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  Time Out New York / Jul 26, 2007

  Long Island City Guide 2007

  Island hopping

  Your guide to the best eats, spas and shopping in Long Island City.

  
  

  

  The stunning, movie-set-evoking views push LIC to the top of the market.

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  You know all those stories about “the next hot nabe” and “the next cool ’hood”? This isn’t one of them. Long Island City has already arrived. The question is, why haven’t you?

  Not as painfully hip as Williamsburg, nor as obnoxiously pricey as the Meatpacking District, Long Island City was until recently “that place across the East River with the big Pepsi sign”—an industrial wasteland known for its smokestacks, closed-down factories and, in the late ’90s, cheap apartments for college students priced out of nearby Astoria and Williamsburg.

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