I was born and lived on Manhattan's Lower East Side until my father bought us a 3-bedroom house in the South Richmond Hill area of Queens in Oct 1970. AS I grew older I more hung out in nearby Ozone Park. As of 2019, I've been back in Manhattan. He paid $19,000 for it. At one point in the decades that followed it was estimated at close to $400,000! After my parents had passed we sold it for around $240k. Needed lots of TLC by that time.
I’ve lived in greater Forest Hills area for most of the time...when my son was born we bought an apartment in Richmond Hill North, but I’m divorced and live in Kew Gardens now..... I still go to ozone pizza on liberty Avenue and, of course, new park pizza on cross Bay boulevard.