LICNYC

We moved to Long Island City. My old super, who is 72 years old and has only twice left a two-block radius on the east side, keeps asking us "How's Long Island?" She doesn't understand. LIC is in no way like LI. Unlike the Brooklyn old-school brownstone neighborhoods, and unlike the tacky weirdness of other Queens neighborhoods, LIC is a strange beast. It's a weird, funky neighborhood of factories and garages and stray houses. It's been filled up with old-timers, artists, Latinos, and now a new breed of folks looking for a reasonably priced neighborhood with a classic New York vibe. And we've found it in LIC.

So I'm neighborhood proud. And there's a great website devoted to it all: LICNYC. Check it out.