Mrs. Redd sent me a text message the other day that she had walked by the JH library which had about an hour until it opened but a long line already queued up.
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
Oh geez that happens here too. Especially on beautiful days when the park or at least McDonalds should beckon.
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Looked up Corona multi-family prices and they were higher than I thought (not that I can afford to or want to buy one right now). Hard to imagine they command the kinds of rents that justify those prices.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
can make a lot in rent if you fit 20 people in them
― iatee, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
lol at cruel Morrissey-like wit of VP
― Waiting For The Ufas (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/02/queens-museum-_n_4200249.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Still have never been to the Queens Museum of Art but this seems like good news for the borough.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
worth it for the panorama alone.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/arts/design/the-expanded-queens-museum-reopens.html?ref=design
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
looks pretty aws
any comments on last Sunday's Times real estate 'here comes Queens' feature? I am planning to move next July 1 and have narrowed it down to a miraculously cheap studio near the Slope, or the Pacific Northwest or Sunnyside.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/realestate/the-tilt-toward-queens.html?_r=0
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
(by which I mean I need to discover the miraculously cheap studio)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Just think it's funny that like every other feature that gives props to Astoria, Sunnyside and Jackson Heights, they neglect to mention the neighborhood that sits between all of them. Probably for the best.
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 November 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Remember what Raymond Williams said about the organic society-"it's always been gone" - well Queens is like that, it's always up and coming.
― The Killer Inside Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
building luxury condo towers in Jax Hts hasn't always happened tho
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah and all of near brooklyn hasn't always been so expensive that people have no choice but to move elsewhere
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Wouldn't mind if some of the new Jackson Heights trendiness eventually spills over into Forest Hills, but I kind of like that I'm not gambling on gentrification (closed on my co-op, btw) -- Forest Hills is what it is, good schools, relatively affordable. Probably will change slowly if at all. There is some new luxury tower going up on Queens Boulevard near the 71st stop though, for what it's worth.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
so what's the ideal nabe for a single? who'd like to pay $1200 or less a month?
they neglect to mention the neighborhood that sits between all of them.
hey, I got that one right! even looked at a place there in '08.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
Where is the JxHts trendiness again? Still have witnessed it firsthand despite extensive walking in the neighborhood.
― The Killer Inside Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Espresso 77 was the only thing that seemed to indicate further gentrification in JH, when I looked at apts a year ago.
― mizzell, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there's actually that much of it, I was being half-facetious. I wouldn't be surprised to see some within a few years though.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Owner of 77 tried to team up with an owner of Molly Blooms in Sunnyside who lives in the neighborhood to put some kind of gastropub where Novo used to be on 37th Avenue between 78th and 79th but the rent the landlord was asking was crazy high so they backed out. Owner of Terraza also thought about doing something but same problem. Thought it was going to end up another 99 cent store or beauty parlor but Thai restaurant Arunee on 79th is moving in there. Not sure if that qualifies as gentrification.
― The Killer Inside Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
There's a craft beer bar in Forest Hills now but it's always filled with jocks. There's also a gastropubby place that at least has the atmosphere right, although H went and said the food was just ok. There's also Banter now, an "Irish Gastropub" which at least does a decent brunch and isn't cheesy.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Keep thinking I would like to watch a soccer game in that last place.
― The Killer Inside Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Went to the opening of the museum last night -- the new wing is amazing. Nice event too -- great performances etc. The globe was all lit up and the fountains were going behind the museum and you could see it through the glass all the way from the other side.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Sunday, 10 November 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Cool.
The distaff 3/4 of the Redd family went yesterday with Girl Scout troop to the Louis Armstrong House. Upon leaving each visitor was given a complementary packet of Swiss Kriss.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link
not
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
I was gonna say "holy shit"
will be in Astoria for a Hawks western tonight (unless there's another ER visit). I've lost track of the Greek diners that are still open, where should I eat?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
I heard he tried to give some to the Queen of England but Tony Bennett stopped him maybe, so...
Actually, Mrs. Redd just informed me that they did have a Swiss Kriss postcard for sale featuring a photo of Satchmo on the throne.
Which western?
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
The Big Sky
yes there was def SK-related material in the gift shop.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
Was also just told that in addition to the postcard the gift shop also has an ample supply of the product in question.(Xp)
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Based on the A.B. Guthrie, Jr. book?
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
Looks like it must be. Was on some summer reading list in high school. Wouldn't mind seeing the film, don't know if I can't make it.
On the Greek tip, I either go to no-name places or Kyklades, don't remember how close that is to museum.
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
If I can
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Because it makes me feel like I'm a man
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
(Sorry)
yeah that's quite a haul from MOMI
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 November 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
the only place around there I regularly eat is Arepas Cafe. Not greek, but good.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
thx dan
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
the globe on museum opening night (was visible all the way through the new wing glass, which was striking)
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1458485_10153456310130304_694553516_n.jpg
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
"Globe"? Can't you call it by its proper name? How long have you lived in this borough?
― Pazz & Jop 1280 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
RIP 5 pointz
― dmr, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Yeah :(
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
sad but kind of fated -- just no way it was going to last as what it was unless someone set aside a fuckton of money for it to stay that way
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 05:53 (ten years ago) link
Finally met Franklin Bruno yesterday- had to go home on an errand in the middle of the day and saw a guy who looked like him in 77 and indeed was him- but didn't know about this development or I might have discussed it with.
― Croupier's Cabin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
hard to argue that it should have had landmark status or anything like people were trying to do. still kind of a bummer. I was staying with a friend who lived on the 7 line in Queens when I first moved here and seeing that building every day when I came around the curve on the elevated part was one of those things that would give me a "you're in fucking NEW YORK now" feeling.
― dmr, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it was where the friend I was visiting brought me on the very first day I ever spent in New York.
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
landmarking it also means you don't get to spraypaint on it anymore
― iatee, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was on this thread but I guess it was elsewhere that I said Long Island City feels like New York for people who don't want to feel like they're in New York. I guess the whitewashing of Five Pointz kind of goes with that xp
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
One of the things I like about where I'm going to live (Yellowstone Blvd. Forest Hills) is that the old basic red brick co-ops and tree-lined streets like 60s or 70s New York, but in a warm glow sesame street sort of way, not in a grimey way.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link