Long Island City is LIC – A name guide for future residents...

Nov 15, 2018 by

Long Island City (abbreviated LIC) is in the NYC Borough of Queens. On the East River at LIC’s western edge is the famous gantry sign proclaiming LONG ISLAND. Queens and Brooklyn are part of the island called Long Island. Long Island City is not IN Long Island or even ON Long Island. Long Island isn’t even an island. New York City consists of the 5 Boros of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and The Bronx. Each borough or boro (not burrow) is also a New York State county. Logically The Bronx is Bronx county. Queens is Queens County. Manhattan is New York County. Brooklyn is Kings County and Staten Island is Richmond County. All the counties’ various neighborhoods are officially the name of the county, except for Queens which has town names. No one actually knows where...

read more

New “Tech” Mattress Companies disrupting the sleep industry...

Jun 26, 2015 by

As movers know it sometimes is impossible to get a mattress (or more likely boxspring) into a small hallway, stairway, or small elevator. And if you want to move “just” a mattress and boxspring you are looking at a 2 or 3 hour minimum with 2 movers. At around a $100 per hour it sometimes still makes sense as the cost of a new mattress is in the thousands. Part of that expense is all the middlemen and the shipping costs. Not how much the mattress store is charging you for shipping. (That cost is built into the cost of the mattress increasing the price. I once had a woman insist I match to the $30 a mattress company charged her when she bought her mattress new. $2000 to ship a mattress across the...

read more

Tetris turns Thirty

Jun 7, 2014 by

Loading a moving truck is very much like the game of Tetris, Except the pieces are all different and you a re playing in 3D.   Tetris turned 30 in June 2014...

read more

Torggler Door – cool futuristic barn door...

Feb 13, 2014 by

The video speaks for itself: and another...

read more

Various methods on how to thaw / unfreeze a frozen water pipe....

Jan 28, 2014 by

With the recent extreme cold weather in the Northeast, you are probably now past preventing a pipe from freezing and are hopefully looking for a solution to get the water running again rather than a plumber to fix a burst pipe. I too am was in this situation. I have a 6 foot section of shower and tub frozen in a wall. If your pipe has not burst (yet). I combed the interwebs and compiled here various methods you can do to unfreeze / thaw frozen pipes or at least prevent the pipe from bursting. As with any DIY project use common sense especially when working with heaters and heat generating tools. Open the faucet I am guessing you found out that the pipe is frozen because the water does not come out of...

read more

City knocked down wrong house, and then knocked down another wrong house...

Dec 16, 2013 by

Oops and then Oops again. City Of Fort Worth Demolished Wrong Home For A Second...

read more