LIC Flea And Food

Starting this weekend and running every weekend this summer, Long Island City is home to the newest flea and food market in NYC, LIC Flea and Food. The market is conveniently just one block away from our apartment in a large open lot next to an industrial building... surprising since we have always said that nothing ever happens on our end of Vernon Blvd. Well we stand corrected! The heavy foot traffic around our apartment and up Vernon Blvd was quite the contrast to the norm. Although we're leaving the nabe (officially recognized as short for naighborhood by Merriam-Websters dictionary) in 2 weeks, I hope this market helps bring some much needed shopping to LIC anyway.  

While there we enjoyed some good food and found many items for sale from local artists and vendors that we might'v bought if we weren't moving (and didn't already have too much stuff!), all while taking in the views of the Manhattan skyline and the summer breeze coming from the East River. Pup came along and enjoyed sampling a little of everything off the ground and giving passing dogs the stink eye.

We finally committed to and booked a moving company to help us on July 1st. We did a lot more packing this weekend, I think we're up to 19 large boxes, and our apartment is starting to feel like Manhattan Mini Storage. We also bought a new couch this weekend that will be delivered the first Saturday that we're in our new apartment, July 6th. Maybe I'll load some pics of it in my next post... :)

Oh ya, I just remembered today that a week or two ago Jen and I had a celeb sighting. While walking Pup down our very own Vernon Blvd we spotted actress Meredith Scott Lynn sitting near the window at one of our favorite restaurants, Blend. For me anyway, she's one of those actors that's in a lot of things, but I can't place her in any one particular thing. I looked her up on IMDB and, just to name a few, she's starred in the movies Legally Blonde and Night At The Roxbury and the TV shows Days of Our Lives, Weeds, NCIS, and Law and Order: LA.