Long Island City retail still has a few aces up its sleeve; Sushi ups & downs

“Positive journalism”? What is this, Pravda? Liqcity should just report what’s going on, not engage in happy talk.

they need to run the bus down Vernon more often and not just M-F, 8-6pm – Ravel might get more people.

Yeah, I like these posts, too.

Wow, that is huge that Lucky Mojos isn’t serving sushi anymore! They had incredible sushi! But it’s true they have to figure out what they want to be? A family restaurant? A popular bar with live music? A sports bar?

Looking forward to checking out Ravel.

And don’t we have enough wellness centers/yoga places already?

This is the summer of Long Island City!!

Lucky Mojo’s BBQ SUCKS.

I would love to see a doctor’s office opening up around Vernon. I was hoping the new wellness center might include one. As of now there is one doctor in my insurance plan in this area. Her office is open 3 half days per week – all during regular business hours.

#1 is a broker.

Lucky Mojo’s needs to blow up that ridiculous building and start all over again.

Are they really converted trolley cars or just buses that look like trolleys? Big difference — one is cool, and the other is something you’d ride at a theme park.

Agreed about Lucky Mojos BBQ sucking. Sorry I’ve tried it numerous times over the years, hoping they’d eventually get it right and they never have.

Makes little sense to lose the awesome sushi and keep the bad BBQ. Must be a cost saving move. They seriously had the best sushi in the tri-state area.

i want my $15 soon please, someone throw me a freakin bone here.

I wonder how this new bar at McReilly’s and then the new Italian place at Next Level will get liquor licenses? Blend is still waiting on theirs and G_d only knows how much protesting will be done by those lovely neighbors along that section of Vernon when two new places try to ply their trade and provide the greater community with social options and earn a living.

I’m not sure the property owner who kicked out McReilly’s is going to get a liquor license. That did not create much goodwill in the community, for sure.

And through it all, that awful Water Taxi Beach is able to intoxicate legions of frat boy savages and their slapper girlfriends to terrorize the neighborhood every weekend.

#14 there are a bunch of places I would blow up around here. lucky mojo… hmm I don’t hate their bbq as much as everyone else does, but I do like their sushi so that’s sad. I would also blow up the new thai/sushi crap on vernon across from bella via (who i love). we don’t need another italian place, there are so many i can’t even believe someone would think to do another. I would also blow up both the real estate offices on vernon and replace them with a hardware store and a butcher. foodcellar meat sucks, i am tired of going downstairs and seeing brown rotting meat in the case. and real estate is going to the dogs too. is it too much to ask for a shoe store? my kid needs a new pair almost every two weeks it seems like and there is nowhere to buy hardly anything around here. if i didn’t keep my car i’d be screwed.

Why would you want anything to be “Miami themed”
Yuck.

#21 I am NYC born and raised.

#30 Exactly! I couldn’t agree more.

In reference to the post by #24, the property owner does not procure the liquor license. The establishment owner does. The exception is, if they are one and the same. The license is only issued to the owner, in the name of the corporation, at the address/location of the establishment.

Charlie.

Shoe repair? Sorry, can’t help you. I can tell you a dozen places to get sushi and a brick oven pizza though.

Vernon Blvd makes no sense at all. Another Italian? Really? More brick-oven pizza? Do people not do research before they open restaurants these days? Especially in a recession/depression?

Shoe Repair is in the Citicorp Building, lower level.

“Really? How utterly douchetastic!” -Seriously. Almost everywhere that opens in this neighborhood. What is the deal with Queens? I also clicked on that Astoria Artists link above only to find a horribly-designed website.

I tried, but I think Brooklyn is the way to go… this area isn’t getting any cooler. Seems to be run by people with Midtown/Upper West-East tastes.

Brooklyn stopped being cool decades ago. Only real NY’ers would know this.

All you Midwest people keep going there. Queens is the new ‘Brooklyn.’ It’s the place native NY’ers go to raise their kids.

Shoe repair place is only open on weekdays.

Fuggedabahdit

Thank you, liqcity for finally spotting it — or at least I hope you did. It really is amazing to me how people think it’s perfectly acceptable, fun even (see 46 also), to insult Italian-Americans — folks who are your neighbors, friends, coworkers, and local businesses. Here’s the test: if you can’t or won’t say the comment right to their faces, then you certainly shouldn’t post them on a neighborhood blog.