I know one hip couple who bought a house there. The bar from Goodfellas is there. Not to be confused with the diner from Goodfellas which was just destroyed in a fire yesterday. It's convenient to the mall and on the way to the beach. It's kinda suburban? I don't know, I wouldn't recommend it.
Better options may be Glendale, which is real queens but ridgewood-adjacent, or Woodside which of course is the best neighborhood in New York.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 June 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
Prices in Glendale are kinda high now. Does woodside have reasonably priced houses?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 15 June 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Woodhaven is weird. You might as well live in NJ or SI.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 June 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
No I don’t think there are cheap houses here. Affordable apartments relatively though.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 June 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
I have some friends who bought houses in Woodhaven—seems tocomparatively affordable. I don’t love what I’ve seen of the neighborhood. Seems kind of a mix of new-wave downtrodden and old-school socially conservative. But if you’re inside a nice house all the time, maybe it doesn’t matter.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 15 June 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah we have artist friends who moved there and are hearing those "artists are moving there" rumblings. It's pretty close to where I live now and I guess I've sort of driven through it a bunch of times, although it's sort of a blur what's glendale vs maspeth vs woodhaven vs ozone park vs richmond hill
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 15 June 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
I guess in the great narrative of gentrification, there's a couple degrees of artists...there's the ones who are like "i just want to live cheap and have room to work!" to the ones who are like "I'm raising a family" to the ones who are like "there's this one cute bar and a decent coffee shop" to "we're close to Bushwick.
I get the urge to stay in the city and on the trains but at some point, maybe Maplewood or hudson valley really makes sense!
There's a 2 family on my block in woodside going for 1.2 mil.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 June 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
I would much rather live in Maplewood or Hudson Valley if there weren't specific reasons to stay in the city, the housing stock in a lot of these neighborhoods suck and you have no yard.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 15 June 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
TBF, the subway is probably at an all-time trough of usefulness in my life, as I have to car commute to work, my kids either walk or school bus to school, and they're too little for it to be comfortable to take them places on the subway on the weekends.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Wait, I thought your kid(s) was(were) pre-K age. Time flies
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
thing is to live affordably in NYC you start getting to an area where there is no train or the train is so useless that it really begs the question of why stay in the city? Obviously there's a 1000 good reasons too, but that's something else.
I'm bummed that I don't have a yard...but I live across the street from a little park and playground and my daughter is there 2 times a day.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 June 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
wife can commute to her job by J train and I drive anyway, any suburb would either make her commute longer or both of our commutes longer.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
I had a small yard in brooklyn, overrated/it was not for me.
― Yerac, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
uh
https://nypost.com/2018/08/11/landlord-goes-on-hunger-strike-over-new-homeless-shelter
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
Dateline 4 days ago, I wonder how he's holding up. I googled for updates but all you get is his indictment for social security fraud a couple years back
― mick signals, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Standing here by the LaGuardia Landing Lights, waiting for the Q69.
― The Vermilion Sand Reckoner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 August 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
RIP, La Paisa/Ms. Colombia:http://gothamist.com/2018/10/04/ms_colombia_dead_riis_beach.php#photo-1
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 October 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
Hey just heard the title song of this thread at Espresso 77.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 October 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
They just renamed a street near me after Walter Becker today.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 28 October 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, heard about that on WBGO this morning
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
Is this in forest hills or ?
― calstars, Monday, 29 October 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Yeah
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
Local hero
― calstars, Monday, 29 October 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Just you wait until they name a street in my neighborhood after Waddy Watchel.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 October 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
Paulinho Da Costa Way
― calstars, Monday, 29 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
so... Amazon...
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
At last LIC will get the fast casual restaurants it needs.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
My kid is telling me there is some kind of incident at The Academy of American Studies but I can find any mention of it
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
haven't heard but there was a giant fire early this morning on Queens Blvd. Destroyed Sidetracks, a noodle shop, a romantic depot a hardware store and a UPS store. No fatalaties but some injured firemen. Harrowing video of a backdraft explosion.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66z7YVwE7n8&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3eVaF9XL2EkC1ttD-Sm9ZxNr_XZYq0TsMxMYgaTEjLCNEqf_TupVw5jUQ&app=desktop
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
boom
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
Not around but heard about it
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
Shit looks nuts
― flappy bird, Friday, 28 December 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
just saw a slight glow in the sky from where I am, which isn't very far, but obscured I guess. Friend in Jackson Heights had a better view.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 December 2018 05:46 (five years ago) link
Queens has never looked more beautiful
― Josefa, Friday, 28 December 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
Hella crowded at E77 for some dad rock power pop.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
Oh snap. They are playing Eddie Floyd’s “Big Bird.”
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
More like nuggets/garage rock. Really good actually
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
They just got a new drummer. Maybe this was man alive’s band
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
A bartender called the transformer fire last week the Astoria borealis, I thought that was perfect
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
We are so cool we bought tickets to the DJ thing at the Knockdown Center and didn’t even go.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
Mostly bc tired as fuck.
^^^my kind of new yorkers
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
We are going to smoke a joint though. Maybe. We still get down.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Had to take a detour shortly after the big production on Northern.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 January 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: Amazon will not build HQ2 in New York City - Reuters, citing company statement https://t.co/jn8limUSe7— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) February 14, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
hell yeah
― adam, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
holy shit. awesome.
― Yerac, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
serious question and as someone that works on NYC often but lives across the Hudson in Jersey, what were the positives and negatives in the first place of them going there.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
I mean, if they weren't little bitches they could still open their office here and go through normal, non-coddled processes.
― Yerac, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link