Astoria A Night For Gavin Fundraiser Saturday Night At Daly’s Pub by Meg Cotner A WHA reader brought to our attention this fundraiser happening tomorrow evening, Saturday October 25. It’s at Daly’s Pub, one of Astoria’s beloved bars, and focuses on the brother of (…)
Astoria The Letlove Inn To Open At the Corner Of 28th Street and 23rd Avenue by Meg Cotner Over the months we’ve been telling you about a new spot opening up from the folks that brought Astoria The Sparrow Tavern and Mar’s, but have been unable to refer (…)
Astoria Astorian Natalia ‘Saw Lady’ Paruz’s Playing Featured in Upcoming Richard Gere Movie by Meg Cotner How cool is it to run across this Queens Courier article about Astoria’s very own Saw Lady (AKA Natalia Paruz) having her playing featured in an upcoming feature film! The (…)
Rumormongering Part 2: Artichoke at Frankie’s, Donner Kebab at Teddy’s? by Meg Cotner First this post is SPECULATIVE, but there’s enough brewing in my brain to get it out there. As you know from yesterday, we heard that Frankie’s Pizza closed after 50 (…)
Astoria Frankie’s Pizza Has Closed by Meg Cotner We learned from a tweet by @adamkuban today that Frankie’s Pizza (22-56 31st St) has closed. Here’s the transcription of the text in the above image: Dear Costumers! Thank you (…)
Astoria Long Island City The Look of a Sweet Halloween in Astoria by Meg Cotner We’ve told you where to celebrate Halloween (and the days leading up to it), but one of the other things we’ve observed in the past few weeks is all the (…)
Astoria In Queens, Astoria Has One of the Highest Poverty Rates For Children by Meg Cotner Hallets Point peninsula in Astoria—the area south of 26th Avenue is home to a 55% child poverty rate. It is, of course, also the potential future home to Astoria Cove. This (…)
Astoria 6-Story Mixed Use Building Proposed for 24th Avenue and 32nd Street by Meg Cotner Perusing the Department of Buildings site, we’ve learned that paperwork has been filed for a 6-story mixed use building for the lot on the corner of 24th Avenue and 32nd (…)
Cider Dinners Are At The Queens Kickshaw for NYC Cider Week by Meg Cotner Along with the Descendant Cidery debut, we’re happy that Cider Dinners at The Queens Kickshaw are back again this year as part of Cider Week NYC. On Tuesday and Wednesday, October (…)
Astoria NYC’s First Urban Cidery, Descendant Cider, Officially Debuts at The Queens Kickshaw by Meg Cotner A Descendant Cider flight we enjoyed early on. Cider Week NYC starts this Friday, October 24. We looked at the lineup of participating venus in Queens, and of course The (…)
Learn How You Can Help the Feral Cats of Astoria by Meg Cotner As you no doubt know, over the past year there have been some pretty ghastly things happening to the feral/stray cats in Astoria. The website Astoria 7 has been on (…)
Astoria Astoria Location Used in the The Blacklist by Meg Cotner Thanks to the eagle eye of Astorian @ATB24, I learned that the opening of the most recent episode (Season 2, Episode 4) of The Blacklist was filmed in Astoria! The (…)
Astoria New Looks for Anticipated 23rd Avenue Bars by Meg Cotner We’ve told you about two new bars coming to 23rd Avenue, one (name TBD) from the folks behind the Sparrow Tavern and one, called The Bonnie, from folks behind Sweet (…)
Astoria The NYC Greek Film Festival Starts Tomorrow at MOMI by Meg Cotner On Saturday, October 18, the NYC Greek Film Festival starts at the Museum of the Moving Image. It is going to be a terrific series, full of interesting, accessible films (…)
Astoria Ditmars Station Pub is For Sale by Meg Cotner In case you missed the news: Ditmars Station Pub has closed (located below the Ditmars stop). There’s been a lot of speculation, especially regarding Sweet Spot taking away their business. (…)