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When some people think of a songwriter’s night, they think of Saturday evenings spent in a coffee shop.
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When some people think of a songwriter’s night, they think of Saturday evenings spent in a coffee shop.
The Inland Bays Garden Center near Ocean View is shifting from growing-season mode to holiday gifting mode with the opening of its Holiday Art Gallery on Nov. 18. Through Dec.
In Long Island City, it’s the scar that won’t heal. Two years after Amazon pulled out from a proposal to build a massive headquarters along the Queens waterfront, the site is a vacant eyesore — and, to many locals, the squandered economic opportunity is even more painful amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The site just sits there empty. It’s terrible,” said Donna Drimer, owner of the Matted LIC art gallery and gift store. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic. People say, ‘If we only had Amazon.’ We got nothing.” The world’s largest e-tailer abruptly cancelled its projecte...