{"id":359,"date":"2010-12-20T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T16:18:56","slug":"august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

A going-away dinner for a friend at Old Shanghai Deluxe<\/a> in Manhattan’s Chinatown (by request — she was going to miss Chinese food like that).<\/p>\n

New Long Island City items: Hook and Ladder 66<\/a>, The Foundry<\/a>, Metropolitan Building<\/a> (funny story — I attended an art opening many years back and assumed for all this time that the people lived there and that this wasn’t actually an event space), Taxidepot<\/a> (combines LIC’s two biggest industries — taxis and the film industry), Tom Cat Bakery<\/a> (that’s where your bread comes from) and Z Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A page for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel<\/a> compiles the ever-evolving billboards along Vernon Boulevard that are visible from the Manhattan-bound tunnel entrance (more to come as I get to them):<\/p>\n

\"Billboards,<\/p>\n

\"Billboards,<\/p>\n

\"Billboards,<\/p>\n

We already went over Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lucy the Elephant<\/a> in Margate, New Jersey:<\/p>\n

\"Lucy<\/p>\n

Laziza<\/a> and Kabab Cafe<\/a> in Astoria, Queens:<\/p>\n

\"Kabab<\/p>\n

Tagging along with Jen on a work-related function at La Plaza Cultural<\/a> in the East Village; never been inside there so I was excited about that:<\/p>\n

\"Outstanding<\/p>\n

Also, an aborted outing to the Prospect Park Bandshell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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