"But I like it."
Posted on 12/12/2014 10:05:56 AM PST by C19fan
The old slogan was, “I love NY”. I used to sing, “I loathe NY” when I had to travel from Queens to Port Authority in the late ‘70s. My daughter now lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan. I’ve been going there a few times a year for the past 10 or so. I have been pleasantly surprised by how nice some areas are. Even away from the touristy sections. I am afraid that it is now rapidly losing some of the shine Mayor Ruddy Giuliani brought back to the Big Apple. The wacko lib, de Blasio is ruining it quickly. It will return to its ‘70’s style in the next 10 years if he isn’t ousted. I’m going there tomorrow, in fact.
What in heaven’s name would there be to see in Queens? They’re nuts.
"But I like it."
I will stick to Sandpoint in Summer and Kailua in winter.
I was born in Brooklyn, lived in LIC Queens until nine then the family escaped to the Seattle area.
Frankly, that is good news.
We used to spend a lotta time in Queens...at that diner near the airport.
I visited for the first time last August and it was quite nice - I was pleasantly surprised at how nice, clean, and safe it was. It wasn’t perfect, but quite fun and interesting. Lots to see and do. Tons of people, but we were able to figure out how to work around that. MUCH better than I expected!
I wouldn’t want to live there, but it was a great place to visit
The authors assumed visitors were urban oriented, and would pass on our National Parks.
What a difference a few generations make. NY population is increasing for the first time in my 63 year life. As many here, our 1970s image tainted us forever.
Millennials are social, and do not aspire to natural, sparsely populated places. So Queens may well be next on the attractively habitable borough list.
Lonely Planet must only live in Manhattan, and be considering shortness of the trip in making their recommendations. “SPRAWLING SUBURBS?” My Goodness! Queens is PART OF NEW YORK CITY, NOT A SUBURB. And Queens is more densely populated than any city in America that is NOT part of New York metro: 2.3 MILLION people in 109 square miles. That’s almost as many people as Chicago on less than half the land!
Queens has never and will never be on my bucket list.
Sounds kinda like a redneck Queens.
I was also born in Brooklyn. My father always said that if you were in a room of,let’s say, 20 strangers there’s a good chance that at least 5 would be from Brooklyn.
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