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

astoria has a pretty huge range of prices because there are parts of astoria more than half a mile from a subway

Upper Ditmars is far but it's actually the only part of Astoria I would live in! It's nice up there near Astoria Park. A bit further away from the euro zone party time craziness that is much of Astoria.

iatee, wtf is up with Williamsburger opening up in Blissville (LIC/Sunnyside border on Greenpoint Ave)?

And I don't totally hate astoria. just can't imagine living there. Queens Kickshaw is killing it though.

no idea w/ the blissville thing, tho I do think blissville could turn into a cool neighborhood one day

You know like 95% of the toxic spill from Newtown Creek leaked south into greenpoint and barely affected the northern bank.

that's interesting I thought LIC was pretty toxic too. but yeah, old buildings, isolated but not too isolated from the city, cool skyline views, cheap rent, close to brooklyn....

(blissvile not LIC, LIC sucks)

treeship and spectrum you should move to blissville

you made that up

The Mr Vino Cucina store is open (gourmet store from the people who brought you the slightly overpriced and underwhelming wine store Mr Vino), but it has a surprisingly great single bottle beer selection:

http://www.beermenus.com/places/9011-mr-vino-cucina

I picked up a good belgian sour there today. The sales guy is extremely knowledgeable.

Thought this would about Tuomas coming to visit us.

he's coming to queens?

I would be completely out of place in a club like this, but I almost want to go once just for the ridiculous visuals:

http://www.electrovoice.com/sitefiles/pr_images/Club_Glazz_07.jpg
http://velvetlist.com/devTemplate/uploads/images/1708_06262012124326.jpg

(Club Glazz, Elmhurst)

I'm a heavy club goer and 9/10 do VIP bottle service, the only times I don't is when I haven't planned the outing and even then I'll grab my own table. I travel a lot and all over and hit at least 3-4 clubs depending on the amount of time spent in town. From NYC-Europe-Asia-Cali/Vegas-back to NYC! I figured I post a review cuz I'm every open minded, non-bias, and well versed with different types of clubs. OK, here we go 1st post! Glazz!!! Honest opinion the venue is amazing in appearance (5/5), the crowd is predominantly Latin (because it's a Latin club duh don't be told otherwise) and parties pretty good (3/5) but advice to travel with a group, Security was pretty tight and not on a power trip (if you got thrown out, you might have deserved it) (4/5), VIP was "cheap" ($200 for 750ml, which is weird cuz I had to special request a liter for $375) but there are other venues that'll give a lot more space (I had a party of 24 with 7 bottles at one table, which the space was no bigger than my bathroom, SERIOUSLY!!!!) and bigger bottles (0/5) you'll feel like you paid just an entrance fee vs $1,600+, management might as well be non-existent because they do a HORRIBLE job moving the VIP parties through the line to their table a served (my party took 1 hour and 45 min to eventually be served!) (0/5), music is mostly Latin duh lol but a good mix of: hip hop, pop, lil house, top 40, and reggae but too many obvious changes of DJ (3.5/5). Overall I personally will never return unless they get new management! It's a shame a place with so much to offer be ran so sh@&$y! Save your money if you plan on going, pre-game (drank before going for those who don't know) arrive very early to avoid a crazy line and pay entrance fee only because there is really no difference between that and VIP, REALLY! I could give you plenty of other choices with better music, an actual VIP section, and a management team that will make your night one to remember! I hope this helps, safe clubbing and party hard!

QB clubs might not be the safest places. There's this place closer to woodside on QB called "Play" and there was a shooting there. It kinda cracked me up later to notice that the sign outside on the building says something like "eat drink play dance shoot", because they're also a pool hall.

that's the one w/ the lime green exterior right?

yeah.

