<![CDATA[Is Long Island City the Next Big Thing? - Gridskipper Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gridskipper.com.png <![CDATA[Is Long Island City the Next Big Thing? - Gridskipper Comments]]> http://gridskipper.com Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:59:07 EDT Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:59:07 EDT http://gridskipper.com/367569/is-long-island-city-the-next-big-thing <![CDATA[Is Long Island City the Next Big Thing?]]> http://gridskipper.com/367569/is-long-island-city-the-next-big-thing#c4728820 Actually, LIC was supposed to be cool about twenty years ago, artists in lofts and garages and all that. Today, the southern end has the same upended glass ice cube trays you can see all over Wburg and Greenpoint, ready to be filled with squares from Stamford and Litchfield who think they can buy hip while living the suburban lifestyle in the big city. The rest really _is_ industrial, and, as noted above, there aren't a lot of apartments or condos for sale. Astoria and Sunnyside have lots of affordable apartments, but they're aren't "cool".... Better go back to Brooklyn.

Anarcissie

]]> 5:367569:c4728820 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:59:07 EDT <![CDATA[Is Long Island City the Next Big Thing?]]> http://gridskipper.com/367569/is-long-island-city-the-next-big-thing#c4711304 Umm... I live in LIC and am as big a booster as anyone, but LIC is not "cooler" than Williamsburg, or Bushwick, or Greenpoint. Yes, DUMBO is lame, and Williamsburg as a bunch of condos and yuppie crap now, but it it still the center of global culture at the moment... even if not everyone can still afford to actually live there, it's still where everyone hangs out. Water Taxi Beach is not "cool", it attracts mostly douchebags. LIC apartments aren't that cheap... they are few and far between, more than anything. If you want affordable apartments nearby, Astoria, Sunnyside, and Greenpoint have a far larger stock. And yes, Bushwick is where things are really starting to happen... seems like almost everyone lives there now, anyway. Racket clubs are not "cool", neither are luxury condos... Come on.

brandonzwa

]]> 5:367569:c4711304 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:03:53 EDT <![CDATA[Is Long Island City the Next Big Thing?]]> http://gridskipper.com/367569/is-long-island-city-the-next-big-thing#c4707839 LiQcity is awesome, and so is that awesome photoshop job! I wonder what talented person did it...

[www.liqcity.com]

blakeley

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