We went to Spicy Mina twice and to be honest weren't that impressed. Could never tell if it was a "you have to order the right dish on the right night while Mina's in the right mood" kind of place or just pure chowhound hype. Haven't been to Woodside Cafe. For Tibetan we absolutely can't get enough of Phayul in Jackson Heights. And we now go to Chao Thai at least once a week. On the elmhurst tip, finally tried Ploy Thai to switch it up and it was really good. There's also now 2 Sichuan places that people are talking about that I'd like to try. Save us from trekking out to College Point for Little Pepper.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
isn't 'woodside cafe' also the name of the irish diner next to sean og?
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
/ have you tried that new (well, not really that new now) 24/h diner under the 7? better than stop inn? at 41st street we live just outside of casual walking distance to woodside so these days we pretty much only end up there for srip. (by 'woodside' I mean 'roosevelt past the library'.)
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
It may be called something other than "cafe" but I think that's it. And yes, Woodside Cafe is also the irish diner, which used to be Rainbow or something? It's actually not bad, I've been a few times. Haven't gone to "Metro" yet. I have to admit, Stop Inn's burgers are pretty great for a diner. But seriously, we only eat Chao Thai. We hardly go to Srip, they really let us down the last few times we went.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
still waiting for the effing G to 'normally' run after 11pm weeknights when Mets torture goes to extra innings
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
7 train ran fine tonight
― Pollabo Bryson (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/10/06/eyes-on-the-street-new-public-plaza-coming-to-jackson-heights/
rad
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
And I thought they were just reinforcing that street so that bus fuel wouldn't rot the asphalt.
― RONG Persuader (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully there will be some tables?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Probably some tables with people selling the same stuff they sell on 74th Street,
― RONG Persuader (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Cafescape, the weird ex-Esparks coffee shop in woodside, is being replaced by Lucid Cafe, a much beloved coffee shop that sells Counter Culture coffee and only has one other location, in Murray Hill. My girlfriend couldn't be more excited.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
That block has the entrance to Phayul, our new favorite restaurant.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
(in Jackson Heights, not the block in woodside)
cafescape was okay as a place to sit for a few hours, but I really resented the way they'd make you give them your computer to type in the internet password / walk to you the bathroom
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
food and coffee was not great but that wasn't why I went
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/reb/2710213156.html
apt. 2 doors down from mine is for sale. 10 blocks from Sripraphai...
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
even woodside co-ops have maintenance fees? jeez
― iatee, Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Don't all co-ops? You have to pay the super, the staff, the hot water etc?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
and the non-hot water
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
meant to word that "even the non-hot water"
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/01/12/eleven-weekends-of-no-interborough-7-service/
bleh
― iatee, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
this sucks! i think they did this last year or the year before too and i thought after such prolonged maintenance, the 7 train would be capable of running when there is mild rain. silly me!
having to take the e/f in is so much more hellish during rush hour than the 7...not to mention what the transfer at qb plaza will look like for these 11 weeks
― rayuela, Friday, 13 January 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
That's on the weekend, no?, not during rush hour.
But yeah, I take the E/F in the AM with the madding crowd because it is faster, but the slightly more pleasant 7 on the way home in the PM.
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
good lord. i need to brush up on my reading comprehension skills.
this is far more palatable.
― rayuela, Friday, 13 January 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
No worries. I had the same problem listening to a story about services changes on New York One this past weekend.
― Fotheringeir (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/17/fuggedaboutit_brooklyn_nycs_next_ap.php
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
People complaining about it being there but not Queens Center...Queens Center would make sense, it gets crazy traffic, but there's probably a wealthier demographic shopping on Austin St. It is kind of silly that Brooklyn doesn't have one.
A few years ago when I bought my last Mac Pro dual quad core tower, I drove to the mall in Staten Island to buy it. I walked in and asked for it, the clerk started asking what I needed it for, because she figured I'd probably really want an iMac. I started explaining what I do and soon as they knew I was serious and knew what I was getting she went and got the manager, who came by and shook my hand and said "congratulations, you're the only person to ever buy a Mac Pro here".
