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

Queens needed a thread to itself, feel like this will mostly just be about food but hey

dan have you had breakfast at de mole? $5 plates!!! it's becoming hard to justify eating mexican anywhere else w/ de mole's prices

De Mole breakfast is the BEST deal. And they do killer fresh juices as well. For the record, I was the first person to write a yelp review of De Mole.

Yeah, we can talk about food, or we can talk about the fact that the entire borough has no bookstores except like three Barnes and Nobles and a few that only stock spanish religious texts.

that'll be true in the rest of the city within 10 years.

have you been to cafe marlene?

No, never even heard of it!

Sounds promising for the neighborhood, but I can do without burlesque shows.

It's a little silly looking, but that's Queens for you! You can go to hipster places in Williamsburg where the design is totally cool and the food sucks, or you can go to weird euro places in Queens where the food is good!

yeah it looks borderline cheeseball but apparently has good food...haven't actually been yet (tho a read a long online debate by queens people complaining about the coffee prices.) anyway seems like it could potentially be a nice addition to the hood, never really loved aubergine.

My girlfriend will be happy there's another place to write. Cafescape never cut it, neither did Aubergine. She'd occasionally take the 7 to Communitea or Sweetleaf in LIC.

yeah we end up at sweetleaf fairly regularly, it's kinda gigantic after the renovation, seems more like an hipster institution than a cute coffeeshop now.

speaking of long island city, I'm excited that the court square transfer is almost done. I'm sure it will only save like 3 seconds but it looks pretty.

I would have loved having the escalators when I took that station! The total climb up from the G to the elevated 7 platform is actually like 5-1/2 flights or something!! And invariably the stairs are totally clogged and everyone has to go at the pace of the slowest member of the pack. Suuucks.

And by "the escalators", I mean, the ones I saw on the proposal sketch that was posted in the station like 2.5 years ago, which is probably the last time I was there.

Still get emails from Court Square Wines & Spirits, though. I should go to a tasting sometime.

that transfer looks almost done. They were working on it for the 7 months that I commuted from Woodside to Gowanus. Mornings was ok. Take the 7, come down the stairs. Get some breakfast at Sage. Get on an empty G train to brooklyn. Coming home sucked. Take G train to Queens. Climb scares. Walk 2 blocks. Climb more stairs. Get on crowded rush-hour 7 train.

By the way Laurel, your pic on facebook of Schnitzi House inspired me. I had been planning to go to Olympic Pita (though I was confused because I had been to Famous Pita and thought thats where I was going) so I went on sunday and walked around a bit after and saw Schnitzi House. Whoa wtf, are we discussing brooklyn food?

it's gonna be done in march, the stairs and tunnel is all done but they can't open it til the escalators/elevators work

NO BROOKLYN ITT

anyone been to m. wells?

Walked right by Sage last night doing that transfer and was tempted but didn't go in. We may not have a bookstore but we do have an award-winning library system with sevensix-day service, lots of newbooks and nice librarians like Virginia Plain. Actually what is the deal with this bookstore in Astoria: http://www.seaburn.com/Bookstore_Index.htm?

I went in there once, I think they have a greek section. it's pretty old school bookstorey.

gf was gonna get her (greek) mom a (greek) book but then realized she would have to buy something completely random as she does not speak greek

i miss queens. i hung out there a lot when i had an astorian boyfriend.

what's the best indian food in jackson heights these days?

M Wells was GREAT but pricey and a bit limited for non-meat eaters. Went twice for brunch. They're opening for dinner now but it's way high-end. Expensive organ meat dishes and such. We won't be going anytime soon but it's a great addition to the area.

I've never been in Seaburn.

The indian food in jackson heights isn't all that great and is totally inconsistent. Get nepali food at Mustang Thakali Kitchen. Mehfil is pretty big with the Jackson Heights whiteys, but they have a great weekend buffet, better then the joints on 74th st. They have this sweet tomato chutney that kills me.

there was one called ashoka that i used to like; dunno if they're still around or any good anymore.

yelp said it closed.

less snobby than dan w/r/t indian...anything on 74th seems fine to me. we like dosa place. also end up at jackson diner a lot mostly cause of the cocktails.

Delhi Palace is pretty good.

ime jackson diner was never that great, not worth battling the long lines for.

I like junky indian ok...but a lot of those places are pretty dire. The good food's all in Iselin, Edison, Hicksville, Jersey City etc.

edison otm

I'm one of those awful people who likes anything if it's spicy enough and jackson diner vindaloo is pretty spicy

another queens favorite of mine (and some ilxors from FAPs past can attest) was taverna kyclades on ditmars. yum grilled octopus!

http://www.tavernakyclades.com/

Holla! My library system actually sort of sucks, but thanks for the shout-out.

