The Creek and The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 This bar/café serves up Mexican food and has CHURRO ice cream sandwiches on the menu. They have nightly comedy shows, live music, or film screenings. But you know I was there for the pinball. Great variety of […]
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I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, visit the Louis Armstrong House [34-56 107th St, Flushing, NY 11368] and you will too. Born in a rough section of New Orleans with only a fifth grade education, Louis Armstrong rose to be a household name, worldwide. […]
Housed in a 1907 trolley repair shop is a hidden gem of an art museum. SculptureCenter [44-19 Purves St, Long Island City, NY 11101] was quiet on a rainy Sunday. There are rotating exhibits of contemporary sculptures on display. I really enjoyed the work of Sam Anderson downstairs, which will […]
At the base of the iconic Unisphere in Queens premiere park is the eclectic Queens Museum [Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY 11368]. I fell in love as I walked into the Tiffany lamps exhibit, a collection of some of the most unique and intricate stained glass works I have […]
Behind every great king is a there’s a great queen. Queens Comfort [40-09 30th Ave, Astoria, NY 11103] is truly reigns supreme on the weekend brunch scene. Even on a rainy day there was a bit of a line outside, but the brunch bouncer was ready with jokes at your […]
Flushing Meadows Corona Park [11101 Corona Ave Flushing, NY 11355] is space of many lives. In the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the park in The Great Gatsby, “This is a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque […]
Expectation is the root of all heartache, but what is it when something is much more than you expect? Wonderful, and the Museum of Moving Image [36-01 35th Ave, New York, NY 11106] is just that. Simply upon walking in the first exhibit was about how cats took over the […]
Whenever I travel into the city, I want a skyline view. I think the Manhattan skyline is one of the most beautiful in the world, and it’s always best captured from another borough. In the Long Island Piers at Gantry Plaza State Park [4-09 47th Rd, Long Island City, NY […]
A small urban oasis in a big city. Socrates Sculpture Park [32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11106] is a mixture of first and foremost art, along with nature, and a fabulous city skyline. The park has been open for 30 years, continually changing its installations. There was a […]
I saw it from the subway stop, the layered Manhattan city skyline in the background. Once the Monday-Friday home to school aged children, now MoMA PS1 [22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City NY 11101] now one of the largest contemporary art institutions in the United States. There are 3 floors […]
Golden Shopping Mall, 41-36 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355 Inside there are many little stalls pumping out some amazing smelling food, but to tell it true, I didn’t even get past the storefront space. Little English communication was available, but I just pointed to what I wanted and inhaled one […]
If you’re visiting a bridge in Brooklyn, Pulaski probably isn’t the first one that will pop into your head. However, if you’ve already been to the Brooklyn Bridge and you’re seeking a new structure, you might be surprised at what you see on the Pulaski Bridge. It connects Long Island […]