Hallets Cove Beach, Vernon Blvd, Long Island City/Astoria

If you head out of Hunters Point and up north on Vernon Blvd, you’ll eventually run into Hallets Cove, an area officially in Long Island City though more realistically in Astoria. The ‘Cove’ is a very lovely inlet off the East River where Noguchi built his famous work studio. It also hugs the edge of Socrates Sculpture Park, where a summer movie festival is held amidst quirky outdoor sculptures and local, international restaurants provide the food. It’s really quite a time actually, and our very own LIC Boathouse schedules free canoe trips from the Anable Basin to the summertime movie festivals. Canoe back to your high-rise. Or low-rise. Whichever.

In any case, real estate developers seem to have caught on to the scenic digs up in the nether region of Vernon Blvd, because condos are popping up like river weeds »

Proprietor Richard Boccato mixes it up on opening night at Dutch Kills bar, LIC

After all the hoopla about the Dutch Kills bar opening, not a word on the wire this morning about it!

• Starwood’s LIC Aloft Hotel is not Afloat [Curbed]

• Rockrose’s 3rd rental tower revealed [Curbed]

• $12M Gold heist in LIC [NY Times]

• Architects storm LIC [Curbed]

• High Rises in Hallets Cove? [Queenscrap]

• Dutch Kills getting a make-over [Queens Chronicle]

• Review of San Remo Pizza on Vernon Blvd [Queens Courier]

• Round up of last week’s Newtown Creek meet-up/walk-around [WNYC]

• LeFooding coming to LeLIC [NY Times]

• Serbian film in Tribeca Film Festival shot in LIC [YourNabe]

• What’s going on at the Deitch Studios right now [The Moment]

• Congress voting on naming LIC’s post office after Geraldine Ferarro [Congress Matters]

Painted building on Jackson Ave, next to Dutch Kills bar entrance, LIC

To kick off the linkage, there’s tons of press about the shooting that occurred this week on 21st St near 41st Ave in Long Island City.

In other LIC media sightings »

1) Tomorrow, Saturday, August 16 at 7pm, there will be a gathering at McReilly’s to show support and discuss a possible fund raising effort. The Daily News will be writing a story and a staff photographer will be there. There are also some people interested in organizing a fund raiser to assist with whatever their next move will be. The talk at the moment is they want to “just get through this month” and then regroup to focus on finding a new space. All are invited.

2) HALLETS COVE WALK-UP PADDLES, LIC Boathouse »