Seaburn is either going out of business or renovating. It's a used book store that never has/had anything good in it.

Is Aubergine closed now?

I had a horrible experience at M Wells. I went alone and they made me sit at the "community" table.

Ate at Delhi Palace in Jackson Heights the other day--it's a solid, though unremarkable choice.

Anyone have any good Filipino or other food recs near the Woodside library?

31-45

For the record, I was the first person to write a yelp review of De Mole.

i hope this goes on your tombstone dan

nah aubergine's still open

our favorite place near the library is probably quaint

wayyyy better burgers than donovan's

i just googled the street where my astoria guy lived and it's gentrified so much!

35-14, i believe? all those buildings look the same.

I don't know. On a good day I'll take Donovan's over anybody else. And I have had them at Quaint. I wish they had a larger and more varied menu. Other then that it's a great place. I've been to dinner a few times and always get the roast chicken with gratin potatoes.

Good filipino? I don't know. Payag has gotten mixed reviews. Went once, didn't know what to order, was underwhelmed. Have had breakfast at Engelines, it was good but mostly avoid the places due to low vegetarian friendliness.

Best places around Woodside library...Donovan's obviously, Rico Pan has great cheap empenadas and arepas and other treats. La Flor of course, for breakfast/lunch/brunch. Dinner is good too but more pricey. Rumphool across the street from Donovan's is really good Thai. Not as good as Srip or Chao, but better then anything in Brooklyn!

Cuckoo's Nest for Irish pub grub.

35-14 what? Astoria is a good place to visit to get a meal, but not somewhere I'd want to live. Very euro-trashy! Favorite greek is way up in Ditmars at the very end of queens just across from Astoria park and under the Hellgate bridge...Agnanti Mezze.

roommate always used to suggest fiesta grill for filipino, we never went but it's supposed to be cheap. sorta far from the library though.

ditmars.

yeah astoria feels way more euro-white than gentrified-white

though there are more $$$ restaurants

We love Arepas Cafe in Astoria as well. Same basic thing as Caracas but less hipsters and crowds and instead 1 delicious spicy mystery sauce, they have 2 slightly less mysterious delicious sauces.

The only real sign of gentrification, if you read gentrification as affluent white hipsters instead of affluent white euros (or even affluent white midtown office worker types) is Sparrow and maybe that bar that has deep fried pickles, what's it called?

But Astoria has always had certain amounts of gentrification going on, but always from a different angle. Like there's Astoria "hipsters" who all think they're too cool for sceney Williamsburg (actually just jealous!) and you have people from Long Island who work in midtown that figure Astoria is a good compromise. I'm sorry, I can be such an Astoria hater. But my girlfriend and I always play this game about labeling people as "hipsters" or "queens hipsters", which isn't to say a "queens hipster" is just a hipster who lives in queens. It's a totally different breed. For instance we have more in common with your classic brooklyn hipster then with "queens hipsters". Of course we lived in Brooklyn first.

So sad. We are just talking about food. I love Taverna Cyklades--a little more for the atmosphere than the food. It's on Ditmars around 34th St. I like the place near the park for atmosphere, not so much for food.

Best thing to happen to Astoria this year--the reopening of the Moving Image.

I co-started this thread. I can rant about white people if I want!

We'll try Taverna Cyklades. We had a decent meal at Philoxenia 2 years ago.

Astoria is a good place to visit to get a meal, but not somewhere I'd want to live. Very euro-trashy!

This is so lolsy. And true.

Astoria is a huge place though. I would say only the 30th avenue area could properly be called euro trashy (and that more so on the weekends). The ditmars area is almost sedate and suburban and the broadway area has more of a mix of Spanish and of course the Steinway area is Egyptian.

give me some examples of a "queens hipster."

signed,
brooklyn hipster for most of my life

Went to Ayada Thai recently, best Thai food I've had in the city.

I really do want to find out what's listed on the section of the Rumphool take-out menu that's only in Thai, though. Every time I look at it, it's like it's mocking me

I really do want to find out what's listed on the section of the Rumphool take-out menu that's only in Thai, though. Every time I look at it, it's like it's mocking me

find someone on the internet to translate it! l.a. has a restaurant called jitlada that became a big sensation when a diner made a translation project out of the "thai" (non-gringo) menu and shared it with the world.

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

ALBERTO BARROS EN NEW YORK !
Sat, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 3
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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?

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