Friday Links

Queens Exhibit Celebrates 25 Years of Madden Football [NY1] MTA Okays Flushing LIRR Negotiations [Queens Chronicle] Community Board 7 Says Traffic Islands Must Go [Times Ledger] A Piece of Beauty for Long Island City [Queens Chronicle] 150K sq ft of LIC Retail Hits the Market in Mixed-use Project [TRD] The Malls of Flushing [Flushing Exceptionalism]