City Vet 45-44 Vernon Blvd 718.433.1334

Is Hunters Point starting to become an actual residential neighborhood? Well between finally having a bagel shop, and with Starbucks on the way… what else is missing besides a local vet? (ok, yeah yeah… grocery store, movie theatre, $20M library, etc) While we’re waiting for all that, at least we can get our pets’ teeth cleaned. City Vet is open for business and taking appointments.

No sooner than I had posted about Ihawan did I stumble upon another new Asian fusion restaurant in the works at Vernon-Jackson. This time on Jackson, there’s a new storefront emerged at 10-57 Jackson right next to the Chase bank on the corner, with the sign BANY, Ten 57. Looks like this Asian fusion restaurant will be leaning more towards Japanese food, giving Ihawan (Asian Grill & Sushi Bar) and Lucky Mojo’s (Tex-Mex & Sushi Bar) a run for their fusion money.

I spoke to the broker who er… brokered the lease, and he said that BANY should be open in about 4-6 weeks. In LIC time that usually means 4-6 months, but even if it does delay, our Asian fusion options in LIC are plenty.

Ihawan at 10-07 50th Ave – Opening Soon

This morning I walked by the new restaurant on 50th Ave between Vernon & Jackson, right next to the sales office for ten63 Jackson. The signs are up now, and another new restaurant is about to emerge on the Vernon scene – Ihawan, Asian Grill and Sushi. Any relation to the Ihawan in Woodside? Seems likely. Supposedly we are getting a Japanese restaurant in another Vernon location, so stay tuned for updates on the developing restaurant scene on Vernon.

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