liQcity is going non-profit! Support liQpop and help us help you LIC.

Dear Long Island City,

liQcity is pleased to announce our first produced event – liQpop – with local powerhouses M. Wells and Dutch Kills, as well as many other amazing LIC entities. It’s a fundraiser for your favorite neighborhood blog. That’s us! Here’s why:

liQcity has been blogging about LIC for almost four years now. Since it’s first incarnation as a blog about real estate in Long Island City, it quickly became a website about Life In LIC as well, providing editorial about local biz, the amazing arts scene, community efforts, safety issues, infrastructure changes, and let’s not forget of course, real estate development. As LIC has evolved as a neighborhood, so too has liQcity, thanks mainly to our readers’ comments and feedback over these past four years.

Well, the time has come for liQcity to evolve again, and this time we are seeking support from you, our faithful readers and LIC community members. liQcity gets requests on a daily basis to support the local arts, community organization and businesses, as well as regularly post local events and report on LIC happenings. We would like to continue to provide these resources for LIC, and so much more. So we have decided to transition into a full-fledged 501(3)c non-profit community development organization for Long Island City.

What does this mean exactly? It means that we will build out the liQcity website into a more robust and comprehensive resource website for Long Island City, increase and expand our editorial and news coverage, and facilitate community events utilizing all the amazing venues and resources in our great neighborhood. We would also like to engage the community in a deeper way, not just allowing you to comment anonymously on issues that directly impact your immediate environment, but facilitating positive and effective community activism. And as always, we will be looking to you, our readers and community members, to guide us in the direction you want liQcity and consequently LIC to go.

In order for us to get started as a non-profit, we need to fill up the tank, as the initial transition is all uphill. To this end, and with great support from local businesses, we present to you liQcity’s first fundraiser liQpop, with food provided by fan favorite M. Wells and cocktails by another LIC icon, Dutch Kills, on Monday, Nov 14th, from 6-10pm, at Manducatis Rustica, who has been gracious enough to allow other entities of LIC to ‘pop-up’ in the restaurant.

Additional sponsors of liQpop are:

• Alewife Queens
• Little Oven
• Sweetleaf
• Sommelier Ciprian Toma
• Floresta
• Laughing Devil Comedy Club *Ten10Studios
• Zikrayat
• Big City Graph-x & Printing
• Wyndham Garden Hotel Manhattan View
• Hundredweight Ice

Since liQcity is not non-profit yet, the ticket cost is not-tax deductible, though all proceeds will go towards liQcity’s transition into a non-profit. The event cost is $100/advance ($120/door) and in order to bring you such a stellar line-up of LIC rockstars, the first of many diverse line-ups to come, and be sure we have enough capital to transition into a non-profit in this very complicated state of New York, we had to price accordingly.

Thank you to all the readers and commenters in the past four years – we look forward to another four and more! And thank you to all of our great sponsors past and present, as well as those who are helping to make liQpop, our first fundraiser, possible.

• Buy your tickets to liQpop fundraiser here! [Event Page]