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

They put a lot of focus on things like Noguchi and Socrates...but it's not like you'd go there and have a great time walking around the neighborhood. Instead you'd be calling Uber to take you somewhere else.

yeah exactly. Although I highly recommend eating at the Costco food court after a trip to Socrates.

food court or cafeteria or whatever you call the thing with the delicious sausage sandwich and surprisingly good non-authentic pizza

I usually take tourists to Jackson heights cuz it's easy to get to and very queensy.

I'll believe the Queens hype when it's more than the same four posters always on this thread.

lol, exactly

idk lonely planet put us ahead of western South Dakota surely that counts for something

(although I can't imagine wanting to visit the Queens Zoo or the Hall of Science as a tourist unless you have small kids)

Struggling to figure out what is wrong w you tbh; HoS is my favorite place in the entire borough of Queens. Also Flushing food court food. Also the Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows is dope.

I'm sure there's more.

I like the Queens Museum a lot, I'm a big booster of it.

Maybe the HoS I just never get to experience on a non-toddler level or linger at anything, but it always feels to me a little like "Here's some stuff about Mars...optical illusions...a video about Darwin...and one of those probability ball things. Science!" It's a fine place, especially with kids (the science playground in particular rules and the mini golf is fun, and the new connected worlds thing is very very cool), but I just mean I can't imagine telling someone visiting from another country with a week in NYC to go out of their way to see the HoS.

The Queens Zoo petting zoo is very nice, and the grounds are fine, but it also feels a little like "here are the animals we could get cheap: a puma, a couple of seals, and a tiny deer." Still, I always enjoy it, just again, wouldn't be on the bucket list for a person with a week in NYC.

And believe me, I have logged many, many hours in said places.

But that tiny deer! He's so cute!

We once saw the Andean bear self-fellating. Luckily K was young enough that we could get away with a very vague explanation.

if i was an andean bear i'd never leave the house but seriously folks

They put a lot of focus on things like Noguchi and Socrates...but it's not like you'd go there and have a great time walking around the neighborhood. Instead you'd be calling Uber to take you somewhere else.

I actually DO like walking around over there, because it's away from all the hustle of the part of Astoria where I live. I like the street art (tho wish it was updated more often). It reminds me of parts of Berkeley, where artists lived, but was also a little bit grungy, and feels apart from the rest of Astoria. If they had a train stop there, I could see that very neighborhood being the one that all the new hipsters came to gentrify.

If they had a train stop there = the rub

Wait, since when does Dominique live in Queens?

I mean he has never posted on this thread before. And intranetz sources still have him located in SF.

He moved to Astoria a few months ago.

ok I believe the hype

The designated long-awaited hipster has arrived.

Terraza 7 jam session is really happening these days.

What is the accepted solution to every customer service computer being unable to accept a hyphenated street number?

Just omit the hyphen, it still gets there. I had the same problem for a while -- sometimes when I included the hyphen the numbers after would just get dropped and it'd go to the wrong address.

Post office doesn't differentiate between hyphen or none. When my wife and I went and got new drivers licenses we had different clerks, my clerk, to make the address "Woodside Ave" fit, removed the hyphen. Her clerk kept the hyphen but removed an o, so technically she livers on Wodside Ave. I tease her about that often.

I've hever had anyone not take the hyphenated number though so I mostly use that out of habit.

yeah it's only been an issue with some web shopping for me

Not sure I'm willing to casually omit the hyphen. I am new in this borough and I want to assert Hyphen Pride!

I just got an error for using a hyphen for the first time ever. Thanks.

If this thread actually ever gets long enough to justify a new one, we can call it Queens: Believe the Hyp(h)e(n)

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BrYjgOfTkp0/TpX-0w7Y6HI/AAAAAAAAUBA/-XJ7Qz8UnDQ/NYT%252520headline%25252C%252520Teddy%252520Roosevelt%2525201915-8x6.jpg

what do you guys use for Internet? we've had a WiMAX box for the last 4 years which was great but now it's dead and I have like two weeks to figure out how we're getting Internet now.

Time Warner Cable with Extreme or whatever internet. Internet is totally fast and fine. it's not cheap, feels ok since we're paying for the cable/dvr etc. Not sure how it would compare if we didn't have the combo.

Current Speed Test right now we're getting 116.58 download and 11.89 upload, totally fine for my use.

what are the daily symptoms of Mets Fever on the street?

you can barely tell there's a world series going on actually

Not nearly as much of a sign as, say, when Colombia is in a big soccer match.

I see tons of Mets gear out but it's not like there are roving gangs of drunken fans marching around. I have a lot of true-believer friends and neighbors though. My upstairs neighbors make a shitload of noise during the games.

In true Mets fan fashion, a lot of the die-hards around here are complaining about all these "new Mets fans coming out of the woodwork." In a way I think that feeling of authentic fandom is more important to Mets fans than winning. I think they'd rather lose than become the Yankees.

Being an old Mets fan but a pretty casual one for many years, I'm actually hesitant to rep the Mets too much because of these people.

well just wait 48 hours maybe

I got orange shoelaces to pair with with my blue kicks: repping hard in Sunnyside.

also urgent:

lunch recs near the courthouse on sutphin?

jury duty :( :(

maybe a bit of a schlep, but Spicy Lanka is great. I had jury duty and walked there and kinda rushed them. Nobody was there for lunch and I asked for the check as soon as they brought the food and she thought I wanted it packed up when I just wanted to not have to get her attention again!

Anyway, I'd been there for dinner a few times already before having jury duty, it's great.

you can barely tell there's a world series going on actually

I wonder if iatee could tell it was going on once it actually started.

I do have to say for Forest Hills that the Burns St./Hawthorne Park area for Halloween was cool as fuck -- amazing displays, great trick-or-treating atmosphere, a little crowded but understandable why. K had a blast.

Good ska duo at Espeesso 77 tonight

Espresso

http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-11-03/a-guide-to-nyc-coolest-borough

Little Puebla?

I kind of wish the parenthetical "It's Not Brooklyn" was the entire text of the "guide"

way too LIC-heavy. LIC has great *things* in it yet somehow is kind of a boring neighborhood imo. I love M. Wells, Casa Enrique, going to PS1, etc., and the waterfront is nice (although I much prefer the one in Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO) but I never feel like there's much of an enjoyable vibe in the neighborhood itself.

yup.

We have been hitting Dutch Kills lately though.

Yeah I really need to check that place out. They actually opened a place right in Forest Hills too, which I also need to check out (End of the Century Bar, I think) but we just never wind up going out in Forest Hills.