Win Two Round-Trip Tickets with Jet Blue This Holiday Season

The Long Island City Partnership is hosting a holiday decoration competition for your viewing pleasure. Vote for your favorite display by scanning the QR Code and you’re automatically entered to win two round-trip Jet Blue tickets. The winning business will also win two round-trip Jet Blue tickets.

Have a socially-distanced holiday celebration by checking out the sights and sharing selfies on Instagram with your friends — masks on, of course.

Make Long Island City your first adventure outside of your home before your round-trip with Jet Blue. Stumble upon the locally beloved eatery Little Chef Little Cafe after a morning in the sun at the Gantry State Plaza Park. Diana Manalang, the owner, works hard to make a home for the community and has shown this with food for frontline workers everyday during the crisis. One of the few places you can get a latte in LIC, pair your latte with one of their beloved empanadas.

Holiday cupcakes at Little Chef Little Cafe

Photo via Little Chef Little Cafe’s Instagram

For a walk-around after lunch, Flux Factory is an artist’s space and collective in Long Island City that supports and promotes new and emerging artists through exhibitions, commissions, residencies, and collaborative opportunities. Their current gallery exhibition is “Transforming America In Real Time! Building Community Through A Pandemic” featuring photographs from LaShawn Suga Ray Marston but for something lighter (pun intended!), try the curation “Edge of Light” by twelve artists associated with or alumni of Flux Factory.

“Edge of Light” Curation

Photo via Flux Factory’s Instagram

Have dinner at the Court Square Diner after you’ve seen the holiday storefronts and get a look at old-timey New York City before the pandemic and before the Internet was even a thing. The owners of the diner, Steve and Nick Kanellos, are brothers who have been running the diner since 1991. Born in the United States but having lived in Greece for the majority of their childhoods, Steve had wanted to leave the restaurant industry where he worked for extra cash as a teen but found himself called back.

“The diner is not only about the food. You’re part of the neighborhood,” Steve says.

We recommend their French toast with strawberries and Greek salad.

French toast with strawberries to the side, French fries with sunny side up eggs and corned hash browns on the bottom

Photo via Lucy C. on Yelp