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On the other hand, if you come to NYC you should visit Queens -- the NY Mets, Louie Armstrong's house, Museum of the Moving Image, King of Corona lemon ice stand, a giant beer garden in long island city, P.S. 1 museum, etc. etc.

I'll keep that in mind.

I'll be coming home from an assignment in Germany next summer and have been toying with coming back into the US through New York.

161 posted on 08/11/2006 1:31:49 AM PDT by Gamecock ("Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable." Robert Farrar Capon)

If, GC, you do route through NYC let me know. I have a standing offer to Freepers who visit to provide an off-the-tourist-map walking tour of Manhattan from South Ferry up, including Ground Zero...and the location of Prohibition Era Speaks.

About Queens, its strength and its main attraction is its people. Nowhere else in the country is the combination of multi-generation America (some of it in million dollar neighborhoods) and first generation - on their way up fast - displayed side-by-side in such numbers. In many ways the demographic of Queens is an intensified first look at what the rest of the country will look like a generation or two from now.