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

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?

Been riding the bike up and down the playstreet but it’s getting more and more like a free-for-all.

you mean 34th ave? i feel like they are slowly making it more and more inconvenient for cars but ultimately i think automated turrets are the answer

Yes

Inconvenience for cars maybe but the motorcycles have filled the void.

And they thread through everybody while expecting the bikes and pedestrians to stay in their lane.

yeah i run against vehicular traffic on 34th, if i am going to be mowed down by an unlicensed moped uber eatsing an urgent bonchon order to sunnyside i want the guy to see my face

As your next mayor, I will enact a complete ban of all motor vehicles in New York City

calstars 2025

If Queenskind is still alive

cw: ethnic slur

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7NJiuuLmMAhRyksZ7

passed by this barber shop the other day. i recognize that there is no ill intent here, but still kind of jarring to see.

That's been there at least a decade!

There was a Kikes something or other on 43rd Ave in sunnyside too. It’s a Hispanic name.

Check out this review of Kike Barber Shop on Google Maps
https://goo.gl/maps/hh1XWvdvMhfMqKbBA

maybe i don't look at enough reviews on the web but this is gold

i read the first sentence again.. is he still going?!?

i guess it's a kid. aa yeah. i have no business here i just like Toots and the Maytals. good day

if you're a dork like me and enjoy going to haunted houses for Halloween A Haunting In Hollis is the best one i've ever been to. Very creative and fun.