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Victoria Schneps- Yunis PUBLISHER We’re waiting to hear from you! Address your “Letters to the Editor” to 38-15 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, NY or send an email to [email protected] @aaltamirano28 Your feedback is very important to us! Angy Altamirano EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Photo by Orestes Gonzalez 6 SEPTEMBER 2015 i LIC COURIER i www.queenscourier.com Publisher Victoria Schneps-Yunis Co-Publisher Joshua A. Schneps Editor-in-Chief Angy Altamirano Art Director Stephen Reina Graphic Artists Jennifer Decio Ron Torina Nirmal Singh Advertising Sales Alan Gottlieb Contributors Natasha Pogrebinsky Sasha Pogrebinsky David Dynak Greater Astoria Historical Society Orestes Gonzalez Cassandra Bodzak Schneps Communications 38-15 Bell Blvd. Bayside, NY 11361 718.224.5863 Fax 718.224.5441 www.queenscourier.com e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2015 by LIC Courier Magazine LIC Courier Magazine is published monthly. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of LIC Courier Magazine. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to LIC Courier Magazine within five days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold LIC COURIER MAGAZINE and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. ■LETTER FROM THE EDITOR A BITTERSWEET GOODBYE For the past two years, I have had the privilege of being the editor-in-chief of the LIC Courier and have felt honored to share the amazing stories of communities such as Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside with readers. I have enjoyed every minute of being your source of finding out what is going on in your neighborhoods. I write this final letter not as a goodbye but as a see you later. I will be moving on from being both the editor-in-chief of this magazine and the western Queens reporter for The Queens Courier to becoming the web editor for the newspaper. It was a bittersweet feeling making the move because although it feels great to achieve a new level in my career, it will be sad to let go of this publication that I put together every month with such great excitement. As you turn the pages of this month’s issue please enjoy articles on a new dog run coming to the LIC waterfront, the Astoria Flea & Food making its way back with three Saturdays of night markets, and learning about a LIC organization giving teachers from throughout the city the opportunity to fill their classrooms – for free! Enjoy recipes from our monthly LIC chef and mixologist, and find out how a community came together to create an immense mural that pedestrians will be able to enjoy to and from school, work and every day activities. Thank you for allowing me to explore your neighborhoods for these past two years and letting me share all my findings with you. I hope to introduce you to the magazine’s new editor for the October issue and wish you a great end to your summer and an amazing start to the fall. Please stay in touch by emailing me at [email protected]. Stay awesome Astoria, LIC, and Sunnyside.


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