lefrak.city
Monday, December 20th, 2010
yesterday was my sister’s birthday and we went out for dinner/boozing in bayside. so as she was picking me up from ridgewood and we were driving back to bayside via the long island expressway… i caught a glimpse of lefrak city’s newest lighting ensemble… #fail
since i was a little kid (and i’m sure before i was), every year next to the LIE, lefrak city has put up huge seasons greetings/happy holidays signs and brought up long strands of lights from the bottom of their sign to the top floor of between the buildings to make the shape of a triangle for christmas trees (i guess/assume?) and this year they put up this LED nonsense. a RED “snowflake” (looks more like a starburst?) in the middle and a bunch of straight line lights as tall as the snowflake on both sides of it. and it’s only on the awning of the building…
i flickr searched and googled the shit out of lefrak city/xmas lights and i couldn’t find any great pictures of what they used to display, just this one:

at any rate, it’s a queens/nyc tradition that’s been broken… kinda sucky lefrak!
so i was passing by with my mom today and we got to even more talking about lefrak city. since my mother grew up in forest hills, i assumed she’d had friends that lived there or something over the years… turns out i was right.
yesterday was my sister’s birthday and we went out for dinner/boozing in bayside. so as she was picking me up from ridgewood and we were driving back to bayside via the long island expressway… i caught a glimpse of lefrak city’s newest lighting ensemble… #fail
since i was a little kid (and i’m sure before i was), every year next to the LIE, lefrak city has put up huge seasons greetings/happy holidays signs and brought up long strands of lights from the bottom of their sign to the top floor of between the buildings to make the shape of a triangle for christmas trees (i guess/assume?) and this year they put up this LED nonsense. a RED “snowflake” (looks more like a starburst?) in the middle and a bunch of straight line lights as tall as the snowflake on both sides of it. and it’s only on the awning of the building…
i flickr searched and googled the shit out of lefrak city/xmas lights and i couldn’t find any great pictures of what they used to display, just this one:

at any rate, it’s a queens/nyc tradition that’s been broken… kinda sucky lefrak!
so i was passing by with my mom today and we got to even more talking about lefrak city. since my mother grew up in forest hills, i assumed she’d had friends that lived there or something over the years… turns out i was right.

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