Starbucks finally finds a home in LIC & other openings in the hood

maybe Ihawan has a nasty neighbor issue too.

Last I heard they’re CO is being held up. It’s too bad, would like to see if they have other things to offer besides BANY.

thanks for this update.

Sweet Laef is open untill 9 or so – which in LIC is late – and I am happy to have it! It is great and the owner is super friendly!!!

Wifi, wifi. Get a life.

#8 I stopped by yesterday and they said they are open till 10PM. Even better. :)

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Brandon

I don’t follow your comment. Please clarify

Thank you

#17 here is the translation into more mainstream English:

10pm huh? I will go there some time and check it out.

citicorp building is not truley LIC. This is a joke for the area.

#20 – dco – You think the Citi building is not LIC? You don’t mind making a fool of yourself over and over again I see.

No. 14, I’m curious to learn what kind of serious ethics violation could possibly prevent someone from operating a business in the New LIC.

tell us what #14 had to say, LIQCITY. Now we are curious. #14, can you come back and say it in a p.c. tone?

You knew this was coming the day this blog opened. Stop allowing anon posting and you’ll be fine. It’s real simple.

But people are proving that they’re not minding their p’s and q’s, so it obviously won’t be fine. And liqcity knows this and instead is censoring comments, as they have done in the past.

#30, 99% percent of the comments on liqcity are within bounds and informative, or at least lighthearted and fun to read. So what if a couple of dopes post the occasional outrageous comment? I’m smart enough to ignore them and don’t need some webmaster to screen them out for me. I respect that liqcity treats its visitors like adults.

I’m 29/32 and agree with bonafide. I can safely say that I will never post again if I have to register, even though I think I’ve been perfectly civil on this board. Who needs another QueensWest.com?

It’s not Curbed because it’s us.
LIQ, we are fine like this, we love the site the way it is. If I have to register I won’t post either, that’s why I left queenswest. And I actually contribute positive info here once in a while :-)

Actually, curbed has changed their commenting system, and maybe liQ it would be good for this blog too. You can login and create an account if you want to, or you can post as a guest, which is one click and still totally anon, but it will stop spammers. And the registered user comments have visual prominence, but the anon comments are still there and totally readable. Whatever the case I agree with the others, we should not be forced to login. Don’t listen to the fascist.

41, sorry, I just don’t see how you can honestly compare liQcity to curbed. True, the comments are by and large blunt on this site, but not filled with hateful tirades and insults. Leave liQcity as it is. And I’ll start using a name from now on.

well said above, lic is much bigger than the waterfront. let those people pay mkt rate and higher for thier view and lack of transportation options. i like it inland with a mulitude of transportation, and nothing but upside, thank you.

Don’t worry, #45, we are getting plenty of heartless boxes in gargantuan towers inland, too.

#20 please define your boundries of LIC?

#49 – If its all about location, location, location count me in as another one who wouldn’t buy in the waterfront in a million years. It is already overcrowded and overdeveloped with lifeless and depressing buildings with no architectural value.

The executives at Starbucks, who know a thing or two more about business than you obviously do, made the right call in investing in more parts of LIC. Time to wake up and smell the coffee (if there was a Starbucks near you). LIC is alot bigger than Jake and his Queenswest croanies would realize if they took their heads out of their asses for just a second and realize that there are a whole lot of options, most of them allot better to live in, other than waterfront in LIC.

#51 – Its funny that when Starbucks planned to be on the waterfront, those on the waterfront were saying that it was the best thing ever, which was pretty comical to begin with considering the character that small original shops like Sweet Leaf bring to the community (yes – the part of LIC that is not the waterfront).

Now that Starbucks dumped the waterfront, it sucks and for that matter any business investing anywhere elsewhere in LIC has no absolutely no clue what its doing. What’s next that the Korean Deli is better than the Amish Market when they bail on the waterfront next?

You guys are too much. This is another reason why noone goes to Queenswest anymore. Do us a favor Jake, stick to your own site.

PS – by the way the only thing that is going down faster than Starbucks stock are the asking prices of units on sale at the waterfront so skip the arguments that you know anybetter than the executives at Starbucks thank you.

regency is back. hiya stupid.

#53 You sound kind of arrogant for someone who just got “owned” by #52 – lol and sound like a complete arrogant ass to boot.

In one setence you indicate that you won’t continue to argue about the waterfront and inland LIC. In the next you state that #52s arguements about Starbucks picking inland versus waterfront makes no sense. Not to mention that you seem to be the person who started the whole discussion over inland vs. waterfront in this thread to begin with.

Is it so surprising that a firm chose a different location to the one that you live in? How can that be since you are obviously always right? How can it be that the highest prices to date both in absolute cost and $ persqft paid for condos in LIC to date are not on the waterfront? How can that be if your area is so great?

I hate to be one to share the news with you, but not all of us who invested in LIC view the LIC waterfront as Malibu. Apparently there are also alot of businesses who believe that there are better places elsewhere as well.

This isn’t about which place is better or worse. Simply please spare us the elitist attitude that everyone but you is an idiot and that the whole world or for that matter LIC revolves around the waterfront. Obviously it does not and LIC is a whole lot bigger than the handful of rental buildings, City Lights, and the Hunters Point South developments. Nuff said.

#58 well said. That guy from #53 was really arrogant. I’m glad that #57 put him in his place. We don’t need Liqcity turning into another useless website like Curbed or Queenswest.

my dad could beat up your dad… and he can buy me a bigger condo.

#62, They are building a… Japanese hotel, best I know.

who is regency? and why does his name always come up.

63, a traditional Japanese hotel or a Western-style hotel run by a Japanese owner?

thx brandon, where is sweet leaf?

thanks

Welcome Sweet Leaf to the neighborhood! (would love Wifi….and as soon as your P/L allows an expanded location)