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Ha.
I bet they won't tell you that on Austin Street.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah there could totally be like 3 in brooklyn at this point. wburg, downtown, park slope. prob more.
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
austin st. doesn't seem like it's built for the super wealthy demographic, that's what you think when you think 'forest hills' but it really does seem to be more tailored towards the middle class demographic in that part of queens?
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
are there apple stores in 'malls' in america? it might be an aesthetic decision more than a retail one.
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
The one in Staten Island is a mall. And not a particularly fancy mall. And I've seen them in malls in NJ I think.
Austin St. is middle class, but the residential area of Forest Hills Gardens has money. But who knows what thinking goes into this process.
I'd think one on Montague, which is a shitty shopping street obv. but still a key money neighborhood, or Atlantic Ave, maybe Court, Smith or 7th ave, all make sense. Maybe under one of the WB waterfront condos or something.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
fulton in 5 years
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Used to always bug me when I was in Brooklyn, the mediocrity of Montague Street. One of the few things with any personality was the used bookstore, which eventually moved and shortly thereafter went out of business.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
I remember that bookstore. Where did it move (before dying?)
There was a cool used bookstore on 5th ave, near 9th st I think, for a while, maybe, but that's long gone. Glad the one on Court survives. That guy must own the building. Him and his dog.
Wish we could talk about great used bookstores in Queens!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
The other side of Atlantic, not sure exactly where, never went. I think there is a facebook page. Yeah, Book Court guy owns the building- is it two buildings? - and was able to expand and keep his overhead down I guess. Don't even want to think about bookstores in Queens used or otherwise, recently went in that really junky one in Astoria and remember every time there was some vacant commercial property on 37th Avenue somebody would say "Wouldn't it be nice if it was a bookstore?" and it usually ended up being another beauty parlor.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
that junky one going out of business fwiw
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I saw that. fwiw I went through the whole basement of that place and found two or three things I might have been interested in buying which was some kind of absolute-zero approaching record low.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't talking about Book Court, Community Bookstore a few blocks down. The one that closes for a few months so he can go on vacation. That's a classic book store. Book Court is obviously doing well.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Community Bookstore is still there? Good for him. Haven't been down that far down Court in a while and I was kind of figuring he had succumbed to the inevitable.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Last I checked it was there. Haven't been around there for a while myself. I used to live on Court btw Kane and Baltic, circa 1999-2002 or so.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, just read the yelp page for that which is actually kind of amusing. Some entries from December so I assume that he still there.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
What was the name of the little bookstore that lasted a year or two on Sackett Street off Court right before that? Spyglass, Looking Glass, Seeing Eye?
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tell-Tale Books.
I was able to remember somehow. Brain getting ready for Wikipedia blackout.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's somehow appropriate the Queens thread is also the "old-school Brooklyn" thread (and you know what I mean by "old school").
Now can we talk about Don's Music?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
And Happy Cow records?
Sorry, didn't go in Don Music's too much for some reason and don't really remember Happy Cow. Do always think of the theme music of this thread as "Brooklyn-Queens" by 3rd Bass and often hear auditory hallucination of Steve Martin saying "For me?" whilst reading.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Don was awesome. Carried great CDs but didn't have enough turnover on used vinyl. Prices a bit higher than I liked for vinyl, would've been perfect if they were a few bucks cheaper and he'd sell more and get more used stock in. He'd tell great stories though. A few years ago when I did the Part Time Punks festival in LA he came out. He has/had a store there, Don's in Eagle Rock.
Holy Cow (not happy!) was this guy, I think Steve was his name? It was on 9th st just below 5th avenue. Nice selection, unpretentious, store. friendly.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to remember, there was this weird faceless little CD store on Montague Street named something like Sound Exchange or Record Exchange- there was a sister store in the Slope or somewhere-that actually turned out to be pretty good. Even more surprising was that sometimes the kids that worked there would be playing something that I didn't know at the time and I'd buy it- Eddie Palmieri, The Sun of Latin Music and My Favorite, The Happiest Days of Our Lives come to mind.
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link