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Forget Brooklyn! New York City borough of Queens named best place to visit in US in 2015
UK Daily Mail ^
| December 12, 2014
| Simon Cable
Posted on 12/12/2014 10:05:56 AM PST by C19fan
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The writers at Lonely Planet must of taking meth when they places Queens #1. They also placed Oakland, CA in the top 10. Nothing against Queens as my grandparents lived there and I visited them often but it is not a tourist area. There are some ethnic areas like Korean in Flushing that might interest you. Of course there are the Italian mobsters living in the Rockaway area. :0 Maybe a nice alternative to get out of Manhattan and see a different side of NYC. I do not see anything redeeming about Oakland as it is a dump. Highly recommend Western South Dakota, aka, Black Hills, and Mount Shasta area with the volcanoes and forested areas.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:05:56 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
They said visit.
They said nothing about returning home safely.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:10:40 AM PST
by
relictele
(Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
To: C19fan
Tell me about it, Queens is now the illegal capital of the country. I use to live there in Woodside which is now 90% illegals, right up Roosevelt avenue is where they go to get fake IDs. And what exactly is there to see? the Mets? Watch them lose? This guy isn’t taking meth, he is mainlining it.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:11:15 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
To: C19fan
LOL Queens we would speed through Queens back in the day. Who makes up these things?
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:12:29 AM PST
by
angcat
To: C19fan
Their new tourist motto is not quite as inspiring as a
I ♥ New York: "Queens: A few neighborhoods are nicer than the Bronx."
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:13:18 AM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Analogy Test: Barry Dunham is to Adolf Schicklgruber as Barack 0bama is to ...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Grandparents lived in Woodhaven.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:15:31 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I think I'd rather visit Glacier Nat'l. Park, or Yellowstone, or Gettysburg, the Black Hills, Mount Washington, Mount Rushmore...Really, I can think of a million places I'd rather visit than Queens.
If I absolutely had to visit a city I guess I'd go to Victoria BC. No American cities I can think of that I'd want to visit. Oakland? No thanks.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:15:53 AM PST
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:16:16 AM PST
by
Minsc
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:22:02 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed.)
To: martin_fierro
My first thought exactly :). I’ve never been to New York so my knowledge is completely limited to how movies/tv present it.
To: C19fan
LoL! White hipsters looking for the “real” urban experience after they sterilized the Village and Tribeca, sanitized Manhattan, colonized Harlem and gentrified Brooklyn?
The Bronx will be the next stop!
To: NorthstarMom
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12/12/2014 10:29:08 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: C19fan
Meth for sure. Queens was very multiracially safe and interesting two decades ago. I visited for a couple of days, enjoyed a nice Afghani restaurant, etc. Now, I truly doubt the safety part.
As for Oakland, it’s never been safe. My uncle, a WW2 vet, warned me when I was a tiny girl: “Never go to Oakland, you could get killed.”
Still excellent advice.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:29:52 AM PST
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely expressed as advice)
To: VanDeKoik
There are Hipsters in Harlem? I would have thought pasty, toothpick-thin hipsters would be fair game for the local youths.
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posted on
12/12/2014 10:39:27 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
There are Hipsters in Harlem? I would have thought pasty, toothpick-thin hipsters would be fair game for the local youths.Harlem today is not what you see in movies from the 1970s. Crime is way down; the black middle class has been rehabbing the old brownstones, and they don't tolerate "yutes" who would hurt their newly-soaring property values.
To: GeronL
Neither would I. My parents have started to take our kids (two at a time) on one big, special trip. In a few years it will be our older girls’ turn. As our daughters are ballet dancers, one of the ideas is New York for a ballet performance. I’ve said absolutely not, but I’m know to be overprotective so mom and dad just laugh and brush me off. I really do not want any of my children there. Ever.
To: Veto!
Queens was very multiracially safe and interesting two decades ago. I visited for a couple of days, enjoyed a nice Afghani restaurant, etc. Now, I truly doubt the safety part.Crime rates in New York today are a fraction of what they were two decades ago.
To: martin_fierro
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12/12/2014 10:56:01 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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