Holy shit at the DJs! It's these random dudes who probably make big bucks playing mainstream house/banging club tracks, latin, hiphop etc, then the last name is Stacey Pullen, who's one of the highly respected second wave detroit techno pioneers. That's kind of awesome.

lol yeah I have passed by Play before. I think there was a groupon for it a while back and I thought about it but then looked up the place and was like uh no thanks. And yeah I wouldn't think Glazz is the safest place for a guy like me either.

I just really like their decor

Station House in Gothamist:
http://gothamist.com/2013/06/17/deep_fried_snickers_and_cool_brews.php

We might have just bought ourselves an apt on the north side of queens blvd near yellowstone park btw, fingers crossed

we went to the williamsburger in sunnyside, it was good. it's a pretty short walk for me, but the choice of location Is kinda astounding. I mean, I hope it works.

we ate ate sripraphai last night, great as always.
do people rate john browns in long island city? was recc'd to be and i think i'll be up in that neighborhood this week.

Really? I was there too and as we walking out I saw some guy who looked like you and thought about posting that I had seen bizarro-Ian. I guess it was really you after all.

As we were walking out. This would have been about 7:30 I think.

hmm... it's possible. i think we got there around 7:30 or maybe closer to eight? i was wearing a scrabble t-shirt.

Time sounds about right. Feel like the guy was wearing some kind of salmon-covered shirt. Don't remember Scrabble.

Do you, like many people, have look-a-like friends?

I had john browns in the old location. Like most BBQ places I've been, certain things were amazing and certain things ok. I just never remember which. The burnt ends here were killer.

That's what I heard. Also heard the beans were good with a lot of meaty chunks.

also heard the pastrami was killer.

also, my shirt was not salmon but kind of maroon? i got out of the van to take a number while helen parked.

Was wondering why you were by yourself.

john brown's pork belly and pastrami are awesome. i always forget how easy it is to get there from greenpoint too

I enjoyed the Blue Smoke pulled pork & pit beans at Citi Field yesterday, the heat much less.

did you get to ride the nostalgia trains?

no, didn't see any

Did you get to meet Mrs. Met?

she was busy frolicking on the field with her hubby and a couple dozen other mascots.

Do you ever visit your friend Tamar when you are in Queens?

I don't go much of anywhere in the borough cept Mets and once in awhile MOMI.

signed the contract on our place in FH, fwiw

Kudos. Looking forward to the housewarming :)

I grabbed some John Brown's just as they were closing last night to go and I have to say...the brisket wasn't that good. It was dry. Collard greens weren't great either. Some of fattier bits at the end of the brisket tasted great, but the rest of it, I didn't like. I remember loving the burnt ends so maybe you just need to stick with the fat and carmelization.

We tried Sage General Store in LIC for brunch, not wowed. French toast was good, but the chilaquiles were just like dry chicken over (soggy) tortilla chips smothered in sauce. And they gave us unfresh salad. LIC Market was better, but unfortunately much less comfortable with a kid. Sage has nice atmosphere so just wish the food was better.

Yeah. Sage has been there forever and is OK, maybe a bit long in the tooth. The only option for a long time.

For serious foods in that area...went to M Wells Dinette 2 sundays ago. Got out of the heat in the room filled with glaciers, then had an amazing and decadently rich meal.

Yeah, we had actually initially planned to do the M.Wells Dinette, but didn't realize that PS1 opened at 12. Then when we went back, we realized it was a Warm-Up saturday, and they had suddenly changed the policy so that our memberships didn't get us in free. We argued with them for a while ("I am not here to take my toddler to see a DJ show! I just want to spend an hour looking at art and go home!") and finally got in, and then the toddler only lasted about 15 minutes. But I did see the glaciers, and the fish pond.

they had this beet salad, honeyed beets with truffled ricotta and honeycomb and who knows what else. Amazing.

yeah it was totally amazing the last time I ate there

we'd only been to the old location. There was a bit of a wait on that sunday, but it's not hard to kill time there.

