The 10 Best Bars in Long Island City  What pops into your mind
when you hear "Long Island City"? Maybe you picture less of a
neighborhood, more of a character-free yuppie warehouse, where
overpaid dullards stack themselves in gleaming condos, sucking
the life force from yet another community's jugular. But you'd
be wrong. That nonsense is largely confined to the waterfront,
which you can easily avoid. Scrape away that gentrified mold of
luxury apartment towers, and you'll find a delectable drinking
'hood, where gem-like bars sparkle against the dark backdrop of
industrial buildings and moody railyards. And if you drink too
much and get lost in Queens' confusing mess of numbered streets
and avenues? Just look up. You can always orient yourself with
the Citigroup Building, the tallest structure in New York
outside Manhattan, looming over everything like Sauron's Dark
Banking Tower. This is our run-down of the 10 best spots to
throw back a glass in Long Island City.   10. Corner Bistro
47-18 Vernon Boulevard, 71