54-46, that's my number: the Queens thread

Yeah, that place is great, go there as often as I can.

Astoria Seafood is fuckin' great. there was a greek place around there i used to love but that was fifteen years ago and it's likely gone now.

The method at Astoria Seafood sounds mad! How do you pick something out and then tell them how to cook it?? What have you ordered there? Tell me all.

you can just say "as the chef likes" and take your chances

The amount of chaos and uncertainty is very concerning. I feel anxious just thinking about it. What are the sides like?

Oh okay it's Greek, sorry, I just needed to read up on it.

I had a whole crazy thing where I put money in the tip jar but then the "waiter" chased me down afterwards anyway, speaking of chaos. The owner than asked me what was going on and seemed to be annoyed at the guy.

Came to post that I like this place, even though I don't buy too many physical books anymore. Come to think if it, I remember the night of the event pictured, somehow I ended up the afterparty if not the event itself.
https://www.centroculturalbarcodepapel.org/noel-jardines/

walked by Casa Del Chef as it was opening and mentioned it on chow.com when that was something I'd still look at. I've still never been but everybody loves it. Now in danger of closing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYcNpe7PHeK/?fbclid=IwAR2Vjp0ae3YOpYg-yOe9a9azR94dApPKYzYDg6HYZ56OpaRSltgl1dGpAbk

https://www.flushingtownhall.org/akua-allrich

Great dc jazz vocalist Akua Allrich and a dc band are doing her tribute to Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba sat March 19 at Flushing Town Hall

Thanks for the tip, don’t think I can get over there tonight.

ALBERTO BARROS EN NEW YORK !
Sat, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 3
Melrose Ballroom, 3608 33rd St
Queens, NY

Colombian salsa singer

Some Queens content I posted on another thread

Orsolya Gaal murderer in custody. She lived in my old neighborhood and down the block from our friends - I didn't know her personally but had seen her post in neighborhood fb groups and remembered her name when I saw the news. RIP and peace to the family.

My old neighborhood is having a bad run lately. What a horrible story.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/killing-of-chinese-food-delivery-man-in-queens-may-have-stemmed-from-duck-sauce-dispute/?fbclid=IwAR1f18Mu3BdV3UhIECSJ9wQUSCHCpNNEleCKwqirGwcJrfnkW483MgU1Y2M

thing I lived through now a podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-colors-episode-1-there-is-no-plan/id1112190608?i=1000559528242

“Thing I love through that now I don’t have to deal with because I moved to the suburbs”

Yup! But it died anyway.

I live on 40th street, but my friend lives on 45th!

Manhattan: ⬆️
Chicago: ⬇️
Philadelphia: ⬅️
Brooklyn: ↙️
Queens: 🔃♒🔀🌪️⏬🚇↩️

— Max, but enjoyable (@MaxFromBK) July 10, 2022

yeah, I used to live btw 68th ave and 67th drive, and 108th st ran behind my building (perpendicular to 68th ave/67th dr), followed by 110th and 112th. For some ways there was a pattern of ave/rd/drive (67th ave, 67th rd, 67th dr, 68th ave etc), but only until you got to the LIE in one direction or union turnpike in the other, then it completely changed. Oh and of course 108th was parallel to yellowstone, but then the next parallel st was 102nd, followed by 99th, followed by 98th, and these were all diagonal to queens blvd and some curved while others were straight so it was all kinds of fucked up.

11th st, one block west of 21st street in LIC

Bengali band in Travers Park is really good.

Terazza now has karaoke seven days a week starting off somewhere between eleven and midnight. Can be fun if you get on the list early enough and/or don't need to get up in the morning.

rip

wrong queen?

well, it would seem right up her alley seeing as she won’t need to get up in the morning,

leaving ridgewood for jackson heights, finally free from M train tyranny

I'd love to live three blocks from where I live, it is so much quieter

Where in the heights?

low 80s near 37th

See you around then.

fantastic. already very into the japanese place on 80th, 969 coffee.

Oh yeah, I always hear great things but still haven't been there myself.

cross Roosevelt and go to La Esquina Del Camaron Mexico, the shrimp ceviche (and other stuff) place in the back of a bodega. The most delicious thing I've ever had.

#HappeningNow: At the Jackson Heights Public Library, roughly 15 far right conspiracy theorists attempted to roll up on the library, which is hosting a Drag Story Hour event, and were met by what looks to me around 100+ defenders. pic.twitter.com/XbwDp6D2GS

— Talia Jane ❤️‍🔥 (@taliaotg) December 29, 2022

when you're so lame that you can't even deal with the idea of people playing dress-up

Indeed.

Kind of crazy right now

And now a bunch of trolls up the block yelling outside a City Councilman’s apartment.

Only five of them apparently, but they make a lot of noise, especially with people now yelling back at them

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/09/nyregion/live-music-nyc.html

The New York City Mixtape

NIce! Let me see how many people I recognize in that picture. Freddy, Faco, VIctor, maybe Ivana, turned around. The other lady might be Elvira. Think Sebastian Cruz is playing there tonight as part of someone else's project.

Not Faco, Facu.

cross Roosevelt and go to La Esquina Del Camaron Mexico, the shrimp ceviche (and other stuff) place in the back of a bodega. The most delicious thing I've ever had.

this was very good advice, thank you.

Sweet. I can’t get enough of it. We ordered submarino, the sit down place in Jackson heights that has a similar cuisine. It was good but not as good. They have aguachile ceviche type stuff and can be really spicy, but their shrimp cocktail had nothing on esquina.

i like the submarino aguachiles but yeah that cocktail is a different beast.

struck by the amount of community-ish public programming there is around here--a little earth day event by travers park yesterday, etc. that was not the vibe in ridgewood, where we had to laboriously construct a parent/kid network ad hoc. still trying to find my way in to that stuff in JH but it feels doable.

gotta say i am glad to have fled ridgewood in advance of the latest wave of style pieces and this weird gross mutation of the gentrification discourse, worth reading if only for the part where a fancy-denim-clad beard oil salesman says the quiet part very loud.

Where did you flee Ridgewood to?

jackson heights! which i'm sure has its problems but no beard oil boutiques so far

Cool

¡Bienvenido!

Any Forest Hills denizens have any idea what this is about?

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057230808442

From what I can tell it's a russian toy store that digitizes vhs tapes and sells vinyl?