Vernon Blvd near 9th St, LIC

Last month, LICBDC held a Queens Agency Breakfast in LIC featuring Maura McCarthy, the Dept. of Transportation’s commissioner for Queens; Paul D’Amore, the Dept. of Parks & Recreation’s deputy chief of operations for Queens; and Lt. Philip Aversano of the 108th Precinct.

In a neighborhood like Long Island City, conversation topics regarding parking, parks, and crime were, as you can imagine, varied.

Via the Queens Gazette:

• The Borden Ave Bridge should be open again by September and the huge building project at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South “would, when completed, include a garage incorporating municipal parking, though it will not be a municipal garage.”

• 108th Precinct: several statistics were read off that point “to the great decline in the crime rate in recent years,” and apparently “these positive statistics have become so familiar that their significance had to be emphasized by the lieutenant »

LICBDC’s Annual Luncheon & Trade Show at Terrace on the Park, Flushing

The Long Island City Business Development Corporation, better known as the LICBDC, is a non-profit organization that has been relentlessly promoting the business sector of Long Island City for three solid decades. Yesterday, they introduced the mantra of “Buy Local, Think Global” and successfully brought their Annual Luncheon & Trade Show to Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which saw several luxurious rooms packed to the hilt with exhibiting businesses and a steady stream of LIC networkers filing through.

A wide range of Long Island City business was represented »

Jackson Ave, Long Island City

In local economic news:

“Queens has been particularly hit hard by foreclosures. Data released by the ACORN showed that, between January and September of 2008, 5,482 foreclosure notices were received in the borough.

Most of the notices »