[C19fan]

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.

[martin_fierro]

[relictele]

They said visit.

They said nothing about returning home safely.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

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.

[angcat]

LOL Queens we would speed through Queens back in the day. Who makes up these things?

[FredZarguna]

Their new tourist motto is not quite as inspiring as a I ♥ New York:

"Queens: A few neighborhoods are nicer than the Bronx."

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

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.

[Minsc]

...said nobody ever.

[VanDeKoik]

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!

[Veto!]

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.

[surrey]

What in heaven’s name would there be to see in Queens? They’re nuts.

[Organic Panic]

I will stick to Sandpoint in Summer and Kailua in winter.

[SkyDancer]

I was born in Brooklyn, lived in LIC Queens until nine then the family escaped to the Seattle area.

[Gay State Conservative]

We used to spend a lotta time in Queens...at that diner near the airport.

[cicero2k]

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.

[dangus]

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!

[bgill]

Queens has never and will never be on my bucket list.