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A Growing Restaurant Scene on Vernon Boulevard

Masso Restaurant in Long Island City

Masso's opened in 2006 on Vernon Boulevard.

Photo (c) John Roleke
Vernon Boulevard has grown quickly through the 2000s, adding upscale restaurants and reviving at least some of the existing neighborhood classics. It's the main street for the new and old Long Island City. With popularity has come many more complaints about noise from late-night bars. A sleepy neighborhood has awoken with thousands of new neighbors with more on the way.

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