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#1

Sunnyside Queens? What do you know about it?

This was a thread a few months ago because we were about to move to the neighborhood. Well, we are here now and we want to know something: where are the gay people??? Have we stumbled into the last neighborhood of NYC that has hardly any gay folks in it?

It's a great neighborhood with good rents and co-ops. Really safe and pretty.

Any suggestions for a place for dinner or drinks that is not an old Irish Pub or Mom and Pop restaurant?
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#3

re: Sunnyside Queens? What do you know about it?

"Have we stumbled into the last neighborhood of NYC that has hardly any gay folks in it?"

Could be, considering who else lives there....
#4

re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

there was one gay guy that used to hang out at bar that i went to when i first moved to sunnyside, but that was years ago. there's a coffee house on skillman that might be a good place for ... coffee. the irishness of the neighborhood is ingrained, it's even more irish a few blocks up in woodside. if you venture onto the other side of queens boulevard you can find some nice authentic spanish restaurants. there's also a romanian place on skillman and a few more scattered around. some of the pubs turn into discos on staurday night but are populated by mostly aggressive toughs in the 18-22 age group and young girls with extraordinarily large hair.

that big empty hole in the ground on queens blvd. between 41st and 42nd used to house bloom's pub, which while it was an irish establishment was quite nice and had a decent menu, unfortunately fire claimed it along with everything else there.

i'm not sure about whether there's much of a gay and lesbian community here, but i can tell you that gay and lesbian groups were welcomed to march in the st. patrick's day parade that runs through woodside and sunnyside. this link might help ya... http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/>http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/
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#5

re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

I lived out there for a couple months back in the mid '90s and I remember thinking the same thing - pretty, quiet, peaceful neighborhood but WHERE are the frigging homos? Am I the only one? I never saw one in the brief time I lived there...weird...
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
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re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

WOO HOO!!!! Yay for Hell's Kitchen!!!!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#9

re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

joey and I are moving there at the end of the month - I lived there for almost 14 years and only recently moved out to Astoria to stay with joey temporarily - but Hell's Kitchen is the only place to be in NYC if you ask me - everything is right at your fingertips = theatre, food, movies and music - its all there!
YAY!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#10

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I just moved to the Kitchen a couple of weeks ago, after a mad dash through Manhattan Apartments trying to beat someone to get my application in first.

Suffice it to say, I won re: sunnyside queens?  what do you know about it?
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re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

good for you - we were very lucky.. we saw this place three times and struck up a friendship with the manager - so I guess they liked us!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#12

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ewww, i hated our brief experience with Manhattan apartments... they advertise no-fee apartments on Craigslist, but their contract requires a fee... false advertising... i'd been flagging their ads as mis-categorized everytime i saw one... i did like our experience with rent-direct.com, even though we weren't anything more than guests, but we managed to get in on open houses... i can't wait!!!
#13

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My mother is my guarantor while I finish school here (my apartment is cheaper than the dorms, so we're putting the residential life money towards rent and utilities now), so it was a triangle between myself, my broker and her. She's one tough cookie, which my broker the ****found out. It was actually quite amusing. I didn't neccessarily like my experience with the people at Manhattan Apartments, but I also got the place that I really wanted, so I guess I can't say anything too nasty about them.
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oh, and shermie, you'll soon grow to hate the ice cream man...and the screaming of children who in the summer seem to scream for no reason other than to scream. obviously no one's ever told them the story of the boy who cried wolf...
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#17

re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

there are actually wolves there!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#19

re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

Boo for Hell's Kitchen... UWS all the way. :-P


--daisy (who's neighborhood rocks out, yo)



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re: sunnyside queens? what do you know about it?

yeah - too many married couples with young brats on the upper west side - I get tired of fighting the baby carriages for sidewalk room up there - but it does have its amenities - the parks on either side, for example - nice.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#22

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You think you all have it bad, I'm in STATEN ISLAND for the moment!

After 12 years in the city I make one wrong turn and WHAM...a living nightmare!
#23

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Eddie - I'm SO sorry (LOL) get back in town as soon as you can!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#24

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Oh Reds I'm ON IT!

It like living in Cleveland out there..Thank God I'm in the city everyday..or I'd take a hostage!
#25

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Thats understandable, Eddie.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

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