LIC takes a few bullets; Old Hunters Pointer vs New; building Hallets Cove

I agree #1. In this case liqcity’s headline re: re: the contents of the New York Mag. article was very misleading! I also thought that “LIC takes a few bullets” (re: the subway incident) was very flippant. Is she tryi ng to compete with the New York Post?

re: #3 You may not be aware that there is a bridge generation. These are folks who came here in the 1980′s and early 1990′s. They share a mix of views that includes pro-development minus the hyper frenzied market we’ve just seen. They believe in preservation but not to the extent where the neighborhood stagnates.

The unfortunate polarized environment that some like to feed and fan is IMO the biggest problem at present.

No. 3, there are plenty of newcomers who aren’t so crazy about the pace of development in LIC either and may have chosen to live in LIC because of its relative low-key vibe. On the other hand, many oldtimers (particularly some homeowners and business owners) are in favor of the steamroller approach to development or at least just accept the changes. By setting up this false dichotomy, you are making it difficult for people oof both POVs to reach healthy compromises on what the neighborhood should be.

Right, No. 5. I thought the NY mag piece was refreshing. It didn’t try to pick sides and showed in a respectful way how LIC embraces those with various interests, and they often overlap.

7, you know, I actually believe that despite all the hot air from the local media, the developers’ publicity machines, and our own assumptions about What People with Money Do, I think that most people in this country (including those in LIC) have really pedestrian tastes. They talk a big game about their love of wine tastings and greenmarkets, but that’s just meant to impress their friends. Actually, my theory is that people are generally cheapskates and their taste in food is shaped by their Middle American upbringing. How else could one explain why a fantastic place like Manducati’s is empty?

9, either that or people head straight home after getting out of work at 9:30pm at their awful Midtown jobs and spend their weekends in Manhattan.

I think very few people walk down that “far” on Vernon. Which is lame…but I’ve told at least five people about it and none had heard of it.

No offense to Manducati’s Rustica but we went last Friday for dinner and the food was great, however, they are highly disorganized when it comes to staffing and service. We will go back in a few months when they get some help, but when we went the waitress was overwhlmed by how many people were there, the owner was waiting tables herself, they took our menu before we even ordered because they needed it for another table, this was besides the fact we were ingnored when we walked in and then again for a good twenty minutes while we waited. So overall, a little too much fuss for some brickoven pizza and gelato for now.

Pizza was almost worth all the pain though, it was really good!

This thread got me hungry for Rustica. Got dinner there tonight, homemade fetuccine with a veal sauce, yum, and an italian pepper stuffed with bread crumbs, olives and pine nuts that was so unexpectedly delicious it made me shiver.