhattan.
In LIC there is museum of the moving image. http://attractions.upt…
And LIC is home to Silver Cup Studios.http://www.silvercupst…/
And the first ever Queens film festival!
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Astoria is home to Astoria Park and Athens Square Park.
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And Astoria Park. http://www.yelp.com/bi…
LIC is home to the famous sculpture park. http://www.socratesscu…/
LIC has become an artists community. http://queens.about.co…
LIC is becoming more and more commercial as businesses and apartment buildings go up.
LIC is home to the Water Taxi beach. http://www.watertaxibe…/
LIC is also home to City ice Pavilion. http://www.cityicepavi…/
Long Island City is currently home to the largest fortune cookie factory in the United States, owned by Wonton Foods and producing four million fortune cookies a day. Winning numbers included on fortunes in the company’s cookies led to 110 people across the United States winning $100,000 each in a May 2005 drawing for Powerball.
Online grocery company Fresh Direct, serves the Greater New York area via deliveries from a warehouse and administrative offices on Borden Avenue in LIC. A customer can also order online and come to the warehouse for pickup.
Long Island City is the new home of independent film studio, Troma.
Both neighborhoods are changing constantly. Right now unlike Williamsburg ,Brooklyn it still has a little NYC flava!
Profiles of people, places, events and food that make up the diverse community of Queens.
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