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

And now a bunch of trolls up the block yelling outside a City Councilman’s apartment.

Only five of them apparently, but they make a lot of noise, especially with people now yelling back at them

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/09/nyregion/live-music-nyc.html

The New York City Mixtape

NIce! Let me see how many people I recognize in that picture. Freddy, Faco, VIctor, maybe Ivana, turned around. The other lady might be Elvira. Think Sebastian Cruz is playing there tonight as part of someone else's project.

Not Faco, Facu.

cross Roosevelt and go to La Esquina Del Camaron Mexico, the shrimp ceviche (and other stuff) place in the back of a bodega. The most delicious thing I've ever had.

this was very good advice, thank you.

Sweet. I can’t get enough of it. We ordered submarino, the sit down place in Jackson heights that has a similar cuisine. It was good but not as good. They have aguachile ceviche type stuff and can be really spicy, but their shrimp cocktail had nothing on esquina.

i like the submarino aguachiles but yeah that cocktail is a different beast.

struck by the amount of community-ish public programming there is around here--a little earth day event by travers park yesterday, etc. that was not the vibe in ridgewood, where we had to laboriously construct a parent/kid network ad hoc. still trying to find my way in to that stuff in JH but it feels doable.

gotta say i am glad to have fled ridgewood in advance of the latest wave of style pieces and this weird gross mutation of the gentrification discourse, worth reading if only for the part where a fancy-denim-clad beard oil salesman says the quiet part very loud.

Where did you flee Ridgewood to?

jackson heights! which i'm sure has its problems but no beard oil boutiques so far

Cool

¡Bienvenido!

Any Forest Hills denizens have any idea what this is about?

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057230808442

From what I can tell it's a russian toy store that digitizes vhs tapes and sells vinyl?

Been riding the bike up and down the playstreet but it’s getting more and more like a free-for-all.

you mean 34th ave? i feel like they are slowly making it more and more inconvenient for cars but ultimately i think automated turrets are the answer

Yes

Inconvenience for cars maybe but the motorcycles have filled the void.

And they thread through everybody while expecting the bikes and pedestrians to stay in their lane.

yeah i run against vehicular traffic on 34th, if i am going to be mowed down by an unlicensed moped uber eatsing an urgent bonchon order to sunnyside i want the guy to see my face

As your next mayor, I will enact a complete ban of all motor vehicles in New York City

calstars 2025

If Queenskind is still alive

cw: ethnic slur

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7NJiuuLmMAhRyksZ7

passed by this barber shop the other day. i recognize that there is no ill intent here, but still kind of jarring to see.

That's been there at least a decade!

There was a Kikes something or other on 43rd Ave in sunnyside too. It’s a Hispanic name.

Check out this review of Kike Barber Shop on Google Maps
https://goo.gl/maps/hh1XWvdvMhfMqKbBA

maybe i don't look at enough reviews on the web but this is gold

i read the first sentence again.. is he still going?!?

i guess it's a kid. aa yeah. i have no business here i just like Toots and the Maytals. good day

if you're a dork like me and enjoy going to haunted houses for Halloween A Haunting In Hollis is the best one i've ever been to. Very creative and fun.

I recommend going alone, without a flashlight :)

i am sitting in Haidilao in Flushing and they are playing a ridiculous Chinese pop version of 'Oh Suzannah' with the amazing/ridiculous Daphne & Celeste general MIDI banjo sound

This is the first time i have eaten out in about 4 months

Love Flushing. Have you checked out the new mall, Tangram?

I have not! Yeah, Flushing is inarguably the most fun, lots-to-do place to visit in NYC.

Riding the 7 train back to reality :(

We practically live in Tangram. Food court is great they even have a zaab zaab outpost. We went to the fancy Peking duck place too huge wait but an amazing meal and experience. Everything was delicious except for the famous dish that is mashed potatoes shaped like a rabbit general in a cold creamy chicken sauce. Just wasn’t to our taste perhaps. I’d share a link if I wasn’t so lazy. Google it.

https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/05/55/90/28/1000_F_555902866_Dm6Sp5L05RJbNK67vVQpiYljsWYeoCok.jpg

https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/05/55/90/28/1000_F_555902866_Dm6Sp5L05RJbNK67vVQpiYljsWYeoCok.jpg

Well I def recommend Haidilao as an excellent hot pot place with veggie/vegan options. Seems like it would be a great place to bring kids if you have kids, it’s very fun. They have a board games lounge and a claw machine in the waiting area, noodles that dance and I was offered a free ice cream at the end. Also the bar where you get to mix your own sauces. Everything I tried was incredible. The tomato hot pot was my favorite.

https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/portrait-with-rabbit-dressed-up-as-general-bunny-elegant-bright-clothes-generative-ai-art-hare-as-commander-chief_163597-5.jpg

Also you can make gigantic bubbles at the Hall of Science now, they usually let me in free after 4
https://i.imgur.com/YKyAkcD_d.webp

One more for good measure
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/general-warren-david-henderson.jpg

ok I'm at a computer now and not on my phone so I can share this:

https://patch.com/new-york/flushing-murray-hill/ju-qi-taking-its-famed-rabbit-shaped-potatoes-flushing

I'm not a huge hot fan or expert, but the one place we've been to is ChongQing Lao Zao which is A+ on atmosphere at least. Crazy charming interior.

But back to Juqi in Tangram, other than that rabbit, everything was totally delicious with really fun and silly presentations. We did the half peking duck which was plenty, a really spicy schezuan fish soup, cumin lamb, diced chicken, litchi shrimp balls. Basically the most basic stuff we could find but it was all great.

did you do the charcoal briquette rice?

tangram is about to become (if not already) weeb central of nyc. with the miniso, anime shop on the 2nd floor, the planned gatcha gatcha shop, kura kura on the first floor.

we caught boy and the heron at the regal, the screens were surprisingly big. limited seating but big screens - would rather it be that then small screen and lots of seats.

the bar in tangram is sort of hideously overpriced, i didn't think it'd stay in business for as long as it has.

didn't have that rice.

my daughter who is nearly 7 is really into "weeb" though this is the first time I've heard that term. Technically she just likes cute stuff and all those places def scratch that itch for her. She likes non japanese cute stuff too, though I suppose the more it seems japanese the happier she is. Apparently Pusheen was created by americans in chicago? Oh well.

For her upcoming birthday we're going to flushing and letting her go to town on gatchas and claw machines and whatnot at various spots in flushing.

Though there's a little japanese store on 6th ave below 14th st that has a bunch of claw machines. And another near 23rd. st. Def taking over.

you'll want to bring her to the teso-x in flushing

Will keep it in mind.

also dan in case not obvious, 'weeb' is a derogatory term so i wouldn't go teaching that to your daughter.