I kind of love the list of famous Forest Hills residents:

Hank Azaria (born 1964), actor and voice artist[14]
Walter Becker (born 1950), half of the musical duo Steely Dan[15]
Joseph Bowler (born 1928), artist and illustrator[16]
Michael A. Burstein (born 1970), science fiction writer[17]
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955), self-improvement lecturer and author of How to Win Friends and Influence People[18]
David Caruso, (born 1956), actor in CSI: Miami, and NYPD Blue[19]
Candy Darling (1944–1974), Warhol Superstar who appeared in a number of his films[20]
Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), Russian short story writer and novelist
Geraldine Ferraro (1935–2011), member of U.S. House of Representatives, television personality[21]
Art Garfunkel (born 1941), singer-songwriter[22][23]
Ernie Grunfeld (born 1955), former player and general manager of the New York Knicks[24]
Alan Hevesi (born 1940), disgraced former Comptroller of New York[25]
Steve Hofstetter (born 1979), comedian/radio personality[26]
John V. Hogan (1890–1960), radio pioneer[27]
John Francis Hylan (1848–1936), Mayor of New York City (1918–1925)[28]
Ethel D. Jacobs (1910–2001), thoroughbred horse owner and breeder, wife of Hirsch Jacobs[29]
Hirsch Jacobs (1904–1970), thoroughbred jockey, husband of Ethel Jacobs[30]
Donna Karan (born 1948), fashion designer[31]
Helen Keller (1880–1968), lecturer, author, fundraiser, activist[32]
Alan King (1927–2004), actor/comedian [33]
Andrea King (1919–2003), actress[34]
David Krumholtz (born 1978), actor[35][36]
Gary Kurfirst (1947–2009), concert promoter and record producer[37]
Michael Landon (1936–1991), actor known for his roles on Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie[38]
Harvey J. Levin (1924–1992), internationally recognized pioneer of communications economics, holder of Long Island's first professorial chair[39][40]
Jack McAuliffe (1866–1937), world lightweight boxing champion[41]
Min Xiao-Fen (born 1961), pipa player and vocalist [42]
Michele "Big Mike" Miranda (1896–1973), consigliere of the Genovese crime family and one of the most powerful New York gangsters in the 1950s and 1960s[43]
Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), actor, best known for his role as Archie Bunker on All in the Family[44]
Rick Overton (born 1954), actor and comedian[45]
Susan Polgar (born 1969), chess grandmaster[46]
Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), bassist and songwriter of seminal punk rock band, the Ramones[47]
Joey Ramone (1951–2001), lead singer and songwriter of the Ramones[48]
Johnny Ramone (1948–2004), guitarist of the Ramones[49]
Tommy Ramone (born 1952), record producer and musician with the Ramones[50]
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychiatrist known for his theories of Orgone energy[51]
Daniel Ribacoff (born 1959), private investigator and polygraph expert for The Steve Wilkos Show[52]
Ray Romano (born 1957), actor-comedian, best known for Everybody Loves Raymond[53]
Chris Rush, stand-up comedian[54]
Renato Russo (1960–1996), Brazilian bandleader
Joan Shawlee (née Fulton; 1926–1987), actress[55]
Paul Simon (born 1941), singer-songwriter[23]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born 1966), member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 20th congressional district.[56]
Tatiana Troyanos (1938–1993), mezzo-soprano known for her work at the Metropolitan Opera[57]
Bob Tufts (born 1955), former Major League Baseball pitcher[58]
Jeff Wayne (born 1943), musician known for his musical version of The War of the Worlds[59]
Katharine Weber (born 1955), novelist, author of five novels, including Triangle and True Confections.
Leslie West (born 1945), of the hard rock band Mountain[60]
Henry Willson (1911–1978), Hollywood agent[61]
Jack Wyatt (1917–2008), host of ABC's Confession; Episcopalian priest[62]
Gideon Yago (born 1978), journalist, former correspondent at MTV and CBS News[63]
Manuel Ycaza (born 1938), jockey inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame[64]