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

can make a lot in rent if you fit 20 people in them

lol at cruel Morrissey-like wit of VP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/02/queens-museum-_n_4200249.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Still have never been to the Queens Museum of Art but this seems like good news for the borough.

worth it for the panorama alone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/arts/design/the-expanded-queens-museum-reopens.html?ref=design

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

(by which I mean I need to discover the miraculously cheap studio)

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.

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.

building luxury condo towers in Jax Hts hasn't always happened tho

yeah and all of near brooklyn hasn't always been so expensive that people have no choice but to move elsewhere

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.

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.

Where is the JxHts trendiness again? Still have witnessed it firsthand despite extensive walking in the neighborhood.

Espresso 77 was the only thing that seemed to indicate further gentrification in JH, when I looked at apts a year ago.

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.

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.

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.

Keep thinking I would like to watch a soccer game in that last place.

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.

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.

not

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?

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?

The Big Sky

yes there was def SK-related material in the gift shop.

Was also just told that in addition to the postcard the gift shop also has an ample supply of the product in question.
(Xp)

Based on the A.B. Guthrie, Jr. book?

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.

If I can

Because it makes me feel like I'm a man

(Sorry)

yeah that's quite a haul from MOMI

the only place around there I regularly eat is Arepas Cafe. Not greek, but good.

thx dan

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

"Globe"? Can't you call it by its proper name? How long have you lived in this borough?

RIP 5 pointz

Yeah :(

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

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.

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

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.

Yeah it was where the friend I was visiting brought me on the very first day I ever spent in New York.

landmarking it also means you don't get to spraypaint on it anymore

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

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.

Yes, it is pretty nice. There is a Latin Jazz trumpeter who lives right over there, maybe you will run into him and impress him with your Ted D stories.

Wasn't aware of this:
http://www.tortillerianixtamal.com/taqueria-nixtamalito

seems like a smart business move, but I feel sort of jealous at the same time, like it should be a queens-only thing

That's been there at least two years.